Social control : informal, legal and medical / edited by James J. Chriss.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chriss, James J., 1955-

Series:

Sociology of crime, law and deviance ; 15.

Sociology of crime, law and deviance, 1521-6136 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social control.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bingley [England] : Emerald Group, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There has been a revitalization of interest in social control over the last decade, and this volume contributes to renewed attempts to explain and conceptualize social control in all its diversity. It provides a broad conceptualization of social control which is unique. Rather than concentrating solely on law and legal control (the criminal justice system), there are also treatments of informal control (socialization, group formation and the controls exerted in everyday life) as well as medical control (norms regarding health and illness, particularly with regard to notions of 'normal' behaviour). This volume brings together cutting edge analyses both theoretical and empirical of social control from leading scholars in the fields of sociology, criminology, and related social sciences. Perspectives on Social Control is of interest not only to sociologists and criminal justice practitioners, but also to medical professionals (primarily for the focus on medical control or medicalization), as well as a wide array of scholars from a variety of disciplines concerned with the socialization process and the pressures toward conformity exerted by social groups in everyday life.

Contents:

Social control revisited / James J. Chriss

'Pass the trash : the mortgage default crisis as state-corporate crime / John Liederbach

Sex offender registration and notification laws as a means of legal control / Deborah Koetzle Shaffer

Freedom, social control, and the problem-solving court movement / James L. Nolan

Social and ecological control : Ross's early contribution / Matthias Gross

The technology and the artefacts of social control : monitoring criminal and anti-social behavior through and in media cultures / Stuart Connor, Richard Huggins

Empowered communities or self-governing citizens? (Re)examining social control within the move toward community / Christopher D. O'Connor

Social control in doctor-patient relationships : similarities and differences across medical specialities / Victor Lidz

The social control of sex and food : a brief overview / James J. Chriss.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Print version record

ISBN:

9786612916090

9781282916098

1282916092

9780857243461

0857243462

OCLC:

693761401