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This second volume of a two-volume collection of essays provides a comprehensive examination of the idea of social control in the history of Europe. The uniqueness of these volumes lies in two main areas. First, the contributors compare methods of social control on many levels, from police to shaming, church to guilds. Second, they look at these formal and informal institutions as two-way processes. Unlike many studies of social control in the past, the scholars here examine how individuals and groups that are being controlled necessarily participate in and shape the manner in which they are regulated. Hardly passive victims of discipline and control, these folks instead claimed agency in that process, accepting and resistingand thus moldingthe controls under which they functioned. The essays in this volume explore the various means by which communities in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Europe were subjected to forms of discipline, noting how the communities themselves generated their own forms of internal control. In addition, the essays discuss various policing institutions, exploring in particular the question of how liberal and totalitarian regimes differed in their styles o

Who reads Social control in Europe. Vol. 2, 1800-2000 /edited by Clive Emsley, Eric Johnson, and Pieter Spierenburg?

Author

Herman Roodenburg; Pieter Spierenburg; Clive Emsley; Eric Arthur Johnson

Publisher

Ohio State University Press, c2004.

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780814209684

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science