Use of Risk in the Government of Crime

What is known as the “governmentalist” perspective provides a rich analytic framework for researchers whose interest in contemporary public policy on offending leads them, sooner or later, to grapple with the notion of “risk”. Indeed, one of the advantages of this perspective is to point to the great variety of fields in which risk is used as a category in crime control (in the prevention, prediction and management of crime, etc.), as well as to the varied normative uses to which the risk con..