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This is a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and social control professionals, functionaries, and participants, highlighting the distinctive contributions that ethnographic and ethnomethodologically-informed studies have to offer research on law and social control.
List of contents
List Of Contributors. Introduction To Ethnographies Of Law And Social Control. (S.L. Burns). Part I: Social Control of Interpersonal "Offenses" and "Offenders". Threat Management: Moral and Actual Entrepreneurship in the Control of Celebrity Stalking. (K.O. Ferris). Red Flags and Trigger Control: The Role of Human Supervision in an Electronic Monitoring Program. (P.R. Ibarra). Dangerousness and its Discontents: A Discourse on the Socio-Politics of Dangerousness. (M. Petrunik). Part II: Social Control in Official Bureaucracies and Total Institutions. Biases Forged Through Suspicion: The Gatekeeper in Public Housing Reconsidered. (R. Garot). Coercing Change: How Institutions Induce Correction in the Culture of Self-Change. (K.J. Fox). Mothers In Jail: Gender, Social Control, and the Construction of Parenthood Behind Bars. (V. Jensen, J. DuDeck-Biondo). Part III: Social Control by Legal Professionals and Functionaries. Prosecuting Mike Tyson: Boxing with the Media. (J.A. Modisett, Judge D.J. Dreyer). Aliens of Extraordinary Ability, Aliens of Extraordinary Vulnerability: Skilled Professionals and Contingent Status in American Immigration Law. (J.S.W. Park). Punishing To Protect? Balancing Punishment And Future Welfare In The Juvenile Court. (A. Kupchik). Understanding Problems in an Interpreter-Mediated Police Interrogation. (M. Komter).
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This is a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and social control professionals, functionaries, and participants, highlighting the distinctive contributions that ethnographic and ethnomethodologically-informed studies have to offer research on law and social control.
