American criminologist David Garland discusses his new book The Culture ofControim which he sets out his concerns about the rising prison population in American and Britain. He believes that a proportion of the electorate on both sides of the Atlantic are applying severe pressures on politicians to lock up more and more offenders and impose increasingly strict controls on antisocial behaviourwhich were once tolerated in the name of freedom. With Laurie Taylor.
Producer Tony Phillips. E-MAIL: thinking.allowed@bbc.co.uk