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Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS Western Style?

01 January 1991

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Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS Western Style?
libdoc November=1993

Author: Christie, Nils
Publisher: London: Routledge 1993 pp192
Keywords: Crime control Statistics Prison(s) Private security Criminology

Contents:
Finding successful methods of dealing with crime is an increasingly
sensitive political issue. But could our concerns be misplaced, and
could it be crime control, rather than crime itself, that is the real
danger for the future? (...) Nils Christie argues that crime control
has become an industry with unlimited potential for growth. He
exposes the resulting forms of control across a range of western
societies, most particularly the United States, where the prison
population is ten times that anywhere else in the world.

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