The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary SocietyUniversity of Chicago Press, 2012 M07 16 - 336 páginas 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. |
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... tion . But if that will not do , I would simply add , by way of mitigation , that this is an area of scholarship that stands in need of more generalizing studies , not fewer . As we know from the bracing impact of Michel Foucault's ...
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... tion of order . It is to ask , ' what is the new problem of crime and social order to which the emerging system of crime control is a response ? ' ' What is the new strategy of governance of which it forms a part ? ' ' What are the new ...
... tion of order . It is to ask , ' what is the new problem of crime and social order to which the emerging system of crime control is a response ? ' ' What is the new strategy of governance of which it forms a part ? ' ' What are the new ...
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... tion . In the USA politicians hold press conferences to announce mandatory sen- tencing laws and are accompanied at the podium by the family of crime victims . Laws are passed and named for victims : Megan's law ; Jenna's law , the ...
... tion . In the USA politicians hold press conferences to announce mandatory sen- tencing laws and are accompanied at the podium by the family of crime victims . Laws are passed and named for victims : Megan's law ; Jenna's law , the ...
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... tion and management of any kind of risk . Protecting the public has become the dominant theme of penal policy . In the last few decades , the prison has been reinvented as a means of incapac- itative restraint , supposedly targeted upon ...
... tion and management of any kind of risk . Protecting the public has become the dominant theme of penal policy . In the last few decades , the prison has been reinvented as a means of incapac- itative restraint , supposedly targeted upon ...
Contenido
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2 Modern Criminal Justice and the PenalWelfare State | 27 |
3 The Crisis of Penal Modernism | 53 |
4 Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity | 75 |
Adaptation Denial and Acting Out | 103 |
The Culture of High Crime Societies | 139 |
7 The New Culture of Crime Control | 167 |
8 Crime Control and Social Order | 193 |
Appendix | 207 |
Endnotes | 211 |
Bibliography | 277 |
Index | 303 |
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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society David Garland Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society David Garland Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society David Garland Vista previa limitada - 2002 |
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