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. Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. 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.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. 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. 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. 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.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. 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.

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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners.Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Chapter 3 examines explanations for these trends and delineates five models of the relationship between social control policy intentions and consequences. 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. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.