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The fast and the furious : drivers, speed cameras and control in a risk society /
The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society 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 broad...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Farnham ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Human factors in road and rail transport.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The Fast and The Furious: Drivers, Speed Cameras and Control in a Risk Society 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 ev. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 231 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-224) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781409430902 1409430901 1283318962 9781283318969 |