Review: Welfare, Crime and Society

Synopsis: This DVD uses the concepts of social justice, security and community to help clarify some of the debates raised in the Open University course books.

Reviewing the Course Story - This chapter reviews the ambiguities of surveillance, how surveillance can work to protect us (social welfare) and how it can work to discipline and regulate us (crime control), and how it can do both at the same time (the course story).

Reviewing Social Justice - This chapter discusses the concept of organising social justice and asks key questions such as’Can social welfare policies deliver social justice?'

Reviewing Security - This chapter focuses on security and asks where we can see this concept at work. It identifies key questions such as’Why has security become such an important idea in recent times?'

Reviewing Community - This chapter reviews the widespread and diverse use of the concept of community in relation to concern with how the different meanings that are attached to community should be understood.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Subjects: Social Studies
Keywords: communities; crime; justice; surveillance; welfare services

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