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Examines relationships between state administration, the United Aborigines Mission, the Ngaanyatjarra people, and anthropologists, which resulted in an absence of government administration in the area.

Examines the retreat of discipline from various areas of social regulation, arguing that although many view discipline as superceded by risk-based power, discipline has fallen victim to the commodification of US culture. Emphasis on ready purchase of excitement has undermined the perceived value of individual rationality, denial, & self-control. The invalidation of discipline resulted not from the emergence of a more efficient power, but from its unsuccessful political struggle with the culture of consumption & the strategic discourse of neoliberalism & its attendant technologies. Commodification may prove the bane of governability because the demand for commodities will not lead to social order & societal good. 83 References. D. Generoli

Current approaches to legal relations tend toward one of two poles: state-centered, unified models of law or a decentered legal pluralism. In order to overcome the difficulties associated with each of these, conceptions of networking & processes of synoptic power relations are developed to examine relations between legal orders. Focus is on relations between insurance companies & the police, both of which operate as semiautonomous legal agencies policing domestic security. In pursuit of profitability, insurance companies use contractually conferred economic coercion to discipline householders in specific security practices. Confronted by failure to control burglary by traditional means, police are promoting the insurance industry's security program & changing aspects of state policing in line with an insurance model of social control. This fosters a risk-based ideology of security that redefines & rearranges rather than simply extends the "net of social control": it creates organizational connections that transcend the public & private spheres in ways inadequately theorized by ideas of the merging or blurring of the public-private distinction, changes the primary targets of intervention from offenders to risk-bearers, & redirects regulatory concern from punitive strategies toward the management of effects. 31 References. AA

Social and ideological issues; 10 articles. Contents are grouped under the headings: Global politics and national policies; Race and racism; Women and social justice; Law and social justice.