Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

Acknowledgements ix

Introduction 1

Something like a Definition 2

The Sociological Connection 4

What Follows 9

1 The Master Patterns 13

The Original Transformation 14

The Alleged Current Move: Destructing 30

First Doubts, Second Thought 36

2 Inside the System 40

Size and Density 43

Visibility, Ownership and Identity 56

Penetration and Absorption 76

Conclusion: The Emerging Patterns 83

3 Deposits of Power 87

Progress 90

Organizational Convenience 92

Ideological Contradiction 100

Professional Interest 101

Political Economy 102

Conclusion 112

4 Stories of Change 115

The Quest for Community 116

The Ideal of the Minimum State 127

The Return to Behaviorism 139

Conclusion: Telling Stories 155

5 The Professionals 161

Part of a ‘New Class’? 162

The Logic and Language of Control 167

Cognitive Passion 175

Towards the Classified Society 191

6 Visions of Order 197

The Dystopian Assumption 197

The City as Metaphor 205

Planning for Order 211

Maps and Territories 218

Conclusion: Domains of Control 230

7 What Is To Be Done? 236

The Intellectual as Adversary 239

Doing Good and Doing Justice 245

Inside the System – Again 254

Means and Ends 261

Exclusion and Inclusion – Again 266

Appendix: In Constructing a Glossary of Controltalk 273

Euphemism 276

Medicalism and Psychologism 278

Acronyms 279

Technobabble 280

Notes and References 282

Index 318