Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-9817-2 • Paperback • August 2000 • $62.00 • (£48.00)
Charles C. Lemert is professor of sociology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. A prolific writer, he is the author of many books of note including, most recently, Social Things: An Introduction to Sociological Life.
Michael F. Winter is currently behavioral sciences librarian at Shields Library, University of California, Davis. He is author of The Culture and Control of Expertise: Towards a Sociological Understanding of
Librarianship (1988), and a number of articles in social theory and librarianship. His current interest is in the study of social control of knowledge and its dissemination.
Chapter 1 Crime and Deviance
Part 2 Foundation and Evolution of Societal Reaction Theory
Chapter 3 The Paradigm Emerges: From Social Pathology to Deviance
Chapter 4 The Paradigm Forms: Societal Reaction, Differentiation, and Individuation
Chapter 5 Majesty in Decay: The Paradigm Reaches Its Limits
Chapter 6 Choice, Value, and Action: Social Problems and General Social Theory
Chapter 7 Labeling: Some Persistent Problems
Chapter 8 Family Resemblances and Sibling Rivalries: An Informal History of the Study of Deviance
Part 9 Ethnographies of the Marginal: Empirical Studies of Deviance and Social Problems
Chapter 10 Home Brew, Hoochinoo, and the Whiskey Feast: Indian Drinking in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 11 Fast Living, Big Spending, and Life on the Edge: The Life of the Check Forger
Chapter 12 You Are Not One of Us: Constructing Abnormality in Social Interaction
Chapter 13 Sociologists on the Trail of Evil
Chapter 14 Alcohol Comes to the South Seas
Part 15 Juvenile Justice, Law, and Social Control
Chapter 16 Dilemmas of Intervention
Chapter 17 Children and the Law in 20th Century of America
Chapter 18 Why Children Should be Kept out of Court
Chapter 19 Children and the Law in Italy
Part 20 Papers on Law, Society and Jurisprudence
Chapter 21 The Origins of American Sociological Jurisprudence
Chapter 22 The Changing Foundations of Sociological Jurisprudence
Chapter 23 Jurisprudence, Law, and Sociology
Chapter 24 Criminalization and Historical Context: Theory of Heuristic Method?
Chapter 25 Afterword
This book is a testimony to one of the most original thinkers in 20th century criminology. It is must reading for students and scholars alike. From the introduction by Charles Lemert, Ed Lemert's nephew, to the conclusion by Michael Winter, the book is loaded with insights and a unique perspective on crime and deviance.
— William Chambliss, George Washington University
Edwin M. Lemert was the founder of the societal reaction theory of deviant behavior and, as such, was the most important person in the development of what we know as labeling theory. This book contains some of Edwin Lemert's best known publications, works published in obscure places, and seven previously unpublished papers.
— Contemporary Sociology
Ed Lemert was an important figure in sociological theory and in the study of crime. This book provides an excellant overview of his work.
— Thomas J. Scheff, University of California, Santa Barbara