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Pickett, Justin T.; Mears, Daniel P.; Stewart, Eric A.; Gertz, Marc – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
In "The Culture of Control: Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society," David Garland linked contemporary crime control policies and welfare reforms to a cultural formation that he termed the "crime complex of late modernity." According to Garland, once established, the crime complex exerts a contemporaneous effect on…
Descriptors: Crime, Prediction, Welfare Services, Security (Psychology)
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Mears, Daniel P.; Mancini, Christina; Gertz, Marc; Bratton, Jake – Crime & Delinquency, 2008
"Get tough" approaches for responding to sex crimes have proliferated during the past decade. Child pornography in particular has garnered attention in recent years. Policy makers increasingly have emphasized incarceration as a response to such crime, including accessing child pornography. Juxtaposed against such efforts is a dearth of knowledge…
Descriptors: Telephone Surveys, Crime, Adults, Pornography