Crime and Disrepute.
In the context of the unique crime problems of the United States, John Hagan advances a new sociology of crime and disrepute that focuses on the criminal costs of social inequality. He connects the diversion of funding away from distressed communities in the USA to increased violence and lack of soc...
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| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks :
SAGE Publications,
1994
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| Series: | Sociology for a new century.
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Table of Contents:
- About the Author; Foreword; Prologue; Chapter 1
- The Changing Face of Crime; An Ambivalent Century of Crime; Defining the Changeable Nature of Crime; Crime on a Continuum; Counting Crime and the Distribution of Disrepute; Crime Changes; Chapter 2
- Classical Theories of Crime and Disrepute; The Structural Functionalist Theories; CASE STUDY Structural Functionalist Theory: Organized Vice and Ethnicity; The Symbolic Interactionist Theories; CASE STUDY Symbolic Interactionist Theory: The Vocational Meaning of Crime; Conflict Theories of Crime and Disrepute
- CASE STUDY Conflict Theory: Ghetto Revolts and the CourtsThe Classical Theories; Chapter 3
- A New Sociology of Crime an d Disrepute; Crime, Change, and the Classical Theories; Perspectives on Inequality; Equality, Efficiency, and Individualism; Social and Cultural Capital; Capital Disinvestment Processes; CASE STUDY An Example: The Results of Capital Disinvestment in North Kenwood; The New Ethnographies of Poverty and Crime; The New Quantitative Studies of Crime, Class, and Community; Capital Disinvestment and Embeddedness in the Criminal Economy of Drugs
- The New Sociology of Crime, Inequality, and DisreputeChapter 4
- White-Collar Crimeina Global Economy; Class, Crime, and the Corporations; CASE STUDY Health Effects of Asbestos in a Canadian Province; CASE STUDY Corporate Homicide and the Ford Motor Company; White-Collar Crime and the Social Organization of Work; CASE STUDY The Fallible Foundations of Trust; CASE STUDY Banking beyond Boundaries and the BCCI Affair; CASE STUDY Explaining ""Watergate""; White-Collar Crime and Legal Sanctions; CASE STUDY The Prosecution and Sentencing of Two Wall Street Criminals; High Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Chapter 5
- Criminal Injustice in AmericaIntroduction; The Multiple Meanings of Criminal Justice; The Social Organization of Criminal Justice; Reactive and Proactive Policing; Policing Minority Communities; Prosecuting Minority Crime; The Prosecutorial Politics of Drug Law Enforcement; CASE STUDY The Vilification of a Black Big Dealer; The New Penology and the Expanded Use of Imprisonment; CASE STUDY Comparing Imprisonment in the United States and Germany; Doing Justice by Reallocating Resources; Doing Justice by Reallocating Resources; Epilogue; Bibliography; Glossary/Index
