In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawi

Punishment and Civilization examines how a framework of punishment that suited the values and standards of the civilized world came to be set in place from arou

Arguing that penal institutions are social and cultural artefacts as well as techniques of crime control, this book explores how penality interacts with a varie

First published in 1985, this classic of law and society scholarship continues to shape the research agenda of today’s sociology of punishment. It is now repu

The project of interpreting contemporary forms of punishment means exploring the social, political, economic, and historical conditions in the society in which