Community Treatment and Social Control: A Critical Analysis of Juvenile Correctional Policy.

This article contributes to the sociology of urban marginality and of the Lumpenproletariat and makes a rare attempt to describe la Zone, a territory on the edge of Paris that was occupied by the “dangerous classes” for over a century. The study takes an inductive approach fueling critical analysis with material drawn in part from social surveys and in part from literature and popular culture. It identifies a dialectical tension in the various descriptions of la Zone, which, despite strong social and political contrasts, converge in their shared distrust or even open suspicion of these Parisian margins. This discursive structure, made up of oppositions and combinations of contraries, also recalls the forms of social control to which the classes viewed as dangerous can be subjected, within this case study and beyond.

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Journalists as agents and language as an instrument of social control: A child protection case study

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/s1035077200010191 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 26-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Chris Goddard ◽

Bernadette Saunders

Keyword(s):

Child Abuse ◽

Social Control ◽

Child Protection ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Court Case ◽

The Media ◽

The Impact ◽

The Relationship

In recent years there has been considerable analysis of how the media create images of crime. The relationship between child abuse and the media has also been subject to greater scrutiny. This article examines the role of one newspaper in a child protection case. The part played by the newspaper in the court case led to an examination of the language used by the media in their representations of children. The researchers found that a child may be objectified in language even when the child’s gender is previously identified. The ‘gender slippage’ may in extreme cases lead to the ‘textual abuse’ of children, where child abuse is rewritten to lessen the impact on the reader. The authors conclude that the actions of journalists and the language they use require more critical analysis.

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Community Treatment and Social Control. Paul Lerman

Social Service Review ◽

10.1086/643382 ◽

1976 ◽

Vol 50 (2) ◽

pp. 342-343

Author(s):

Paul W. Keve

Keyword(s):

Social Control ◽

Community Treatment

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Book Reviews : Community Treatment and Social Control, by Paul Lerman. Pp. 240. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1975. $12.50

Crime & Delinquency ◽

10.1177/001112877702300412 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 449-450

Author(s):

Frederic L. Faust

Keyword(s):

Social Control ◽

Community Treatment ◽

University Of Chicago ◽

University Of Chicago Press

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What lies at the intersection of law and psychiatric nursing? Exploring the process of judiciarization in the context of mental health

Witness: The Canadian Journal of Critical Nursing Discourse ◽

10.25071/2291-5796.72 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 3-19

Author(s):

Etienne Paradis-Gagné ◽

Jean-Daniel Jacob ◽

Pierre Pariseau-Legault

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Mental Illness ◽

Social Control ◽

Michel Foucault ◽

Critical Analysis ◽

Nursing Practice ◽

Psychiatric Nursing ◽

Discursive Analysis

In this article, our aim is to provide a critical analysis of the phenomenon of judiciarization of people suffering from a mental illness and its impact on nursing practice. To explore the issues inherent to this phenomenon, we employed the methodology of discursive analysis greatly inspired by the work of French philosopher Michel Foucault. The results of this analysis push our reflection on the experiences and practices that take place at the psychiatric and judicial interface, engaging in a critic of underlying goals of public protection, social control, and coercion being incorporated to nursing practice. While acting in seemingly humanistic and therapeutic roles of care, nurses are simultaneously and inevitably fulfilling a mandate to social control which, to date, remains relatively under documented.

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