Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland

Social Control and Deviance: A South Asian Community in Scotland
ISBN-10
113871691X
ISBN-13
9781138716919
Category
Asians
Pages
290
Language
English
Published
2019-11-11
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Ali Wardak

Description

This title was first published in 2000: This unique empirical study of social control and deviance in Edinburgh's Pakistani community examines the social order, how it is maintained, the institutions and processes that operate as mechanisms of (informal) social control, and the ways second-generation South Asians relate to their community.

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