In this penetrating account of the impacts of risk on everyday life‎,‎ Gabe Mythen provides a theoretically informed overview of the regulation of crime and security in a globalized world‎.‎ By explicating the relationships between risk and crime‎,‎ security and justice‎,‎ the text applies risk to specific incidents and events‎,‎ scrutinizing social processes and cultural practices‎,‎ and illumining some of the central social and political issues of the modern age‎.‎ Extending across a range of domains ‎- including law‎,‎ the environment‎,‎ media and politics ‎- Mythen embarks on a conceptual and critical exploration of risk theory‎.‎ In doing so‎,‎ his incisive text presents both a critical evaluation of the efficacy of competing perspectives on risk‎,‎ and an authoritative appraisal of the place of risk within the social sciences‎.‎