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• The history and development of theories of social control
• Socialization within theories of social control
• A focus on the notion of socialization
• A symbolic interactionist analysis of self-control theory
• Reconstructing a lineage, reconnecting with pragmatism, reforming control theory
• Testing our symbolic interactionist model.

• * Acknowledgments * Preface
• 1. What is Social Control?
• 2. A Typology of Social Control
• 3. Informal Control
• 4. Medical Control
• 5. Legal Control
• 6. Informal Control: The Urban Underclass, Housing Segregation, and the Code of the Street
• 7. Medical Control: ADHD, Selective Mutism, and Violence as a Disease
• 8. Legal Control: Racial Profiling, Hate Crimes, and the Growth in Imprisonment
• 9. Terrorism and Social Control
• 10. Conclusion: The Future of Social Control? * References.
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Dennis D. Pointer is Austin Ross Professor at the University of Washington, School of Public Health and Community Medicine. He is one of the country's most highly regarded governance consultants. Two of his previous books, "Really Governing" and "Board Work" have won the James Hamilton Book of the Year Award from the American College of Health care Executives.
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What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental illness a form of social control? Do we need more social controls to prevent terrorist atrocities? In this clear and engaging new book, James J. Chriss carefully guides readers through the debates about social control.The book provides a comprehensive guide to historical debates and more recent controversies, examining in detail the criminal justice system, medicine, everyday life, and national security. Assuming no specialist knowledge on the part of readers, he uses a rich range of contemporary examples to illustrate the ways in which social control is exerted and maintained. He discusses events such as the terrorist attacks in London and New York, racial profiling, the use of surveillance cameras, urban ghettos, and the diagnosis of conditions like ADHD. "Social Control" will be essential reading for students taking courses in deviance and social control, and will also appeal to those studying criminology, the sociology of law and medical sociology.
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• Preface Part One The Notion of Control Lewis A Coser The Notion of Control in Sociological Theory Eugene Burnstein The Notion of Control in Psychological Theory Part Two Where Control is the Name of the Game Samuel Krislov The Politics of Control and the Control of Politics Jack P Gibbs Law as a Means of Social Control Leonard Krasner Behavior Modification and Social Control Issues and Myths Part Three Physical and Fiscal Matters Richard N Adams The Emergence of the Regulatory Society Ivar Berg Social Control and the Economy In Quest of Common Denominators Part Four Control and Other Major Institutions Rose Laub Coser The American Family Changing Patterns of Social Control George A Comstock Information Management and Mass Media Menace or Myth? Diana Crane Cultural Differentiation, Cultural Integration, and Social Control Part Five Perennial Issues and Prospects Austin T Turk Social Control and Social Conflict Robert F Meier Prospects for Control Theories and Research.
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This stimulating collection of original essays offers the reader a number of scientifically-based projections about the future regulation of crime and behaviour. As a state-of-the-art guide to interdisciplinary perspectives on social and bahavioural control, this innovative work will be welcomed by researchers, teachers and students in criminology, sociology, psychology, and the other social sciences.
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• The ethic of the group, by L.C. Eiseley.--Science and human values, by C.G. Hempel.--Mass versus coterie culture, by G. Seldes.--Prometheus incorporated, conformity or coercion ̉By G.J. Stigler.--Law and the limits of individuality, by W. Hurest.

• Preface Introduction The End of Respect? Anti-Social Behaviour: The Political Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour: The Historical Landscape Anti-Social Behaviour and Social Housing ASBOs in Practice ASBOs and the Targeting of Undesirable Persons Reflections on ASBOs as Social Aegis.
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Although anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) are a relatively recent development in criminal justice policy in Britain, they have nonetheless been an extremely topical area of law and policy for some years. Despite considerable public support for the creation and use of ASBOs, much of the academic literature characterises the use of ASBOs as indicative of an increasingly authoritarian political and social agenda embodying marginalisation and social control. Rather than presenting a wholly critical perspective on anti-social behaviour policy as borne out of politically opportunistic and reactionary motivations, this study argues that the creation of the ASBO, and latterly the introduction of the New Labour administration's 'Respect Agenda', in fact represent a socially progressive attempt to address the pernicious and debilitating effects of anti-social behaviour which are most often felt by those with the least opportunity to escape it. The introduction of ASBOs can be characterised not necessarily as part of a 'culture of control' but as part of a shift towards a culture petitioning civic reciprocity.
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