For the Common Good: A Critical Examination of Law and Social Control
This book is the culmination of research that investigated such topics as race, class, gender and sexuality, violence and victimization, prostitution, employee drug testing, hate speech legislation, women processed by the criminal justice system, the war on drugs, and the war on crime.\ All the pieces come from a critical perspective, and some of them are written from a Marxian perspective. All of the papers on the volume rely, at least tacitly, on the notions that reality is constructed,...
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Twenty-five academics from the U.S. and Canada contribute 17 essays examining law and social control from a social constructionist perspective. Topics explored include race, class, gender and sexuality, prostitution, employee drug testing, hate speech legislation, the processing of women through the criminal justice system, drug war prisoners, California's Three Strikes law, and justice in a postmodern society. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
DedicationAcknowledgmentsIntroduction3Sect. 1Race and the Social Control of Law9Sect. 2Class and the Social Control of Law49Sect. 3Gender, Sexuality and the Law115Sect. 4Prostitution and Social Control169Sect. 5Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: Law and Social Control211Sect. 6The Wars: Drugs, Crime, and the Role of the Law237Sect. 7Justice in a Postmodern Society285Biographical Statements351Name Index357Subject Index361
