<i>Visions of Social Control</i> is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. <br/> 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. Such slogans as ''decarceration'' and ''division'' radically changed the dominance of the prison, the power of professionals and the crime-control system itself. <p>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. 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. This is not just a book for the specialist in criminology, social problems and the sociology of devia
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