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Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Governmentality of Social Insecurity (review)

in the Northern Caucasus tend to be generalized and applied to deal with crime suspects by local police far from the primary area of terrorist activities. Violence on the part of police is countered by anti-police violence of the population. In absence of effective rule of law, there emerge incidents of organized resistance to police misconduct, in which the “rebels,” like the “cops-fighters,” adopt cultural scripts and symbols typical of the Islamic terrorists. Although Deflem acknowledges the danger of politicizing counterterrorist work in the West, he argues that democratic societies are bound by notions of civil liberty and individual freedom and are, therefore, less likely to undergo such transformations. For more critically-minded scholars, there are reasons to be skeptical with regard to civil rights as an effective deterrent. Even before the onset of the War on Terror, advanced liberal democracies effectively depoliticized public sphere and criminalized political protest. The modern legal-scientific-media complex ignores the structural origins of political problems and denies rationality of political views different from those officially prescribed. In such context, threats to national security, whether real or fabricated, provide unprecedented opportunities for institutional monitoring, control and prophylactics that make the whole discourse of civil rights and liberties unpractical and obsolete. In the “Concluding Reflections,” Mathieu Deflem argues that unilaterally conceived counterterrorism produced negative consequences and welcomes greater international cooperation in policing terrorism. Pointing to inadequacy of the President Bush’s War on Terror, he offers instead a more realistic vision of counterterrorism as a routine and permanent function of policing. These apt considerations should help finding a proper balance between imperatives of counterterrorist policing and valid concerns for civil rights and liberties.