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For the first time, Crime and Deviance brings together the important essays and previously unpublished writings of Edwin M. Lemert. More than any other author, Lemert first established the foundations of the modern sociology of crime and social deviance. Beginning with his first and now classic work, Social Pathology, in 1951 through his last work The Trouble With Evil published in 1997 the year of his death, Lemert wrote with keen empirical insight on crime and criminal personality, juvenile justice, alcoholism, check forgers, court and legal process, among many other topics. Lemert's famous societal reaction theory thus became a necessary ingredient of any realistic understanding of those who violate the perceived norms of social order. It is virtually impossible to discuss crime and lesser forms of social deviance without using language Lemert introduced into scientific and popular vocabularies. Crime and Deviance presents for the first time an important body of Professor Lemert's unpublished work. It thus allows rare insight into his constantly changing thought which is as fresh today as ever. allows rare insight into his constantly changing thought which is as fresh today as ever. allows rare insight into his constantly changing thought which is as fresh today as ever. allows rare insight into his constantly changing thought which is as fresh today as ever.

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• Acknowledgments(p. ix)
• Introduction: Whatever Happened to the Criminal? Edwin Lemert's Societal Reaction(p. 1)
• Part I Formation and Evolution of Societal Reaction Theory
• Chapter 1 From Social Pathology to Deviance(p. 19)
• Chapter 2 Societal Reaction, Differentiation, and Individuation(p. 26)
• Chapter 3 The Paradigm Reaches Its Limits(p. 41)
• Chapter 4 Choice, Value, and Action: Problems in General Social Theory(p. 55)
• Chapter 5 Rules, Deviance, and Social Control Theory(p. 61)
• Chapter 6 How We Got Where We Are: An Informal History of the Study of Deviance(p. 66)
• Part II Ethnographies of the Marginal
• Chapter 7 Home Brew, Hoochinoo, and the Whiskey Feast: Indian Drinking(p. 77)
• Chapter 8 Fast Living, Big Spending, and Life on the Edge: The Check Forger(p. 93)
• Chapter 9 You Are Not One of Us: Paranoia and Exclusion(p. 104)
• Chapter 10 Sociologists on the Trail of Evil(p. 122)
• Chapter 11 Alcohol Comes to the South Seas(p. 138)
• Part III Juvenile Justice, Law, and Social Control
• Chapter 12 Dilemmas of Intervention(p. 161)
• Chapter 13 Children and the Law in Twentieth-Century America(p. 176)
• Chapter 14 Why Children Should Be Kept Out of Court(p. 198)
• Chapter 15 Children and the Law in Italy(p. 217)
• Part IV Law, Society, and Jurisprudence
• Chapter 16 The Origins of American Sociological Jurisprudence(p. 225)
• Chapter 17 The Changing Foundations of Sociological Jurisprudence(p. 237)
• Chapter 18 Jurisprudence, Law, and Sociology(p. 246)
• Chapter 19 Criminalization and Historical Context(p. 263)
• Afterword: Edwin M. Lemert: An Intellectual Portrait(p. 273)
• Index(p. 295)
• About the Author(p. 309)
• About the Editors(p. 310)

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Charles C. Lemert is professor of sociology at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. A prolific writer, he is the author of many books of note including, most recently, Social Things: An Introduction to Sociological Life. Michael F. Winter is currently behavioral sciences librarian at Shields Library, University of California, Davis. He is author of The Culture and Control of Expertise: Towards a Sociological Understanding of Librarianship (1988), and a number of articles in social theory and librarianship. His current interest is in the study of social control of knowledge and its dissemination.