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Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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Chapter 3 examines explanations for these trends and delineates five models of the relationship between social control policy intentions and consequences. Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp. 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. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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.

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. 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). 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. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy.Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. 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.

If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society. 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.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.

Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.The final chapter further analyzes the choices, values, hidden agendas, and domain assumptions of various social control positions. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.

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