01503nam a22001457a 4500 530961 530961 250722b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Slingenberg, Lieneke and Vols, Michel 55504 Introduction to the special issue: Social control, housing and the law Social & Legal Studies 34(3), Jun, 2025: p.309-319 In this special issue on housing and social control, we explore the relationship between these two concepts through a socio-legal perspective. We investigate how law plays a role in shaping and assessing the connection between housing and social control, by, on the one hand, serving as an instrument of social control, and, on the other hand, acting as a limitation on the ability to impose social control. In addition to this dual function of the law, we identify four scenarios where social control and housing intersect, ranging from the complete absence of housing, to access to, occupation of and eviction from housing. The contributions to the special issue have a wide geographical scope (including case studies from Europe, America, Africa and Australia); each deals with one or more of these four scenarios, and they each underline one or both of the two functions of law as regards social control.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/09646639251329809 Social control, Housing, Homelessness, Right to housing, Eviction. 55505 Social & Legal Studies AR 0 0 ddc 0 0 406160 IIPA IIPA 2025-07-22 34(3), Jun, 2025: p.309-319 AR136682 2025-07-22 AR