7 Citations
The Jack-Roller and the Life History Method: Notes on the Chicago School’s Clifford Shaw and Howard Becker’s Humanistic Narrative of Young Male and Female Delinquents in Different Ages
- LawYOUNG
- 2021
Clifford Shaw’s (1930) The Jack-Roller is a landmark study of naturalism, ethnography and crime. It is the ‘own story’ of Stanley—a young delinquent in Chicago. Shaw’s series of ethnographic studies…
Edging your bets: Advantage play, gambling, crime and victimisation
- Law
- 2013
Consumerism, industrial development and regulatory liberalisation have underpinned the ascendance of gambling to a mainstream consumption practice. In particular, the online gambling environment has…
Critical Genres and Radical Criminology in Britain
- Sociology, Law
- 2001
Analyses highlighting the genres of critique engaged by radical criminologists are comparatively rare. The few exceptions tend to associate radical criminological thinking with a grammar of critique…
Deviancy Theory and Industrial Praxis: A Study of Discipline and Social Control in an Industrial Setting
- Sociology
- 1982
Several approaches within the sociology of deviance stress the role of agents of control in the definition of behaviour as socially significant forms of rule-breaking. Yet studies of the operation of…
The inner side of wisdom: suicide in early modern England
- PsychologyPsychological Medicine
- 1977
The shifting perception of the nature and prevalence of suicide in early England is traced to illuminate the history of mental disorder in its social and intellectual context.