Doctrinal intersection of social control and human rights: A criminological and critical reading
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https://doi.org/10.46502/issn.2792-3681/2025.9.2Keywords:
social control, critical thinking, human rights, criminological reading, doctrinal intersectionAbstract
Critical criminology plays a prominent role in promoting and protecting human rights, especially for the most disadvantaged communities, such as the poor, migrants, and various minorities. On the one hand, this discipline of social control focuses on crime research and, on the other, critically analyzes the social and political structures that maintain exclusion and normalized inequality. Using a documentary research design, the objective of this research was precisely to analyze the intersection between social control and human rights from a critical and criminological perspective. Consequently, questions such as the following are raised: How have social control policies evolved in relation to human rights? How do hegemonic narratives affect public perception of the rights of vulnerable communities? The conclusion argues that social control (formal and informal) that operates outside the rule of law can lead to the systematic violation of fundamental rights, undermining public trust in control institutions. Therefore, it is important that any social control strategy be subject to legal principles and judicial oversight to ensure its legitimacy and effectiveness.
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