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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Pamela J. Jenkins , J.S. Kroll-Smith , Marvin E. WolfgangPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Imprint: Praeger Publishers Inc Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780275948528ISBN 10: 0275948528 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 24 June 1996 Recommended Age: From 7 to 17 years Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents"Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game ""We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here:"" Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth When Murder May Be Suicide and ""Yes"" Means ""I Heard You"": The Sociologist as Cultural Interpreter by Patricia G. Steinhoff Contested Knowledge: Battered Women as Agents and Victims by Pamela J. Jenkins Sociology, Medicine, and Psychology: Hints of a Paradigm Shift Sociology and the New Religions: ""Brainwashing, the Courts, and Religious Freedom"" by Jim Richardson Sociology, Medicine and Chemical Dependency: Embedding Drugs and Alcohol in Socio-Cultural Contexts by Barry Kinsey The Sociologist, Gangs, and Battered Women: Representing the Discipline in the Courts by Lee Bowker Defining the Limits of Moral Accountability Sociology and Negligent Security: Premise Liability and Crime Prediction by Lydia Voigt and William Thornton, Jr. Obscenity and Child Pornography: Sociology in Defense of Sexually-Oriented Materials by Philip Holley Toxins in the Environment, Damage to the Community: Sociology and the Toxic Tort by Steve Picou Housing the Homeless: The Sociologist as Expert and Activist by Hilary Silver, Steven Fischbach, and Judith Kaye Afterword by Kai Erikson Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationPAMELA J. JENKINS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Orleans. STEVE KROLL-SMITH is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute at the University of New Orleans. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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