The culture of control : crime and social order in contemporary society

Select an Action

Title:

The culture of control : crime and social order in contemporary society

Author:

Garland, David.

ISBN:

9780226283845

Personal Author:

Garland, David.

Publication Information:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002, c2001.

Physical Description:

xiii, 307 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

A history of the present -- Modern criminal justice and the penal-welfare state -- The crisis of penal modernism -- Social change and social order in late modernity -- Policy predicament: adaptation, denial, and acting out -- Crime complex: the culture of high crime societies -- The new culture of crime control -- Crime control and social order.

Abstract:

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.

Subject Term:

Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.

Crime prevention -- United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain.

Crime prevention -- Great Britain.

Justice pénale -- Administration -- États-Unis.

Criminalité -- Prévention -- États-Unis.

Justice pénale -- Administration -- Grande-Bretagne.

Criminalité -- Prévention -- Grande-Bretagne.

Copies:

Available:*

Library	Material Type	Item Barcode	Shelf Number	Copy	Status
Searching... 1:IIEMSA	1:GEN-BOOK	33168015709864	364.973 G233C 2001	1	Searching... Unknown

Bound With These Titles

On Order

Summary

The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and "zero-tolerance" policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response to crime and our sense of criminal justice has come to be so dramatically reconfigured? David Garland charts the changes in crime and criminal justice in America and Britain over the past twenty-five years, showing how they have been shaped by two underlying social forces: the distinctive social organization of late modernity and the neoconservative politics that came to dominate the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s.

Garland explains how the new policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security--and the changing class, race, and gender relations that underpin them--are linked to the fundamental problems of governing contemporary societies, as states, corporations, and private citizens grapple with a volatile economy and a culture that combines expanded personal freedom with relaxed social controls. It is the risky, unfixed character of modern life that underlies our accelerating concern with control and crime control in particular. It is not just crime that has changed; society has changed as well, and this transformation has reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals. David Garland's The Culture of Control offers a brilliant guide to this process and its still-reverberating consequences.