Crime, inequality, and the state / edited by Mary E. Vogel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vogel, Mary E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration.

Marginality, Social.

Imprisonment.

United States.

Crime--United States--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Imprisonment--United States.

Marginality, Social--United States.

Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Great Britain.

Crime--Great Britain--Sociological aspects.

Great Britain.

Imprisonment--Great Britain.

Marginality, Social--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

xvii, 631 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.

Contents:

Introduction: The Irony of Imprisonment: the Punitive Paradox of the Carceral Turn and the "Micro-Death" of the Material / Mary E. Vogel 1

Part 1 Bringing inequality back in to crime, law and authority 51

1 Crime and Policy / Steven R. Donziger 53

2 Governing Amid Diversity: The Effect of Fair Decision-Making Procedures on the Legitimacy of Government / Tom R. Tyler 74

3 Kickin' Reality, Kickin' Ballistics: "Gangsta Rap" and Postindustrial Los Angeles / Robin D. G. Kelley 84

4 Civic Disengagement in Contemporary America / Robert D. Putnam 92

Part 2 Crime, violence and expanding imprisonment 99

5 The Recent Rise and Fall of American Violence / Alfred Blumstein, Joel Wallman 103

6 Crime is not the Problem: Lethal Violence in America / Franklin E. Zimring, Gordon Hawkins 125

7 With Liberty for Some: 500 Years of Imprisonment in America / Scott Christianson 137

8 The Limited Importance of Prison Expansion / William Spelman 150

9 Crime Control, American Style: From Social Welfare to Social Control / Katherine Beckett, Bruce Western 165

10 The New Penology: Notes on the Emerging Strategy of Corrections and its Implications / Malcolm M. Feeley, Jonathan Simon 181

11 Democratic Reversal? Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy / Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza 191

Part 3 Crime and the life course 209

12 All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence / Fox Butterfield 211

13 Human Development and Criminal Careers / David P. Farrington 223

14 Shame: The Emotions and Morality of Violence / James Gilligan 245

15 Turning Points in the Life Course: Why Change Matters to the Study of Crime / John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson 251

16 State Raised Convict / Jack Henry Abbott 263

Part 4 Social and spatial structure of community 269

17 Environmental Criminology / Anthony E. Bottoms, Paul Wiles 273

18 Foundation for a General Strain Theory of Crime and Delinquency / Robert Agnew 294

19 Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality / Robert J. Sampson, William J. Wilson 312

20 Social Action / Elliott Currie 326

21 Life in the Gang: Family, Friends, and Violence / Scott H. Decker, Barrik Van Winkle 338

22 The Political Economy of Crime / Ian Taylor 353

Part 5 Race, class and gender in a deindustrializing society 367

23 How to be a Negro without Really Trying / Piri Thomas 371

24 Racism, Ethnicity, Crime and Criminal Justice / Coretta Phillips, Ben Bowling 377

25 The Code of the Streets: How the Inner-City Environment Fosters a Need for Respect and a Self-Image Based on Violence / Elijah Anderson 393

26 Overcoming the Crisis in Critical Criminology: Toward a Grounded Labeling Theory / Dario Melossi 403

27 Feminism and Criminology / Loraine Gelsthorpe 412

28 Masculinities and Crimes / Tony Jefferson 435

Part 6 Sentencing discretion and inequality in common law 455

29 Mandatory Penalties / Michael Tonry 459

30 Homicide and the Death Penalty: A Cross-National Test of a Deterrence Hypothesis / Dane Archer, Rosemary Gartner 469

31 The Rehnquist Revolution in Criminal Procedure / Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. 484

32 Structural Variations in Juvenile Court Processing: Inequality, the Underclass, and Social Control / Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub 493

33 Plea Bargaining and its Historical Origins: The Courts, Discretionary Informality and the Transition to Democracy / Mary E. Vogel 511

Part 7 Reimagining criminal justice 527

34 Prevention / Elliott Currie 531

35 The Oxbridge Lecture: What Works at the Millennium / Lynn A. Curtis 539

36 Punishment, Division of Labor, and Social Solidarity / David F. Greenberg 557

37 Alternatives to Prison / Anthony Bottoms 580

Part 8 Governing through crime: coercion or consent? 585

38 Governing Through Crime / Jonathan Simon 589

39 Law, Government and Governmentality / Alan Hunt, Gary Wickham 596

40 Postscript (1994) / Jurgen Habermas 600

41 Law, Legitimation and the Advanced Capitalist State: The Jurisprudence and Social Theory of Jurgen Habermas / Colin Sumner 604

42 The Culture of Control: Social Change and Social Order in Late Modernity / David Garland 609

43 Civil Society and Political Theory / Jean L. Cohen, Andrew Arato 628.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0415382688

9780415382687

0415382696

9780415382694

OCLC:

65400465

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