While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. "After September 11" has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of punishment and social control.
The editors hold that the already pliable boundaries between ordinary and political crime...
While crime, law, and punishment are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, "social control" is one...
From sexual fantasies to holidays this book charts our escape attempts. In a series of commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we attempt to defy paramount reality. Dealing with more than everyday life Escape Attempts contains important theoretical insights about how normality is managed. This fully revised edition contains a new introduction, Life After Postmodernism, which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.
From sexual fantasies to holidays this book charts our escape attempts. In a series of commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ...
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility...
Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'd...
The boisterousfreedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself.Those who would fight freedom's enemies, from political correctness to corporate intimidation to outright censorship, face powerful adversaries.But they also have a potent weapon at their disposal: good, old-fashioned talk--tough talk.And as one of America's leading First Amendment attorneys, Martin Garbus is one of the toughest talkers there is. Starting with his work on the tam that defended the legendary satirist Lenny Bruce against...
The boisterousfreedom promised by the First Amendment is both the heart of American experiment and the fissure along which it divides itself.Those who...
During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of criminology split into feuding factions, and various schools of thought emerged, each with quite different ideas about the nature of the crime problem and its solutions. These differences often took political form, with conservative, liberal, and radical supporters, and the resulting controversies continue to reverberate throughout the fields of criminology and sociology, as well as related areas such as social work, social policy, psychiatry, and...
During the 1960s, traditional thinking about crime and its punishment, deviance and its control, came under radical attack. The discipline of crimi...
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. Such slogans as 'decarceration' and 'division' radically changed the dominance of the prison, the power of professionals and the crime-control system itself.
Stanley Cohen traces the historical roots of these apparent changes and reforms, demonstrates in detail their...
Visions of Social Control is a wide ranging analysis of recent shifts in ideas and practices for dealing with crime and delinquency. In Great B...
