From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline

Shearing, Clifford; Stenning, Philip

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2834906

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From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline

In : Doob, A.N. & Greenspan, E.L. Eds. Perspectives in Criminal Law: Essays in Honour of John Ll. J. Edwards. Toronto: Canada Law Book, 335-349 (1985)

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Clifford Shearing

University of Cape Town; University of Montreal, School of Criminology; University of New South Wales; University of Toronto

Philip Stenning

Griffith University

Date Written: September 5, 1985

Abstract

One of the most distinctive features of that quintessentially American playground known as Disney World is the way it seeks to combine a sense of comfortable — even nostalgic — familiarity with an air of innovative technological advance. Mingled with the fantasies of one's childhood are the dreams of a better future. Next to the Magic Kingdom is the Epcot Center. As well as providing for a great escape, Disney World claims also to be a design for better living. And what impresses most about this place is that it seems to run like clockwork.

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Shearing, Clifford D and Stenning, Philip, From the Panopticon to Disney World: The Development of Discipline (September 5, 1985). In : Doob, A.N. & Greenspan, E.L. Eds. Perspectives in Criminal Law: Essays in Honour of John Ll. J. Edwards. Toronto: Canada Law Book, 335-349 (1985), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834906 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2834906