Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification

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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 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. 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.

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Chapter 5 highlights these positions in terms of the power and interests of experts and professionals in determining the nature of control policy. A concluding chapter on the practical and policy implications of the analysis is of special relevance to social workers and other practitioners.If this is the first time you used this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your Dropbox account.