Professor Kevin Stenson, Director, Social Policy Research Group, Buckinghamshire Cilterns University College, UK

Date:Thursday, 5 April, 2001
Time:6:00pm
Cost:$11/$5.50 (includes GST)

Venue:Minter Ellison Conference Room, lvl 13, Sydney University Law School, 173 - 175 Phillip Street, Sydney, Australia

This paper, in highlighting the rhetoric of ZTP, and drawing on the work of the Foucaultian, governmentality school, explored the implications of the fashion for ZTP type rhetoric and strategies for the tensions within governmental strategies in the unequal conditions of advanced liberalism. Using a historical and institutional - rather than philosophical - conception of liberalism, this paper argued that ZTP is an instrument of sovereign rule, which lies at the heart of even liberal forms of public government.

Distributed at the seminar was an article by Professor Stenson entitled "Some Day our Prince will Come: Zero-tolerance policing and liberal government" which formed Chapter 11 in Tim Hope & Richard Sparks (eds) 'Crime Risk and Insecurity' published by Routledge in 2001.