ac2.1 explain forms of social control Flashcards
internal forms of social control
- superego
- tradition and culture
- internalisation of social rules and morality
internal forms - superego
- tells what is right/wrong and inflicts guilt if we fail to complete its urges
- develops through early socialisation with family
- exercise self-control and socially acceptable behaviour
internal forms - tradition and culture
- accept norms and values through socialisation
- conformity affirms one’s identity
internal forms - internalisation
- society’s rules and moral code become personal rules, willingly conform
- rational ideology
external forms of social control
- criminal justice system
- coercion
- fear of punishment
- Police and criminal Evidence Act 1984
police have pawers of detention and interview
→ will use coercion and fear of punishment
criminal justice system
- police have power to stop, search, arrest and question suspects
- CPS can charge a suspect and prosecute them in court
- judges and magistrates have power to bail the accuse or remand them in custody, sentence guilty to variety of punishments
- the prison service can detain prisoners against their will for
- the duration of their sentence and punish prisoners misbehaviour
coereion
- use or threat of force in order to make someone do something
- force may be physical. non violent or psychological
- prison use coercion and the threat of loss of liberty
suspended sentence with continued threat of custody
→ token economies - in replacement of money
→ token economies - in replacement of money
→ visitation rights
→ dehumanise prisoners
→ volunteer work - good behaviour
fear of punishment
one way of trying to achieve social control is to make people conform to laws
agencies of socral control -
organisations / institutions that impose rules on us in an effort to make us behave in certain ways
- family, school, CCTV
CCTV
proved effective in both cutting and detecting crime and making people feel safer when they’re out
control theory - social bond theory.
- expiains why people do not commit crime or why people obey the law
Travis Hirschi believed the individuals bond to society has 4 elements
→ attachment - how much do we care what others think?
→ commitment - what have we got to lose?
→ involvement - how involved are we with society
→ belief - to what extent do we believe obeying the law is the right thing to do
control theory - containment
- Walter C Reckless argued that a combination of internal psychological containments and external social containments prevents people from deviating social norms
- in simple communities social pressure to conform to community standard was sufficient to control behaviour
- as societies became more complex internal containments played a more crucial role determining whether people behaved according to public laws
control theory - feminists
- argue that society is patriarchal and the control of women by men discourage female deviance
