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Book SynopsisExplains and conceptualizes social control in its diversity. This title includes 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).
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Social control revisited. “Pass the trash”: The mortgage default crisis as state-corporate crime. Sex offender registration and notification laws as a means of legal control. Freedom, social control, and the problem-solving court movement. Social and ecological control: Ross's early contribution. The technology and the artefacts of social control – Monitoring criminal and anti-social behaviour through and in media cultures. Empowered communities or self-governing citizens? (Re)examining social control within the move toward community. Social control in doctor–patient relationships: Similarities and differences across medical specialties. The social control of sex and food: A brief overview. About the Authors. Sociology of crime, law and deviance. Sociology of crime, law and deviance. Copyright page.
