Criminal Law providing control

Criminal Law and How it Provides Social Control Social control is the use of sanctions and rewards available through a group to influence and shape the behavior of individual members of that group. Social control is a primary concern of social groups and communities, and it is the interest that human groups hold in the exercise of social control that leads to the creation of both criminal and civil statutes. The primary purpose of the …

…where there was financial stability and good parenting, the majority of crime would be eliminated. As long as we live in a society where people are known to grow up as independent individuals this should be expected upon, because crime doesn’t occur in hunting and gathering societies where every one is raised as ever ones child. In general criminal law does a good job of deterring criminal activity and providing much needed social control.