1. Introduction: risk, governance, dilemma -- 2. Dangerousness: the birth of a concept -- 3. Welfare and security -- 4. Psychology, governance and sex crime -- 5. From dangerous to inadequate -- 6. Self-governance, neo-liberalism and the renaissance of dangerousness -- 7. The care of the self -- 8. The neo-liberal state and dangerousness -- 9. Living with freedom
