NCJ Number
138883
Date Published
1992
Length
499 pages
Annotation
This book identifies and discusses Yugoslavian non- state mechanisms of social control to manage conflicts or deviancy and analyzes them from sociological, criminological, and criminal policy perspectives.
Abstract
All the non-state social control mechanisms generally counter minor mass deviancy; operate in organized and institutionalized ways; and detect, address, prevent, and sanction deviant conduct. These private-sector alternatives to State control encourage diverse forms of vigilantism while they widen a network of social control and promote behavioral conformism. The discussion focuses on the following forms of non-state intervention: self-protection in the community or within the work organization, lay resolution of disputes and other extra-legal mechanisms for conciliation, a voluntary association of people to gain some benefits or satisfy certain interests, private security, self-organized protection, the processing of various infractions, disciplinary actions in the workplace, and the organizing of help for those who need it. The book analyzes how these mechanisms operate and identifies obstacles to their effective operation. subject and author indexes and 320 references