L’effet structurant du contrôle social

Bibliographic Data

ID6050667
AuthorsMaurice Cusson (corresponding author)
Year2005
Volume26
Issue2
Pages37-62
Publication date2005-08-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCriminologie (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0316-0041 • E-ISSN: 1492-1367
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/017338ar
OpenAlexW2092100930
LanguageFR
Citations received4
References cited28

The paper deals with the following question. To what extent do the human efforts at controlling crime succeed ? It starts by proposing an enlarged concept of social control. In the second part, a theory of choices made by offenders under the constraint of social control is put forward. In the last part, it is argued that social control can have four types of impacts : I — reducing the frequency of crime; 2 — reducing its severity; 3 — rendering obsolete some criminal tactics and stimulating the development of new ones; and, 4 — channeling offenders toward vulnerable targets. It is concluded that crime is shaped by the means used to control it, meaning that a given state of crime rates should be seen as the result of what people decide to do and not to do about crime

Computer security · Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Epistemology · Political science · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Engineering · Philosophy · Psychology of Social Influence · Artificial Intelligence

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