Crime Control As Industry: Towards Gulags, Western Style / Edition 3

by Nils Christie

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415234870
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/28/2000
Edition description:	REV
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Nils Christie (1928 –2015) was a Norwegian sociologist and criminologist. He was a professor of criminology at the Faculty of Law, University of Oslo from 1966. He received an honorary degree at the University of Copenhagen. Christie is well known for his long standing criticism of drug prohibition, industrial society, and prisons. He was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface to the third edition

Chapter 1: Efficiency and decency

Chapter 2: The eye of God

Chapter 3: Penal Geography

Chapter 4: Why are there so few prisoners?

Chapter 5: Why are there so many prisoners?

Chapter 6: The Russian case

Chapter 7: USA: the Trend-setter

Chapter 8: Crime control as a product

Chapter 9: Conflicting values

Chapter 10: Modernity in decisions

Chapter 11: Justice done, or managed?

Chapter 12: Modernity and behavior control

Chapter 13: Crime control as culture

Editorial Reviews

Not crime itself, but crime control is the real danger for society, argues Christie (criminology, U. of Oslo). He documents the enormous growth in the number of prisoners in recent years, particularly in Russia and the US. But the fundamental problems, he says, are the unequal distribution of wealth and the lack of access to paid work. The 1993 first edition was published in English and as by Universitetsforlaget, Oslo; the second edition appeared in 1994. The third is radially revised to account for the accelerating proportion of people in prison, and contains new chapters on penal geography and the Russian case. It is not indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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