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Ethnographies of law and social control

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Ethnographies of law and social control/ edited by Stacy Lee Burns.
其他作者:	Burns, Stacy Lee.
出版者:	Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI, : 2005.,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (vii, 224 p.)
標題:	Crime prevention. -
電子資源:	http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1521-6136/6
ISBN:	9780857240538 (electronic bk.)

Ethnographies of law and social control
Ethnographies of law and social control[electronic resource] /edited by Stacy Lee Burns. - Amsterdam ;Elsevier JAI,2005. - 1 online resource (vii, 224 p.) - Sociology of crime, law, and deviance,v. 61521-6136 ;. - Sociology of crime, law, and deviance ;v. 3..

Includes bibliographical references.

This volume brings together distinguished scholars and cutting-edge experts in the fields of ethnography, law, and social control to present a comprehensive, insightful, and state-of-the-art overview of the everyday work and activities of legal and social control professionals, functionaries,and participants. The chapters in the collection bring to the foreground the distinctive contributions that ethnographic and ethnomethodologically-informed studies have to offer research on law and social control from theoretical, methodological, and substantive viewpoints.The discussions address ausefully broad and timely variety of themes, including management of the media by prosecutors in the famous Mike Tyson rape case; celebrity stalking and its social control; community protection strategies and legislation for high-risk sex offenders; probation officers' use of technology to "monitor" domestic violence offenders; how contemporary immigration rules-in-practice impact the immigrationstatus of skilled professionals; bureaucratic decision-making by federal housing officers; police methods of interrogating suspects throughan interpreter; how juvenile courts respond to troublesome youths; Self-change treatment programs for violent offenders in prison; and, how jail inmates construct parenthood behind bars. The collection emphasizesthe need to consider the organizationally and institutionally specificfeatures and competencies that comprise the legal and social control work under investigation and allows for a deeper appreciation of the practical terms through which people involved in this work make their activities meaningful, carry out their tasks, and organize their interactions.

ISBN: 9780857240538 (electronic bk.)Subjects--Topical Terms:

564281
Crime prevention.

LC Class. No.: HM291 / .E86 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 364.4

Universal Decimal Class. No.: 343.9

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