Richard V Ericson
Biographic Data
| ID | 114544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard V Ericson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard V |
| FAMILY NAME | Ericson |
| SIGNATURE | ERICSON R V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1456 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 57 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
El control policial del riesgo
Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into Contemporary Societies
The architecture of risk management
Power's book examines how organizations are designed through risk-based science, law and managerial techniques. As organizations have come to think of, reform and govern themselves through the vague but powerful notion of risk, both the fortunes of the managers who conceive of these designs and the behaviour of the organizations themselves have been affected. Power develops four themes as he analyses the consequences of these moves towards risk m…
Rules in policing: Five perspectives
This article examines five perspectives on how rules relate to police power and discretion. Each perspective is appreciated for its heuristic value, depending upon the types of rules in question and the pragmatic circumstances faced in police decisions. At the same time, it is argued that policing is undergoing rapid transformation involving a new division of labor with regulatory agencies and private police, an attendant reconfiguration of the p…
The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance
Interview and ethnographic data are used to show how deceptive sales practices are rife and institutionalized in the life insurance industry. The data are analysed using the concept of ‘moral risk’: the paradoxical tendency of the structure and culture of the insurance institution to facilitate and encourage risky behaviour on behalf of the various players in the insurance relationship, in this case behaviour by insurance companies and their agen…
Publicizing sociology
Governing through risk and uncertainty
Text reviewed Pat O'Malley (2004) Risk, Uncertainty and Government, London: Glasshouse Press. In this book Pat O'Malley explores the genealogy of liberal government and how it has made use of risk
Catastrophe risk, insurance and terrorism
This article empirically investigates how the terrorist activity of September 11, 2001, was addressed by the insurance industry and government in the United States. It shows that the insurance system worked reasonably well in compensating losses suffered, albeit with various tribulations. It also demonstrates that the insurance industry, along with government as the ultimate risk manager, imaginatively reconfigured markets to continue terrorism i…
Risk and Morality
Risk and Morality examines how decisions about risk and uncertainty relate to moral principles and ethical conduct. Editors Richard Ericson and Aaron Doyle have brought together in this volume a selection of original essays on the topic by renowned scholars in the disciplines of philosophy, sociology, law, political science, geography, criminology, and accounting from Canada, the United States, England, France, and Australia. Presenting cutting-e…
Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry
In 1990, a congressional subcommittee warned of knaves and buccaneers in the insurance industry-unlicensed and largely unregulated companies that operate out of countries like Antigua and the Cayman Islands and sell hundreds of millions of dollars in worthless insurance policies to unsuspecting Americans every year. Increasingly, when a fire, car accident, or medical emergency strikes, policyholders suddenly find themselves victims of a global co…
Framing the Rational in Fieldwork
Governing Modern Societies
Policing the Risk Society
The Decline of Privilege: The Modernization of Oxford University
The surveillant assemblage
George Orwell's 'Big Brother' and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon' have dominated discussion of contemporary developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to important attributes of surveillance, they also miss some recent dynamics in its operation. The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is used to analyse the convergence of once discrete surveillance systems. The resultant 'surveillant assemblage' operates by abstrac…
The moral hazards of neo-liberalism: Lessons From the Private Insurance Industry
The key tenets of neo-liberalism regarding risk, governance, and responsibility are critically evaluated through an empirical study of the private insurance industry. Recent tendencies in this industry towards increasing segmentation of consumers regarding risk, and towards an expansion of private policing of insurance fraud, are analysed. The definition of moral hazard is broadened to include all parties in the insurance relationship, not just t…
Authorizing Art: The Effect of Multimedia Formats on the Museum Experience
Les galeries d'art utilisent des techniques médiatiques particulières pour donner un caractère didactique a ce qu'elles présentent. L'expo-sition Art for a Nation proposée à l'Art Gallery of Ontario en 1996 illustre l'utilisation de techniques modernes, basees sur des documents imprimés, pour structurer l'exposition d'oeuvres d'art et guider le visiteur. L'exposition présentait le Groupe des Sept comme des artistes célébres, décrivait leur parcou…
Authorizing Art: The Effect of Multimedia Formats on the Museum Experience
Les galeries d'art utilisent des techniques médiatiques particulières pour donner un caractère didactique a ce qu'elles présentent. L'expo‐sition Art for a Nation proposée à l'Art Gallery of Ontario en 1996 illustre l'utilisation de techniques modernes, basees sur des documents imprimés, pour structurer l'exposition d'oeuvres d'art et guider le visiteur. L'exposition présentait le Groupe des Sept comme des artistes célébres, décrivait leur parcou…
Globalization and the policing of protest: The case of Apec 1997
The policing of protest at international events conflicts with the political and policing culture of the host nation. Previous research shows a trend toward softer, more tolerant styles of policing protest within various Western democracies. We present a case study of an exception: the repression of protest at an international event in which one Western democracy hosted rulers of less democratic regimes in a ritual celebration of economic globali…
How Journalists Visualize Fact
Fact is a product of the communication practices of journalists. Journalists rarely have the resources or access to penetrate their sources' informational worlds to establish facts independently. Moreover, the norms of objectivity in journalism often preclude efforts to establish facts independent of sources' accounts. Therefore, journalists visualize the fact value of a story on the basis of a source's face value as an authoritative, normative w…
The Culture of Surveillance: Discipline and Social Control in the United States
Policing the Risk Society
Making Criminology
Defining the journalistic situation: A study of post-journalism
Misplacing Memory: The Effect of Television Format on Holocaust Remembrance
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles provides a case study of how museum designers use television formats to communicate and educate. A dramatic spectacle is created that shapes how visitors are to feel and think. This spectacle turns the museum into an emotions factory and functions as a 'format of control'. It exerts a 'creeping surrealism' upon the visitor that misplaces memory and history by degrees. T…
The surveillant assemblage
George Orwell's 'Big Brother' and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon' have dominated discussion of contemporary developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to important attributes of surveillance, they also miss some recent dynamics in its operation. The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is used to analyse the convergence of once discrete surveillance systems. The resultant 'surveillant assemblage' operates by abstrac…
Culture as Figurative Action
The moral hazards of neo-liberalism: Lessons From the Private Insurance Industry
The key tenets of neo-liberalism regarding risk, governance, and responsibility are critically evaluated through an empirical study of the private insurance industry. Recent tendencies in this industry towards increasing segmentation of consumers regarding risk, and towards an expansion of private policing of insurance fraud, are analysed. The definition of moral hazard is broadened to include all parties in the insurance relationship, not just t…
Catastrophe risk, insurance and terrorism
This article empirically investigates how the terrorist activity of September 11, 2001, was addressed by the insurance industry and government in the United States. It shows that the insurance system worked reasonably well in compensating losses suffered, albeit with various tribulations. It also demonstrates that the insurance industry, along with government as the ultimate risk manager, imaginatively reconfigured markets to continue terrorism i…
Visualizing deviance: A Study of News Organization
The Division of Expert Knowledge in Policing and Security
Les principes de la recherche sur le maintien de l'ordre et la securite sont critiques et un modele alternatif est developpe. Face a la demande de nombreuses institutions de securite, la police doit fournir non seulement des services adaptes mais egalement un savoir d'expert. Cet article propose de comprendre comment le maintien de l'ordre et la securite ont ete constitues par les communications institutionnelles dans la « societe du risque » mod…
Reproducing Order: A Study of Police Patrol Work
The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory.
How Journalists Visualize Fact
Fact is a product of the communication practices of journalists. Journalists rarely have the resources or access to penetrate their sources' informational worlds to establish facts independently. Moreover, the norms of objectivity in journalism often preclude efforts to establish facts independent of sources' accounts. Therefore, journalists visualize the fact value of a story on the basis of a source's face value as an authoritative, normative w…
Patrolling the Facts: Secrecy and Publicity in Police Work
Publicizing sociology
Globalization and the policing of protest: The case of Apec 1997
The policing of protest at international events conflicts with the political and policing culture of the host nation. Previous research shows a trend toward softer, more tolerant styles of policing protest within various Western democracies. We present a case study of an exception: the repression of protest at an international event in which one Western democracy hosted rulers of less democratic regimes in a ritual celebration of economic globali…
Rules in policing: Five perspectives
This article examines five perspectives on how rules relate to police power and discretion. Each perspective is appreciated for its heuristic value, depending upon the types of rules in question and the pragmatic circumstances faced in police decisions. At the same time, it is argued that policing is undergoing rapid transformation involving a new division of labor with regulatory agencies and private police, an attendant reconfiguration of the p…
A History of British Criminology
Foreword. British criminology before 1935 Hermann Mannheim British criminology - 1935-1948 the development of criminology in Britain - 1948-1960 British criminology - 1960-1987 the present state of British criminology methodological developments psychological contributions to criminology feminism and criminology in Britain criminal justice and the criminal process the history of crime British criminology and the state British criminology and Marx…
Governing through risk and uncertainty
Text reviewed Pat O'Malley (2004) Risk, Uncertainty and Government, London: Glasshouse Press. In this book Pat O'Malley explores the genealogy of liberal government and how it has made use of risk
Misplacing Memory: The Effect of Television Format on Holocaust Remembrance
The Simon Wiesenthal Center's Beit Hashoah Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles provides a case study of how museum designers use television formats to communicate and educate. A dramatic spectacle is created that shapes how visitors are to feel and think. This spectacle turns the museum into an emotions factory and functions as a 'format of control'. It exerts a 'creeping surrealism' upon the visitor that misplaces memory and history by degrees. T…
Police Performance and State Rule: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion
The Institutionalization of Deceptive Sales in Life Insurance
Interview and ethnographic data are used to show how deceptive sales practices are rife and institutionalized in the life insurance industry. The data are analysed using the concept of ‘moral risk’: the paradoxical tendency of the structure and culture of the insurance institution to facilitate and encourage risky behaviour on behalf of the various players in the insurance relationship, in this case behaviour by insurance companies and their agen…
Making Crime: A Study of Detective Work
The Culture and Power of Knowledge: Inquiries into Contemporary Societies
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing
The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
The architecture of risk management
Power's book examines how organizations are designed through risk-based science, law and managerial techniques. As organizations have come to think of, reform and govern themselves through the vague but powerful notion of risk, both the fortunes of the managers who conceive of these designs and the behaviour of the organizations themselves have been affected. Power develops four themes as he analyses the consequences of these moves towards risk m…
Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing
The Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program: A Message to Correctional Reformers
Tony Dittenhoffer, Richard V. Ericson, The Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program: A Message to Correctional Reformers, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 315-347
Perception in Criminology
Responsibility, Moral Relativity, and Response Ability: Some Implications of Deviance Theory for Criminal Justice
Penal Psychiatry in Canada: The Method of Our Madness
Social Distance and Reaction to Criminality
Journal Article SOCIAL DISTANCE AND REACTION TO CRIMINALITY Get access RICHARD V. ERICSON RICHARD V. ERICSON *Senior research associate in criminology and assistant professor of sociology, University of Toronto Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 17, Issue 1, January 1977, Pages 16–29, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046784 Published: 01 January 1977
The Control of Treatment: Issues in the Use of Prison Clinical Services
Young Offenders and Their Social Work
Decarceration and the Economy of Penal Reform
Reproducing Order: A Study of Police Patrol Work
The author's conclusions about the nature of policing and his discussion of the implications of proposals for reform of police, will generate better-informed deliberation in political and public decision-making and in the general study of sociological theory.
Making Crime: A Study of Detective Work
The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
The Ordering of Justice: A Study of Accused Persons as Dependants in the Criminal Process
The Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program: A Message to Correctional Reformers
Tony Dittenhoffer, Richard V. Ericson, The Victim/Offender Reconciliation Program: A Message to Correctional Reformers, The University of Toronto Law Journal, Vol. 33, No. 3 (Summer, 1983), pp. 315-347
Policing Reform: A Study of the Reform Process and Police Institution in Toronto
News Accounts of Attacks on Women: A Comparison of Three Toronto Newspapers
Policing Reform: A Study of the Reform Process and Police Institution in Toronto
Police Performance and State Rule: Control and Autonomy in the Exercise of Coercion
Visualizing deviance: A Study of News Organization
Policing the Streets
Patrolling the Facts: Secrecy and Publicity in Police Work
Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing
Crime Stoppers: A Study in the Organization of Community Policing
A History of British Criminology
Foreword. British criminology before 1935 Hermann Mannheim British criminology - 1935-1948 the development of criminology in Britain - 1948-1960 British criminology - 1960-1987 the present state of British criminology methodological developments psychological contributions to criminology feminism and criminology in Britain criminal justice and the criminal process the history of crime British criminology and the state British criminology and Marx…
Culture as Figurative Action
Negotiating Control: A Study of News Sources
Surveillance, Power and Modernity: Bureaucracy and Discipline from 1700 to the Present Day.Christopher Dandeker
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