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How is, or should be, law enforced? Are people always in control of their own behaviour? What is the rationale for punishing lawbreakers? Retribution, reform, deterrence or containment? 

TED TALK Philip Zimbardo - Describes how good folk can do evil.
 

TED TALK William Faber: Fair Punishment - William Faber's daughter was the victim of a brutal murder. Faber describes his concern with the way the awful nature of serious crimes can be presented to spare us from reality - If Judges, Lawyers and Journalists do not reveal the full facts is justice served?
 

TED TALK Mai Ness - The Power of Epigenetics and its implications for criminology.

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The Panopticon: Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault

The Panopticon was invented by Bentham as an efficient prison built so as to have all prisoners know they are observable by a single guard, but not know whether at any time they actually are being observed. The concept is generalised by Foucault to describe the 'surveillance state'.