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

by Downes; David

• ISBN13: 9781843924043
• ISBN10: 1843924048
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2011-02-24
• Publisher: Willan

Summary

Foreword by Noam ChomskyThe work of Stanley Cohen over four decades has come to acquire a classical status in the fields of criminology, sociology and human rights. His writing, research, teaching and practical engagement in these fields have been at once rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. It amounts to a unique contribution, immensely varied yet with several unifying themes, and it has made, and continues to make, a lasting impact around the world. His work thus has a protean character and scope which transcend time and place.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. Their focus is on the three key areas of crime, social control and human rights, reflecting the concerns of Stanley Cohen's three seminal books-Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Visions of Social Control and States of Denial.

Table of Contents

Growing Up

Yesterday's children: today's mothers and fathers

Early childhood: learning to be safe at home

Going to school: coping with a complex world

Becoming an adult: leaving and loving

Remembering the future: the process of mental representation

How do parents affect children's representations?

Raising Children

Representation and child-rearing that endangers children

Distortions of normal child-protective behaviour: marginal maltreatment of children

Distortions of normal child-protective behaviour: physical abuse of children

Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: distortions that emphasize parental self-comfort

Parents whose own needs skew their perceptions: the absence of parental protection

Distortions that substitute erroneous information and accurate information that misconstrue children as being threatened

Distortions that substitute deadly delusional information for accurate information misconstruing the child as being the threat

An Integrative Approach to Treatment

Why do we need a new theory of treatment?

The ideas that underlie the dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment

The dynamic-maturational model as a comprehensive theory of treatment

Assessment relevant to differential treatment

Functional formulation and the plan for treatment

Psychological treatment and information processing

Psychological treatment: three cases

Improving the safety of children and families

Bibliography

Index

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