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Description

1. 192 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Nils Christie argues that crime control has become an industry with unlimited potential for growth. He exposes the resulting forms of control across a wide range of Western societies.

Uniform title

1. Kriminalitetskontroll i industrisamfunnet. English

Alternative title

1. Kriminalitetskontroll i industrisamfunnet.

Subject

1. Corrections
2. Criminal Law
3. Criminal justice, Administration of
4. Criminal law
5. Imprisonment
6. Internment camps

Contents

1. Ch. 1. Efficiency and decency -- Ch. 2. eye of God -- 2.1. All alone -- 2.2. stranger -- 2.3. Where crime does not exist -- 2.4. unlimited supply of crime -- Ch. 3. Level of intended pain -- 3.1. Measures of pain -- 3.2. good old days? -- 3.3. Europe -- West -- 3.4. Global trends -- 3.5. importance of thought patterns -- Ch. 4. Why are there so few prisoners? -- 4.1. Waiting for pain -- 4.2. Tolerance from above -- 4.3. Between East and West in Europe -- 4.4. Welfare states at the brink -- 4.5. Will it last? -- Ch. 5. Control of the dangerous classes -- 5.1. surplus population -- 5.2. Stocks in life -- 5.3. Drug control as class control -- 5.4. Fortress Europe, Western division -- 5.5. Money in slaves -- 5.6. Traces of a future -- Ch. 6. trend-setter -- 6.1. Whom one loveth, one chasteneth -- 6.2. great confinement -- 6.3. From state to state -- 6.4. States of prisons -- 6.5. crime explanation -- Ch. 7. Crime control as a product -- 7.1. crime control market -- 7.2. money push -- 7.3. Private prisons -- 7.4. Private policing -- 7.5. private push -- 7.6. technological push -- 7.7. Raw-material for control -- 7.8. great American tradition -- 7.9. standard setter -- Ch. 8. Modernity in Decisions -- 8.1. 4926 Applicants -- 8.2. Bottlenecks -- 8.3. Manuals for decisions on pain -- 8.4. Purified justice -- 8.5. Offender cooperation -- 8.6. Depersonalization -- Ch. 9. Justice done, or managed -- 9.1. Village law -- 9.2. Representative law -- 9.3. Independent law -- 9.4. silent revolution -- 9.5. Expressive behaviour -- Ch. 10. Brothers in control -- 10.1. manual for decisions on mental disorders -- 10.2. manual for action -- Ch. 11. Modernity and behavioural control -- 11.1. Children of modernity -- 11.2. Cloth of the devil -- 11.3. Limits to growth -- 11.4. Industrialized killing.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-192).

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