Crime and deviance : essays and innovations of Edwin M. Lemert / edited and with essays by Charles C. Lemert and Michael F. Winter.

Author: Lemert, Edwin M. (Edwin McCarthy), 1912-1996.

Imprint:Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2000.

Descriptionx, 310 p. ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction: Whatever happened to the criminal mind? Edwin Lemert's societal reaction / Charles Lemert -- PART I. FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF SOCIETAL REACTION THEORY: 1. From social pathology to deviance -- 2. Societal reaction, differentiation, and individuation -- 3. The paradigm reaches its limits -- 4. Choice, value, and action: problems in general social theory -- 5. Rules, deviance, and social control theory -- 6. How we got where we are: an informal history of the study of deviance -- PART II. ETHNOGRAPHIES OF THE MARGINAL: 7. Home brew, hoochinoo, and the whiskey feast: Indian drinking -- 8. Fast living, big spending, and life on the edge: the check forger -- 9. You are not one of us: paranoia and exclusion -- 10. Sociologists on the trail of evil -- 11. Alcohol comes to the South Seas -- PART III. JUVENILE JUSTICE, LAW, AND SOCIAL CONTROL: 12. Dilemmas of intervention -- 13. Children and the law in 20th-century America -- 14. Why children should be kept out of court -- 14. Children and the law in Italy -- PART IV. LAW, SOCIETY, AND JURISPRUDENCE: 16. The origins of American sociological jurisprudence -- 17. The changing foundations of sociological jurisprudence -- 18. Jurisprudence, law, and sociology -- 19. Criminalization and historical context -- Afterword: Edwin M. Lemert: an intellectual portrait / Michael F. Winter.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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