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The Birth of Public Order Policy

Department of Criminology, Stockholm University

Over the last twenty years, the nature of the rule of law and the basis on which nation states employ force has been changing fundamentally. The distinction between what is criminal, to be dealt with by the legal and justice system, and what creates a ‘perception of insecurity’ - formerly to be dealt with by social policy - is being eroded at both the macro (‘war on terror’) and micro (‘public order’) levels. This paves the way for the unbridled use of state force, in the first instance, and the criminalisation of behaviours that are not necessarily illegal, in the second. Fear becomes a controlling mechanism for the maintenance of the social order and any element of non-conformity is construed as a threat.

Key Words: civil rights • crime prevention • justice system • Muslim • nation state • refugee • security • terrorism

Race & Class, Vol. 46, No. 1, 30-52 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0306396804045513


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