Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice articles from June 2006

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice archives from June 2006

Ten uncertainties of risk-management approaches to security.
June 1, 2006... Any risk-management approach to security must start from the premise that uncertainty is the basic condition of human knowledge. Risk-management systems are always surrounded by uncertainties that make security provision far from perfect. In...

Airport screening, surveillance, and social sorting: Canadian responses to 9/11 in context.
June 1, 2006... Apart from short-term responses to some notorious hijackings over the past 30 years, airport security was never a topic that engaged the public imagination in Canada (or elsewhere, for that matter). The aftermath of 9/11 changed that, such that...

Risks, ethics, and airport security.
June 1, 2006... The central issues addressed in this article concern the political and ethical implications of shifting from a rule-based system of airport security to one based on risk. To begin with, however, it needs to be made clear in what this shift...

Neither safe nor sound? The perils and possibilities of risk.(Canada)
June 1, 2006... Introduction "Risk is the new black," or so one reviewer wryly observed on the publication of yet another volume on the subject of risk (Ditton 2002: 219). Its modishness and ubiquity arises not least because its meaning varies according...

Reflections on risk analysis, screening, and contested rationalities.
June 1, 2006... Introduction Interest in the concept of risk and its management can be dated, in this century, to the work of economists John Commons and Frank Knight and, later, to that of John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern in relation to the theory...