Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. 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. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. The final chapter further analyzes the choices, values, hidden agendas, and domain assumptions of various social control positions. Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp.

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. This is not just a book for the specialist in criminology, social problems and the sociology of deviance but raises a whole range of issues of much wider interest to the social sciences. Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency.

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Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. 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.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. 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. 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.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Visions of Social Control Crime, Punishment and Classification by Stanley cohen, Polity Press, 1985.