ABSTRACT
From all that has been said thus far it will be clear that one of the thorniest aspects of security is its governance. The changing patterns of security distribution (discussed in Chapter 3) are indivisible from the normative question of its governance (Stehr and Ericson 2000, Johnston and Shearing 2003, Goold and Lazarus 2007, Loader and Walker 2007). This final chapter examines why security is in need of governance; considers various means by which it might be governed; and takes the first steps towards articulating core values for the security society. It examines the claim that the already complex relationship between security and the state is further complicated by the fact that we are now increasingly governed through security in the sense that diverse policies are directed towards or justified by the claims of security (Valverde 2001: 89, Simon 2007). New measures, policies, programmes, and strategies, invoked in the name of security, alter the very shape and direction of government. At the same time new sites of security governance in the private sphere and at the communal level alter
the landscape of crime control and throw up new challenges for the governance of security as a public good that cry out to be addressed.
