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. Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy. 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. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

Stanley Cohen, Visions of Social Control: Crime Punishment and Classification, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1985 x + 325 pp. For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.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. Visions of Social Control Crime, Punishment and Classification by Stanley cohen, Polity Press, 1985.

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