Pervasive prevention a feminist reading of the rise of the security society / Tamar Pitch.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-135) and index.

1. From One Modernity to the Next
2. Preventing is Better than Curing
3. Prevention and Security
4. The Current Dimensions of Social Control
5. Prevention, Politics, Law.

The prevention imperative, today diffuse and pervasive, symbolizes both a self-defining doctrine and justification of a means of repression, segregation, and exclusion. From bodies to daily life to preventative war, the book investigates the effects of this imperative for social control, its connection with neo-liberal hegemonic ideology, and the centrality in it and in its dealings with women and the feminine. -- Back Cover.

This fascinating analysis dissects the numerous components of the prevention imperative in contemporary societies, linking new forms of social control with hegemonic neo-liberal ideology. The gendered reading offered adds originality to this thought-provoking, superb, book. Vincenzo Ruggiero, Middlesex University, UK -- Back Cover.

In Pervasive Prevention, Tamar Pitch, one of Europe's leading legal theorists, has produced the book that many of us have been thirsting for: a feminist analysis of the security society. With her usual clarity, drollery, and perspicacity, Pitch provides a gendered analysis of the new forms of social control that pervade our lives. Nicole Rafter, Northeastern University, USA -- Back Cover.

Advances in Criminology Series Editor: David Nelken -- Back Cover.

Translated from the Italian.