George S Bridges, Martha A Myers

Inequality, Crime, And Social Control

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together the most recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal behavior, exploring the ways in which social class, race, gender, and age shape societal and organizational responses to crime.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780813320052
• ISBN-10: 0813320054
• Artikelnr.: 20965769

Autorenporträt

George S Bridges

Inhaltsangabe

Crime & Society
Preface
Introduction
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Inequality, Crime, and Social Control
Directions for Theory
The Theoretical Bases for Inequality in Formal Social Control
Modeling the Conflict Perspective of Social Control
Rethinking and Unthinking "Social Control"
The Police: Symbolic Capital, Class, and Control
Dimensions of Inequality
Ethnicity: The Forgotten Dimension of American Social Control
Gender and Punishment Disparity
Gender, Class, Racism, and Criminal Justice: Against Global and Gender
Centric Theories, For Poststructuralist Perspectives
Linkages Among Forms of Social Control
Labor Markets and the Relationships Among Forms of the Criminal Sanction
Gender, Race, and Social Control: Toward an Understanding of Sex Disparities in Imprisonment
Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930
Double Jeopardy: The Abuse and Punishment of Homeless Youth
Human Agency
Eugenics, Class, and the Professionalization of Social Control
Children in the Therapeutic State: Lessons for the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control
Crime and the Social Control of Blacks: Offender/Victim Race and the Sentencing of Violent Offenders
The Symbolic Punishment of White
Collar Offenders
About the Book
About the Editors and Contributors