Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index
A history of the present -- Modern criminal justice and the penal-welfare state -- The crisis of penal modernism -- Social change and social order in late modernity -- Policy predicament : adaptation, denial, and acting out -- Crime complex : the culture of high crime societies -- The new culture of crime control -- Crime control and social order
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The United States and the United Kingdom have both become nations of stringent social control, from rapidly growing prison populations to ever increasing surveillance, curtailment of civil liberties, and restriction of the underclass. The Culture of control charts the evolution of this approach to law and order--politically, legally, and in terms of the average citizen's view of criminal "others" and their civil liberties
Crime and social order in contemporary society
Crime prevention-- Great Britain
Crime prevention-- United States
Criminal justice, Administration of-- Great Britain
Criminal justice, Administration of-- United States
Crime
Criminology
Great Britain
Punishment
United States
Criminalidade (prevenção e controle)-- Estados unidos;grã-bretanha