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Using data from items A, B and C and elsewhere, discuss how far methods of social control have become bureaucratised in the last two hundred years.  

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Michelle Deluce Tutor Joanne Green Criminology Page 1 SOCIAL CONTROL ORGANISATIONS Using data from items A, B and C and elsewhere, discuss how far methods of social control have become bureaucratised in the last two hundred years. From the information provided it shows how different methods of social control have developed over the past two hundred years from public displays of control to the development of early prisons up to present day with CCTV and computerised systems. The post modernist Michel Foucault wrote his book Discipline and Punish (1977) in which he looks at the development of the prison system from 18th century to modern time. He found that two hundred years back, when a person was found guilty of a criminal act, the sovereign or ruler at the time decided their fate. In That time there was no such thing as bureaucracy, there were no files or records on a person in which to retrieve...

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