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. If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account.

For librarians and administrators, your personal account also provides access to institutional account management. Chapter 3 examines explanations for these trends and delineates five models of the relationship between social control policy intentions and consequences. 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. Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. 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.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. Access options Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. Access to content on Oxford Academic is often provided through institutional subscriptions and purchases.

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.

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. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners.