The Study of Deviant Behavior: Where the Action Is

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50803/1/18.pd

Sociology

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50807/1/22.pd

Some Sociological Issues about American Communities

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50802/1/17.pd

Compliance Without Coercion

A Review of Environment and Enforcement: Regulation and the Social Definition of Pollution by Keith Hawkin

Culp: Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry

A Review of Discretionary Justice: A Preliminary Inquiry by Kenneth Culp Davi

The Role of the Police in a Changing Society

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50799/1/14.pd

How Serious is Serious Crime?

This Article examines the information systems that are available to the American public. Part H of the Article discusses crime information sources and limitations arising from their excessive dependence upon the same sources of information. Parts III and IV of the Article focus on the information and methods that American society depends upon to determine the amount and seriousness of serious crime. These parts of the Article criticize society\u27s present modes of crime assessment by evaluating public perceptions of crime under several standards for determining the amount of harm that results from different criminal acts. In part V, the Article examines traditional perceptions about offenders and their pat-terns of offending and suggests that group and juvenile offenses are more prevalent and more serious than the public and the government consider them to be. Finally, the Article concludes in part VI that the crime reporting system has paid insufficient attention to juvenile offenders and to crimes of violence against property. This part concludes that the shortcomings of inaccurate and incomplete crime information pose problems for both the effectiveness of criminal justice systems and the communities that these systems attempt to safeguard

Reflections on Police Bureaucracies in Modern Societies

http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/50805/1/20.pd

Law and Sociology: Some Issues for the 70\u27s

The relationship between sociology and the lawhas not been a very stable one. It has barely passed from the stage of flirtation to that of courtship, though the dependence of each upon the other seems obvious enough to some scholars in each discipline. The two communities have long seemed content to live in symbiotic rather than commensal relations. There are a number of reasons why it is difficult to consummate a stable marriage at this time, if not in the long run