George S Bridges, Martha A Myers

Inequality, Crime, And Social Control

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study of recent advances in theory and research on the relationship between social inequality and the control of criminal behaviour. The contributors explore 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: 28. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 650g
• ISBN-13: 9780367316259
• ISBN-10: 0367316250
• Artikelnr.: 57732981

Autorenporträt

George S Bridges

Inhaltsangabe

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