While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday
meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social
control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological
discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept
has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a
slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very
specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the
future of punishment and social control.
The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between
ordinary and political crime will become more unstable; national
and global considerations will come closer together; domestic crime
control policies will be more influenced by interests of national
security; measures to prevent and control international terrorism
will cast their reach wider (to financial structures and
ideological support); the movements of immigrants, refugees, and
asylum seekers will be curtailed and criminalized;
taken-for-granted human rights and civil liberties will be
restricted. In the midst of these dramatic social changes, hardly
anyone will notice the academic field of "punishment and social
control" being drawn closer to political matters.
Criminology is neither a "pure" academic discipline nor a
profession that offers an applied body of knowledge to solve the
crime problem. Its historical lineage has left an insistent tension
between the drive to understand and the drive to be relevant. While
the scope and orientation of this new second edition remain the
same, in recognition of the continued growth and diversity of
interest in punishment and social control, new chapters have been
added and several original chapters have been updated and
revised.
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