External forms of social control

• external forms of social control: an outside agency ensures we conform
• Give an example of external social control

  Coercion, fear of punishment
• agencies of social control in our criminal justice system:

  • police
  • judges/magistrates
  • prisons
  • probation

  sanctions/punishments as part of external social control:

  • curfews/tagging
  • penalty notices/crime
  • custodial sentences
• Coercion: the use of some kind of force to make someone conform

  can be physical/psychological

  threats/actual
• Give examples of sanctions used as part of external social control

  Curfew, tagging, penalty notices, custodial sentences
• Give an example of coercion

  Physical restraints, punishments
• Fear of punishment: often used as a form of deterrence. The fear of what could happen to someone makes them conform.

  things would happen that are against our will as a consequence of committing the offence
• What do right realists argue about fear of punishment

  Crime would be worse without fear of punishment
• Individual deterrence: the person who committed the crime is given a punishment such as a suspended sentence/conditional discharge to try deter them from reoffending
• General deterrence: a way of deterring the general public from committing a crime