Crime, Social Control and Human Rights

Crime, Social Control and Human Rights

Einband:
Fester Einband
EAN:
9781843922285
Untertitel:
From Moral Panics to States of Denial, Essays in Honour of Stanley Cohen
Genre:
Soziologie
Herausgeber:
Taylor & Francis
Anzahl Seiten:
480
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.05.2007
ISBN:
978-1-84392-228-5

Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics, UK. Paul Rock is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK. Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, UK. She is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005). Conor Gearty is Professor Human Rights Law, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, UK. Klappentext This book of essays in Stanley Cohen's honour aims to build on and reflect some of his many-sided contributions. It contains chapters by some of the world's leading thinkers as well as the rising generation of scholars and practitioners whose approach has been shaped in significant respects by his own. Zusammenfassung This book of essays in Stanley Cohen's honour aims to build on and reflect some of his many-sided contributions. It contains chapters by some of the world's leading thinkers as well as the rising generation of scholars and practitioners whose approach has been shaped in significant respects by his own. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Autorentext
David Downes is Professor Emeritus of Social Administration at the London School of Economics, UK.Paul Rock is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the London School of Economics, UK.Christine Chinkin is Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics, UK. She is an Overseas Affiliated Faculty Member, University of Michigan and has been a Scholar in Residence for Amnesty International (2005).Conor Gearty is Professor Human Rights Law, and Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Rights at the London School of Economics, UK.

Klappentext
This book of essays in Stanley Cohen's honour aims to build on and reflect some of his many-sided contributions. It contains chapters by some of the world's leading thinkers as well as the rising generation of scholars and practitioners whose approach has been shaped in significant respects by his own.

Inhalt
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


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