Ch.10 - Chriss, Social Control

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Chapter 10

• The Future of Social Control?

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Anti-social Behavior Orders

• ASBOs statutory measures aimed at protecting
  the public from
• Harassment
• Alarm
• Distress
• 2. Civil orders made in court enforced by
  police, landlords, etc.

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Anti-social Behavior Orders

• Decline of community and informal control.
• An example of net-widening
• Respect Task Force (2005)
• Targets parents of delinquent youth
• Reciprocal obligations between parents, children,
  and the community

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Anti-social Behavior Orders

1. Expansion of traditional notions of crime to
   include disorder, incivilities, and bad (but not
   illegal) behavior
2. European Commission statement (pp. 229-230)
3. Informed by broken windows (Wilson and Kelling,
   1982)
4. Emergence of community-oriented policing
   (third-party policing)
5. Contractual injunctions (McCarthy)

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Responsibilization

1. David Garlands term for the states attempt to
   hold citizens more accountable for order
   maintenance.
2. More pressures placed on third parties to be
   competent place managers.
3. Idea of collective responsibility.

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Responsibilization

• The postmodern problem of boundary blurring.
  Harder to draw meaningful distinctions between
• Police and citizens
• Public and private
• The normal and the deviant

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Actuarial Justice

• Simon and Feeley extension of postmodern
  themes
• Discourses
• Objectives
• Techniques
• Declining consensus about crime and what to do
  about it
• Growth of expert talking heads
• New penology actuarial methods of risk analysis
  and danger

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Dangerization

• Michalis Lianos extends the idea that
  distinction between normal and deviant is no
  longer meaningful
• Groups are no longer responded to on the basis of
  their deviant acts
• Instead, forward-looking risk categories identify
  persons as at risk or dangerous

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Dangerization

• Eventually, entire society identified as a risk
  society
• Consistent with Becks world risk society
• Assumption that persons are bad
• No one can be trusted
• Constant camera surveillance will catch more
  persons in deviance
• Self-fulfilling prophecy

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Colonization of the Lifeworld

• Habermass distinction between the
• System formalized institutional settings
  emphasizing functional integration of activities
• Institutional capture
• Lifeworld realm of everyday life, informal
  control by way of interpersonal role obligations

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Colonization of the Lifeworld

• With increasing societal rationalization
• Systems imperatives distort lifeworld operations
• System attempts to steer everyday lifeworld to
  ensure social order
• Sets the stage for the encroachment of more and
  more experts

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Shoring Up Informal Control

1. Bittner core of the police role is the
   non-negotiable distribution of coercive force
2. In enlightened, modern societies, aspiration is
   to eliminate recourse to violence
3. Police are an embarrassing reminder that coercion
   is still needed

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Shoring Up Informal Control

• Shifting roles of the police
• Political spoils generalists
• Reform and early professionalization
  specialists
• Community policing generalists
• Post 9-11 policing specialists security and
  counterterrorism (see Table 10.1, p. 239)

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Future Attribute Screening (FAST)

• Technological solutions to the problem of
  counterterrorism surveillance in a post 9/11
  world
• The FAST program
• Theory of hostile intent (or malintent)
• Known unknowns
• Ratcheting up of the global risk society
• Hyper-vigilance

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