TY - JOUR AB - Theoretical Criminology © 2004 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. Vol. 8(2): 239–249; 1362–4806 DOI: 10.1177/1362480604042249 Richard V. Ericson and Aaron Doyle (eds) Risk and Morality Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003. 461 pp. £45.00 (hbk). ISBN 0802087604; £22.50 (pbk). ISBN 0802085636. x Reviewed by Barbara Hudson, University of Central Lancashire, UK Risk and Morality contains original essays by contributors from Canada, the USA, the UK and France, who represent a variety of disciplines, including law, philosophy, sociology and geography. The papers were presented at a collo- quium at Green College, University of British Columbia, in May 2001. There are contributions from familiar names, who between them have done much to frame the criminological discourse on risk, as well as others who are less known among criminologists and penologists. The criminologists, however, contribute essays that mark departures from their familiar fields, for example Jonathan Simon on the risks of mountaineering and Pat O’Malley on contract law. What binds the collection together is the shared rejection of the view that risk marks the expulsion of morality from governance. The principal aim of the work is to interrogate risk as a moral discourse: what are its terms; what moral TI - Book Reviews JF - Theoretical Criminology: An International Journal DO - 10.1177/1362480604042249 DA - 2004-05-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/sage/book-reviews-sShZV3Z4oV SP - 239 EP - 249 VL - 8 IS - 2 DP - DeepDyve ER -