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. The final chapter further analyzes the choices, values, hidden agendas, and domain assumptions of various social control positions. 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.

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.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). 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. Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more.

A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases.

Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy. 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.