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The culture of control : crime and social order in contemporary society / David Garland.

By: Publication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.Description: xiii, 307 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0226283836 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.973 GAR 21
LOC classification:
  • HV9950 .G36 2001
Online resources:
Contents:
Content : 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 Appendix Endnotes Bibliography Index
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [277]-301) and index.

Content :
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
Appendix
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index