Castles of our Conscience (eBook)

Social Control and the American State 1800 - 1985

William G. Staples (Autor)

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2018
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-7456-7813-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Castles of our Conscience presents a new and distinctive analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. Staples provides a theoretical framework for understanding the mechanisms of state policy-making and capacity. This framework supports an interpretation of the changing nature of institutions of social control in the United States from the beginning in the nineteenth century to the present day.

A distinctive feature of the author's approach is his critique of existing theories of the state as well as recent revisionist writing in social control. Both, he argues, have tended to either reduce the state to an instrument of class power or treat it in too 'structuralist' a fashion. Developing a sophisticated account of the relationship between the state and civil society he provides a history of social control policies in the United States that balances analytical concerns with historical narrative.

This book will be of interest to students and professionals in sociology, politics and criminology.

Bill Staples grew up on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He has been a commercial fisherman, taxicab driver, plumber's apprentice, and pizza maker. He studied sociology at the University of Oregon, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. Staples is currently the 2013-14 E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. In addition to the first edition of EVERYDAY SURVEILLANCE his previous books include CASTLES OF OUR CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE AMERICAN STATE, 1800-1985, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, POWER, PROFITS, AND PATRIARCHY: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK AT A BRITISH METAL TRADES FIRM, 1791-1922 (with C. L. Staples), an American Sociological Association Book Award winner as well as and the two-volume reference work, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY, also a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

Inhalt

Title Page 5
Copyright 6
Contents 9
Preface 13
Introduction 15
1 Explaining Patterns of Institutional Social Control 17
From Progressivism to Revisionism 17
Toward a State-centered Perspective 19
The Structuration of the State: Form, Function, and Apparatus 20
Part I The Denial of Freedom in the New Republic: Social Control and the American State, 1800–1929 31
2 Charting the Liberal-Capitalist State 33
Production Politics in the Nineteenth-century Prison 40
The “Problem” of Prison Labor 41
The Origins of the Prison as Factory 43
Discipline, Punishment, and Capitalism 52
Working to Reproduce the State 56
3 Public Welfare in an Age of Social and Economic Crises 63
Poverty, Dependency, and the Poorhouse 64
From “Houses of Industry” to “Disgraceful Memorials” 72
Classification and the Growth of Specialized Institutions 80
Absorbing the Local State: Centralization, Political Power, and the State Apparatus 86
Part II Accumulating Minds and Bodies:Social Control and the American State, 1930–1985 93
4 Charting the Advanced-Capitalist State 95
Roads to the State Asylum 101
The Idle and Unproductive in the Penitentiary 109
The Juvenile Court and the Penetration of the Family 112
5 Contradictions and Consequences in Post-war Psychiatry 116
The State Hospital in the “New Age” of Community Mental Health 117
Opening the Back Doors: The Political Legitimacy of State Governments and the Early Signs of Deinstitutionalization 125
Community Psychiatry and the “New Frontier” of Progressive Social Reform 127
6 Public Policy under the Liberal Welfare State 131
From the “New Frontier” to the “Great Society”: The Politics and Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Years 132
”Gray Gold”: The New American Nursing Home Industry 137
The Goal of “Reintegration”:Offenders on Probation and Parole 140
Crises in the Community: the Politicization of America’s “Crime Wave” 145
Adolescents Go from Bad to Mad 152
7 The Evolution of the State Apparatus 160
The Dialectics of the State in Civil Society 163
Appendix: Concepts, Data, and Sources 169
Notes 173
References 195
Index 208

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.3.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American • Apparatus • Control • Denial • Explaining • freedom • institutional social • Introduction • New • nineteenthcentury • Part • Patterns • Perspective • Politics • progressivism • Republic • Revisionism • Social • Social Policy & Welfare • Social Work • Sozialarbeit • Sozialpolitik u. Wohlfahrt • State • statecentered • Structuration
• ISBN-10: 0-7456-7813-0 / 0745678130
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7456-7813-9 / 9780745678139