Making Law

WILLIAM J. CHAMBLISS is Professor of Sociology at George Washington University and author of On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents; Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman); Organizing Crime (with Alan Block); Exploring Criminology; and more than a dozen other books in the sociology of law, sociological theory, and criminology. MARJORIE S. ZATZ is Associate Professor of Justice Studies at Arizona State University and author of Robes and Sandals: Producing Legality in Revolutionary Cuba.

• Preface: Marjorie S. ZatzAcknowledgmentsPART I. Structural Contradictions1. On LawmakingWilliam J. Chambliss2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime ControlWilliam J. Chambliss3. The Political Economy of Opium and HeroinWilliam J. Chambliss4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest DilemmasRaymond J. Michalowski5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in IsrealEphraim TaboryPART II. Ideology6. Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal LawMarjorie S. Zatz and James H. McDonald7. Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case Kitty Calavita8. Understanding the Emrgence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the StateNancy A. Wonders and Frederic I. SolopPART III. Conflicts and Dilemmas9. The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986Kitty Calavita10. Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political PowerJ. Allen Whitt11. State-Organized CrimeWilliam J. Chambliss12. State-Organized Homicide: A study of Seven CIP Plans to Assassinate Fidel CastroMark S. HammPART IV. Strategies and Triggering Events13. Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation ProcessEdmund F. Mcarrell and Thomas C. Catellano14. Other People's Money Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries15. Structural Contradictions and th production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law RevisitedRyken GrattetPART V. Conclusions16. Future DiretionsMarjorie S. Zatz and William J. ChamblissContributors Index