There has been a revitalization of interest in social control over the last decade, and this volume contributes to renewed attempts to explain and conceptualize social control in all its diversity. It provides a broad conceptualization of social control which is unique. Rather than concentrating solely on law and legal control the criminal justice system, there are also treatments of informal control socialization, group formation and the controls exerted in everyday life as well as medical control norms regarding health and illness, particularly with regard to notions of normal behaviour. This volume brings together