Stanley Cohen Books

Baseball serves as a lens for Stanley Cohen to explore America's evolving culture over seventy years, from WWII to the post-9/11 era. He reflects on his immigrant father's journey of assimilation through sports, the joy of sharing the game with his son and grandson, and how baseball has provided a sense of continuity across generations. The narrative captures the changing moods and lifestyles of four generations, highlighting the profound impact of the sport on personal and national identity.

A biography of the legendary pool player discusses his game against World Champion Ralph Greenleaf at the age of seven, his glory years in pool competitions, and his work as a consultant for such top pool movies as The Hustler.

The narrative explores the dramatic decline of a once-respected businessman within the mercenary community, revealed through engaging flashbacks. These glimpses into the past uncover the pivotal events tied to the tumultuous union of two families: a Jewish American from New York and a Catholic Latin-American from El Salvador. This unique cultural intersection drives the story, highlighting themes of identity, conflict, and the complexities of personal relationships against a backdrop of unexpected consequences.

The book explores the transformative shifts in criminology during the 1960s, highlighting the intense debates and the emergence of diverse schools of thought. It delves into the challenges to conventional views on crime and punishment, as well as the evolving perspectives on deviance and its control. Through examining these ideological conflicts, the narrative reveals how these changes shaped contemporary understandings of crime and its complexities.

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.

A New book by one of the most important names on the Polity list. Stan Cohen is one of the world's most respected criminologists, and author of many classic studies in the field. schovat popis

Stanley Cohen's study of Mods and Rockers in the 1960s was a foundational text both in terms of investigating the workings of subcultural groups and identifying the concept of a 'moral panic' generated by the media, which leads to groups being vilified in the popular imagination, and inhibits rational debate about solutions to the social problems such groups represent. The insights Cohen provides into subculture and mass morality are as relevant today as they were when the book was originally published in 1972, as illustrated by the author's introduction for this new edition, in which he tracks moral panics over the last thirty years, commenting on the demonization of young offenders and asylum seekers and on the News of the World 's 'name and shame' campaign against paedophiles.Revisiting the theory of moral panic and exploring the way in which the concept has been used, this new edition features a select bibliography of key texts for further reading. The third edition of Folk Devils and Moral Panics makes available a valuable and widely recommended text.

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