Books by Tamar Pitch

'The Prevention Society' is a definition that can otherwise be summarized as: the information society, the risk society, the surveillance society, the insecure society. This book shows the connections and differences, providing a gender reading of the ways in which, through precautionary measures, social control manifests itself.

Explores the interaction between the criminal justice system and the wider concerns of political and social institutions, including the welfare state, social work and forensic psychiatry.