Deck 17: Late Modernity, Governmentality and Risk

Question 1

Foucault's approach stresses the multiple ways in which individual subjectivities are organised and created, and the ways in which we act to shape our own conduct.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

What were the ideas behind Jeremy Bentham's proposed inspection house or prison - the panopticon?

A)constant visibility of the prisoners would lead to vulnerability
B)the prisoners could do useful work
C)Prisoners' vulnerability would lead to self control
D)Inmates could not see the guards

Answer 2

constant visibility of the prisoners would lead to vulnerability
Prisoners' vulnerability would lead to self control
Inmates could not see the guards

Question 3

Writers such as Foucault have described contemporary society as:

A)a 'disciplinary society'
B)the 'surveillance society'
C)an 'evolving society'
D)the 'maximum security society'

Answer 3

a 'disciplinary society'
the 'surveillance society'
the 'maximum security society'

Question 4

What does the term 'net widening refer to?

A)more young people are kept out of the reach of the criminal justice sanctions
B)increasing numbers of people are being caught up in the criminal justice system
C)earlier intervention has meant that groups of young people that would not previously have been subject to penal sanctions are now targeted for treatment

Question 5

What does the term 'mesh thinning' refer to?

A)Once drawn into the criminal justice 'net' the intensity of intervention tends to increase
B)populations who once slipped quickly through the criminal justice system are now retained much longer
C)people are treated much more benignly in the criminal justice system

Question 6

What were the changes identified by Garland and Sparks (2000) that summarise the transition from modernity to late modernity?

Question 7

What does it mean to say we live in a 'risk society'?

Question 8

According to Garland why did 'penal-welfarism' go into decline?

Question 9

Why does O'Malley argue that there are close links between the socio-economic changes associated with neoliberalism and a host of changes in contemporary crime control or what he describes as an 'elective affinity'?

Question 10

Changes connected with 'the coming of late modernity' include the:

A).'New Regulatory State'
B)Nightwatchman State'
C)'Global state'
D)'Keynsian State'

Question 11

What did Foucault see as evidence of the shift from a corporal to a carceral system of discipline?

A)a civilising society
B)a growing knowledge of delinquency
C)Brutal and public forms of punishment have been replaced by private and apparently more civilised forms of regulation

Question 12

The term 'responsibilisation' refers to the growing need for children to act as adults at an earlier and earlier age.

Question 13

Shearing and Stenning claim that Disney World is similar to a prison.

Question 14

According to Beck modern technology makes people feel less, not more safe.

Question 15

According to Garland (2001) the decline of penal welfarism combined with
changes, including the make-up of families, the social organisation of cities, the power of the electronic media, and the extent of 'democratisation' in social life, provided the conditions in which a new 'culture of control' could emerge.

Question 16

Accounts of the changing nature of the modern, developed world suggest the nation state is being undermined by:

A)a rising tide of crime
B)immigration
C)a combination of globalising and localising forces
D)green criminology

Question 17

What has led to the rise of the 'information society'?

A)wider access to university education
B)new information technologies and the impact that communication and transport developments
C)an increase in global crime

Question 18

What is 'mass private property'?

A)council houses
B)hybrid' spaces which are privately owned but where there is general and routine public access
C)private gardens

Question 19

Foucault was primarily interested in:

A)criminology
B)women and social control
C)rates of offending across different countries
D)the power of the state

Question 20

What is at the heart of the new penology described by Feeley and Simon (1992)?