Controlling Crime, Controlling Society: Thinking about Crime in Europe and AmericaISBN: 978-0-7456-3429-6
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240 pages
December 2008, Polity
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British Journal of Criminology
“Dario Melossi bestrides the worlds of American and
European criminologies as few others can. He has been a key figure
on both continents across three decades, and Controlling Crime,
Controlling Society is his masterpiece. There are many
overviews of the study of crime and society, but none that equals
Melossi's grasp of primary sources or historical
sensibility.”
Richard Sparks, University of Edinburgh
“This is one of the most stimulating books on
criminological thought I have read in a long time. The sociological
reconstruction of modern American and European thought
“brings to life” bodies of work that are too often
treated as “dead”, and illuminates why they mattered
then and still matter today. Melossi offers an important reminder
that to think about crime is also to think about the problem of
social order. Criminology is bound up with reproducing and
challenging dominant representations of the offender. This book is
a real treat.”
Ian Loader, University of Oxford
“Dario Melossi is to be congratulated on his stunning
achievement. Controlling Crime, Controlling Society is a
tour de force. This is an intellectual history of the concepts of
deviance, social control, and the state in North America and Europe
over the past two centuries that can profitably be read by
criminologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians.
Indeed, it is a “must-read” for anyone interested in
crime, deviance, social control, and the state – that is,
most social scientists.”
Malcolm Feeley, University of California,
Berkeley