Contributor
Bersani, Carl A.
Imprint:[London] : Macmillan, [1970]
Descriptionxiii, 575 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: Crime and victims in a free society / The President's Crime Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice -- SECTION I. INTERCONNECTIONS: NORMATIVE DISSENSUS, SOCIAL CHANGE AND THE CRIMINAL LAW: 1. White-collar criminality / Edwin H. Sutherland - 2. The study of criminal law and social norms / Richard Quinney - 3. A sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy / William J. Chambliss - 4. An illustrative case: the Marihuana Tax Act / Howard S. Becker - 5. Moral passage: the symbolic process in public designations of deviance / Joseph R. Gusfield - 6. Limits of the criminal law as a means of social regulations / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 7. The concepts of tolerance and contraculture as applied to delinquency / Ruth Shonle Cavan SECTION II. INTERCONNECTIONS: POSITIONS WITHIN A DIFFERENTIATED SOCIETY AND FORMS OF CRIMINAL AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR: 8. Deviance and social differentiation / Marshall B. Clinard - 9. Ecology of crime and delinquency / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 10. Crime as an American way of life / Daniel Bell - 11. The subculture of violence / Marvin E. Wolfgang, Franco Ferracuti - 12. Differentiated structures, differential opportunities, and delinquent subcultures / Richard A. Cloward, Lloyd E. Ohlin - 13. White collar crime: the heavy electrical equipment antitrust cases of 1961 / Gilbert Geis - 14. Automobile theft: a "favored-group" delinquency / William W. Wattenberg, James Balistrieri - 15. Socio-economic class and area as correlates of illegal behavior among juveniles / John P. Clark, Eugene P. Wenninger 16. The offense patterns and family structures of urban, village and rural delinquency / Theodore N. Ferdinand - SECTION III. INTERACTION PROCESSES: LINKING THE INDIVIDUAL TO CRIMINAL AND DELINQUENT GROUPS: 17. Social roles: linking individuals to criminal and delinquenct behavior / Richard R. Korn, Lloyd M. McCorkle - 18. The sociology of the deviant act: anomie theory and beyond / Albert K. Cohen - 19. Differential association / Edwin H. Sutherland, Donald R. Cressey - 20. Delinquent drift / David Matza - 21. Family integration and police contact / William R. Larson, Barbara G. Meyerhoff - 22. Social processes in the act of vandalism / Andrew L. Wade - 23. Boy's story: entering and leaving gang life / David Dressler - 24. Professional thief: processes in selection and tutelage / Edwin H. Sutherland - 25. Becoming a marihuana user / Howard S. Becker - SECTION IV. IDENTITIES: SOCIAL LABELING AND SELF-LABELING: 26. The dramatization of evil / Frank Tannenbaum - 27. The concept of secondary deviation / Edwin M. Lemert - 28. Secrecy and presentation of self / Howard S. Becker - 29. Encounters and outcomes: the case of the young shoplifter / Mary Owen Cameron - 30. The function of social definitions and self-definitions in the development of delinquent careers / Carl Werthman - 31. Two studies of legal stigma / Richard D. Schwartz, Jerome H. Skolnick - SECTION V. INSTITUTIONAL ARRANGEMENTS AND COLLECTIVE VIOLENCE: 32. The search for power and participation: youth, negroes, and the poor / Marvin E. Wolfgang - 33. Riots and crime--historical background / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 34. Profiles of disorders / National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders - 35. Institutional arrangements as underlying conditions of race riots / Stanley Lieberson, Arnold R. Silverman - 36. Why a rebellion at Columbia was inevitable / Ellen Kay Trimberger - 37. Violence in the streets: its context and meaning / Joseph D. Lohman - SECTION VI. PROCESSES IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE COURTS: 38. America's system of criminal justice / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 39. The juvenile court in its relationship to adult criminality: a replicated study / Mildred R. Chaitin, H. Warren Dunham - 40. The juvenile court--quest and realities / Edwin M. Lemert - 41. The adversary system / Abraham S. Blumberg - 42. Systems analysis and the criminal justice system / Alfred Blumstein - 43. Recent trends: deviant behavior and social control / David J. Bordua - SECTION VII. TREATMENT: CORRECTIONS AND PREVENTION: 44. Corrections / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 45. The prison as a rehabilitation agency / Donald L. Garrity - 46. The misdemeanant in the correctional system / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - 47. Custody and treatment in juvenile institutions / Mayer N. Zald, David Street - 48. Correctional outcome: an evaluation of 100 reports / Walter C. Bailey - 49. Inter-institutional conflict as a major impediment to delinquency prevention / Walter B. Miller - 50. An evaluation of early identification and intensive treatment programs for predelinquents / Jackson Toby - 51. Experimental treatment: community programs / President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice - Appendix: Recommendations from the report by the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice.
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