This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private
justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social …

This innovative work treats law as the set of rules governing how people should act in
society, and it demonstrates how the legal system attempts to deter antisocial behavior …

Sociology consists of many specialties or subfields such as the sociology of deviance,
medical sociology, the sociology of education, urban sociology, the sociology of the family …

This article argues that the persistence of coercive tactics is not just limited to the excluded,
the anti-citizens. It explores the routine use of coercion in contemporary practices for the …

In a recent paper on the future of policing, Bayley and Shearing m following claim: Modern
democratic countries like the United States, Britain, and Canada hav a watershed in the …

The past few decades have seen the rise of two distinct, alternative approaches to criminal
justice: private law enforcement initiatives and restorative justice programs. These two …

This book brings into question the dichotomies inherent in the sociology of law. It is a
journey in search of a method capable of taking us beyond the theoretical limitations …

The promise of sociolegal research varies for different constituencies. For some legal
scholars it has been a promise of sustained commitment to moral and political critique of law …

While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far
from their academic representations," social control" is one of those terms that appear in the …

On the North American continent, in Europe and elsewhere, the dramatic growth in private
security in the past several decades has reshaped the structure and function of modern …