Witnessing for sociology : sociologists in court /
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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.