Legal control over government officials reverses but extends social control.

Evidence

Law, in other words, has the further job of keeping an eye on the rulers themselves. This, in a way, turns social control inside out. In a way, however, it is another form of social control: control over the controllers. — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 93

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Direct government action governs its own employees through management, not law’s distinctive means — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 848; Legal prohibition causes attitudinal change rather than merely reflecting it — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 10919; Legal authority to judge intent is a form of social control (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Legal prohibition causes attitudinal change rather than merely reflecting it #corroborates (0.80) — , The Rod and the Child, 10919
• Social standards become cruel laws when they penetrate the legal and political machine #corroborates (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 258
• Legal authority to judge intent is a form of social control #corroborates (0.75)
• Mystified arbitrary power becomes immune to legal restraint #contradicts (0.75) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 628