ABSTRACT
The centre was dedicated to the new field of socio-legal studies, to criminology, and it applied the emerging logic of the sociology of deviance, of what some call ‘social constructionism’, to phenomena in areas of law hitherto neglected, the areas that fell outside what Keith Hawkins called the ‘traditional criminological boundaries’. The new socio-legal scholars individually and sometimes jointly discovered, extrapolated, and then reformulated a sociology of social control in the work of Peter Manning, Jonathan Rubinstein,8 Jerry Skolnick, James Wilson. Compliance-based enforcement tends usually to be discreet and unobserved, confined by circumstance or choice to private or near-private space, waged by people without uniforms or distinctive insignia, who are unrecognizable to most outsiders.
