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Material Type: | Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Garland |
ISBN: | 0198299370 9780198299370 9780199258024 0199258023 |
OCLC Number: | 59519583 |
Description: | xiii, 307 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. History of the Present -- 2. Modern Criminal Justice and the Penal-Welfare State -- 3. 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. New Culture of Crime Control -- 8. Crime Control and Social Order. |
Responsibility: | David Garland. |
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There is a tremendous readability and clarity about The Culture of Control that almost disguises the mass of learning and information in the book. In fact, it is difficult to know which feature is to be admired more: the extraordinary sophistication, the integration of so many different approaches and disciplines, the snappy writing, or the lucid ordering of the argument. There is compelling realism about Garland's work. Much of it rings true, althoughsome may find the reading of recent social history rather left wing. Against the backdrop of the new, dispiriting, CJS White Paper, here is a prophet for our times. * Legal and Criminological Psychology * Garland's book is more than just an important contribution to criminology. It is also a major work of social analysis, which deserves to be read more widely ... his account of changes in crime control also provides one of the clearest and most convincing characterizations of contemporary society in general. * Robert Reiner, The Times Literary Supplement * Read more...


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