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The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
Charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America. This book explains these transformations by showing how the social organisation of society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime.
| Author(s) | By David Garland (School of Law and Department of Sociology, School of Law and Department of Sociology, New York University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Paperback / softback |
| Pages | 328 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 Sept 2002 |
| Availability | Available |
Charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America. This book explains these transformations by showing how the social organisation of society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime.
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: Th
David Garland is Professor of Law at New York University
