I. Una historia del presente
II. La Justicia Penal moderna y el Estado Penal de Bienestar
III. La crisis del sistema penal moderno
IV. Cambio social y orden social en la modernidad tardía
V. El dilema político: adaptación, negación y acting out
VI. El complejo del delito: la cultura de las sociedades con altas tasas de delito
VII. La nueva cultura del control del delito
VIII. Control del delito y orden social
Esta obra describe los cambios en el control del crimen y justicia criminal producidos en Gran Bretaña y Estados Unidos en los últimos 25 años. Explica los cambios mostrando cómo la organización social de la modernidad tardía provoca reajustes políticos y culturales que modifican la manera de pensar y reaccionar de los gobiernos y ciudadanos al crimen. David Garland, uno de los especialistas más distinguidos en sociología del crimen, presenta un análisis original y a fondo del control de la criminalidad que revela la lógica y el tipo de racionalidad que lo guía. Las actitudes sociales y culturales que produjeron esta nueva cultura del control renuncian a la reinserción a favor de la exclusión permanente de una clase de nuevos 'parias'. La cultura del control muestra hasta qué punto la criminalidad es el fiel espejo, de las prácticas sociales en un mundo patológicamente consumista y laboralmente precario.
The past 30 years have seen vast changes in our attitudes toward crime. More and more of us live in gated communities; prison populations have skyrocketed; and issues such as racial profiling, community policing, and zero-tolerance policies dominate the headlines. How is it that our response to crime and our sense of criminal justice has come to be so dramatically reconfigured? David Garland charts the changes in crime and criminal justice in America and Britain over the past twenty-five years, showing how they have been shaped by two underlying social forces: the distinctive social organization of late modernity and the neoconservative politics that came to dominate the United States and the United Kingdom in the 1980s. Garland explains how the new policies of crime and punishment, welfare and security--and the changing class, race, and gender relations that underpin them--are linked to the fundamental problems of governing contemporary societies, as states, corporations, and private citizens grapple with a volatile economy and a culture that combines expanded personal freedom with relaxed social controls. It is the risky, unfixed character of modern life that underlies our accelerating concern with control and crime control in particular. It is not just crime that has changed; society has changed as well, and this transformation has reshaped criminological thought, public policy, and the cultural meaning of crime and criminals. David Garland's The Culture of Control offers a brilliant guide to this process and its still-reverberating consequences.
