Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted over eight years, this article uses the metaphor of dress to describe the social control of women's bodies in a conservative Holdeman Mennonite community. The ...

Meet Edward Robbins, Lecturer of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Lycoming College. Robbins teaches a course on Youth, Deviance, and Social Control.

Scholars point to two trends in the social construction of child social control: criminalization and medicalization. To control child behavior, schools and parents turn to strategies motivated by both ...