States of Denial

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.

This volume offers a comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical states of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the "passive bystander".

Auteur

Stanley Cohen is at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is the author of numerous books, including Visions of Social Control (Polity, 1985), Folk Devils and Moral Panics:The Creation of the Mods and Rockers (1980), Against Criminology (1988) and Psychological Survival: The Experience of Long Term Imprisonment (1973).

Contenu

Preface. Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1: The Elementary Forms Of Denial.

Chapter 2: Knowing and Not-Knowing: The Psychology of Denial.

Chapter 3: Denial at Work: Mechanisms and Rhetorical Devices.

Chapter 4: Accounting for Atrocities: Perpetrators and Officials.

Chapter 5: Blocking Out the Past: Personal Memories, Public Histories.

Chapter 6: Bystander States.

Chapter 7: Images of Suffering.

Chapter 8: Appeals: Outrage Into Action.

Chapter 9: Digging Up Graves, Opening Wounds: Acknowledging the Past.

Chapter 10: Acknowledgement Now.

Chapter 11: Loose Ends.

Notes.

Index