Crime and Deviance Essays and Innovations of Edwin M. Lemert

by Lemert, Edwin M.; Lemert, Charles C.; Winter, Michael F.

• ISBN13: 9780847698172
• ISBN10: 0847698173
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Crime and Deviance brings together the important essays and previously unpublished writings of Edwin M. Lemert. It is virtually impossible to discuss crime and lesser forms of social deviance without using language Lemert introduced into scientific and popular vocabularies. Crime and Deviance presents for the first time an important body of Professor Lemert's unpublished work. It thus allows rare insight into his constantly changing thought, which is as fresh today as ever.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction Whatever Happened to the Criminal? Edwin Lemert's Societal Reaction	1	(18)
Charles Lemert
Part I Formation and Evolution of Societal Reaction Theory
From Social Pathology to Deviance	19	(7)
Societal Reaction, Differentiation, and Individuation	26	(15)
The Paradigm Reaches Its Limits	41	(14)
Choice, Value, and Action: Problems in General Social Theory	55	(6)
Rules, Deviance, and Social Control Theory	61	(5)
How We Got Where We Are: An Informal History of the Study of Deviance	66	(11)
Part II Ethnographies of the Marginal
Home Brew, Hoochinoo, and the Whiskey Feast: Indian Drinking	77	(16)
Fast Living, Big Spending, and Life on the Edge: The Check Forger	93	(11)
You Are Not One of Us: Paranoia and Exclusion	104	(18)
Sociologists on the Trail of Evil	122	(16)
Alcohol Comes to the South Seas	138	(23)
Part III Juvenile Justice, Law, and Social Control
Dilemmas of Intervention	161	(15)
Children and the Law in Twentieth-Century America	176	(22)
Why Children Should Be Kept Out of Court	198	(19)
Children and the Law in Italy	217	(8)
Part IV Law, Society, and Jurisprudence
The Origins of American Sociological Jurisprudence	225	(12)
The Changing Foundations of Sociological Jurisprudence	237	(9)
Jurisprudence, Law, and Sociology	246	(17)
Criminalization and Historical Context	263	(10)
Afterword Edwin M. Lemert: An Intellectual Portrait	273	(22)
Michael F. Winter
Index	295	(14)
About the Author	309	(1)
About the Editors	310