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7 Theoretical Criminology 5 (2003)

handle is hein.journals/thcr7 and id is 1 raw text is: ARTICLES Theoretical Criminology Q 2003 SAGE Publications London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi. 1362-4806(200302)7:1 Vol. 7(1): 5-28; 030198 What's wrong with the sociology of punishment? JOHN BRAITHWAITE Australian National University Abstract The sociology of punishment is seen through the work of David Garland (2001) as contributing useful insights, but less than it might because of its focus on societal choices of whether and how to punish instead of on choices of whether to regulate by punishment or by a range of other important strategies. A problem in Garland's genealogical method is that branches of the genealogy are sawn off-the branches where the chosen instruments of regulation decentre punishment. This blinds us to the hybridity of predominantly punitive regulation of crime in the streets that is reshaped by more risk-preventive and restorative technologies of regulation for crime in the suites, and vice versa. Key Words Foucault * Garland * police * punishment * regulation David Garland's Culture of Control The Culture of Control (2001) is the third in a trilogy of books on the sociology of punishment that begins with Punishment and Welfare (1985) and Punishment and Modern Society: A Study in Social Theory (1990). The Culture of Control is a comparison of the USA and the UK that analyses the enormous expansion of crime control in both societies and its influence on governance more generally. The sweep of the analysis ranges from the growth of mass imprisonment to zero tolerance, video surveillance and paedophile registers, among other dynamics of 'populist punitivism'. The reason for picking on this author is that in my view Garland's work is the 5

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