Making Law - The State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions

Informationen zum Autor WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author of On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents; Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman); Organizing Crime (with Alan Block); Exploring Criminology; and more than a dozen other books in the sociology of law, sociological theory, and criminology. MARJORIE S. ZATZ is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University and author of Robes and Sandals: Producing Legality in Revolutionary Cuba. Klappentext In this book, legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law. Zusammenfassung Constructs a general theory of lawmaking that focuses on the question of why laws are enacted. This work brings together legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists to develop and refine a structural theory of law. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface: Marjorie S. Zatz AcknowledgmentsPART I. Structural Contradictions1. On Lawmaking William J. Chambliss2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control William J. Chambliss3. The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin William J. Chambliss4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest Dilemmas Raymond J. Michalowski5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Isreal Ephraim TaboryPART II. Ideology6. Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal Law Marjorie S. Zatz and James H. McDonald7. Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case Kitty Calavita8. Understanding the Emrgence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the State Nancy A. Wonders and Frederic I. SolopPART III. Conflicts and Dilemmas9. The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 Kitty Calavita10. Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power J. Allen Whitt11. State-Organized Crime William J. Chambliss12. State-Organized Homicide: A study of Seven CIP Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro Mark S. HammPART IV. Strategies and Triggering Events13. Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation Process Edmund F. Mcarrell and Thomas C. Catellano14. Other People's Money Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries15. Structural Contradictions and th production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law Revisited Ryken GrattetPART V. Conclusions16. Future Diretions Marjorie S. Zatz and William J. ChamblissContributors Index...

List of contents

Preface: Marjorie S. Zatz

Acknowledgments

PART I. Structural Contradictions

1. On Lawmaking

William J. Chambliss

2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control

William J. Chambliss

3. The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin

William J. Chambliss

4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest Dilemmas

Raymond J. Michalowski

5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Isreal

Ephraim Tabory

PART II. Ideology

6. Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal Law

Marjorie S. Zatz and James H. McDonald

7. Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case

Kitty Calavita

8. Understanding the Emrgence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the State

Nancy A. Wonders and Frederic I. Solop

PART III. Conflicts and Dilemmas

9. The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986

Kitty Calavita

10. Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power

J. Allen Whitt

11. State-Organized Crime

William J. Chambliss

12. State-Organized Homicide: A study of Seven CIP Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro

Mark S. Hamm

PART IV. Strategies and Triggering Events

13. Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation Process

Edmund F. Mcarrell and Thomas C. Catellano

14. Other People's Money Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries

15. Structural Contradictions and th production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law Revisited

Ryken Grattet

PART V. Conclusions

16. Future Diretions

Marjorie S. Zatz and William J. Chambliss

Contributors

Index

About the author

WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author of On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents; Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman); Organizing Crime (with Alan Block); Exploring Criminology; and more than a dozen other books in the sociology of law, sociological theory, and criminology. MARJORIE S. ZATZ is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University and author of Robes and Sandals: Producing Legality in Revolutionary Cuba.

Product details

• Authors: William J. Zatz Chambliss
• Assisted by: William J. Chambliss (Editor), Marjorie S. Zatz (Editor)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.11.1993
• EAN: 9780253208347
• ISBN: 978-0-253-20834-7
• No. of pages: 464
• Series: African Systems of Thought
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law