Inequality, Crime, and Social Control

Abstract

Introduction - problems and prospects in the study of inequality, crime, and George S. Bridges and Martha A. Myers. Part 1 Directions for theory: the theoretical bases for inequality in formal Charles R. Tittle modelling the conflict perspective of Allen E. Liska rethinking and unthinking social control, Anthony M. Platt the police - symbolic capital, class and Peter K. Manning. Part 2 Dimensions of inequality: ethnicity - the forgotten dimension of American Darnell F. Hawkings gender and punishment disparity, Kathleen Daly gender, class, racism and criminal justice - against global and gender-centric theories for poststructuralist perspectives, Pat Carlen. Part 3 Linkages among forms of control: labour markets and the relationships among forms of the criminal sanction, James Inverarity gender, race and control - toward an understanding of sex differences in imprisonment, G.S. Bridges and Gina Beretta lethal control in the South - lynchings and executions between 1880 and 1930, Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck double jeopardy - the abuse and punishment of homeless youth, John Hagan and Bill McCarthy. Part 4 Human agency: eugenics, class, and professionalization of Nicole Hahn Rafter children in the therapeutic state - lessons for the sociology of deviance and John R. Sutton crime and the control of Blacks - offender/victim race and the sentencing of violent offenders, Cassia Cpehn and Celesta A. Albonetti.

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