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The Culture of Control
The Culture of Control
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Description
The book presents an original and in-depth analysis of contemporary crime control, revealing its underlying logics and rationalities, and identifying the social relations and cultural sensibilities that have produced this new culture of control.
In developing a "history of the present" in the field of crime control, David Garland presents an intertwined history of the welfare state and the criminal justice state, a theory of social and penal change, and an account of how social order is constructed in late modern societies. Drawing on extensive research in the UK and the USA, he shows in detail how the social, economic and cultural forces of the late 20th century have reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals.
The Culture of Control explains how our responses to crime and our sense of criminal justice came to be so dramatically reconfigured at the end of the 20th century. The shifting policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security - and the changing class, race and gender relations that underpin them - are viewed as aspects of the problem of governing late modern society and creating social order in a rapidly changing social world. Its theoretical scope, empirical range and interpretative insight make this book an indispensable guide to one of the central issues of our time.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Languages:
- Original: English
- Number of Pages:
- 328
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2002-09-26
- Release Date:
- 2002-12-01
- ISBN / EAN:
- 9780199258024
- Weight:
- 515 g
- Dimensions:
- 16/24/2 cm
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
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