ABSTRACT
In recent years, the emergence of a number of new “social technologies of control” in the United Kingdom concerned with responding to and regulating (primarily low-level) crime and disorder has been witnessed. These have emerged as partial critiques of the acknowledged limitations and ineffectiveness of traditional criminal justice processes and sanctions. As such, they stand in awkward relation to established modes of crime control. In the discussions that follow, my interest is with a cluster of innovations that coalesce around two interconnected conceptual and policy developments: those that have been advanced in the name of restorative justice, on the one hand, and
those that have emerged under the banner of tackling antisocial behavior, on the other hand. Despite their apparent commonalities, at present, these developments are likely to be analyzed separately.
