Deviance Processing Agencies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7078043 |
|---|---|
| Authors | George S Rigakos (Carleton University), Lisa Wright (Carleton University) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Pages | 1-2 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | OTHER |
| Venue | The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosd053.pub2 |
| OpenAlex | W4251133079 |
| ISBN | 9781405165518 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Deviance processing agencies refers to a wide gamut of institutions and agencies, both public and private, that are involved in the identification, vetting, and dispensation of populations considered at risk or dangerous, and that presumably require monitoring and surveillance to mitigate potential harms. Deviance processing agencies have been considered in a more comprehensive manner since the 1960s and 1970s and constitute a central focus of inquiry for social theorists interested in governmentality, risk, and social control. During the antiwar student protests and the radicalization of academia in the 1960s and 1970s, sociologists and criminologists employed critical approaches often born out of a Marxian orientation (e.g., Spitzer, 1975) to critically analyze developments in police practices, punitive legal measures, and inhumane prison conditions. They offered explanations of repressive state practices (Cooper et al. , 1975) against dissidents and socially constructed deviants within the context of managing crises of capitalist legitimacy, the symbolic importance of the labeling process, and the inherently biased function of legal norms (Quinney, 1974). By the 1980s, a rather substantial body of scholarly work tied to an evolving critical criminology movement was analyzing and deconstructing the practices of criminal justice agencies, particularly in the context of rising crime rates, mass imprisonment, and punitive neo conservative crime control policies (Lowman, Menzies, and Palys, 1987
Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Deviance (statistics · Governmentality · Imprisonment · Legitimacy · Mass incarceration · Political science · Politics · Prison · Punitive damages · Social control · Sociology · Vetting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |