RT Article T1 The limits of the sovereign state. Strategies of crime control in contemporary society JF The British journal of criminology VO 36 IS 4 SP 445 OP 471 A1 Garland, David 1955- LA English YR 1996 UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640120009 AB The article offers a descriptive analysis of strategies of crime control in contemporary Britain and elsewhere. It argues that the normality of high crime rates and the limitations of criminal justice agencies have created a new predicament for governments. The response to this predicament has been recurring ambivalence that helps explain the volatile and contradictory character of recent crime control policy. The article identifies adaptive strategies responsibilization, defining deviance down, and redefining organizational success and strategies of denial the punitive sovereign response, as well as the different criminologies that accompany them K1 England K1 Entkriminalisierung K1 Kriminalitätskontrolle K1 Kriminalpolitik K1 Kriminalprävention K1 Soziale Kontrolle K1 Sozialer Wandel K1 Polizeiliche Kriminalprävention K1 Wandlungen K1 Punitivität K1 Kriminalität K1 Kriminalitätsbegriff