Written by political science, criminal justice, and other scholars from the US, the 15 chapters in this volume examine the role of political authorities in maintaining social control, focusing on the major mechanisms of social control, their influence on public policy, and the increasing disruption of social control through surveillance, protest, and mass media. They explore how the apparatuses of social control function through discourse; the role of the police in social control, including police militarization in the US and its effects on communities of color, police responses and policing related to protest management in communities of color, state and local governments' social control of neighborhoods, the governmental control of public spaces, state support for or hostility toward religion in the US and Myanmar, and community policing as a means to increase police legitimacy, strengthen community resilience, and promote prosocial interactions between officers and residents; and social control through public policy, including the implementation of border controls and immigration policies in the US, social control for the mentally ill, and social control of registered sex offenders. Other essays address the role of surveillance, political violence, and mass media to establish or disrupt the social control of political institutions, including privacy rights and democracy, security and crime controls, government use of social control to address political violence and dissent, the need to disrupt social control when it promotes the oppression of individuals or groups, the role of the mass media in the maintenance of social control and policy formulation and implementation in the Trump political era, and the impact of police technology adoption on social control, police accountability, and police legitimacy.

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