Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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To save this article to your Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. He has produced an entirely original synthesis of the original literature as well as an introductory guide to the major theoreticians of social control, such as David Rothman and Michael Foucault. Please list any fees and grants from, employment by, consultancy for, shared ownership in or any close relationship with, at any time over the preceding 36 months, any organisation whose interests may be affected by the publication of the response.

Chapter 3 examines explanations for these trends and delineates five models of the relationship between social control policy intentions and consequences. Visions of Social Control Crime, Punishment and Classification by Stanley cohen, Polity Press, 1985. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. It examines the deinstitutionalization and alternative forms of community control, diversion, disenchantment with the rehabilitative ideal, and the development of new ideologies and forms of intervention.

The final chapter further analyzes the choices, values, hidden agendas, and domain assumptions of various social control positions. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. Stanley Cohen traces the historical roots of these apparent changes and reforms, demonstrates in detail their often paradoxical results and speculates on the whole future of social control in Western societies.

Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Google Drive account.This is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to make sense of the bewildering recent shifts in ideology and policy towards crime - and to understand the broader sociological implications of the study of social control.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.This text analyses the ways in which behaviour comes to be defined as criminal and/or deviant and explores the ways in which conformity and social control can be achieved. There is a historical approach that highlights not only changes in criminal and deviant behaviour but also, continuities in this behaviour.

Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. Chapter 1 describes the foundations of the deviancy control system in the late 1700's and early 1800's, compares the historical models used to explain these developments, and examines several destructuring movements that appeared in the 1960's (decentralization, decriminalization, informalism, self-help, demedicalization, destigmatization, behaviorism, and neoclassicism). Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp.To save this article to your Dropbox account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.