ABSTRACT
Is it possible to identify a series of closely related measures which may serve as macrosociological indicators of the level and effectiveness of social control in an advanced industrial society such as the United States? Such measures would have to be available for the period under investigation with some degree of specificity, stability, and accuracy. Social control is a unifying concept, and it is hardly to be anticipated that it would lead directly to a single or a specific number of operational measures. However, systemic analysis requires that the essential dimensions and consequences of social control be explored in approximate operational terms, especially by means of trend data.
