Witnessing for sociology : sociologists in court /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jenkins, Pamela, Kroll-Smith, J. Stephen, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
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Table of Contents:
  • Old stories, new audiences: sociological knowledge in courts / Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins
  • "We don't deal in probabilities here": tales of a quantitative sociologist in court / Joseph E. Jacoby
  • Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: self-defense of the statistical expert / William E. Feinberg
  • Sociology and capital murder: a question of life or death / Craig J. Forsyth
  • When murder may be suicide and "yes" means "I heard you": the sociologist as a cultural interpreter / Patricia G. Steinhoff
  • Contested knowledge: battered women as agents and victims / Pamela J. Jenkins
  • Sociology and the new religions: "brainwashing" the courts, and religious freedom / James T. Richardson
  • Sociology, medicine, and chemical dependency: embedding drugs and alcohol in sociocultural contexts / Barry Kinsey
  • The sociologist, gangs, and battered women: representing the discipline in the courts / Lee H. Bowker
  • Sociology and negligent security: premise liability and crime prediction / Lydia Voigt and William E. Thornton, Jr.
  • Obscenity and child pornography: sociology in defense of sexually oriented materials / Philip Holley
  • Toxins in the environment, damage to the community: sociology and the toxic court
  • J. Steven Picou
  • Housing the homeless: the sociologist as expert and activist / Hilary Silver, Steven Fishbach, and Judith Kaye.