Trapped: Does the Security Industry Make Us Less Safe? Setha Low, Mark Maguire, and Alex Vitale in Conversation

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Can security be bought? At this moment when people are nervous about their safety, authors Setha Low and Mark Maguire discuss how security has become a commodity, causing both those with and those without it to live in fear. In their new book, Trapped: Life Under Security Capitalism and How to Escape It, they explore — in interviews with police, private contractors, and ordinary citizens — how the security-industrial-complex actually increases anxiety — and what can be done to break down walls for a freer, safer, and more just society. Low, a distinguished professor of psychology, anthropology, earth and environmental sciences, and women’s and gender studies at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Maguire, a professor anthropology at Maynooth University in Ireland, speak with Alex S. Vitale, a professor of sociology and coordinator of the Policing and Social Justice Project at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center.