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The Handbook of Social Control
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The Handbook of Social Control
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Mathieu Deflem
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Names: Deflem, Mathieu, editor.
Title: The handbook of social control / edited by Mathieu Deflem.
Description: First Edition. | Hoboken : Wiley, [2018] | Series: Wiley handbooks in criminology
and criminal justice | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018027361 (print) | LCCN 2018027938 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119372370
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Subjects: LCSH: Social control. | Justice, Administration of.
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Contents
Notes on Contributors viii
Introduction: Social Control Today 1
Mathieu Deflem
Part I Theories and Perspectives 7
1 Social Control: History of the Concept 9
James J. Chriss
2 Deviance, Social Control, and Criminalization 23
Robert F. Meier
3 Law as Social Control 36
A. Javier Treviño
4 Social Geometry and Social Control 50
Bradley Campbell and Jason Manning
5 Discipline and Governmentality 63
Steven Hutchinson and Pat O’Malley
Part II Institutions and Organizations 77
6 Social Control in Organizations 79
Calvin Morrill and Brittany Arsiniega
7 Psychiatric Control 93
Bruce A. Arrigo and Heather Y. Bersot
8 Juvenile Justice 107
Shelly S. Schaefer
9 Social Movements and Social Control 121
Sherry Cable
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Part III Criminal Justice 137
10 Race and the Criminal Justice System 139
April D. Fernandes and Robert D. Crutchfield
11 Gun Control 153
Gary Kleck
12 Restorative Justice 167
Rachel Rogers and Holly Ventura Miller
13 Crime Prevention 181
Kristie R. Blevins
14 Actuarial Justice 194
Gil Rothschild‐Elyassi, Johann Koehler, and Jonathan Simon
Part IV Law Enforcement and Policing 207
15 History of Policing 209
Massimiliano Mulone
16 Police Technology 221
James J. Willis
17 Policing Terrorism 235
Mathieu Deflem and Stephen Chicoine
18 Police and Radicalization 249
Derek M. D. Silva
19 Police Accountability and Ethics 263
Toycia Collins and Charles F. Klahm IV
Part V Punishment and Prison 277
20 History of the Prison 279
Ashley T. Rubin
21 Prison Culture 293
Laura McKendy and Rose Ricciardelli
22 Mass Incarceration 306
Roy F. Janisch
23 Abolitionism and Decarceration 319
Nicolas Carrier, Justin Piché, and Kevin Walby
24 The Death Penalty 333
Paul Kaplan
Contents vii
Part VI Surveillance 347
25 Technologies of Surveillance 349
Stéphane Leman‐Langlois
26 Surveillance and Public Space 361
Kiyoshi Abe
27 Countersurveillance 374
James P. Walsh
28 Surveillance in Popular Culture 389
Anna S. Rogers
Part VII Globalization 401
29 Border Control as a Technology of Social Control 403
Alexander C. Diener and Joshua Hagen
30 Immigration Policies 416
Samantha Hauptman
31 International Policing and Peacekeeping 428
Michael J. Jenkins and John Casey
32 Human Rights and Social Control 442
Joachim J. Savelsberg and Brooke B. Chambers
Index 456
Notes on Contributors
Kiyoshi Abe received his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo. He is a professor in the
Graduate School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He has published
widely on surveillance and policing. His work has appeared in English, including an
article in the journal Theory, Culture & Society (2009) and a chapter in the edited
volume Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1960 to London 2012
(Palgrave, 2016).
Bruce A. Arrigo is Professor of Criminology, Law, and Society in the Department of
Criminal Justice and Criminology and Professor of Public Policy at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte. His scholarship examines several human‐justice controversies
and social‐welfare issues at the intersection of law, health, and politics; theory, culture, and
society; and disorder, crime, and punishment. He is an elected fellow of both the American
Psychological Association and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Brittany Arsiniega holds a J.D. from the School of Law and is a Ph.D. student in the
Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at the University of California, Berkeley. Her
research explores the intersection of criminal law and immigration, examining the role
that local law‐enforcement actors play in enforcing federal immigration law. She is
currently conducting dissertation fieldwork on the policing of undocumented persons in
rural areas.
Heather Y. Bersot is an Adjunct Lecturer in the Department of Criminal Justice and
Criminology at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her areas of research
include ethics and the law, correctional mental health, and solitary confinement. Her
peer‐reviewed articles have appeared in journals including the Journal of Theoretical and
Philosophical Criminology and Critical Criminology: An International Journal.
Kristie R. Blevins is a Professor in the School of Justice Studies at Eastern Kentucky
University. She received her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati.
Her research interests include crime prevention, corrections, and the occupational
reactions of criminal justice employees. Her recent work can be found in outlets such as
the Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, Criminal Justice Policy Review, American Journal
of Criminal Justice, Deviant Behavior, and International Journal of Police Science and
Management.
