Crime control as industry : towards gulags, Western style /

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Author / Creator:Christie, Nils, 1928-
Uniform title:Kriminalitetskontroll i industrisamfunnet. English
Edition:3rd ed.
Imprint:London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Description:209 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4388658
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ISBN:0415234875
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-209).
Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the third edition
  • Chapter 1. Efficiency and decency
  • Chapter 2. The eye of God
  • 2.1. All alone
  • 2.2. The stranger
  • 2.3. Where crime does not exist
  • 2.4. An unlimited supply of crime
  • Chapter 3. Penal geography
  • 3.1. Maps of pain
  • 3.2. Europe - West
  • 3.3. Europe - Central and East
  • 3.4. America - North
  • 3.5. America - Central and South
  • 3.6. The importance of thought patterns
  • Chapter 4. Why are there so few prisoners?
  • 4.1. Encounters in the mountains
  • 4.2. Waiting for pain
  • 4.3. The good old days - they were terrible
  • 4.4. Political identification
  • 4.5. The Baltic test
  • 4.6. Tolerance from above
  • 4.7. Welfare states at the brink
  • 4.8. Will it last?
  • Chapter 5. Why are there so many prisoners?
  • 5.1. The surplus population
  • 5.2. Stocks in life
  • 5.3. Drug control as class control
  • 5.4. Fortress Europe, Western Division
  • Chapter 6. The Russian case
  • 6.1. The homecomer
  • 6.2. Prisons for labour
  • 6.3. Stored away
  • 6.4. TB
  • 6.5. Counter-forces
  • 6.6. Dangers ahead
  • Chapter 7. USA - the Trend-setter
  • 7.1. Whom one loveth, one chasteneth
  • 7.2. The great confinement
  • 7.3. Black figures
  • 7.4. From state to state
  • 7.5. State of the prisons
  • 7.6. The crime explanation
  • 7.7. The brakes are gone
  • Chapter 8. Crime control as a product
  • 8.1. The self-presentation
  • 8.2. The private push
  • 8.3. The technology push
  • 8.4. Prisons as units for production
  • 8.5. An incentive for rural growth
  • 8.6. Prisons in the national economy
  • Chapter 9. Conflicting values
  • 9.1. Pain delivery for sale?
  • 9.2. Policing for sale?
  • Chapter 10. Modernity in decisions
  • 10.1. 4,926 applicants
  • 10.2. Bottlenecks
  • 10.3. Manuals for decisions on pain
  • 10.4. Purified justice
  • 10.5. Offender cooperation
  • 10.6. Depersonalization
  • Chapter 11. Justice done, or managed?
  • 11.1. Village law
  • 11.2. Representative law
  • 11.3. Independent law
  • 11.4. The silent revolution
  • 11.5. Expressive behaviour
  • Chapter 12. Modernity and behaviour control
  • 12.1. Children of modernity
  • 12.2. Cloth of the devil
  • 12.3. Limits to growth?
  • 12.4. Industrialized killing
  • 12.5. Medicalized killing
  • 12.6. Legalized killing
  • Chapter 13. Crime control as culture
  • 13.1. The common core
  • 13.2. Where does law belong?
  • 13.3. A suitable amount of pain
  • Literature