The culture of control : crime and social order in contemporary society
This work charts the changes in crime control & criminal justice that have occurred in Britain & America over the last 25 years. It then explains these transformations by showing how social organisation has prompted political and cultural adaptations
xiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm
9780198299370, 9780199258024, 0198299370, 0199258023
59519583
1. A History of the Present ; 2. Modern Criminal Justice and the Penal-Welfare State ; 3. The Crisis of Penal Modernism ; 4. Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity ; 5. Policy Predicament: Adaptation, Denial and Acting Out ; 6. Crime Complex: The Culture of High Crime Societies ; 7. The New Culture of Crime Control ; 8. Crime Control and Social Order ; Bibliography ; Index