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This is an ambitious integration of classical and poststructuralist social theory that demonstrates value of a state-centered approach towards welfare.
List of contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Explaining Patterns of Institutional Social Control From Progressivism to Revisionism
Toward a State-centered Perspective
The Structuration of the State: Form, Function, and Apparatus
Part I The Denial of Freedom in the New Republic: Social Control and the American State, 1800-1929 2 Charting the Liberal-Capitalist State Production Politics in the Nineteenth-century Prison
The "Problem" of Prison Labor
The Origins of the Prison as Factory
Discipline, Punishment, and Capitalism
Working to Reproduce the State
3 Public Welfare in an Age of Social and Economic Crises Poverty, Dependency, and the Poorhouse
From "Houses of Industry" to "Disgraceful Memorials"
Classification and the Growth of Specialized Institutions
Absorbing the Local State: Centralization, Political Power, and the State Apparatus
Part II Accumulating Minds and Bodies: Social Control and the American State, 1930-1985 4 Charting the Advanced-Capitalist State Roads to the State Asylum
The Idle and Unproductive in the Penitentiary
The Juvenile Court and the Penetration of the Family
5 Contradictions and Consequences in Post-war Psychiatry The State Hospital in the "New Age" of Community Mental Health
Opening the Back Doors: The Political Legitimacy of State Governments and the Early Signs of Deinstitutionalization
Community Psychiatry and the "New Frontier" of Progressive Social Reform
6 Public Policy under the Liberal Welfare State From the "New Frontier" to the "Great Society": The Politics and Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Years
"Gray Gold": The New American Nursing Home Industry
The Goal of "Reintegration": Offenders on Probation and Parole
Crises in the Community: the Politicization of America's "Crime Wave"
Adolescents Go from Bad to Mad
7 The Evolution of the State Apparatus The Dialectics of the State in Civil Society
Appendix: Concepts, Data, and Sources
Notes
References
Index
About the author
Bill Staples grew up on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He has been a commercial fisherman, taxicab driver, plumber's apprentice, and pizza maker. He studied sociology at the University of Oregon, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. Staples is currently the 2013-14 E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. In addition to the first edition of EVERYDAY SURVEILLANCE his previous books include CASTLES OF OUR CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE AMERICAN STATE, 1800-1985, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, POWER, PROFITS, AND PATRIARCHY: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK AT A BRITISH METAL TRADES FIRM, 1791-1922 (with C. L. Staples), an American Sociological Association Book Award winner as well as and the two-volume reference work, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY, also a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.
Summary
Presents an analysis of the role of the modern state in the shaping of policies of social control. First providing a theoretical understanding of the mechanisms of state policy-making, the author then discusses the changing nature of social control in the US from the 19th century to the present.
