Culture Of Control Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society

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  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780199258024
  • 26 september 2002
  • 324 pagina's
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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.



The Culture of Control charts the dramatic changes in crime control and criminal justice that have occurred in Britain and America over the last 25 years. It then explains these transformations by showing how the social organization of late modern society has prompted a series of political and cultural adaptations that alter how governments and citizens think and act in relation to crime. The book presents an original and in-depth analysis of contemporary crime control, revealing its underlying logics and rationalities, and identifying the social relations and cultural sensibilities that have produced this new culture of control. In developing a "history of the present" in the field of crime control, David Garland presents an intertwined history of the welfare state and the criminal justice state, a theory of social and penal change, and an account of how social order is constructed in late modern societies. Drawing on extensive research in the UK and the USA, he shows in detail how the social, economic and cultural forces of the late 20th century have reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals. The Culture of Control explains how our responses to crime and our sense of criminal justice came to be so dramatically reconfigured at the end of the 20th century. The shifting policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security - and the changing class, race and gender relations that underpin them - are viewed as aspects of the problem of governing late modern society and creating social order in a rapidly changing social world. Its theoretical scope, empirical range and interpretative insight make this book an indispensable guide to one of the central issues of our time.

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26 september 2002
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David Garland
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Oxford University Press

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  • Langdradig, maar een goed punt.

    Positieve punten

    • Overzichtelijk
    • Praktisch toepasbaar
    • Heldere boodschap
    • Volledig
    • Volledig

    Negatieve punten

    • veel herhaling
    Toon alleen de eerste 3 punten

    In dit boek besteed Garland aandacht aan de veranderingen in het criminaliteitsbeleid van de tweede wereldoorlog tot nu. Hij besteed daarbij met name aandacht aan de omslag van de verzorgingsstaat uit de jaren 70 naar de punitieve hedendaagse aanpak. We leven immers in een tijd waar de opvatting van experts omtrent criminaliteitsbeleid plaats heeft moeten maken voor politiek populisme.

    Wanneer men hoofdstuk 1, 2, 7 en 8 leest, is de kern van Garlands verhaal al duidelijk. De overige hoofdstukken bespreken de context waarin hij zijn theorieën plaatst. Naar mijn mening betreffen deze hoofdstukken veel dezelfde informatie.

    Desondanks is dit een aanrader voor iedere criminoloog, jurist, sociale wetenschapper of overige maatschappelijk geëngageerde personen.

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  • Cultural changes surrounding crime and security

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    • Compleet
    • Inspirerend

    According to Garland there is a significant change in the culture surrounding crime and security. This development is visible in both the governmental sector and the semi-governmental sector and ‘pushes policy away from retribution, deterrence and reform towards a concern with prevention, harm-reduction and risk-management’. In other words; it focuses on creating fewer security weaknesses.

    This culture started to rise in the last decades, due to public demands for stronger measures of protection. Agencies started to put more effort on protecting the public, acting upon the public’s fear. New infrastructures started to arise, the reactive strategies of the past were replaced by more proactive versions. Therefore, the value based approach of the past is replaced by a more amoral and technical approach. Garland describes this as follows; ‘Instead of rejecting crime as socially unjust or unacceptable, this new culture only seeks to repair social and economic relations that give rise to crime’. By addressing more attention to the social system and institutions, instead of on particular human beings (and their attitudes), efforts are being made to redesign situations to lessen the opportunities for crime.

    Nevertheless, this new approach (or culture) comes with a cost. By reshaping the response to crime and security issues, there is also more chance of the hardening of social division in society. Furthermore, it may also lead to a tendency towards authoritarianism and the decline of tolerance in society.

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