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

Autor William J. Chambliss, Marjorie S. Zatz
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 1993
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253208347
ISBN-10: 0253208343
Pagini: 464
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press
Locul publicării:United States

Cuprins

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

Notă biografică

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.