Volume 50, Number 14 · September 25, 2003
Do Not Pass Go
By Jerome S. Bruner
The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society
by David Garland
University of Chicago Press, 307 pp., $30.00; $20.00 (paper)
David Garland's disturbing new book addresses the question why there are so many more people in jail in America and Britain than anywhere else. That, in any case, is its specific focus. Its broader concern is with 'cultures of control,' how societies treat deviance and violence and whom they single out for what treatment. He deals with this politically sensitive subject less dramatically than Michel Foucault did in Discipline and Punish, which brought the subject into public debate in the 1970s.[1] Garland brings a larger amount of factual information to bear, but Foucault's influence shows in his account.
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