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Crime and Control in the Culture of Late Modernity

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Garland David, The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. vii + 307 pages. $30.00 cloth.
Girling Evi, Loader Ian, and Sparks Richard, Crime and Social Change in Middle England: Questions of Order in an English Town. New York: Routledge, 2000. Pp. xi + 211 pages. $27.99 paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Katherine Beckett
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Law & Society Review , Volume 35 , Issue 4 , 2001 , pp. 899 - 929
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Copyright © 2001 Law and Society Association.

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The author thanks Theodore Sasson, Stuart Scheingold, Steve Herbert, and Helena Silverstein for their helpful suggestions.

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