Crime as social control
Part of a special issue on critical resistance to the prison-industrial complex. The writer discusses how crime functions as a social control in the U.S. He argues that the three main ways in which crime acts as a social regulation are that it creates confusion and fear, it consumes “bodies” and hum...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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2000
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Social justice
Year: 2000, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 43-49 |
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