Punishment and Social Control

Essays in Honor of Sheldon L. Messinger
2. enlarged Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-202-30702-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc

Buch, Englisch, 526 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 812 g

Reihe: Social Problems & Social Issues

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 implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of punishment and social control.

The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime will become more unstable; national and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime control policies will be more influenced by interests of national security; measures to prevent and control international terrorism will cast their reach wider (to financial structures and ideological support); the movements of immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers will be curtailed and criminalized; taken-for-granted human rights and civil liberties will be restricted. In the midst of these dramatic social changes, hardly anyone will notice the academic field of "punishment and social control" being drawn closer to political matters.

Criminology is neither a "pure" academic discipline nor a profession that offers an applied body of knowledge to solve the crime problem. Its historical lineage has left an insistent tension between the drive to understand and the drive to be relevant. While the scope and orientation of this new second edition remain the same, in recognition of the continued growth and diversity of interest in punishment and social control, new chapters have been added and several original chapters have been updated and revised.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cohen, Stanley

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Gesellschaftstheorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Stanley Cohen