Transcarceration and the modern state of penality (John Lowman; Robert J. Menzies; T. S. Palys). Social control, social justice and the state: The law and the state as pratical rhetories of motives - the case of 'decarceration' (Dario Melossi); Security and control in capitalist societies the - fetishism of security and the secret thereof (Steven Spizer); The eagle and the sun - on panoptical systems and mass media in modern society (Thomas Mathiesen); Justice as information sharing (Harold E. Pepinsky); The construction and deconstruction of social control - thoughts on the discursive production of state law and private justice (Stuart Henry). Security, surveillance, and the expansion of state power:Policing the criminal underworld - state power and decentralized social control in London, 1550-1700 (John L. McMullan); The security and surveillance of the environment (Nigel South); Behind union lines - the setting of evidentiary boundaries (Susan M. Addario;Clifford D. Shearing; Philip C. Stenning); Women and the state - changing models of social control (Nanette J. Davis; Karlene Faith; Routinizing the discovery of secrets - computers as informants (Gary T. Marx; Nancy Reichman). Transinstitutionalization and the carceral network: Criminal justice reform and social control: are we becoming a minimum security society? (Thomas G. Blomberg); The impact of deinstitutionalization on the criminal justice system - implications for understanding changing modes of social control (Henry J. Steadman; Joseph P. Morrissey); Crime, fiscal crisis and decarceration: financing corrections at the state level (Raymond J. Michalowski; Michael A. Pearson); The reappearance of 'the ideal factory' the entrepreneur and social control in the contemporary prison (Robert P. Weiss). Mandatory supervision and the penal economy (R. S. Ratner). Decarceration, decentralization, and the future of control systems: Decarceration reconsidered (Andrew T. Scull); Decarceration and social control - fantasies and realities (Roger Matthews); Taking decentralization seriously - values, visions and policies (Stanley Cohen).