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Freitag 04. of August 2006
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Volker Eick: Disciplining the Urban Poor
Private security companies (though not a new phenomenon) are mushrooming since the early 1990s all over Germany (and beyond). The withdrawal of state responsibilities for public services in general goes with the privatization of...
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Category: Presentations
Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006
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Fred Seavey: Globalizing Labor in Response to a globalizes securitz industry
We are currently working on a very limited computer basis (Debian Live System with US Keyboard). So this is just a test to announce that the first paper is in: Fred Seavey on the organizing of security guards in Hamburg, Germany
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Category: Abstracts & Papers
Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006
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Category: Security
The Dark Side of Paradise: Explaining New Zealand's History of High Imprisonment
This paper examines and explains the way in which cultural factors specific to New Zealand have contributed to this country’s historically high rate of imprisonment; certainly, when compared to the two jurisdictions it...
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Category: Security 
Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006
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Fall of the 'Platonic Guardians': Liberalism, Criminology and Political Responses to Crime in England and Wales
This paper offers a critical reconstruction and reinterpretation of the disposition towards the governance of crime that was ascendant in England and Wales during the middle decades of the twentieth century—namely, liberal...
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Donnerstag 29. of Juni 2006
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To Be, One Has to Be Somewhere: Spatio-temporality in Prison Segregation
Among modern exclusionary strategies (state sponsored or otherwise), prison segregation—the isolation of individuals from general inmate populations—is a particularly camouflaged form of exclusion with considerable...
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