Ecologies of Security

'In an era of fast outputs, this book showcases the rewards of sustained research in a single place—returning 25 years later to Macclesfield to uncover how both the town and our wider world have changed. Ian Loader, Richard Sparks, Evi Girling and Ben Bradford reveal how town residents' concerns about disorder now reflect wider environmental degradations in ways they could not have anticipated in their earlier study. Drawing on rich ethnography and analytical re-description of key themes, they demonstrate that security and liveability are inseparable from the health of our socio-natural environment. This book issues a vital call to ‘ecologise security’—a major contribution to criminology and an essential guide for anyone thinking about care, responsibility, and action in a climate-changed world.' Insa Lee Koch, University of Sankt Gallen

'This exceptional book explores a question at the forefront of criminological thinking - the linkages between macro and micro harms. With care, subtlety and nuance the authors explore how shifting harmscapes are understood, engaged, and governed in everyday urban contexts.' Clifford Shearing, Universities of Cape Town, Oxford and Toronto, and the Australian National University