standings of households, business firms, fraternities, ball teams, committees, and so on,
as with "social-problem" deviance, and that all such violations are as much testing
grounds for the ideas ventured in this book as are armed robbery and drug addiction.

The reader may be disappointed that I have not dealt at greater length and more
systematically with social control, especially with such matters as the rehabilitation of
criminals and the treatment of alcoholics. However, I feel that it is difficult to say
anything very significant about social control without first saying a good deal about
deviance and the more general ways in which control is related to deviance. I have
tried to work out the conception of an interaction process within which deviance and
control evolve, each responding to the other and helping to shape the other. It is my
belief that within such a framework it will be possible to classify and analyze processes
of social control in a fruitful way. To have enlarged greatly on such classification and
analysis in a book this size would, however, have meant excessive truncation of basic
concepts and theories prerequisite to a more sophisticated treatment of either deviance
of control.

Albert K. Cohen

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