Part 1 Theoretical background - Foucault, power and sanctions: Foucault on modern power - empirical insights and normative confusions (1981), Nancy Fraser; the punitive city (1979), Stanley Cohen; discipline and punish (1989), David Nelken; reconceptualizing sanctions (1987), Arie Freiberg. Part 2 Rethinking the law and society relationship - from legal pluralism to postmodernism: law and societies (1984), Peter Fitzpatrick; socila theory and law - the significance of Stuart Henry (1988), Gary Itzkowitz; moving from integrative to constitutive theories of law (1988), Christine Harrington; legal pluralism (1988), Sally Engel Merry; the fwo faces of Janus - rethinking legal pluralism (1992), Gunther Teubner. Part 3 Normative social control inside and outside the state: community courts (1975), Eric Fisher; contraband - the basis for legitimate power in a prison social system (1985), Stan Stojkovic and David B. Kalinich; private security - implications for social control (1983), Philip C. Stenning and Clifford D. Shearing; dispute settlement in an American shopping centre (1967), S. MacCallum; legal and social norms in discipline and dismissal (1976), N. Collis-Squires and Mike Mellish; factory law - the changing disciplinary technology of industrial social control (1982), Stuart Henry; community justice, capitalist society and human agency - the dialectics of collective law in the co-operative (1985), Stuart Henry; a private network of social control - insurance investigation units (1983), Susan Guarino Ghezzi; medicine as an institution of social control (1972), Irving K. Zola; types of medical social control (1979), Peter Conrad.