Includes index.

Prelims -- Introduction -- The rhetoric of social control -- Part I: Formal mechanisms of social control -- Chapter 1: Police militarization: implications for communities of color -- Chapter 2: Policing communities of color: an historical examination of social control and protest management strategies -- Chapter 3: Community policing, coproduction, and social control: restoring police legitimacy -- Chapter 4: Government regulation and social control of neighborhoods -- Chapter 5: Social control and the politics of public spaces -- Chapter 6: Religion and the state: the politics of social control in Myanmar and the United States -- Part II: Social control through public policy -- Chapter 7: The paradox of state control in the global age of migrations: the 2018 Central American immigrant caravan -- Chapter 8: Social control and serious mental illness: understanding and challenging current ideologies -- Chapter 9: Sex offenders, policies, and social control -- Part III: Resistance and reification: surveillance, political violence, and mass media -- Chapter 10 Expectations of privacy in the age of surveillance: implications for democracy -- Chapter 11 Crime 3.0: understanding the post-industrial challenge to security, policing, and social control -- Chapter 12 The impact of police technology adoption on social control, police accountability, and police legitimacy -- Chapter 13 Government use of social control to address political violence and dissent -- Chapter 14 The need to disrupt social control -- Chapter 15 Mass media, social control, and political authority in a post-truth environment -- Index.

Political movements and citizens across the globe are increasingly challenging the traditional ways in which political authorities and governing bodies establish and maintain social control. This edited collection examines the intersections of social control, political authority and public policy.Each chapter provides an important insight into the key elements needed to understand the role of governance in establishing and maintaining social control through law and public policymaking. Close attention is paid to the roles of surveillance and dissent as tools for both establishing and disrupting the social control of political institutions. This collection examines the vast implications of increased participation in governance by citizens through dissent, revealing the ways in which this represents both a disruption of social control and a mechanism for increased accountability through surveillance and media. Through its examination of issues such as police militarization, police legitimacy, religion and the state, immigration, mental health policy, privacy and surveillance, and mass media and social control in a post-truth environment, this collection will prove invaluable for researchers, policy makers and practitioners alike.

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