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Human build and use law to regulate and constraint their behaviors in order to keep the society harmony and stable. However, sometimes criminals may still commit and successfully get away with crime and inappropriate behaviors due to lack of supervise and punishment. Nowadays, the power of social control is become stronger and stronger in our society. Criminals are only a small part of people in the society, most of people are well behaved individuals who doesn’t want any other people commit crimes. Instead of understand why some people do bad things, well-behaved people know exactly why they don’t do so. So they use all type of method to show others what keeps them away from violate the law such as their dignity, beliefs, value and relationships. This group of people uses their own behaviors and reactions to certain behaviors to help reduce the crime. In my opinion, sometimes social may also cause problems to society, because of people always want others have the same standard and opinion upon a certain behavior or statement, but people are always different from each other, therefore sometimes the abuse of the power of social control and deeply misunderstanding may occur. There are three most widely used way to exert social control in my point of view: Set role model and ethical standard, use judgment and reaction to make people feel the certain way (include sense of guilt and shame), use reward and punishment to control others’ behavior and lead people to become well-behaved person and stay away from crime.
First of all, sometimes people don’t exactly know what kind of behavior is inappropriate, or even illegal. It’s reasonable, not every law is common sense and well learned by ev...

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...at is others feeling about his move, it may force him to consider more comprehensive and thorough. Therefore he may change his behavior after the reconsideration. In my point of view, these types of behavior and reaction includes words, facial expression are ways to get connection with others, these reaction can help people better express their opinion and attitude, help others consider the consequence before do things. These type of reactions are also efficacious on crime in some way, if a person see a robbery happening, yell loudly and run toward the robber may turn around the situation and stop the crime. But if the person quietly walk away, it is less possible for the robber to stop the robbery. What’s more, the reaction toward a crime or a violation which has been down may also contribute to help people change their behavior or stay away from the infraction.

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