Research Catalog

Title

Inequality, crime, and social control / edited by George S. Bridges and Martha A. Myers.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bridges, George S.
• Myers, Martha A.

Description

xi, 330 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

Papers presented at the meeting held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in April, 1992.

Series Statement

Crime & society

Uniform Title

Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)

Alternative Title

Inequality, crime & social control.

Subject

• Social control > Congresses
• Crime > Congresses
• Equality > Congresses
• Crime
• Equality
• Social control
• Kriminalität
• Soziale Kontrolle
• Soziale Ungleichheit
• Kongress
• Criminaliteit
• Ongelijkheid
• Sociale controle
• USA
• USA

Genre/Form

• Congress
• Conference papers and proceedings.
• Actes de congrès.

Note

• Cover title: Inequality, crime & social control.
• Papers presented at the meeting held at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education in April, 1992.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-322) and index.

Contents

• 1. Problems and Prospects in the Study of Inequality Crime, and Social Control / George S. Bridges and Martha A. Myers -- 2. The Theoretical Bases for Inequality in Formal Social Control / Charles R. Tittle -- 3. Modeling the Conflict Perspective of Social Control / Allen E. Liska -- 4. Rethinking and Unthinking "Social Control," / Anthony M. Platt -- 5. The Police: Symbolic Capital, Class, and Control / Peter K. Manning -- 6. Ethnicity: The Forgotten Dimension of American Social Control / Darnell F. Hawkins -- 7. Gender and Punishment Disparity / Kathleen Daly -- 8. Gender, Class, Racism, and Criminal Justice: Against Global and Gender-Centric Theories, For Poststructuralist Perspectives / Pat Carlen -- 9. Labor Markets and the Relationships Among Forms of the Criminal Sanction / James Inverarity -- 10. Gender, Race, and Social Control: Toward an Understanding of Sex Disparities in Imprisonment / George S. Bridges and Gina Beretta.
• 11. Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930 / Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck -- 12. Double Jeopardy: The Abuse and Punishment of Homeless Youth / John Hagan and Bill McCarthy -- 13. Eugenics, Class, and the Professionalization of Social Control / Nicole Hahn Rafter -- 14. Children in the Therapeutic State: Lessons for the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control / John R. Sutton -- 15. Crime and the Social Control of Blacks: Offender/Victim Race and the Sentencing of Violent Offenders / Cassia Spohn -- 16. The Symbolic Punishment of White-Collar Offenders / Celesta A. Albonetti.

ISBN

• 0813320046
• 9780813320045
• 0813320054
• 9780813320052

LCCN

93038208

OCLC

• ocm29223527
• 29223527
• SCSB-9063616

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library