This article argues that the persistence of coercive tactics is not just limited to the excluded,
the anti-citizens. It explores the routine use of coercion in contemporary practices for the …

This chapter describes the growing political salience of issues of crime control in liberal
democracies. It distinguishes three broad strategies of crime control that have crystallized in …

This chapter will set the issues raised in this book in a wider political context, providing
working definitions of key terms like liberalism, politics, government, and governance. It …

This article explores issues surrounding the legitimacy of private sector provision in criminal
justice. It examines changes in ideas about legitimate coercion which have made private …

This paper develops an argument lightly sketched in our book Public Criminology?(2010).
There we posed the question of what it would take for criminology to make a substantial …

This chapter examines the concept of social control in discussions of crime and deviance.
Discussions of informal social control identified the ways in which the management of …

This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private
justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social …

Crime problems largely result from opportunities, temptations, and provocations that have
been provided to offenders unintentionally by those pursuing other private interests. There is …

This article assembles some theoretical resources for a project that investigates the ways in
which thinking about politics has since the 1970s been bound up with thinking and action …

Regulation of individual and organizational behavior has increased over the last several
decades in the united States and elsewhere. The rise of regulation, well demonstrated by …