The culture of control
Subtitle: crime and social order in contemporary society
By: David Garland.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States; Crime prevention -- United States; Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain; Crime prevention -- Great Britain
First sentence: We quickly grow used to the way things are.
Description: The United States and the United Kingdom have both become nations of stringent social control, from rapidly growing prison populations to ever increasing surveillance, curtailment of civil liberties, and restriction of the underclass. The Culture of control charts the evolution of this approach to law and order--politically, legally, and in terms of the average citizen's view of criminal "others" and their civil liberties.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-301) and index.
Table of contents: title: A history of the present; title: Modern criminal justice and the penal-welfare state; title: The crisis of penal modernism; title: Social change and social order in late modernity; title: Policy predicament: adaptation, denial, and acting out; title: Crime complex: the culture of high crime societies; title: The new culture of crime control; title: Crime control and social order.