Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great Britain, North Ame

6 Visions of order

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those ter

During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split

From random security checks at airports to the use of risk assessment in sentencing, actuarial methods are being used more than ever to determine whom law enfor