Author: Véronique Voruz

Source: Economy and Society, Volume 34, Number 1, February 2005 , pp. 154-172(19)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

Abstract:

The third volume of David Garland's trilogy attempts to characterize recent developments in the field of crime control and criminal justice in terms of the emergence of a 'culture of control'. For these purposes the author claims to use the genealogical method developed by Michel Foucault. This essay argues that Garland's selective reliance on this method amounts to an undoing of the Foucauldian 'project' insofar as it re-introduces the objectivity/subjectivity dichotomy which Foucault had tried to subvert throughout his work. This undoing entails profound consequences for the politics of The Culture of Control , which concludes on a reformist proposition that forsakes a form of resistance grounded on the awareness of its own, intrinsic limitations.

Keywords: control; criminology; Foucault; interpretation; objectivity; subjectivity

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0308514042000329379

Publication date: 2005-02-01

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