Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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

Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. 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. 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.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. 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.

Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. 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. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management.If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp. 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.