David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics, UK.Paul Rock is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK.Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, UK. She is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005).Conor Gearty is Professor Human Rights Law, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, UK.

• Foreword by Noam Chomsky Introduction Part 1: Seminal Influences, Part 2: Gradations of Social Control: From Moral Panics to Long-term Imprisonment, Part 3: The Extremities of Control: Torture and the Death Penalty, Part 4: Visions of Social Control, Part 5: The Theory and Practice of Denial, Part 6: Ways Ahead

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