Social Control and the State

by Andrew Scull and Stanley Cohen

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312731671
• ISBN13: 9780312731670
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 341 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

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Table of Contents

With a subject and author index. Bibliographies follow each article (totaling about 30-35 pp of bibliographies.) "Social Control in History and Sociology" Cohen & Scull "Notes Towards a Working Definition of Social Control in Historical Analysis," John A. Mayer "Class Expression vs. Social Control? A Critique of Recent Trends in the Social History of Leisure," Gareth Steman Jones "A Just Measure of Crime, Authority, Hunters and Blue Locusts: The Revisionist Social History of Crime and the Law in Britain, 1780-1850," David Phillips "State, Civil Society and Total Institutions: the Uses and Abuses of the Concept in the History of Incarceration," Michael Ignatieff "Social Control: The Uses and Abuses of the Concept in the History of Incarceration," David Rothman "Humanitarianism or Control? Some Observations on the Historiography of Anglo-American Psychiatry," Andrew Scull "Mental Health and Social Order," David Ingleby "Law, Order, and Power in Late 17th Century and Early 18th Century England," Paul Rock "18th Century English Society and the Debt Law," Paul Haagen "Moral Treatment: Mental Therapy and Social Control in the 19th Century," Robert Castel "Psychiatrists and the State in Tsarist Russia," Julie Vail Brown "Chastizing the Unchaste: Social Control Functions of a Women's Reformatory, 1894-1931," Nicole Hahn Rafter "The Rationalization of Crime Control in Capitalist Society," Steven Spitzer