SOCIAL CONTROL IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE - FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC RESPONSES TO CRIME (FROM CORRECTIONS AND PUNISHMENT, 1977, BY DAVID F GREENBERG - SEE NCJ-46507)

• NCJ Number: 46517
• Author(s): S SPITZER; A T SCULL
• Date Published: 1977
• Length: 22 pages
• Corporate Author: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Historical Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

THE EMERGENCE OF PROFIT-MAKING SOCIAL CONTROL ARRANGEMENTS IN THE 18TH CENTURY AND THE SUBSEQUENT MOVEMENT FROM PRIVATE TO PUBLIC FORMS OF CONTROL IN THE MODERN ERA IN ENGLAND ARE DESCRIBED.

Abstract

THE CHANGE FROM A RURAL ARISTOCRACY TO AN INDUSTRIALIZED CAPITALISTIC CLASS SYSTEM IS SEEN AS THE PRINCIPAL DYNAMIC INFLUENCING THE CHANGE FROM A PRIVATE COMPETITIVE MARKETING OF CRIME CONTROL SERVICES TO A STATE-SPONSORED REGULARIZATION OF SOCIAL CONTROL ACTIVITIES. THE CHANGE FROM A SIMLIFIED AGRARIAN SOCIOECONOMIC WORLD WHERE POLICING SERVICES COULD BE PROVIDED ON AN AS-NEEDED BASIS BY THOSE WHO COULD AFFORD THEM TO COMPLEX, INDUSTRIALIZED SOCIOECONOMIC NETWORK REQUIRED A MORE CONSISTENT AND SOPHISTICATED MEANS OF ENFORCING A GROWING NETWORK OF LAWS. INCREASED PRODUCTION MADE AVAILABLE THE TAXES TO SUPPORT PUBLIC POLICE. A LIST OF REFERENCES IS PROVIDED. (RCB)