Understanding Social Control
1st Edition
Published on 1. December 2003
190 pages
978-0-335-22588-0 (ISBN)
Description
This book investigates how the concept of social control has been used to capture the ways in which individuals, communities and societies respond to a variety of forms of deviant behaviour. In so doing, the book demonstrates how an appreciation of the meanings of the concept of social control is vital to understanding the dynamics and trajectories of social order in contemporary late-modern societies.
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Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Dedication
- Series editor's foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 01 The argument
- A contested concept
- Social order and social control
- Refining the concept
- The late-moderns
- Reconfiguring the control apparatus
- Summary
- Chapter 02 A history of the idea of social control
- The basic idea
- Communication and irony: the symbolic interactionist perspective
- Normative controls: the functionalist tradition
- States of control: the legacy of Marx
- The dispersal of discipline: post-structuralism
- Post-social control
- On talking about control?
- Summary
- Chapter 03 A history of social control practices
- A social history in fragments
- Rationalization and the administrative apparatus of control
- Juridification
- Turning ourselves outside-in and inside-out
- Summary
- Chapter 04 Everyday order
- Interaction orders
- Gendered orders
- The family
- Education
- Ethnicity
- Social ordering and mass media
- Summary
- Chapter 05 Policing
- Police and policing
- Community policing
- The limits of community policing
- Zero-tolerance
- The limits of ZTP
- Intelligence-led policing
- The limits of ILP
- Plural policing
- 'Control hubs' and 'total policing'
- Summary
- Chapter 06 Punishing
- The idea of punishment
- Confinement
- Total institutions?
- Mass imprisonment
- Transcarceration
- Community based sanctions
- Restorative justice
- Summary
- Chapter 07 The architecture of social control
- Behaviour and environment
- Urban studies
- Fear and loathing in Los Angeles
- Broken windows and community control
- Criminogenic situations
- Situational control
- The limits of situational control
- Control signals
- Summary
- Chapter 08 Surveillance
- A definition
- The logics of surveillance
- Disciplinary surveillance
- Liberal surveillance
- Three applications
- Crime control work
- Surveillance in organizational life
- Consumption
- The limits of surveillance
- System integration
- Synoptic surveillance
- Detecting deviance
- Surveillance and social control
- Summary
- Chapter 09 Risks, regulations and audits
- Risk
- Risk perception
- Risky decision making
- Regulation
- Auditing
- Summary
- Chapter 10 Conclusion
- Contemporary logics of social control
- Dimensions of control
- Thinking about control
- Ambient social control
- 'Organic' social control
- 'Manufactured' social control
- Summary
- References
- Notes
- Index
- Back Cover
