| Overview
The
Concept of Social Control
"From
the 1950s onwards, social control has been conceived more distinctly as
the mechanisms and institutions that define and respond to crime and/or
deviance." (p.229)
Discipline
and Governmentality
“In
opposition to a political economy of power, [Michel] Foucault’s work offers
a micro-physics of power that centers on the strategies, tactics, techniques,
and concrete functionings of power.” (p.231)
From Police
to Law Enforcement
“Among
the many topics sociologists have devoted special attention to are the
historical transformation of policing and its multiple forms across the
world, a variety of issues raised by the technologies adopted in police
work, and the implications of the structure of police organization and
the professionalization of the police role.” (pp.234-235)
Technologies
of Surveillance
“The
role of advanced systems of technology in the transformation of social
control extends well beyond their use by the police as the formal agents
of control.” (p.239)
The Process
of Punishment
“In
terms of the phase of criminalization through lawmaking, sociological attention
has gone to the determinants and processes of legislative actions on a
wide variety of criminal acts.” (p.242)
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Selected
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Stanley. 1979. “The
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Meier,
Robert F. 1982. "Perspectives
on the Concept of Social Control." Annual Review of Sociology 8:35-55.
Foucault,
Michel. 1993. "About
the Beginning of the Hermeneutics of the Self: Two Lectures at Dartmouth."
Political Theory 21(2):198-227.
Turkel,
Gerald. 1990. "Michel
Foucault: Law, Power, and Knowledge." Journal of Law and Society 17(2):170-193.
Baxter,
Hugh. 1996. "Bringing
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Garland,
David. 1991. "Sociological
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Smith,
Philip. 2003. “Narrating
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Deflem,
Mathieu. 2004. "Social
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The American Sociologist 35(2):75-92. [ at
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Jenness,
Valerie. 2004. “Explaining
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Jenness,
Valerie. 2007. “The
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Savelsberg, Joachim J. 1994.
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Savelsberg, Joachim J., and
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