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“Sociologists have frequently observed that governments use punishment primarily as a tool of social control, and thus the extent or severity of punishment is often unrelated to actual crime patterns.”

Use Government Social Crime Tools Patterns Punishment Severity Sociologists Social Control

Book:The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Source: The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

“By pretending that convention is Nature, that disobeying a personal prohibition is a medical illness, they establish themselves as agents of social control and at the same time disguise their punitive interventions in the semantic and social trappings of medical practice.”

Social Practice Illness Medical Agents Pretending Conventions Disguise Intervention Prohibition Social Control Disobeying

Book:The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

Source: The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement

“Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation and our predecessors, who either created or failed to stop the world straddling engine of theft, degradation, manipulation, and social control we call the welfare state.”

People World States Today Young Social Rights Generations Dignity Welfare Manipulation Engines Theft My Generation Degradation Predecessors Welfare State Culprit Social Control

Author:Tom G. Palmer

“The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.”

Important Moments Social Ability Steps Events Rewards Oneself Social Control

Book:Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

Source: Flow: the psychology of optimal experience

“If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a function of class and social control as it was of racism.”

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Author:David Simon

“The mere fact of leaving ultimate social control in the hands of the people has not guaranteed that men will be able to conduct their lives as free men. Those societies where men know they are free are often democracies, but sometimes they have strong chiefs and kings.they have, however, one common characteristic: they are all alike in making certain freedoms common to all citizens, and inalienable.”

Source: An Anthropologist at Work