George S Rigakos
Biographic Data
| ID | 301377 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George S Rigakos |
| GIVEN NAMES | George S |
| FAMILY NAME | Rigakos |
| SIGNATURE | RIGAKOS G S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Carleton University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Private Security Work in Turkey: A Case Study of Precarity, Militarism and Alienation
With one of the largest and fastest growing private security sectors in the greater EU area, Turkey offers an interesting case study for examining the effects of neoliberal policing on private security labour. The analysis is based on unstructured interviews (N = 20) with private security guards, media reports and government documents. Focusing on (1) precarity, (2) militarism and (3) alienation, we find that while private security has been decis…
Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification
A radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' powerful sociological treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on pract…
Deviance Processing Agencies
Deviance processing agencies refers to a wide gamut of institutions and agencies, both public and private, that are involved in the identification, vetting, and dispensation of populations considered at risk or dangerous, and that presumably require monitoring and surveillance to mitigate potential harms. Deviance processing agencies have been considered in a more comprehensive manner since the 1960s and 1970s and constitute a central focus of in…
Access to Information (ATI) as a Double-Edged Sword for Critical Policing Research
In perhaps no other area of scholarship is access to information (ATI) legislation as contentious and the stakes so high as in policing and security research. Although ATI has become an important mechanism by which researchers have been able to analyse security and police practices, there remain significant legislative barriers preventing access. A decade after 9/11, the need for increased scrutiny of government agencies tasked with security and …
Risk, Realism and the Politics of Resistance
Social theorizing about risk has produced important implications for both analytic strategy and resistance. The ontology of risk, however, has either been taken for granted or dismissed altogether. We consider what a realist philosophy of risk might look like given the desire to analyze risks as more than discursive constructs yet avoiding the pitfalls of empiricism. We argue that a necessary first step is to treat as ontologically real both the …
David Grazian, On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
Deviance Processing Agencies
Deviance processing agencies refers to a wide gamut of institutions and agencies both public and private involved in the identification, vetting, and dispensation of populations considered at risk, dangerous, or that presumably require monitoring and surveillance to mitigate potential harms. Deviance processing agencies have been considered in a more comprehensive manner since the 1960s and 1970s and constitute a central focus of inquiry for soci…
The Political Economy of Greek Policing: Between Neo-Liberalism and the Sovereign State
This article interrogates historical developments, modern structures and future trends in Greek policing from the viewpoint of contemporary neo-liberal policing and social theory. We argue throughout this article that although neo-liberal thinking has indeed recently crept into the rhetoric and logics of Greek governance, the particular social, geographical and political history of the Hellenic Republic has muted these tendencies significantly fo…
The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control
Your file Voire rskrenceOur Ne Noue relerence L'auteur a accordé une Licence non exclusive permettant a la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduire, prêter, distnbuer ou vendre des copies de cette thèse sous la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique.L'auteur conserve la propriété du droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse.Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou…
The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control
Rigakos argues that for-profit policing and security companies adopt many of the tactics and functions of the public police, and are less distinguishable from the latter than has been previously assumed in the criminological literature.
On Continuity, Risk and Political Economy: A Response to O'Malley
Crime, Capitalism and the `Risk Society: Towards the Same Olde Modernity
The discourses of risk society and `governmentality' have played a progressively more important role in criminological theorizing. Studies of carceral settings, the public and private police, and examinations of actuarial practices within the criminal justice system have increasingly relied upon risk society theory as an orienting strategy. We offer reservations about the utility of risk theory due to its lack of consideration of the history of p…
Bubbles of Governance: Private Policing and the Law in Canada
In the last three decades, the public-private organization of policing in Canada has undergone significant change. It is now common sociological knowledge that there has been formidable growth in private security alongside evolving forms of private governance. These changing social relations have resulted in the prominence of actuarial practices and agents to enforce them. This paper examines how the Canadian socio-legal context affects and is af…
Hyperpanoptics as Commodity: The Case of the Parapolice
Developments in computerisation and neo-liberal state logics have promoted the growth of police services. This paper theorises the evolution of the hyperpanotics of surveillance by examining the practices of The Law Enforcement Company in Toronto, Ontario. Neo-liberal risk markets are anomic and fear-inducing, and propel developments in the commodification of surveillance. The new parapolice of late modernity are charged with making dangerous pop…
Situational Determinants of Police Responses to Civil and Criminal Injunctions for Battered Women
Informed by a feminist perspective, this article examines the enforcement practices of police officers when responding to breaches of civil restraining orders and Canadian Criminal Code peace bonds. Police officers for Delta, British Columbia, were administered a questionnaire (N = 45) focusing on their actions when presented with a restraining order by a survivor at a domestic call. Self-report data show that an arrest ensues in only 21% of the …
New right, new left, new challenges: Understanding and Responding to Neoconservatism in Contemporary Criminology
Bubbles of Governance: Private Policing and the Law in Canada
In the last three decades, the public-private organization of policing in Canada has undergone significant change. It is now common sociological knowledge that there has been formidable growth in private security alongside evolving forms of private governance. These changing social relations have resulted in the prominence of actuarial practices and agents to enforce them. This paper examines how the Canadian socio-legal context affects and is af…
Crime, Capitalism and the `Risk Society: Towards the Same Olde Modernity
The discourses of risk society and `governmentality' have played a progressively more important role in criminological theorizing. Studies of carceral settings, the public and private police, and examinations of actuarial practices within the criminal justice system have increasingly relied upon risk society theory as an orienting strategy. We offer reservations about the utility of risk theory due to its lack of consideration of the history of p…
Risk, Realism and the Politics of Resistance
Social theorizing about risk has produced important implications for both analytic strategy and resistance. The ontology of risk, however, has either been taken for granted or dismissed altogether. We consider what a realist philosophy of risk might look like given the desire to analyze risks as more than discursive constructs yet avoiding the pitfalls of empiricism. We argue that a necessary first step is to treat as ontologically real both the …
Situational Determinants of Police Responses to Civil and Criminal Injunctions for Battered Women
Informed by a feminist perspective, this article examines the enforcement practices of police officers when responding to breaches of civil restraining orders and Canadian Criminal Code peace bonds. Police officers for Delta, British Columbia, were administered a questionnaire (N = 45) focusing on their actions when presented with a restraining order by a survivor at a domestic call. Self-report data show that an arrest ensues in only 21% of the …
Hyperpanoptics as Commodity: The Case of the Parapolice
Developments in computerisation and neo-liberal state logics have promoted the growth of police services. This paper theorises the evolution of the hyperpanotics of surveillance by examining the practices of The Law Enforcement Company in Toronto, Ontario. Neo-liberal risk markets are anomic and fear-inducing, and propel developments in the commodification of surveillance. The new parapolice of late modernity are charged with making dangerous pop…
The Political Economy of Greek Policing: Between Neo-Liberalism and the Sovereign State
This article interrogates historical developments, modern structures and future trends in Greek policing from the viewpoint of contemporary neo-liberal policing and social theory. We argue throughout this article that although neo-liberal thinking has indeed recently crept into the rhetoric and logics of Greek governance, the particular social, geographical and political history of the Hellenic Republic has muted these tendencies significantly fo…
On Continuity, Risk and Political Economy: A Response to O'Malley
Private Security Work in Turkey: A Case Study of Precarity, Militarism and Alienation
With one of the largest and fastest growing private security sectors in the greater EU area, Turkey offers an interesting case study for examining the effects of neoliberal policing on private security labour. The analysis is based on unstructured interviews (N = 20) with private security guards, media reports and government documents. Focusing on (1) precarity, (2) militarism and (3) alienation, we find that while private security has been decis…
Access to Information (ATI) as a Double-Edged Sword for Critical Policing Research
In perhaps no other area of scholarship is access to information (ATI) legislation as contentious and the stakes so high as in policing and security research. Although ATI has become an important mechanism by which researchers have been able to analyse security and police practices, there remain significant legislative barriers preventing access. A decade after 9/11, the need for increased scrutiny of government agencies tasked with security and …
New right, new left, new challenges: Understanding and Responding to Neoconservatism in Contemporary Criminology
New right, new left, new challenges: Understanding and Responding to Neoconservatism in Contemporary Criminology
Situational Determinants of Police Responses to Civil and Criminal Injunctions for Battered Women
Informed by a feminist perspective, this article examines the enforcement practices of police officers when responding to breaches of civil restraining orders and Canadian Criminal Code peace bonds. Police officers for Delta, British Columbia, were administered a questionnaire (N = 45) focusing on their actions when presented with a restraining order by a survivor at a domestic call. Self-report data show that an arrest ensues in only 21% of the …
Hyperpanoptics as Commodity: The Case of the Parapolice
Developments in computerisation and neo-liberal state logics have promoted the growth of police services. This paper theorises the evolution of the hyperpanotics of surveillance by examining the practices of The Law Enforcement Company in Toronto, Ontario. Neo-liberal risk markets are anomic and fear-inducing, and propel developments in the commodification of surveillance. The new parapolice of late modernity are charged with making dangerous pop…
Bubbles of Governance: Private Policing and the Law in Canada
In the last three decades, the public-private organization of policing in Canada has undergone significant change. It is now common sociological knowledge that there has been formidable growth in private security alongside evolving forms of private governance. These changing social relations have resulted in the prominence of actuarial practices and agents to enforce them. This paper examines how the Canadian socio-legal context affects and is af…
On Continuity, Risk and Political Economy: A Response to O'Malley
Crime, Capitalism and the `Risk Society: Towards the Same Olde Modernity
The discourses of risk society and `governmentality' have played a progressively more important role in criminological theorizing. Studies of carceral settings, the public and private police, and examinations of actuarial practices within the criminal justice system have increasingly relied upon risk society theory as an orienting strategy. We offer reservations about the utility of risk theory due to its lack of consideration of the history of p…
The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control
Rigakos argues that for-profit policing and security companies adopt many of the tactics and functions of the public police, and are less distinguishable from the latter than has been previously assumed in the criminological literature.
The Political Economy of Greek Policing: Between Neo-Liberalism and the Sovereign State
This article interrogates historical developments, modern structures and future trends in Greek policing from the viewpoint of contemporary neo-liberal policing and social theory. We argue throughout this article that although neo-liberal thinking has indeed recently crept into the rhetoric and logics of Greek governance, the particular social, geographical and political history of the Hellenic Republic has muted these tendencies significantly fo…
The New Parapolice: Risk Markets and Commodified Social Control
Your file Voire rskrenceOur Ne Noue relerence L'auteur a accordé une Licence non exclusive permettant a la Bibliothèque nationale du Canada de reproduire, prêter, distnbuer ou vendre des copies de cette thèse sous la forme de microfiche/film, de reproduction sur papier ou sur format électronique.L'auteur conserve la propriété du droit d'auteur qui protège cette thèse.Ni la thèse ni des extraits substantiels de celle-ci ne doivent être imprimés ou…
Deviance Processing Agencies
Deviance processing agencies refers to a wide gamut of institutions and agencies both public and private involved in the identification, vetting, and dispensation of populations considered at risk, dangerous, or that presumably require monitoring and surveillance to mitigate potential harms. Deviance processing agencies have been considered in a more comprehensive manner since the 1960s and 1970s and constitute a central focus of inquiry for soci…
David Grazian, On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife
Risk, Realism and the Politics of Resistance
Social theorizing about risk has produced important implications for both analytic strategy and resistance. The ontology of risk, however, has either been taken for granted or dismissed altogether. We consider what a realist philosophy of risk might look like given the desire to analyze risks as more than discursive constructs yet avoiding the pitfalls of empiricism. We argue that a necessary first step is to treat as ontologically real both the …
Access to Information (ATI) as a Double-Edged Sword for Critical Policing Research
In perhaps no other area of scholarship is access to information (ATI) legislation as contentious and the stakes so high as in policing and security research. Although ATI has become an important mechanism by which researchers have been able to analyse security and police practices, there remain significant legislative barriers preventing access. A decade after 9/11, the need for increased scrutiny of government agencies tasked with security and …
Deviance Processing Agencies
Deviance processing agencies refers to a wide gamut of institutions and agencies, both public and private, that are involved in the identification, vetting, and dispensation of populations considered at risk or dangerous, and that presumably require monitoring and surveillance to mitigate potential harms. Deviance processing agencies have been considered in a more comprehensive manner since the 1960s and 1970s and constitute a central focus of in…
Security/Capital: A General Theory of Pacification
A radical social theory of the security-industrial complex, showing how pacification underpins the global economic system What is security, and what is its relationship to capitalism? George S. Rigakos' powerful sociological treatise charts the rise of the security-industrial complex. Starting from a critical appraisal of 'productive labour' in the works of Karl Marx and Adam Smith, Rigakos builds a conceptual model of pacification based on pract…
Private Security Work in Turkey: A Case Study of Precarity, Militarism and Alienation
With one of the largest and fastest growing private security sectors in the greater EU area, Turkey offers an interesting case study for examining the effects of neoliberal policing on private security labour. The analysis is based on unstructured interviews (N = 20) with private security guards, media reports and government documents. Focusing on (1) precarity, (2) militarism and (3) alienation, we find that while private security has been decis…
Political science (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Policing Practices and Perceptions (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)