Sources: Notable Selections in Crime, Criminology, and Criminal Justice

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Edition: 1st
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Pub. Date: 2000-11-09
Publisher(s): McGraw-Hill/Dushkin
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Summary

Over 40 selections of enduring intellectual value--book excerpts, research studies, and classic articles, that have shaped the study of criminology and our contemporary understanding of it. Sources provides the opportunity for readers to encounter many of the greatest thinkers in criminology at first hand. The book includes carefully edited selections from the most distinguished observers on crime and criminology, past and present. Dushkin Online (www.dushkin.com/online/) is a student Web site designed to support Sources titles.

Table of Contents

Preface i
PART ONE The Social Requirement for Control 1(48)
Law and Social Order
3(46)
The Limits of the Criminal Sanction
3(18)
Herbert L. Packer
``Long Economic Cycles and the Criminal Justice System in the U.S.,'' Crime, Law and Social Change
21(20)
David E. Barlow
Melissa Hickman Barlow
Theodore G. Chiricos
``Words That Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling,'' Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
41(8)
Richard Delgado
PART TWO Law and Criminality 49(132)
The Historical-Contextual Nature of Crime
51(42)
``The Contextual Nature of American Indian Criminality,'' American Indian Culture Research Journal
51(16)
Donald E. Green
``White Racism, Black Crime, and American Justice: An Application of the Colonial Model to Explain Crime and Race,'' Phylon
67(10)
Robert Staples
The Mythology of Crime and Criminal Justice, 2d ed.
77(16)
Victor E. Kappeler
Mark Blumberg
Gary W. Potter
Criminal Law
93(52)
``Unshackling Black Motherhood,'' Michigan Law Review
93(18)
Dorothy E. Roberts
``Enforcing 'Statutory Rape'?'' The Public Interest
111(11)
Michael W. Lynch
``Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment,'' Social Forces
122(23)
Darnell F. Hawkins
Law and Criminality
145(36)
``Race Effects in Juvenile Justice Decision-Making: Findings of a Statewide Analysis,'' The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
145(20)
Donna M. Bishop
Charles E. Frazier
``Minority and Female: A Criminal Justice Double Bind,'' Social Justice
165(16)
Coramae Richey Mann
PART THREE The Criminal Justice Process 181(204)
Police and Lawlessness
183(34)
``Violations of Human and Civil Rights on the U.S.-Mexico Border, 1995 to 1997: A Report,'' Social Justice
183(20)
Michael Huspek
Roberto Martinez
Leticia Jimenez
``Cultural Diversity Training in Criminal Justice: A Progressive or Conservative Reform?'' Social Justice
203(14)
David E. Barlow
Melissa Hickman Barlow
Courts and Partiality
217(41)
``Racially Based Jury Nullification: Black Power in the Criminal Justice System,'' Yale Law Journal
217(28)
Paul Butler
``Indian Rights and Law Before the Federal District Courts,'' The Social Science Journal
245(13)
Ronald Stidham
Robert A. Carp
Sentencing Disparity
258(25)
``The Impact of Federal Sentencing Reforms on African Americans,'' Journal of Black Studies
258(13)
Marvin D. Free
``Misdemeanor Sentencing Decision: The Cumulative Disadvantage Effect of 'Gringo Justice','' Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences
271(12)
Ed A.Munoz
David A. Lopez
Eric Stewart
Correctional Inequality
283(40)
``The `Dirty Little Secret': Why Class Actions Have Emerged as the Only Viable Option for Women Inmates Attempting to Satisfy the Subjective Prong of the Eighth Amendment in Suits for Custodial Sexual Abuse,'' William and Mary Law Review
283(20)
Amy E. Laderberg
``Justice for All? Offenders With Mental Retardation and the California Corrections System,'' The Prison Journal
303(20)
Joan Petersilia
The Death Penalty
323(62)
``Prosecutorial Discretion in Seeking Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparity in the Pretrial Stages of Case Processing in a Midwestern County,'' Justice Quarterly
323(19)
Jon Sorensen
Donald H. Wallace
```An Apology Does Not Assist the Accused': Foreign Nationals and the Death Penalty in the United States,'' The Justice Professional
342(18)
Margaret Vandiver
``The Wrong Man,'' The Atlantic Monthly
360(25)
Alan Berlow
Acknowledgments 385(2)
Index 387

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