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Inequality, Crime, and Social Control

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ISBN-10: 0813320054

ISBN-13: 9780813320052

Edition: 1994 (Revised)

Authors: George S. Bridges, Martha A. Myers

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List price: $56.95
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 4/19/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 330
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

George S. Bridges is the President of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. He has served as a staff member of the policy office of the Attorney General of the United States as well as deputy editor of Criminology. He has been a member of the Washington State Minority and Justice Commission. He has published many papers on racial biases in American law and is co-editor, with Martha Myers, of Crime, Inequality, and Social Control.

List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Problems and Prospects in the Study of Inequality Crime, and Social Control
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
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
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
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
References
About the Book
About the Editors and Contributors
Index