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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Main Author: Parenti, Christian 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2000
In: Social justice
Year: 2000, Volume: 27, Issue: 3, Pages: 43-49
Online Access: Volltext (Publisher)
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