Making Law - William J. Chambliss

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Auteur(s) : William J. Chambliss - Marjorie S. Zatz

Editeur : Indiana Univ Pr

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/1993

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 464

Expédition : 649

Dimensions : 23.3 x 15.7 x 2.8

ISBN : 0253208343

Résumé :
In this book, legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law.

Biographie:

WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author of On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents; Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman); Organizing Crime (with Alan Block); Exploring Criminology; and more than a dozen other books in the sociology of law, sociological theory, and criminology. MARJORIE S. ZATZ is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University and author of Robes and Sandals: Producing Legality in Revolutionary Cuba.

Sommaire:
Preface: Marjorie S. Zatz
AcknowledgmentsPART I. Structural Contradictions1. On Lawmaking
William J. Chambliss2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control
William J. Chambliss3. The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin
William J. Chambliss4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest Dilemmas
Raymond J. Michalowski5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Isreal
Ephraim TaboryPART II. Ideology6. Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal Law
Marjorie S. Zatz and James H. McDonald7. Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case
Kitty Calavita8. Understanding the Emrgence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the State
Nancy A. Wonders and Frederic I. SolopPART III. Conflicts and Dilemmas9. The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
Kitty Calavita10. Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power
J. Allen Whitt11. State-Organized Crime
William J. Chambliss12. State-Organized Homicide: A study of Seven CIP Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro
Mark S. HammPART IV. Strategies and Triggering Events13. Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation Process
Edmund F. Mcarrell and Thomas C. Catellano14. Other People's Money Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries15. Structural Contradictions and th production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law Revisited
Ryken GrattetPART V. Conclusions16. Future Diretions
Marjorie S. Zatz and William J. ChamblissContributors
Index