Inequality, crime, and social control

Introduction - problems and prospects in the study of inequality, crime, and social control, George S. Bridges and Martha A. Myers. Part 1 Directions for theory: the theoretical bases for inequality in formal social control, Charles R. Tittle modelling the conflict perspective of social control, Allen E. Liska rethinking and unthinking "social control", Anthony M. Platt the police - symbolic capital, class and control, Peter K. Manning. Part 2 Dimensions of inequality: ethnicity - the forgotten dimension of American social control, Darnell F. Hawkings gender and punishment disparity, Kathleen Daly gender, class, racism and criminal justice - against global and gender-centric theories for poststructuralist perspectives, Pat Carlen. Part 3 Linkages among forms of social control: labour markets and the relationships among forms of the criminal sanction, James Inverarity gender, race and social control - toward an understanding of sex differences in imprisonment, G.S. Bridges and Gina Beretta lethal social control in the South - lynchings and executions between 1880 and 1930, Stewart E. Tolnay and E.M. Beck double jeopardy - the abuse and punishment of homeless youth, John Hagan and Bill McCarthy. Part 4 Human agency: eugenics, class, and professionalization of social control, Nicole Hahn Rafter children in the therapeutic state - lessons for the sociology of deviance and social control, John R. Sutton crime and the social control of Blacks - offender/victim race and the sentencing of violent offenders, Cassia Cpehn and Celesta A. Albonetti.