David Garland (School of Law and School of Department of Sociology

The Culture of Control

Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 528g
• ISBN-13: 9780199258024
• ISBN-10: 0199258023
• Artikelnr.: 22323488

Autorenporträt

David Garland is Professor of Law at New York University

Inhaltsangabe

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