, LAW AND READING LIST FALL 2015

LAW IN SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY

Durkheim, Emile. 1965. “On the Normality of Crime.” Pp. 872-875 in Theories of Society: Foundations of Modern Sociological Theory, Talcott Parsons et al. (eds.). New York: Free Press of Glencoe.

Durkheim, Emile. 1984 [1933]. Sections I and II of “Mechanical Solidarity, or Solidarity by Similarities,” and Sections I, II, and III “Solidarity Arising from the Division of Labor, or Organic Solidarity,” pp 31-52 and pp. 68-83 in The Division of Labor in Society. New York: Free Press.

Marx, Karl. 1978 [1846]. “The German Ideology,” in The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition (Tucker, ed). New York: W.W. Norton and Company.

Weber, Max. 1954 [1925]. “Rational and Irrational Administration of Justice.” Pp. 349-356 Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society, edited and annotated by Max Rheinstein, translated by Edward Shils and Max Rheinstein. New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster.

Weber, Max. 1954 [1925]. “Formal and Substantive Rationalization in the Law (Sacred Law)” Pp. 224-255 in Max Weber on Law in Economy and Society, edited and annotated by Max Rheinstein, translated by Edward Shils and Max Rheinstein. New York: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster.

Weber, Max. 1923 [1978]. “Legitimate Order,” “Types of Legitimate Order: Convention and Law,” “Bases of Legitimacy: Tradition, Faith, Enactment,” pp. 31-38 (in vol. 1) of Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive (Roth and Wittich, eds). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

THE STRUCTURE OF THE LEGAL SYSTEM

Black, Donald J. 1973. “The Mobilization of Law.” Journal of Legal Studies 2(1):125-149.

Folger, Robert, Blair H. Sheppard, and Robert T. Buttram. 1995. “Equity, Equality and Need: Three Faces of Social Justice.” Pp. 261-289 in Conflict, Cooperation and Justice: Essays Inspired by the Work of Morton Deutch, edited by Barbara Benedict Bunker, Jeffrey Rubin, and Associates. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Galanter, Marc. 1974. “Why the ‘Haves’ Come Out Ahead: Speculations on the Limits of Legal Change.” Law & Society Review 9(1):95-160.

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MacCoun, Robert J. 2005. “Voice, Control and Belonging: The Double-Edged Sword of Procedural Fairness.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:171-201.

Sandefur, Rebecca L. 2008. “Access to Civil Justice and Race, Class and Gender Inequality.” Annual Review of Sociology 34:339-58.

DISPUTING

Felstiner, William, Richard L. Abel, and Austin Sarat. 1980-81. “The Emergence of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming. . .” Law & Society Review 15:631-654.

Engel, David M. 1984. “The Oven Bird's Song: Insiders, Outsiders, and Personal Injuries in an American Community.” Law & Society Review 18:551-582.

Mather, Lynn, and Barbara Yngvesson. 1981. “Language, Audience, and the Transformation of Disputes.” Law & Society Review 15:775-782.

Silbey, Susan S. 2005. "After Legal Consciousness." Annual Review of Law and Social Sciences 1:323-68.

Zemans, Frances K. 1983. “Legal Mobilization: The Neglected Role of Law in the Political System.” American Political Science Review 77(3): 690

LAW AND ORGANIZATIONS

Edelman, Lauren. 1992. “Legal Ambiguity and Symbolic Structures: Organizational Mediation of Civil Rights Law.” American Journal of Sociology 97(6): 1531-1576.

Edelman, L. B., Uggen, C., & Erlanger, H. S. 1999. “The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth.” American Journal of Sociology, 105(2): 406-454.

Edelman, Lauren and Mark Suchman. 1997. “The Legal Environments of Organizations.” Annual Review of Sociology 23:479-515.

Edelman, Lauren B. 1990. Legal Environments and Organizational Governance: The Expansion of Due Process Rights in the American Workplace.” American Journal of Sociology 95:1401-1440.

2 PUNISHMENT AND SOCIAL CONTROL

Black, Donald J. 1983. “Crime as Social Control.” American Sociological Review 48(1): 34-45.

Foucault, Michel. 1977. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage.

Foucault, Michel and François Ewald. 2003. “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-1976. Macmillan.

Garland, David. 2001. The Culture of Control : Crime and Social Order in Contemporary Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Simon, Jonathan. 2009. Governing through Crime : How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. New York: Oxford University Press.

Unnever, James D. and Francis T. Cullen. 2010. “Social Sources of Americans’ Punitiveness: A Test of Three Competing Models.” Criminology 48(1):99.

Western, Bruce. 2006. Punishment and Inequality in America. New York: Russell Sage.

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Beckett, K. and T. Sasson. 2003. The Politics of Injustice: Crime and Punishment in America. Sage Publications, Incorporated.

Bobo, Lawrence and Victor Thompson. 2006. “Unfair by Design; The War on Drugs, Race and the Legitimacy of the Criminal Justice System.” 73(2):445–72.

Bobo, Lawrence D. and Devon Johnson. 2004. “A Taste for Punishment: Black and White Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty and the War on Drugs.” Du Bois Review 1(1):151- 180.

Darley, John M., Kevin M. Carlsmith, and Paul H. Robinson. 2001. “The Ex Ante Function of the Criminal Law.” Law & Society Review 35:165-190.

Goffman, Alice. 2009. “On the Run: Wanted Men in a Philadelphia Ghetto.” American Sociological Review 74(3):339–57.

Greenberg, David F., Ronald C. Kessler, and Colin Loftin. 1985. “Social Inequality and Crime Control.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1985): 684–704.

3 POLICING

Black, Donald J. 1999. “Dispute Settlement by the Police,” pp. 61-95 in The Social Organization of Law, (2nd edition), edited by M.L. Baumgartner. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.

Hall, Stuart, Chas Critcher, Tony Jefferson, John Clarke, and Brian Roberts. 2013. Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order. Palgrave Macmillan.

Leo, Richard A. 2008. Police Interrogation and American Justice. Harvard University Press.

Manning, Peter K. 1978. “The Police: Mandate, Strategies, Appearance.” Pp. 7-31 in Policing: A View from the Streets, edited by Peter K. Manning and John Van Maanen.

Webster, John A. 1978. “Police Task and Time Study.” Pp. 105-114 in Policing.

Van Maanen, John. 1978. “The Asshole.” Pp. 221-238 in Policing.

MASS INCARCERATION

Alexander, Michelle. 2010. The New Jim Crow : Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. New York: New Press.

Gottschalk, Marie. 2006. The Prison and the Gallows: The Politics of Mass Incarceration in America. New York: Cambridge University Press.

Western, B. and B. Pettit. 2010. “Incarceration & Social Inequality.” Daedalus 139(3):8–19.

Western, B. and B. Pettit. 2002. “Beyond Crime and Punishment: Prisons and Inequality.” Contexts 1(3):37–43.

Western, Bruce and Christopher Wildeman. 2009. “The Black Family and Mass Incarceration.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 621(1):221–42.

RACE, CLASS, AND CRIME

Beckett, K., K. Nyrop, and L. Pfingst. 2006. “Race, Drugs, And Policing: Understanding Disparities In Drug Delivery Arrests.” Criminology 44(1):105–37.

Braithwaite, John. 1981. “The Myth of Social Class and Criminality Reconsidered.” American Sociological Review 46(1): 36–57.

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Morenoff, Jeffrey D., Robert J. Sampson, and Stephen W. Raudenbush. "Neighborhood Inequality, Collective Efficacy, And The Spatial Dynamics Of Urban Violence." Criminology 39: 517.

Pettit, B. and B. Western. 2004. “Mass Imprisonment and the Life Course: Race and Class Inequality in US Incarceration.” American Sociological Review 69(2):151–69.

Rios, Victor. 2011. Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys. New York: NYU Press

Sampson, Robert J., and W. Byron Groves. "Community Structure And Crime: Testing Social- Disorganization Theory." American Journal of Sociology 94(4): 774-802.

Sampson, Robert J., and Janet L. Lauritsen. "Racial And Ethnic Disparities In Crime And Criminal Justice In The United States." Crime and Justice 21: 311-374.

POST-INCARCERATION

Pager, Devah. 2003. “The Mark of a Criminal Record.” American Journal of Sociology 108(5):937–75.

Manza, Jeff and Christopher Uggen. 2006. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. Oxford University Press, USA.

Western, B. and B. Pettit. 2000. “Incarceration and Racial Inequality in Men’s Employment.” Industrial and Labor Relations Review 54(1): 3–16.

ALTERNATIVES TO PRISON

Braithwaite, John. Crime, and Reintegration. Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Davis, Angela Yvonne. 2003. Are Prisons Obsolete? Seven Stories Press.

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