The culture of control: crime and social order in contemporary society

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1. A History of the Present 2. Modern Criminal Justice and the Penal-Welfare State 3. The Crisis of Penal Modernism 4. Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity 5. Policy Predicament: Adaptation, Denial and Acting Out 6. Crime Complex: The Culture of High Crime Societies 7. The New Culture of Crime Control 8. Crime Control and Social Order Bibliography Index