Title
Crime control as industry : towards gulags, Western style / Nils Christie.
Uniform Title
Kriminalitetskontroll i industrisamfunnet. English
Edition
3rd ed.
ISBN
9780415234870 (pbk.)
0415234875 (pbk.)
Publication Details
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Language
English
Description
209 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Call Number
HV8705 .C4813 2000
Dewey Decimal Classification
364
Summary
Publisher's description: This classic text argues that crime control, rather than crime itself is the real danger for our future. Since the second edition was published in 1994, prison populations, especially in Russia and America, have grown at an increasingly rapid rate. This third edition is published to take account of these changes and draw attention to the scale of an escalating problem. It contains completely new chapters - one on 'penal geography', the other on 'the Russian case' - and has been extensively revised.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-209).
Efficiency and decency
The eye of God
Penal geography
Why are there so few prisoners?
Why are there so many prisoners?
The Russian case
USA
the trend-setter
Crime control as a product
Conflicting values
Modernity in decisions
Justice done, or managed?
Modernity and behaviour control
Crime control as culture.
