NCJ Number
180783
Editor(s)
Jeffery T. Ulmer
Date Published
1998
Length
296 pages
Annotation
These 10 papers present theoretical and empirical analyses of the sociology of crime, law, and deviance and include studies on the causes of different forms of crime and delinquency, on sentencing and correctional reform, dispute resolution, and other topics.
Abstract
Individual papers examine interactions between gender and departures from the United States Sentencing Guidelines in terms of their effect on the sentencing of white-collar offenders and relationships between unemployment, the availability of low-skills jobs, and homicide and theft in 26 countries. Additional papers test an integrative predictive model related to shoplifting causes, critically examine theoretical and policy-oriented discourse on sentencing and correctional reform, and examine sexism and sexual harassment among corrections officers. Further papers examine the processes by which Oregon voted to repeal a ban on assisted suicide, uses five themes from four Eastern European pioneers in the sociology of law to state a formal theoretical and methodological framework for this topic, and examine dispute resolution through administrative hearings in a work incentive program. Other papers develop a new theory of drug abuse as opposed to drug use and present the findings of an exploratory study of gender differences in the consequences of adolescent alcohol use. Tables, figures, and chapter notes and reference lists