摘要：The historical research on social control has been particularly concentrated on the analysis of institutions and administrative affaires, penal law and moral, political and juridical thought. This viewpoint shows perspectives «from the top» about a complex phenomenon with a great dynamism to which has contributed decisively every social agent. This article stresses a perspective «from below» and deals with the analysis of the spheres of fabrication and intervention of «the law of the street» as well as its efficiency to construct archetypes and patterns of social behaviour within different spheres of sociability. This helps the definition of the fields of social disciplining from the urban underworlds up to the Court, putting an accent on cultural patterns to research on social control.
