The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society.(Review) (book review)

The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society, by David Garland.

University of Chicago Press, 336 pages, $30.00.

When it comes to the politics of crime and punishment, it's hard to find clear differences these days between liberals and conservatives. Progressives have not yet recovered from the presidential campaign of 1988, in which Vice President George H.W. Bush used the notorious Willie Horton television spot to portray Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis as soft on crime, short on common sense, and out of touch with the American mainstream. ...