Maguire, Morgan & Reiner: The Oxford Handbook of Criminology 4e 
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Chapter 03
Extended treatments of the broad themes we have surveyed in this chapter can be found in David Garland's (2001) The Culture of Control (Garland 2001a) and Jonathan Simon's (2006) Governing Through Crime—both key reference points in this discussion. Two edited collections—Kevin Stenson and Robert Sullivan's (2001) Crime, Risk and Justice and Tim Hope and Richard Sparks's (2000) Crime, Risk and Insecurity—bring together many of the key authors in the field and provide useful 'ways in' to current debates.
Readers may, in addition, usefully refer to the several texts dealing in more depth with particular aspects of the three themes we have addressed. Johnston and Shearing's (2003) Governing Security is an innovative treatment of the pluralization of security and offers a powerful case against state-centric approaches to the subject. Their approach is variously defended and criticized by the contributors to Jennifer Wood and Benoit Dupont's (2006) collection on Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security. Our take on globalization was originally much inspired by Zygmunt Bauman's (1988) great little polemic, Globalization: The Human Consequences, a text that also has some important things to say about safety and security.
In general, the best advice to anyone who wishes to keep abreast of current thinking remains to keep their eye on the journals. The best of these include those that were around on the last occasion we considered this chapter's themes—The British Journal of Criminology, Punishment and Society, Theoretical Criminology, and Social and Legal Studies—to which can now be added several others, including Crime Media Culture, Criminology and Criminal Justice, The European Journal of Criminology, and Global Crime.
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