Managing Modernity

Politics and the Culture of Control

Edited by Matt Matravers

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About the Book

In the last thirty years, the USA and the UK have witnessed a profound change in the way in which we think about and respond to crime and social control. Crime has become part of everyday life as, for many citizens, has imprisonment.

Managing Modernity brings together criminologists, social theorists, and philosophers to consider what explains these changes and what they tell us about ourselves and the way in which we live. The authors consider the pervasive, the obvious, and the covert ways in which crime and social order have come to structure social discourses and social life, from mass imprisonment to zero tolerance, to on-the-spot fines.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (CRISPP).

Table of Contents

1. Preface R. Antony Duff 2. Introduction: Control in the 21st Century Matt Matravers 3.The Culture of Control: Choosing the Future Barbara Hudson 4. Taking Politics Seriously: Criminology and Political Culture in England and Wales since 1968 Ian Loader and Richard Sparks 5. Punishment and the Neoliberal Revolution Loic Wacquant 6. Back to Basics in Crime Control: Weaving in Women Loraine Gelsthorpe 7. Victims of Crime: Their Station and its Duties Sandra Marshall 8. Control on the Couch: A Psychoanalytic Reading of David Garland's 'Policy Predicament' Amanda Matravers and Shadd Maruna 9. The Sense of Atrocity and the Passion for Justice Claire Valier 10. Twin Towers, Iron Cages, and the Culture of Control John Hagan 11. Response David Garland

About the Author(s)

Matt Matravers is Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy, in the department of Politics, University of York; he is also Director of the Graduate School; Director of the MA in Political Research, and Acting Director MA's in Political Philosophy; and Director of Morrell Studies in Toleration programme.

His publications include Punishment and Political Theory (1999); Justice and Punishment: The Rationale of Coercion (2000), and Scanlon and Contractualism (2003).