"After a promising start as a prosperous and liberal democratic nation at the end of the nineteenth century, Argentina descended into instability and crisis. This stark reversal, in a country rich in natural resources and seemingly bursting with progress and energy, has puzzled …
Rodriguez analyzes the powerful alliance between medicine, science, and the state in Argentina between 1880 and 1914, resulting in a political culture based on a medical model of defining social problems such as poverty, vagrancy, crime, and street violence as illnesses to be tr…
A general theory of domination
This study builds on the work of contemporary civic republicans supplying a detailed analysis of the concept of domination absent in the familiar accounts of political freedom as non-domination. This study builds on the work of contemporary civic republicans, supplying a detail…
N an age of mass camera surveillance people in the UK have become the most watched, catalogued and categorised people in the western world, all with little public debate or opposition. Nor has there been much more critical research that understands CCTV within the broader social…
"This collection focuses attention on an important but academically neglected area of contemporary operational policing: the regulation of consensual sexual practices. Despite the high-level public visibility of, and debate about, policing in relation to violent and abusive sexu…
Introduction: NextGen nightmare -- Criminalization and computation -- Computerizing the carceral state -- A fully automated police apparatus -- Punishment in the network form -- How to program a carceral city -- Conclusion: Viral abolition. "This project explores the long histo…
"Brian Jefferson explores the history of digital computing and criminal justice, revealing how big tech, computer scientists, university researchers, and state actors have digitized carceral governance over the past forty years. He shows how digital technology has expanded the w…
Theories and perspectives -- Social control : history of the concept / James J. Chriss -- Deviance, social control, and criminalization / Robert F. Meier -- Law as social control / A. Javier Treviño -- Social geometry and social control / Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning -- Di…