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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 )


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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A Superb Summary of Recent Criminal Justice Developments, 1 April 2001
This review is from: The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society (Clarendon Studies in Criminology) (Hardcover)
David Garland completes his trilogy of books on crime and criminal justice with this superb synopsis of changes over the last thirty years.

He argues that the UK is increasingly moving in line with the US in terms of the 'punitive state', and ponders the issues relating to the demise of welfarism in penology, with policy-makers and governments seemingly preferring to move towards punitivity as the answer. The rise in victim-input is also considered - as are many other important issues.

This book is recommended reading for anyone with an interest in crime control - not only criminologists, but also sociologists, political scientists, and anyone with an interest in contemporary society.

I cannot express how brilliant this work is - buy it NOW and you'll be as gushing with praise as I am. Utterly superb.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The most important criminological text this century, 5 Jan 2006
Garland's thesis charts the emergence of a bourgeoning 'culture of control' in both the UK and USA. It engages with questions as to why we have seen such a cultural shift in the ways we think and deal with crime? In particular it deals with the logics and rationalities which have given rise to such changes, rooted in both the social organisation of 'late modernity' and the proliferation of free market economic changes during the last 25 years.

Garland's book describes in clear and approachable langauge how such changes in the organisation of society have given rise to
the ways governments have battled to maintain their sovereign role as 'controllers' of crime, together with the changing ways in which crime has been woven into the fabric of the everyday lives of citizens on both sides of the Atlantic.

I would advise the book not only to criminologists and sociologists involved in the study of crime and its control, but also practitioners who would find the arguements both compelling and invaluable.
Also a reassurance to the 'freaked out' student engaging with such grand ideas of 'late modernity' and 'neo liberalism', that this book is not dressed in heavy- going langauge and can easily be bedtime reading (if keen enough). However it is far from a cure for insomnia!

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