Crime, Social Control and Human Rights: From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen

ISBN-13: 9781843924043 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 480 str.

Downes, David

Opis

The work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. This is a collection of essays which builds on and reflects some of Stanley Cohen's many-sided contributions.

Recenzje

'This diverse and insightful collection of contemporary 'Cohenology' is the ideal tribute to a man who is perhaps criminology's most erudite, readable and humane practitioner.' − Shadd Maruna, Queen's University Belfast

Spis treści

Foreword by Noam Chomsky  Introduction  Part 1: Seminal Influences,  Part 2: Gradations of Social Control: From Moral Panics to Long-term Imprisonment,  Part 3: The Extremities of Control: Torture and the Death Penalty, Part 4: Visions of Social Control, Part 5: The Theory and Practice of Denial, Part 6: Ways Ahead