Contemporary Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice:Essays in Honor of Gilbert Geis - Tapa blanda

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HENRY N. PONTELL is professor and chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, in the School of Social Ecology at the University of California-Irvine. He has written extensively on the topics of deviance and social control, white-collar and corporate crime, punishment and deterrence, crime seriousness, jail overcrowding and litigation, criminal justice system capacity, medical fraud, and the role of crime in the savings and loan debacle. He is a past president and fellow of the Western Society of Criminology. His books include: A Capacity to Punish: The Ecology of Crime and Punishment; Social Deviance; Prescription for Profit: How Doctors Defraud Medicaid; Profit Without Honor: White Collar Crime and the Looting of America; and Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis. His current work includes research on international financial fraud, and new books on social deviance, and contemporary legal debates in America.

DAVID SHICHOR is professor emeritus of criminal justice, California State University-San Bernardino. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Southern California, and taught at the Tel Aviv University, Israel prior to his arrival at CSUSB. He has written, co-authored, and co-edited several books and published numerous articles and book chapters on various topics, including juvenile delinquency, victimization, white-collar crime, corrections, and privatization in criminal justice. He is currently working on several projects on privatization, restorative justice, fraud victimization, and the mental health of jail inmates.

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This volume was assembled in honor of the preeminent criminologist and scholar, Gilbert Geis, on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. As one of the most prolific writers in criminology and the social sciences, having published over twenty books and over three hundred articles, chapters, and monographs over the past six decades, Gil's work has covered an incredibly broad range of topics. In this volume, his colleagues were invited to submit works that also cover a broad terrain. While many chapters are related to the topic of white-collar crime, for which Gil is perhaps best known, his friends have also honored him by providing original, interesting, and relevant pieces in such areas as punishment and social control, public policy issues, comparative criminology, law, victimology, and policing, that are important reading for scholars, students, and practitioners alike.

AUTHORS INVOLVED:

Robert F. Meier

John Braithwaite

Arnold Binder and Virginia Binder

Diane Vaughan

William K. Black

David Shichor, Dale Sechrest, and Jeffrey Doocy

Sean Patrick Griffin and Alan A. Block

Michael L. Benson and Kent R. Kerley

Peter Grabosky

Mary Dodge

Sally S. Simpson and Nicole Leeper Piquero

Colin Goff

James F. Short, Jr

Duncan Chappell

Joseph F. DiMento and Gabrio Forti

Francis T. Cullen, Jody Sundt, and John Wozniak

Deborah Parsons and Paul Jesilow

Henry N. Pontell, Stephen M. Rosoff, and Jason Lam

Michael Levi

Hans Joachim Schneider

Susan Will and Kitty Calavita

C. Ronald Huff

Richard Wright