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States Still Leading the Way
The death penalty has largely disappeared as a national legislative issue and the Supreme Court has mainly bowed out, leaving the states at the cuttin...
Controversies in the Social Sciences
A Most Human Enterprise looks at controversial social science research methods and their effects on subjects and researchers. In detailing case studie...
The Case of Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee
This book is a biography of the husband and wife team that is largely responsible for developing social problems and social deviance as areas of resea...
Pioneering Feminist, Pacifist Sociologist
This book is an intellectual history of the late Mabel Agnes Elliott (1898-1990). Despite being disregarded by her male colleagues, she became a produ...
Alfred Lindesmith as a Public Intellectual
Examines the career of sociologist Alfred R. Lindesmith, who argued against drug prohibitions from the 1930s onward, warning of the threat to democrac...
Edwin Sutherland is the acknowledged father of American criminology. This is the first full-length analysis of his work and his person. Unlike the Eur...
Punishment, Boundary Maintenance, and the Creation of Crime
Is Iceland, universally perceived as a peaceful, idyllic nation, being threatened by an inevitable flood of crime as it enters the global community? I...
Berkeley Sociologist, Teacher, and Civil Rights Activist
This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster. Troy Duster received an MA and PhD in sociology from No...
Human Rights, Criminal Law, and Crime
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Prophet of Homosexuality and Sociology
Laud Humphreys (1930–1988) was a pioneering and fearless sociologist, an Episcopal priest, and a civil rights, gay, and antiwar activist. In graduat...
Moral Panic during the McCarthy Years
This is a study of a progressive law firm and its three partners. The firm was founded in 1936 and existed until the death of one partner in 1965. The...
A broad collection of readings on contemporary social issues that involve deviant behavior and human rights abuses....
Moral Panic During the McCarthy Years
Discussion of the political troubles progressive lawyers encountered during the McCarthy era, focusing on the San Francisco law firm Gladstein, Anders...
Power, Crime, and Criminal Law
The Case of Nevada
Understanding Protestant Perspectives
This text focuses on the morals legislation in Nevada. The state of Nevada has made gambling legal, fostered quick marriages and divorces, and in the ...