Gendering Security: Violence and Risk in Australia's Night-Time Economies
Expanding the Gaze is a collection of important new empirical and theoretical works that demonstrate the significance of the gendered dynamics of surveillance.
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262-289ISBN-13
9781442628960ISBN-10
1442628960Edition
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This chapter argues that a flawed conception of security governance directs surveillance primarily towards the major visible populations associated with alcohol-related violence. This form of risk profiling leads to various surveillance deficits that undermine regulation of the private security industry and the NTE more generally. Foucauldian biopolitical theory recognizes that multiple, intersecting, and at times conflicting forms of regulation and surveillance govern modern securitization practices (Senellart, 2007). When surveillance is devoted to curtailing identifiable risks, other meaningful security and surveillance strategies are likely to be overlooked. In Australia’s NTEs, the prevailing regulatory and surveillance focus, which targets violence by young men, has legitimized certain types of technological and human surveillance that have done little to enhance overall levels of security since the mid-1980s, when Australia’s liquor industries began to undergo extensive deregulation (Graham & Homel, 2008; Department of Justice (Victoria), 2009; Zajdow, 2011; Tomsen & Crofts, 2012). The gradual normalization of these processes has led to a highly gendered meaning of security in the NTE that wrongly equates harm reduction with more rather than better surveillance. These processes have been backed by increasingly punitive criminal penalties for alcohol- and drug-fuelled violence.Publication classification
B1 Book chapter, B Book chapterCopyright notice
2016, University of Toronto PressExtent
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van der Meulen E, Heynan RPublisher
University of Toronto PressPlace of publication
Toronto, CanadaTitle of book
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lawsurveillancegendertheorypoliticscriminologycriminal justice940403 Criminal Justice160204 Criminological TheoriesSchool of Humanities and Social Sciences160201 Causes and Prevention of Crime160203 Courts and Sentencing180110 Criminal Law and Procedure940402 Crime Preventionnot applicableAlfred Deakin Research Institute4402 Criminology
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