Consuming security?: Tools for a sociology of security consumption

Theoretical Criminology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-30

  Goold, Benjamin ^a   Loader, Ian ^a   Thumala, Angelica ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

commodification; consumption; markets; objects; security; sociology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649242931     PISSN: 13624806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362480609354533     Document Type: Article

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