Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Preliminaries: Foucault's search for a place from which to challenge academic disciplines -- Foucault's quest to go beyond structuralism -- But did Foucault inadvertently save critical criminology? -- Choosing an object of study: persons, institutions, or practices -- Not power/knowledge but powers/knowledges -- How many modes of power/knowledge are there? -- Bibliography -- 2. Foucault on the social relations of punishing, 'surveilling' and disciplining -- Political context: Foucault's anti-prison activism -- Contrasting 'penal styles' -- The civilized punitive city: the road not taken -- The birth of the prison -- Observation, examination, normalization -- Panopticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 3. Biopolitics -- 'Race' and biopolitics -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. Governmentality, security, police -- Governmentality and security -- The government of others and the government of the self -- Governmentality and police -- Police and capitalism: a contradictory relationship -- The governmentalization of the state -- International police? -- Governmentality and liberal governance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Governmentality studies in criminology and sociolegal studies: the emergence of 'governmentality' as a paradigm -- Responsibilization -- Managing risks through data -- Governing through space -- Community -- Bibliography -- 6. The punitive society -- The limits of the 1968 generation's focus on 'exclusion' and 'transgression' -- Civil war as the default setting for social relations - and as the frame for punishment -- The punitive society or the disciplinary society? -- Working-class 'dissipation' as resistance to capitalism -- The role of criminal law reform and criminology in securing the bourgeois social-moral order