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

by Baker, David V.; Davin, Richard P.

• ISBN13: 9780072388800
• ISBN10: 0072388803
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-11-09
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

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