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

Publication Info. Bingley : Emerald, 2010.

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Edition 1st ed.
Description 1 online resource (vii, 187 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Sociology of crime, law and deviance ; v. 15
Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ; v. 15.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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.
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Subject Social control.
Social control.
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Crime -- Sociological aspects.
Deviant behavior.
Deviant behavior.
Criminal law.
Criminal law.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Criminal law.
Added Author Chriss, James J., 1955-
Other Form: Print version: Chriss, James J., 1955- Social control. Bingley : Emerald, 2010 9780857243454 (OCoLC)655662228
ISBN 0857243462 (electronic book)
9780857243461 (electronic book)
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9781282916098
9780857243454
0857243454