Inequality, Crime, and Social Control

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Part One: Introduction -- Chapter 1: Problems and Prospects in the Study of Inequality, Crime, and Social Control -- Part Two: Directions for Theory -- Chapter 2: The Theoretical Bases for Inequality in Formal Social Control -- Chapter 3: Modeling the Conflict Perspective of Social Control -- Chapter 4: Rethinking and Unthinking "Social Control -- Chapter 5: The Police: Symbolic Capital, Class, and Control -- Part Three: Dimensions of Inequality -- Chapter 6: Ethnicity: The Forgotten Dimension of American Social -- Chapter 7: Gender and Punishment Disparity -- Chapter 8: Gender, Class, Racism, and Criminal Justice: Against Global and Gender-Centric Theories, For Poststructuralist Perspectives -- Part Four: Linkages Among Forms of Social Control -- Chapter 9: Labor Markets and the Relationships Among Forms of the Criminal Sanction -- Chapter 10: Gender, Race, and Social Control: Toward an Understanding of Sex Disparities in Imprisonment -- Chapter 11: Lethal Social Control in the South: Lynchings and Executions Between 1880 and 1930 -- Chapter 12: Double Jeopardy: The Abuse and Punishment of Homeless Youth -- Part Five: Human Agency -- Chapter 13: Eugenics, Class, and the Professionalization of Social Control -- Chapter 14: Children in the Therapeutic State: Lessons for the Sociology of Deviance and Social Control -- Chapter 15: Crime and the Social Control of Blacks: Offender/Victim Race and the Sentencing of Violent Offenders -- Chapter 16: The Symbolic Punishment of White-Collar Offenders -- References -- About the Book -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Index