Geospatial Aspects of Social Control

• In Event: Critical Discourses within Criminological Theory and the Administration of Justice

Abstract

Social control thoughts and processes within criminology has fundamentally been limited to tracing the paths of the individual offender. In spite of the fact that Shaw and Mckay in the middle of the last century identified the implications of place for a comprehensive articulation of the functions and the forces shaping criminal offending. Though critical criminology has established a paradigm of spatial discourse through conflict theories, contemporary processes in geographical criminology coupled with spatial technology presents a strong platform to pose more pragmatic questions and seek for new paths to understand these processes. Furthering the criminological motives of social control through contemporary spatial approaches is discussed.

Author

• Kingsley Ejiogu, University of Maryland-Eastern Shore