Inequality, Crime, and Social Control

ISBN-13: 9780367316259 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 344 str.

George S Bridges;Martha A Myers

Opis

This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal behavior.

Spis treści

PART ONE Introduction, 1 Problems and Prospects in the Study of Inequality, Crime, and Social Control, PART TWO Directions for Theory, 2 The Theoretical Bases for Inequality in Formal Social Control, 3 Modelling the Conflict Perspective of Social Control, 4 Rethinking and Unthinking "Social Control," 5 The Police: Symbolic Capital, Class, and Control, PART THREE Dimensions of Inequality, 6 Ethnicity: The Forgotten Dimension of American Social Control, 7 Gender and Punishment Disparity, 8 Gender, Class, Racism, and Criminal Justice: Against Global and Gender-Centric Theories, For Poststructuralist Perspectives, PART FOUR Linkages Among Forms of Social Control, 9 Labor Markets and the Relationships Among Forms of the Criminal Sanction, 10 Gender, Race, and Social Control: Toward an Understanding of Sex Disparities in Imprisonment, 11 Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930, 12 Double Jeopardy: The Abuse and Punishment of Homeless Youth, PART FIVE Human Agency, 13 Eugenics, Class, and the Professionalization of Social Control, 14 Children in the Therapeutic State: Lessons for the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control, 15 Crime and the Social Control of Blacks: Offender/Victim Race and the Sentencing of Violent Offenders, 16 The Symbolic Punishment of White-Collar Offenders

O autorze

George S Bridges. Martha A Myers