CRIMINOLOGY

Garland's Analysis

Garland's Analysis

Introduction

David Garland in 2001 offered a detailed and historical and cultural account of how crime control strategies developed over the years. The developments in crime control have sensitive to changes taking place in the modern society by adapting to the cultural and political values. The analysis focuses on the notion that we can comprehend the development of crime control strategies but considering punishment and control from a cultural perspective. The socially conservative politics of the free world have dominated the United Kingdom.

The most notable feature of the Garland analysis is that the crisis of modernism has also been taken into account. The crisis raised its head at the same time as the second wave of feminism. Garland states that penal-welfarism has established its roots at the start of 1970s decade. According to Garland, this sudden blitz which resulted in the American criticism of correctionalism, sentencing reform proposal's informed by lawyers and the loss of faith in correctionalism that various experts concluded “nothing would work”. From the 1960s to the 1980s, there were others that saw the time period as a political uproar and questioned accountability and democracy. Garland suggested that the fall of penal-welfarism was due to the changing nature of criminology at that time. Garland also suggests that during the late 1960s the concepts of positivist criminology faced severe criticism labeling the two as being dissimilar (Garland, 2001, pp. 212).

The concepts of Control theories assume that the offenses occur when the link between the individual and society weakens or breaks. Since these theories include two concepts complex, the link between the individual and society, not surprising that at some point of the other these concepts have comprised of the foundations of the clarifications for majority of the forms of unusual or strange behavior. Nor is it surprising ...