2nd Edition
Punishment and Social Control Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
Edited By Stanley Cohen
Copyright 2003
526 Pages
by
Routledge
526 Pages
by
Routledge
526 Pages
by
Routledge
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While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific... Read more
Introduction, PART I. PUNISHMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL: THEORIES AND TRENDS, Introduction to Part I, 1. State Punishment in Advanced Capitalist Countries, 2. Penal Modernism and Postmodernism, 3. The Form and Limits of the New Penology, 4. Virginia, Criminology, and the Antisocial Control of Women, 5. Controlling Drug Use: The Great Prohibition, PART II. POLICING AND SURVEILLANCE, Introduction to Part II, 6. Staffing and Training Problem-Oriented Police, 7. Developments in Undercover Policing, 8. Surveillance and Social Control in Postmodern Life, 9. On Controlling Torture, PART III. PUNISHMENT: MEASURING AND JUSTIFYING, Introduction to Part III, 10. Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments, 11. Stability of Punishment: What Happened and What Next?, 12. The Future of the Proportionate Sentence, 13. Constricted Rationality and the Limits of General Deterrence, 14. Tinkering with the Machinery of Death: The Failure of a Social Experiment, PART IV. THE EXPANDING PRISON: LIFE INSIDE, POLICY, AND REFORM, Introduction to Part IV, 15. The Structural-Functional Perspective on Imprisonment, 16. Women and Imprisonment: A Case Study of Two California Prisons, 17. Judicial Impact on Prison Reform, 18. The Crime of Punishment, 19. Penal Reform and the Fate of Alternatives, 20. It's About Time: America's Imprisonment Binge, 21. America's New Peculiar Institution: On the Prison as Surrogate Ghetto, 22. Of Punishment and Crime Rates: Some Theoretical and Methodological Consequences of Mass Incarceration, Contributors, Index
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Edited by Stanley Cohen
