ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses sociological studies that employ the concepts, starting with Discipline and Punish itself. The prevention of crime and that its announcements are about inquiries which are informed by economics and social work make it grist for the mill of Foucauldian analysis of discourse, discipline and power. As with discipline, Foucault starts with the conventional meanings of "power," and then elaborates them theoretically. In understanding sexual regulation in particular, feminist-Foucaultian insights have been invaluable, illuminating the way in which medical, social science, and legal discourses criminalize and pathologize certain women. The private sector's way of calculating "moral hazard" as a matter of cost is taken up by crime control agencies. Economistic rationalities of crime control are matched by a corresponding conception of the "criminogenic situation". In keeping with the conception of the criminogenic situation, there arises a new solution aptly called situational crime prevention.
