Trilateral Forms of Social Control

Abstract

The last chapter considered forms of social control where grievants do not use authoritative third parties. The intervention of adjudicative third parties marks a critical transformation in the nature of social control. Adjudicators impose authoritative solutions on disputants regardless of their wishes. Matters that once were private become public disputes. A trilateral situation is created where the interests of third parties, as well as those of each disputant, come into play.