New agendas for social policy and criminology: Globalization, urbanism andthe emerging post-social security state

The subjects of social policy and criminology have long been concerned with the criminalization and regulation of the poor. The premise of this paper is that in recent years new forms of criminalization and regulation have em erged that various authors, from both disciplines, have begun to theorize. The paper aims to contribute to this growing literature by bringing togethe r diverse themes that deserve to be extensively discussed in conjunction wi th one another. These are: first, globalisation; second, the changing natur e of the state; third, the reorganization of space and time, especially at the urban level. It proceeds through examinations of some of the recent wor k of Jock Young, David Garland, Ramesh Mishra, Peter Taylor-Gooby and Zygmu nt Bauman. It concludes that theoretical and empirical research should anal yse the reorganization of space and time which is being effected by the "po st-social security state" and it is which constitutes the new agenda for so cial policy and criminology.