This volume of essays represents as full a range as possible of those who have worked with Stanley Cohen or who have worked with his work in mind. That work ranges from the relatively theoretical to the empirically sophisticated and intensely practical. His writing, teaching, research, and practical engagement in the fields of criminology, sociology, and human rights have been rigorously analytical and intellectually inspiring. The book contains chapters of 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 Stanley Cohen himself. The book is divided into six sections, focusing on the three key areas of crime, social control, and human rights, reflecting the concerns of Stanley Cohen’s three influential books: Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Visions of Social Control, and States of Denial. It focuses on the areas of decisive influences, degrees of social control (from moral panics to long-term imprisonment), extremities of control (torture and the death penalty), visions of social control, the theory and practice of denial, and ways ahead (looking forward). References, name and subject indexes