Social control : an introduction /
What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness a form of social control? Do we need more social controls to prevent terrorist atrocities? In this third...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ; Hoboken, New Jersey :
Polity Press,
[2022].
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Understanding social control
- What is social control?
- A typology of social control
- Informal control
- Medical control
- Legal control
- Part II: Case studies in social control
- Informal control: housing segregation, the code of the street, and emerging adulthood and morality
- Medical control: selective mutism, autism, and violence as a disease
- Legal control: racial profiling, hate crimes, and the imprisonment binge
- Terrorism and social control
- Conclusion: the future of social control.