Governmentality' and the Problem of Crime
Foucault, Criminology, Sociology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5772832 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Garland (0000-0002-8710-4149, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 173-214 |
| Publication date | 1997-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoretical Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-4806 • E-ISSN: 1461-7439 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1362480697001002002 |
| OpenAlex | W1994958789 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 326 |
| References cited | 34 |
The article traces the main themes of the `governmentality' literature, as developed by Michel Foucault and subsequent writers, and outlines a series of related ideas about `the social' as a realm of government; statistics and bio-power; actuarial forms of reasoning; and government-at-a-distance. It goes on to illustrate the criminological value of these ideas by means of an analysis of some of the governmental rationalities and technologies that are currently emerging in the field of crime control. These include `economic' forms of reasoning about crime and its control, the emergence of `the criminogenic situation' as a practicable object of government and the use of `technologies of the self' in penal settings. The final part of the article identifies some of the limitations and problems of the `governmentality' literature. It argues that studies of governmentality beg certain sociological questions; that the governmentality analytic is quite compatible with certain forms of sociological analysis; and that the project of writing a history of the present is best pursued - in the field of crime control at least - by combining these forms of enquiry
Crime control · Crime prevention · Criminal justice · Criminology · Epistemology · Governmentality · Michel foucault · Political science · Politics · Realm · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law
Nach der »Willkommenskultur«
Criminalizing Children
Fictions of Justice
Die politische Theorie der Gouvernementalität
The Redistribution of Responsibility Between State and Parents
Towards a critical post-structuralism
Agents of care and agents of the state
Neoliberalismus, Staat und Selbsttechnologien. Ein kritischer Überblick über die governmentality studies
Surveillance, Social Control, and Managing Semi-Legality in U.S. Commercial Cannabis
The Responsibilization Strategy of Health and Safety
Narratives of Rehabilitation in a South African Prison
Regulating Prostitution
Normalization and its Discontents
Unveiling the consequences
Criminal Record Stigma and Surveillance in the Digital Age
Pavyzdinio kalėjimo darbuotojo beieškant
Entre os (Muitos) Sentidos de Big Data
Conceptualising service-user engagement in the criminal justice system as infrastructure
Former Canadian Federal Prisoners’ views of wrongful conviction
Indirect and Psychological Victimization in Prison
Sharing the Monopoly on Violence? Shall-Issue Concealed Handgun License Laws and Responsibilization
The risk of users’ choice
The new spectacle of crime
The Failure of Ganhua Education
Third Party Policing
Understanding risk in criminal justice
Marking Time in the Golden State
The Lens of Victim Contests and Youth Crime Stat Wars
Daily Ritual, Mission, and the Transformation of the Self
Crime in a Convict Republic
Theorising Risk Work
Special Issue
The Forgotten Threat
Policing Corruption Post- and Pre-Crime
Soft power in prison
The New Regulatory State and the Transformation of Criminology
Surveillance électronique et justice pénale
Governing Through Participation
Every Man for Himself and All for One
Experiência da pena e gestão de populações nas penitenciárias de São Paulo, Brasil
Evidence and risk discourses
Art Crimes
Los efectos de subjetivación del dispositivo de prevención del delito en el marco de la gubernamentalidad de la seguridad
Situation risquée
Criminogenic Silence
‘It was my thought … he made it a reality’
Local Neocolonialism and Terrorism in Africa
Foucault, Law, and Power
Governance through Publicity
Second‐chance Punitivism and the Contractual Governance of Crime and Incivility
Drugs and freedom
Thinking About New Directions in Juvenile Justice
Risk, Resilience and Beyond
The Problem of Terrorism
The Late Modern Prison and the Question of Values
Thinking about political reform through the prism of policing
Governmentality, Critical Scholarship, and the Medical Humanities
Tortious discipline
Governing drug use through partnerships
Blogging Homelessness
GPS‐Electronic Monitoring and Contemporary Penology
Thinking Beyond ‘Utility’
Prison Drug Dealing and the Ethnographic Lens
Reconsidering Respect
Crime and Governance in the Global South
Shaping migration at the border
Diversifying neoliberalism and its multiple subjects through assemblage thinking – advancements and pitfalls
Reimagining the Educational Field
Those Who Must Die
Safety overrides all other concerns’
Rules, skills and autonomy
Representations of traffickers in official UK discourse
Speech for the defense of a radically constructivist sociology of (criminal) law
Moral Panic and the Nasty Girl
Risk and punishment
Governmentality and Counterterrorism
A brave new world
The prison don’t talk to you about getting out of prison’
History, periodization and the character of contemporary crime control
This town’s a different town today’
Demystifying risk management
Multi-centred governance and circuits of power in liberal modes of security
The body does not lie’
The Fugitive
Prison autobiographical narratives
Communicating the terrorist risk
Colonialism and Carceral Motherhood
Of “Sluts” and “Arseholes”
Transformative Visions
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Correctional Autonomy and Authority in the Rise of Mass Incarceration
Attuning and Queering SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework
Crime, Place, and Pollution
Deadly Consequences
Surveillance, Risk and Preemption on the Australian Border
Guaranteed Income as Targeted Welfare? Mechanisms and Conditions Linking Income Security, Health, and Crime for Patients in Forensic Psychiatry
Manufacturing Responsibility
Imaginary Homelessness Prevention with Prison Leavers in Wales
Arab school principals in Israel – between conformity and moral courage
Moral courage from the perspective of Arab teachers in Jewish schools
Punishment and welfare
Poor Discipline
The Taming of Chance
Taming the System
Reactive Risk and Rational Action
The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
Foucault and the Writing of History
The Ideological Effects of Actuarial Practices
Punishment and Social Control
Foucault And Political Reason
Punishment and Modern Society
Reconstructing Individualism
The Demand and Supply of Criminal Opportunities
Community and the criminal justice system
Critical and Effective Histories
Reactive Risk and Rational Action
Crime and Punishment
Understanding Crime Rates
The Limits of the Sovereign State
The Social Science Encyclopedia
Risk society
Political power beyond the State
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
Social Control
Law, Society, and Industrial Justice
Sociological Theory and Social Control
Risk, power and crime prevention
Governing economic life
| Unique citing works | 326 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 11,64 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2026 (29) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 326 |