Castles of our Conscience

Bill Staples grew up on the south shore of Long Island, New York. He has been a commercial fisherman, taxicab driver, plumber's apprentice, and pizza maker. He studied sociology at the University of Oregon, the University of Southern California, and UCLA. Staples is currently the 2013-14 E. Jackson Baur Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. In addition to the first edition of EVERYDAY SURVEILLANCE his previous books include CASTLES OF OUR CONSCIENCE: SOCIAL CONTROL AND THE AMERICAN STATE, 1800-1985, a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, POWER, PROFITS, AND PATRIARCHY: THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF WORK AT A BRITISH METAL TRADES FIRM, 1791-1922 (with C. L. Staples), an American Sociological Association Book Award winner as well as and the two-volume reference work, THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRIVACY, also a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title. He lives in Lawrence, Kansas.

• PrefaceIntroduction1 Explaining Patterns of Institutional Social ControlFrom Progressivism to RevisionismToward a State-centered PerspectiveThe Structuration of the State: Form, Function, and ApparatusPart I The Denial of Freedom in the New Republic: Social Control and the American State, 1800–19292 Charting the Liberal-Capitalist StateProduction Politics in the Nineteenth-century PrisonThe "Problem" of Prison LaborThe Origins of the Prison as FactoryDiscipline, Punishment, and CapitalismWorking to Reproduce the State3 Public Welfare in an Age of Social and Economic CrisesPoverty, Dependency, and the PoorhouseFrom "Houses of Industry" to "Disgraceful Memorials"Classification and the Growth of Specialized InstitutionsAbsorbing the Local State: Centralization, Political Power, and the State ApparatusPart II Accumulating Minds and Bodies: Social Control and the American State, 1930–19854 Charting the Advanced-Capitalist StateRoads to the State AsylumThe Idle and Unproductive in the PenitentiaryThe Juvenile Court and the Penetration of the Family5 Contradictions and Consequences in Post-war PsychiatryThe State Hospital in the "New Age" of Community Mental HealthOpening the Back Doors: The Political Legitimacy of State Governments and the Early Signs of DeinstitutionalizationCommunity Psychiatry and the "New Frontier" of Progressive Social Reform6 Public Policy under the Liberal Welfare StateFrom the "New Frontier" to the "Great Society": The Politics and Policies of the Kennedy-Johnson Years"Gray Gold": The New American Nursing Home IndustryThe Goal of "Reintegration": Offenders on Probation and ParoleCrises in the Community: the Politicization of America’s "Crime Wave"Adolescents Go from Bad to Mad7 The Evolution of the State ApparatusThe Dialectics of the State in Civil SocietyAppendix: Concepts, Data, and SourcesNotesReferencesIndex