Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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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. 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.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. Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy. 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.A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. 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. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.