Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS Western Style?

Crime Control as Industry: Towards GULAGS Western Style?

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.

Christie, Nils

London: Routledge 1993 pp192

SR P 251