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 …showed first 75 words of 1772 total…

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