RECENT TRENDS - DEVIANT BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL CONTROL (FROM CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, A READER, 1970 BY CARL A BERSANI - SEE NCJ-006248)

• NCJ Number: 10226
• Author(s): D S BORDUA
• Date Published: 1970
• Length: 19 pages
• Corporate Author: Macmillan
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: REPRINTED FROM THE ANNALS OF THE AMER ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, V 57, N 4 (JANUARY 1967)

Annotation

DISCUSSION OF RECENT RESEARCH ON THE SOCIETAL REACTION TO DEVIANCE, AND STUDIES OF FORMAL AGENCIES OF SOCIAL CONTROL, WITH EMPHASIS UPON THE POLICE.

Abstract

THE PAPER COVERS AREAS OF RECENT WORK CONSTITUTING NEW THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS OF LIKELY FUTURE INTEREST, WHICH BEAR ON OLDER THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTS STILL UNDERGOING EVALUATION, AND WHICH INDICATE CHANGES IN THE SOCIAL OBJECTS OF RESEARCH. BROADLY SPEAKING, ATTENTION HAS SHIFTED FROM A FOCUS ON THE SOURCES AND ETIOLOGY OF DEVIANCE TO THE ANALYSIS OF PROCESSES OF SOCIAL CONTROL. THE AUTHOR PAYS CONSIDERABLE ATTENTION TO DECISION MAKING BY THE POLICE, PARTICULARLY WITH REGARD TO THE PROCESSING OF JUVENILE DELINQUENTS. (AUTHOR ABSTRACT MODIFIED)