{"product_id":"punishment-and-modern-society-a-study-in-social-theory-9780226283821","title":"Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory","description":"In this path-breaking book, David Garland argues that punishment is a complex social institution that affects both social relations and cultural meanings. Drawing on theorists from Durkheim to Foucault, he insightfully critiques the entire spectrum of social thought concerning punishment, and reworks it into a new interpretive synthesis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePunishment and Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e is an outstanding delineation of the sociology of punishment. At last the process that is surely the heart and soul of criminology, and perhaps of sociology as well--punishment--has been rescued from the fringes of these 'disciplines'. . . . This book is a first-class piece of scholarship.\"--Graeme Newman, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Garland's treatment of the theorists he draws upon is erudite, faithful and constructive. . . . \u003ci\u003ePunishment and Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e is a magnificent example of \u003ci\u003eworking\u003c\/i\u003e social theory.\"--John R. Sutton, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003ePunishment and Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e lifts contemporary penal issues from the mundane and narrow contours within which they are so often discussed and relocates them at the forefront of public policy. . . . This book will become a landmark study.\"--Andrew Rutherford, \u003ci\u003eLegal Studies\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"This is a superbly intelligent study. Its comprehensive coverage makes it a genuine review of the field. Its scholarship and incisiveness of judgment will make it a constant reference work for the initiated, and its concluding theoretical synthesis will make it a challenge and inspiration for those undertaking research and writing on the subject. As a state-of-the-art account it is unlikely to be bettered for many a year.\"--Rod Morgan, \u003ci\u003eBritish Journal of Criminology\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWinner of both the Outstanding Scholarship Award of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Crime, Law, and Deviance Section\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGarland, David:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eDavid Garland\u003c\/b\u003e is the Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology at New York University. He is the author of the award-winning studies \u003ci\u003ePunishment and Welfare\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePunishment and Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491625013522,"sku":"9780226283821","price":37.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_813118b2-6acd-4fa5-be4a-9fb5c4a9b636.jpg?v=1730544960","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/punishment-and-modern-society-a-study-in-social-theory-9780226283821","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}