The Fast and The Furious Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society presents a sociological and criminological perspective critical to understanding the drivers role at the centre of road safety interventions. Such an approach is, it is argued, as crucial to an understanding of attempts to reduce road crashes, deaths and injuries as approaching such questions from an engineering or educational perspective. The book offers an explanation for the continued debate about one road safety intervention the speed camera by situating that debate within contemporary literature about the risk society (Beck, 1992) and more broadly understood experiences of risk faced on a daily basis by drivers. Rather than a focus on risk as something that can be objectively assessed, measured and managed separately from the social context in which it is encountered, it suggests that risk is something that permeates this particular debate from every angle. The book achieves its aims by utilising sociological and criminological perspectives to investigate issues such as the social context in which it is possible for drivers to reject official scientific expertise about crash causation and camera effectiveness the selfdefined respectability of the population being problematised and its juxtaposition with a proper police focus on real criminals the reconceptualisation of lawbreaking as risktaking rather than inherently wrong behaviour and its consequences for the enforcement of laws...

Binding: Paperback;248 pages; Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales); Classification: JKV; Weight: 502 g; Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 17

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