From Social Control to "Caring"?: Imagining a 'Kinder Gentler' Prison System Under Neoliberalism

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Williams ◽  
Stephanie Campos ◽  
Andrea Morrell
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Prison System

7. How do we control crime?

2018 ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Tim Newburn
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Criminal Justice System ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Prison System ◽  
Informal Social Control ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Recent Trends

‘How do we control crime?’ discusses the formal and less formal means thought to control crime. The formal means refer to the use of the criminal justice system: the police, courts, and prison system. Arising from what we know to be the limitations of organized criminal justice in relation to crime control, the less formal means to control crime are considered as the processes of socialization, whereby social norms and values are learned, reinforced by what is often referred to as informal social control. Recent trends in the use of punishment, from incarceration in prisons to the use of non-custodial, community-based penalties are also discussed.

scholarly journals Smart Prisoners: Uses of Electronic Monitoring in Brazilian Prisons during the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-227
Author(s):  
Maria Rita Pereira Xavier ◽  
Ana Paula Ferreira Felizardo ◽  
Fábio Wellington Ataíde Alves
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Electronic Monitoring ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Prison System ◽  
The State ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Close Link ◽  
The Impact

This paper discusses the electronic monitoring (EM) of indicted and convicted citizens in Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. We start by discussing how EM was implemented in the country and describing its close link with the technology company Spacecom. We argue that the use of EM to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 in the Brazilian prison system intensifies the continuation of an uninterrupted mechanism of social control that is sustained by systemic racism in Brazil through a growing link between the State and technology companies. Mapping the changes that EM imposes on criminal legal practices, reflecting on data access and management carried out by private companies, and analyzing the acceleration of this process during the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil are topics addressed herein.

Review of The Social Control of Mental Illness.

1982 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1002-1002
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Social Control ◽  
The Social

Informal Justice: Rehabilitating Social Control?

1990 ◽  
Vol 35 (11) ◽  
pp. 1081-1082
Author(s):  
Alan T. Harland
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Informal Justice

Stability in the informal value transfer systems: norms of trust or institutions of control?

2017 ◽  
pp. 120-130
Author(s):  
A. Lyasko
Keyword(s):  
Social Control ◽  
Institutional Economics ◽  
Theoretic Model ◽  
Transfer System ◽  
Value Transfer ◽  
Partner Interaction ◽  
Game Theoretic ◽  
Game Theoretic Model ◽  
Informal Value Transfer System

Informal financial operations exist in the shadow of official regulation and cannot be protected by the formal legal instruments, therefore raising concerns about the enforcement of obligations taken by their participants. This paper analyzes two alternative types of auxiliary institutions, which can coordinate expectations of the members of informal value transfer systems, namely attitudes of trust and norms of social control. It offers some preliminary approaches to creating a game-theoretic model of partner interaction in the informal value transfer system. It also sheds light on the perspectives of further studies in this area of institutional economics.

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