Social Control Contracts
Social Control Contracts
This chapter considers how relationships between the state and individual citizens are being structured increasingly through social control contracts in the fields of unemployment and employment services, criminal justice, and education. It evaluates the responsiveness of these regulatory arrangements with reference to the common contract norms of reciprocity, consent, choice, and power. It distinguishes between social control strategies based on centrally determined regulatory frameworks and the more organic development of contractual techniques by professionals in the spheres of probation and social work. The agendas and rationales are shown to be entirely different, with greater governance problems being anticipated in the case of state-imposed measures.
Keywords: social control contracts, unemployment, employment, criminal justice, education, contract norms, social control
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