Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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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). 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 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.

Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp. Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below.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. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.

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 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.

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.

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A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. 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.

If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In Great Britain, North America and Western Europe, the 1960's saw new theories and styles of social control which seemed to undermine the whole basis of the established system. 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. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency.