Regulating Lives: Historical Essays on the State, Society, the Individual, and the Law

by Jack McLaren and John McLaren

Regulating Lives looks at the roles of the state, society, the individual, and the law in the regulation of public and private life. In nine original essays, the authors apply the concepts of social control, moral regulation, and governmentality, as developed by influential social theorists such as Stanley Cohen, Michel Foucault, and Philip Corrigan, to the specific conditions that prevailed in early British Columbia. Along a span of nearly a century...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 077480887X
• ISBN13: 9780774808873
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: University of British Columbia Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"