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. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases. 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. 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. If you do not have a society account or have forgotten your username or password, please contact your society.

Here you will find options to view and activate subscriptions, manage institutional settings and access options, access usage statistics, and more. 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. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.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). There is a historical approach that highlights not only changes in criminal and deviant behaviour but also, continuities in this behaviour.

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 Google Drive account, please select one or more formats and confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. 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. The final chapter further analyzes the choices, values, hidden agendas, and domain assumptions of various social control positions. 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.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. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency.

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.

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