ABSTRACT
This chapter provides some aspects of the recent debate on the transition from 'Fordism' to 'post-Fordism' to bear on the issues of criminality and crime control. It elaborates a model of the classic Keynesian Welfare State (KWS) in the context of the expanding post-war economy and explores some of its implications for crime and crime control. The chapter identifies some problems and instabilities in the classic welfare state model in the area of crime and crime control, which might be identified as contradictions to be resolved by any transition to a new form of economy, state, social structure. It examines some of those changes and developments as they are identified by post-Fordism and critically assesses their implications for crime and crime control. The chapter explores a number of themes from the post-Fordist debate and attempts to assess their stabilising or destabilising effects in the area of crime and crime control.
