The book provides a comprehensive overview of the topic "Social Problems and Social Control"; from theoretical foundations to central areas such as crime, poverty, and health in social policy. Social problems are framed as public and political issues; the representations established in these processes form the basis for the institutionalization of new realities, which can take the form of political measures and reproduce and change through their functions and effects. Over the past thirty years, many observers have felt that the concept of social problems can only make sense sociologically if it is identified with a strictly constructivist theoretical framework and its inquiries into the processes and conditions of the public problematization of social issues.