Suburban Lives / Edition 1

by Margaret Marsh

Overview

Focusing on a variety of criminal activities, the author applies his structural criminology to the relationships of power which operate in a range of institutional spheres. He looks at the relationship between class and criminality, showing the inadequacy of a simple causal link and discussing the prevalence of "white collar" crime. Hagan sees other significant structures of power in the relative influence of corporate actors - for example large commercial establishments - who bring charges against individuals, and he analyzes both the legal outcome of such conflicts and the symbolic aspects of sentencing and judicial operations in general. Throughout, these essays stress the structural importance of unemployment, race and gender in the legal definitions of criminal behavior and the need to situate each factor within its complex of power relationships.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813514840
Publisher:	Rutgers University Press
Publication date:	02/01/1990
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

MARGARET MARSH, Ph.D., the author of Suburban Lives and Anarchist Women, 1870-1920, is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and and professor of history at Rutgers University, Camden.Wanda Ronner, M.D., is an obstetrician-gynecologist at the Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine in Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prologue
Part One. Family and Suburb in Victorian America
Chapter One. Moulding the Moral Nature
Chapter Two. The Minutiae of Domestic Life
Part Two. Progressive Suburbanites
Chapter Three. Homemakers Male and Female
Chapter Four. Breathing the Air of Domesticity
Part Three. Suburban Prosperity and Depression
Chapter Five. A Version of America
Chapter Six. The Suburban City Beautiful
Epilogue
Notes
Index