Legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law.
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.
Preface
Acknowledgments
On Lawmaking
p. 3
The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control in Britain and America
p. 36
The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin
p. 65
The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nested Dilemmas
p. 87
Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Israel
p. 109
Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal Law
p. 127
Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case
p. 168
Understanding the Emergence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the State
p. 204
The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986
p. 229
Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political Power
p. 261
State-Organized Crime
p. 290
State-Organized Homicide: A Study of Seven CIA Plans to Assassinate Fidel Castro
p. 315
Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation Process
p. 347
"Other People's Money" Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries
p. 379
Structural Contradictions and the Production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law Revisited
p. 404
Future Directions
p. 423
Contributors
p. 431
Index
p. 434
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