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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Easy Keeper -- Chapter One. Becoming Easy -- Chapter Two. Being Easy Isn't Easy -- Chapter Three. When Easy Becomes Hard -- Chapter Four. Let's All Be Easy -- Notes -- References -- Index

Politicians, citizens, and police agencies have long embraced community policing, hoping to reduce crime and disorder by strengthening the ties between urban residents and the officers entrusted with their protection. That strategy seems to make sense, but in Citizens, Cops, and Power, Steve Herbert reveals the reasons why it rarely, if ever, works. Drawing on data he collected in diverse Seattle neighborhoods from interviews with residents, observation of police officers, and attendance at community-police meetings, Herbert identifies the many obstacles that make effective collaboration betwe

The number of life-sentenced prisoners in the United States is growing, an increase that deserves ongoing critical consideration. Such consideration is heightened by the fact that many lifers undergo significant personal transformations during their incarceration. This paper uses interviews with 21 life-sentenced prisoners in the state of Washington to document the degree of such transformations. These transformations create compelling questions for theoretical strains in the sociology of punishment that draw upon the seminal work of Durkheim. Further, those transformations deserve greater consideration as the politics and practices of incarceration continue to unfold in the United States.

Flaws in the environmental determinist argument that cyberspace will determine the character of cybersociety & allow democracy to flourish are identified. Cyberspace is controlled through its architecture & use by an elite class of professionals & technologists. The virtual world is far from antispatial, without territory, or boundary-free; its boundaries are reinforced by the actions of states. Existing social agents will continue to mold cyberspace to accomplish their own ends. 74 References. M. Pflum

Suggests that factors for weakening the nation-state and internal security such as globalization, international policing, and private security, are not the case for the US, where police agencies are maintaining a strong presence.