| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
x, 461 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies. |
| Contents |
Part I: Defining Behavior as Criminal -- The law of vagrancy / William J. Chambliss -- Rape, the law, and private property / Julia R. Schwendinger and Herman Schwendinger -- Amphetamine politics on Capitol Hill / James M. Graham -- Gideon's trumpet / Anthony Lewis -- -- Part II: Social Structure and Criminal Behavior -- Class and the economics of crime / David M. Gordon -- Goths and Vandals - Crime in histoy / Geoffrey Pearson -- Rape: The all American crime / Susan Griffin -- The Saints and the Roughnecks / William J. Chambliss -- Phantom capitalists / Michael Levi -- Arson, fiscal crisis, and community action: Dialectics of an urban crime and popular response / James P. Brady -- -- Part III: Crime Rates and Crime Myths -- The politics of police reporting in Indianapolis, 1948-78 / William L. Selke and Harold E. Pepinsky -- Unintended effects of police decisions to actively enforce laws: Implications for analysis of crime trends / Joseph F. Sheley and John J. Hanlon -- -- Part IV: The Social Organization of Criminal Law Enforcement -- Policing -- From constabulary to police society: Implications for social control / Evelyn L. Parks -- The organization of policing / Maurice Punch -- Vice, corruption, bureaucracy, and power / William J. Chambliss -- The thief and the law: A safecracker's perspective / Harry King and William J. Chambliss -- Cointelpro: The FBI's secret war on political freedom / Naom Chomsky -- The management of police killings / The editors of "Crime and Social Justice" -- Prosecution, Trial, and Appeal -- Are women citizens? Susan B. Anthony and the right to vote / Albie Sachs and Joan Hoff Wilson -- Class bias in the criminal law / Andrew Hopkins -- The practice of law as confidence game: Organizational cooptation of a profession / Abraham S. Blumberg -- Victim in the witness box - Confronting victimology's stereotype / Doreen McBarnet -- The use of guilty pleas in the legal process / William J. Chambliss and Robert B. Seidman -- The imperatives of mass processing / Pamela Utz -- Appeals from criminal convictions / Robert B. Seidman and William J. Chambliss -- -- Part V: Punishment and the Impact of Legal Institutions -- The body of the condemned / Michael Foucault -- Punishment and social structure / George Rusche and Otto Kirchheimer -- The political economy of incarceration - Trends in late U.S. capitalism: 1971-1977 / Don Wallace -- Types of deviance and the effectiveness of legal sanctions / William J. Chambliss -- Murder and capital punishment in the United States: The question of deterrence / Ruth D. Peterson and William C. Bailey -- Race, judicial discretion, and the death penalty / Marvin E. Wolfgang and Marc Riedel. |
| Subject |
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States.
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Criminal justice, Administration of. |
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United States. |
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Law enforcement -- United States.
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Law enforcement. |
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Crime -- Economic aspects -- United States.
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Crime -- Economic aspects. |
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Social conflict.
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Social conflict. |
| Indexed Term |
United States Criminal law Justice Administration |
| Added Author |
Chambliss, William J.
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| ISBN |
0471896780 paperback $13.95 |
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0023207205 |
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