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This chapter explores in a general way the relationship beween criminological knowledge and governmental practices. The notion of government I have in mind here is not confined to the political executive or the state, but encompasses the calculated supervision or regulation of conduct in a much more general sense. This is the sense in which Michel Foucault has explored particular regions of power/knowledge and discipline, and what he calls ‘governmentality’ in his studies of modern medicine, psychiatry, the prison and sexuality. Foucault and the work by others that he has stimulated or influenced is the major intellectual resource upon which this chapter draws,1 but it would be misleading to suggest that it defines some entirely new and original intellectual epoch. Many of the themes and concerns are apparent in the earlier sociology of Durkheim, Weber and Norbert Elias, amongst others.2
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Hogg, R. (1998). Crime, Criminology and Government. In: Walton, P., Young, J. (eds) The New Criminology Revisited. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26197-0_8
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