The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary SocietyThe Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime. 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. |
Contents
A History of the Present | |
Modern Criminal Justice and the PenalWelfare State | |
The Crisis of Penal Modernism | |
Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity | |
Adaptation Denial and Acting | |
The Culture of High Crime Societies | |
The New Culture of Crime Control | |
Crime Control and Social Order | |
Appendix | |
Bibliography | |
Index Endnotes | |
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