What was stanley cohens sociological theory?
One of Stan Cohen’s major theories is ‘Amplification Theory’ and within this approach he developed one of the concepts , or theorems, that has influenced all of us who work in the field of the sociologyy of crime,, justice and punishment over the past few decades -the concept of ‘moral panic’. These influential theories and theoretical concepts came out of his 1972 text – ‘Folk Devils and Moral Panics’. He published many other texts but it is his (1985) Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification, (in which he again investigates the complex interractions, of crime and justice but in this case, in the field of punishment) that made a major contribution not only to sociological analysis but also to the practices and policies of prisons and alternatives to imprisonment.. So, in summary, he is a major interractionist theorist and within this major paradigm he has himself contributed some major influential theories. in the field of crime and punishment. However he is als
