AMICI Newsletter of the SOCIOLOGY OF LAW SECTION AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION Volume 7, No. 1 , Spring 2000 __________________________________________ Section on the Sociology of Law American Sociological Association Officers Chair: Robin Stryker University of Iowa Chair-Elect: Nancy Reichman University of Denver Secretary-Treasurer: Kitty Calavita UC-Irvine AMICI Editor: Marvin Prosono Southwest Missouri State University Council: John Hagan, Chair Nominations Committee Matt Silberman, Chair Publications Committee Carol Heimer, Chair Article Prize Committee Mathieu Deflem, Chair Student Paper Prize Committee Bryant Garth and Kim Scheppele, Co-Chairs Distinguished Book Prioze Committee Wendy Espeland, Chair Nominations Committee Bryant Garth, Council Member Mark Suchman, Council Member Joachim Savelsberg, Council Member Jerry Van Hoy, Council Member Wendy Espeland, Council Member _________________________________ FROM THE SECTION CHAIR Dear friends and colleagues, Your Sociology of Law section chair is sorry to report that she is temporarily AWOL from matters scholarly and intellectual. She is preparing for a move to the Department of Sociology (with an affiliated appointment in the College of Law) at the University of Minnesota, in the Twin Cities... Scott and I are both quite excited about the move -- we're both looking forward to our new affiliations and colleagues (including all of our colleagues in sociology of law, law and society, and crime, law and deviance) at UM. However, we're a little bit crazed this spring, because we just made the decision to move in February, and we are making the move June 1st. Stay tuned for my new e-mail address and additional contact information, which I will send out to the Sociology of Law listserv -- which we are still fortunate to have courtesy of webmaster Matt Silberman. At this point, I would like to thank Nancy Reichman, Chair-Elect and head of the program committee for this summer's meetings, and all of the organizers and participants in our three Sociology of Law sponsored sessions. All the details on organizers, session themes, and papers to be presented are supplied elsewhere in the newsletter. I hope that you will agree with me that these sessions look very provocative and exciting. I also would like to thank the Comparative & Historical Sociology section for agreeing with us that a two session Mini-Conference joining our two sections would be a great idea for the upcoming meetings. We're also planning a reception, joint with our usual partner, the Section on Crime, Law and Deviance. Additional partners for this year's reception are the Comparative & Historical Sociology Section (with whom we are doing the Mini-conference -- and with whom we share the dreaded last day of the meetings as our Section Day), and also the new Section on Sexualities. Not to worry, the ASA has promised us a very large room, and we'll order plenty of food, so the more the merrier! Stay tuned for date/time for reception. I also want to call your attention to the tear off Section Membership application materials. If you have already renewed your ASA membership and with it your Sociology of Law section membership, please pass this tear off section to a colleague or graduate student that you think would find our section intellectually and professionally congenial and stimulating. Although it is hard to tell at this particular point in the year, we are concerned that we may be somewhat down in section membership. As you know, we always have hovered around the "magic" 300-person mark that ASA sets as its indicator of minimum needed section size. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAY ABOVE THIS AND WE NEED YOUR HELP IN RENEWING YOUR OWN MEMBERSHIP (if you haven't done so) and in RECRUITING NEW MEMBERS!!! If you feel inspired to make multiple copies of the tear off application and recruit multiple new members, terrific!) Finally, the Section is lucky to have our new Newsletter Editor, Marvin Prosono. To Marty, I would like to say thank you for taking on this important professional service. To Marty and to all of the rest of you, I promise a more traditional "From the Chair" (or maybe by then Past Chair) column, with intellectual and scholarly and maybe even policy relevant musings, for our next Newsletter. Looking forward to seeing you all in DC at our Sociology of Law Section sessions, reception and (you can't forget this one either), our business meeting. Robin Stryker CONFERENCES Conference on the Relationship between Law and Social Theory (14 December) In association with Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College This conference will look at different perspectives on the relationship between law and social theory, and how ideas and analytic resources from different social theoretical traditions can be applied in studying law and legal topics. We would particularly welcome contributions by those applying different critical traditions such as feminism and postmodernism to law, by ethnomethodologists, and those with interests in autopoiesis and legal pluralism. Deadline for abstracts (200 words) 1 July 2000. The conferences will be organised by Dr. Reza Banakar of the Oxford Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, and Dr. Max Travers of Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. Abstracts should be sent to Reza Banakar by 1st MAY (for the September conference) or by 1st JULY (for the December conference). Address: Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Linton Road, Oxford OX1 1TX. Email: HYPERLINK mailto:reza.banakar@csls.ox.ac reza.banakar@csls.ox.ac . POSITIONS Wellesley College. The Department of Sociology is seeking candidates to fill a two year post-doctoral fellowship provided by the Mellon Foundation. Applicants should have a Ph.D. obtained within the past five years and should have an active research program in either comparative popular culture, or the sociology of culture, crime, law, or inequality. The Mellon Fellowship is designed to bring to Wellesley a recent Ph.D. who will develop pedagogical skills and conduct scholarly work before seeking a full-time teaching position. The teaching load is one course in year one and two courses in year two of the fellowship. The Fellow will have an opportunity to work with faculty and students on projects of his/her own design or may join already ongoing projects. Beginning salary is $33,500 with additional research support and faculty benefits. The Fellow will be eligible for faculty travel and research awards and will have the potential for affiliation with Wellesley‰s two research centers, The Center for Research on Women and the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies. Wellesley College is a small, private, highly selective liberal arts college for women located in a suburb of Boston. Please send vita, three letters of recommenda-tion, no more than three reprints or writing samples, and a statement of teaching and research interests to Susan Silbey, Chair, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 02481 781-283-2137 (email HYPERLINK mailto:ssilbey@wellesley.edu) ssilbey@wellesley.edu) . Applications will remain open until the position is filled; interviewing will begin after April 15. Wellesley College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action educational institution and employer. Applications from women, minorities, veterans, and candidates with disabilities are encouraged. ASA SESSIONS The first session listed below is part of an exciting two-session mini-conference organized jointly with the Comparative & Historical Sociology Section. Because the joint sessions with Comparative & Historical are planned as a two-session mini-conference, they will be held back to back in the same room. Our current assumption is that these sessions, as well as a third sociology of law section session (organized by Abby Seguy and Mia Cahill), all will be held on Sociology of Law Section day. Our Section Day this year, and the Section Day for the Comparative & Historical Sociology Section, is the final day of the upcoming ASA meetings. Somebody has to be last every year. This year we planned for it by organizing a Mini-Conference with another section which also has the dreaded last day time slot. This should help us maximize audience and visibility for our Section's sessions, in spite of a less than desirable time slot. Both the sessions organized by Liz Boyle and Bruce Carruthers and the sessions organized by Abigail Seguy and Mia Cahill are ‹open submissionŠ sessions. The enthusiastic responses these organizers got and the stimulating formal paper sessions that we now are able to look forward to as a function of their organizing efforts suggest the continuing vitality of our section. Sociology of Law Session Title: Transnational Perspectives on Law Organizers: Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota and Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University Presider: Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota Papers Jozsef Borocz, Rutgers University Rationales for a Choice: How Substance Enters Formal Law in the 'Eastern Enlargement' of the European Union Lisa Hajjar, Morehouse College Law Against Order: A History of Human Rights Activism in Israel and Palestine Thomas Erlich Reifer, Binghamton University Lawyers, Guns & Money: A Devil's Advocate Perspective on Unlocking the Black Box of Globalization Wolf Heydebrand, New York University The Rise of Process Rationality in Modern Law: A Comparative Perspective Discussion: Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota Sociology of Law Session Title : Sociology of Law Meets Public Policy Organizers: Abigail Saguy, Princeton University and Mia Cahill, NYU Presiders: Abigail Saguy, Princeton University and Mia Cahill, NYU Papers: Julie Artis, DePaul University Researching Judicial Decision-making on Child Custody: Some Methodological Considerations Katrina Zippel, University of Wisconsin "Law and Litigation in Policy Implementation: A Comparative Perspective Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota and Jeff Manza, Northwestern University "The Political Consequences of Felon Disfranchisement Laws in the United States" Carroll Seron, and Gregg Van Ryzin, Martin Frankel, Jean Kovath Baruch College "The Impact Of Legal Counsel On Procedural Outcomes For Poor Tenants In New York City's Housing Court: Results Of A Andomized Experiment" Discussion: Abigail Saguy, Princeton University and Mia Cahill, NYU Session Title: Law and Domination in Comparative-Historical Perspective Co-Organizers: Bruce G. Carruthers, Northwestern University, and Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota. Presider: Kathleen E. Hull, Northwestern University Papers: M.M. Charrad, Georgetown University, "Colonial Domination and Family Law: French Strategies in North Africa." Laura E. Gmez, UCLA, "Wielding the Master's Tools: Mexicans and the American Criminal Justice System in San Miguel County, New Mexico, 1876-1882." David F. Greenberg, New York University, "Rhetorics of Legitimation in Ancient and Modern Law." Marc W. Steinberg, Smith College, "Master and Servant Law, Labour Conflict and Legal Cultures in Mid-Victorian England." Discussion: Richard Lempert, University of Michigan Session Category: Refereed Roundtables Session Sponsor: Sociology of Law Session Title: Refereed Roundtables on Sociology of Law Organizer: Nancy Reichman, University of Denver REFEREED ROUNDTABLES Socio-legal Perspectives on Crime and Justice C. Lee Harrington, Miami University Rationality and Death Row Volunteering: Defense Attorneys' Perceptions of Client Competence Sarah Goodrum, The University of Texas at Austin Homicide, Bereavement and the Criminal Justice System ****************** Women, Identity, and Law Karen McCormack, Wellesley College The Good (Welfare) Mother: Identity and the Law of Welfare Sheldon Bernard Lyke, University of Chicago, Deidre Sullivan and Hillary Levitt, Northwestern University Legal but Prosecuted: The State of Prostitution in Tanzania ****************** Law and Social Change Modhurima Dasgupta, Brown Univeristy Justice, Democracy, and the Indian Supreme Court: Development Through Social Action Litigation Shang-Luan Yan, Chung Cheng University Social Changes and the Legal Profession in Taiwan Legal Frames Table Presider: Nancy Reichman, University of Denver Mark C. Suchman, University of Wisconsin The Contract as Social Artifact Tracey Brown, University of Kent From the Crisis of Legitimacy to Compensation Culture Caitilin R. Rabbitt, New York University Statutory Frameworks and Agency ‹Praxis Framing:Š The Creation of the Social Regulatory ‹DomainsŠ Presentation Classification: Formal Papers Topics: Law and Society (17) Social Change (33) Criminal Justice (49) Addresses: Modhurima Dasgupta, Brown University, 1746 San Lorenzo Avenue, Berkeley,CA 94707 Shang- Luan Yan, Chung Cheng University, 23-8A Tunghai Road,Taichung 407,, TAIWAN Sheldon Bernard Lyke, 5431 South Harper Ave. Apt 3E, Chicago,IL 60615 Deidre Sullivan, 5431 South Harper Ave. #3E, Chicago, IL 60615 Hillary Levitt, 5431 South Harper Ave. Apt #3E, Chicago, IL 60615 Mark C. Suchman, University of Wisconsin, Department of Sociology, 1180 Observatory Drive,Madison,WI 53706 Tracey Brown, Darwin College, University of Kent, Department of Sociology,Canterbury Kent CT2 7NY, UK Caitilin R. Rabbitt, New York University, Department of Sociology, 269 Mercer Street. 4th Floor, New York, NY 10003 Sarah Goodrum, The Univeristy of Texas at Austin, Department of Sociology, Burdine Hall # 336,Austin,TX 8712 C. Lee Harrington, Miami University, Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Anthropology,,Oxford,Ohio 45056 Karen McCormack, Wellesley College, Department of Sociology,106 Central Ave.,Wellesley,MA 02482 Nancy Reichman, University of Denver, Department of Sociology, Denver, Colorado 80208 RECENT PUBLICATIONS Prepared by Matt Silberman ARTICLES Berard, Timothy J. (1998). "Attributions and Avowals of Motive in the Study of Deviance: Resource or Topic?" Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 28:193-213. Boyle, Elizabeth Heger. 2000. "Is Law the Rule? Using Political Frames to Understand Cross-National Variation in Legal Activity," Social Forces,78(4): June. Bross, Donald C. (1999). "The Evolution of Independent Legal Representation for Children," Journal of the Center for Children and the Courts. 1:7-19. Bross, Donald C., Nicole Ballo, and Jon Korfmacher (2000). "Client Evaluation of a Consultation Team on Crimes against Children," Child Abuse and Neglect 24:71-84. Chambliss, Elizabeth, and Christopher Uggen (2000). "Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevalu-ating Kanter's Legacy." Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68. Edelman, Lauren B. and Stephen Petterson (1999). "Symbols and Substance in Organizational Response to Civil Rights Law," Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 17:107-136. Edelman, Lauren B., Christopher Uggen and Howard S. Erlanger (1999). "The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth," American Journal of Sociology 105:406-454. Fuller, Sally Riggs, Lauren B. Edelman, and Sharon Matusik (2000). "Legal Readings: Employee Interpretation and Enactment of Civil Rights Law," Academy of Management Review 25:200-216. Greenberg, David F. 1999). "Punishment, Division of Labor, and Social Solidarity." Pp. 283-361 in William S. Laufer and Freda Adler (eds.), The Criminology of Criminal Law: Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 8 (Transaction Books). Hess, David. (1999) "Social Reporting: A Reflexive Law Approach to Corporate Social Responsiveness." Journal of Corporation Law 25:41-84. Kidder, Robert. (1999) "Exploring legal Culture in Law-Avoidance Societies." Pp. 203-225 in Austin Sarat & Patricia Ewick, eds., Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Volume 19. Kruttschnitt, Candace, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly Shelton (2000). "Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls." Justice Quarterly 17:401-428. Moss, Laurence S. (1999). "Government, Civil Society, and Property: Restraining the Legal Economic Nexus." Pp. 177-189 in Nicholas Mercuro & Warren J. Samuels, eds., The Fundamental Interrelation-ships Between Government and Property (JAI Press). Richards, Edward P. and Donald C. Bross. "Legal and Political Aspects of STD Control: Public Duties and Private Rights." Pp. 1441-1448 in K. K. Holmes, P. F. Sparling, and P-A Mardh et al., eds., Sexually Transmitted Diseases. Third Edition. (New York: McGraw-Hill). Richardson, James T. (1999). "Expert testimony Involving Chemists and Chemistry" (with Richard Bjur). Pp. 67-87 in Carl Meyer, ed., Expert Witnessing: Explaining and Understanding Science (CRC Press). Richardson, James T. (1999). "'Brainwashing' Claims and Minority Religions," Human Rights Without Frontiers 10:19-23. Richardson, James T. (1999). "New Religions and Religious Freedom in Eastern and Central Europe, with Special Focus on Hungary." Pp. 195-212 in Andras Sajo and Shlomo Avineri, eds., The Law and Religious Identity: Models for Post-Communism. (The Hague: Kluwer Law International). Richardson, James T. (1999). "Law, Social Control, and Minority Religion." In Pauline Cote, ed., Chercheurs de Dieux Dans L'space Public (Ottawa: U. of Ottawa Press). Richardson, James T. (1999). "Social Control of New Religions: from 'Brainwashing' Claims to Child Sex Abuse Accusation," Pp 172-186 in Susan Palmer and Charlotte Hardman, eds., Children in New Religions (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press). Richardson, James T. (1999). "Mundane Materials: How Tax Policies and Other Governmental Regulation Affected Beliefs and Practice of Jesus Movement Organizations" (with David Stewart), Journal of the American Academy of Religion 67:825-847. Stryker, Robin (2000). "Legitimacy Processes as Institutional Politics: Implications for Theory and Research in the Sociology of Organizations," Research in the Sociology of Organizations 17:179-223. Stryker, Robin, Martha Scarpellino and Mellisa Holtzman (1999). "Political Culture Wars 1990s Style: The Drum Beat of Quotas in Media Framing of the Civil Rights Act of 1991," Research in Stratification and Social Mobility 17:33-106. Tucker, James E. (1999). "Worker deviance as social control." In Ida Harper Simpson and Richard L. Simpson, eds., Deviance in the Workplace (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press). Tucker, James E. "Therapy, Organizations, and the State: A Blackian Perspective." Pp. 73-87 in James J. Chriss, ed., Counseling and the Therapeutic State (New York: Aldine de Gruyter). Van Hoy, Jerry (1999). "Markets and Contingency: How Client Markets Influence the Work of Plaintiffs' Personal Injury Lawyers." International Journal of the Legal Profession 6:345-366. BOOKS Darian-Smith, Eve. Bridging Divides: The Channel Tunnel and English Legal Identity in the New Europe. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999). "Bridging Divides" is an original and timely look at the building of the Tunnel between Great Britain and the European mainland. It explores local English attitudes, customs, and popular images of the Channel Tunnel as a starting point for understanding wider issues of nationalism, colonialism, racism and the changing geographies of international law that affect England's participation in the European Union. The book won the Renato Treves International Sociology of Law Prize, University of Milan. *********** Henry, Stuart and Dragan Milovanovic (eds). Constitutive Criminology at Work: Applications to Crime and Justice (Albany: SUNY Press, 1999). ********** Hinkle, William G. and Stuart Henry (eds). School Violence. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol 567 (January, 2000). ********** Nicole Rafter's new book, SHOTS IN THE MIRROR: CRIME FILMS AND SOCIETY will be published in April 2000 by Oxford University Press (paperback $15.95). An early review by Library Journal can be found on the barnes and noble website, HYPERLINK "mailto:www@bn.com" www.bn.com . The book has chapters on the history and future of crime films, the criminological messages of crime films, and on cop, courtroom, and prison movies. It includes material on the ideological effects of crime films and their impact on attitudes toward law and legal processes. ********** Richard D. Schwartz and Lee Sechrest have recently reissued Webb, et al., Unobtrusive Measures. The book has general methodological interest and includes an analysis [primarily the work of co-author Donald T. Campbell] of triangulation as a methodological technique for overcoming threats to validity. The new introduction discusses several recently published examples of triangulation and nonreactive measures. Webb, Campbell, Schwartz & Sechrest. Unobtrusive Measures, revised edition (Sage: Thousand Oaks, CA 2000). _________________________________ FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK It took some doing but AMICI is back in print. I intend that the next issue be produced shortly after the ASA meetings in August. Thanks to all of you who assisted by sending in copy for this issue. Some confusion unfortunately arises when editors change for a publication. Since I have not met many of the officers in our section yet, it becomes a bit like operating in the dark. My background is a fairly eclectic one although the law has had its way with me both inside and outside academia. After graduating from Stanford, I attended NYU Law School for a year before entering the Navy. My Ph.D. is in medical sociology from the University of California, San Francisco, the dissertation focusing upon forensic psychiatry. While working my way through grad school, I worked as a paralegal for many different kinds of firms in San Francisco. Some were simply solo business or corporate practices. My longest tenure was at an insurance defense firm where I was able to add to my medico-legal knowledge between preparation of interrogatories or transcribing depositions. At present I am a professor of sociology at Southwest Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri, a small city nestled in the center of the Ozarks. Well, enough about me. Something about you. I have been informed that the level of membership in the section must be improved. Many of you may not have renewed your membership in the section. Please do so as soon as possible to ensure that legal sociology is given its proper place at meetings and elsewhere. Thanks for your attention and I look forward to meeting you and working with you on future newsletters. Marvin Prosono, Ph.D. Southwest Missouri State University 901 S. National Springfield, Missouri 65804 HYPERLINK mailto:MAP881f@mail.smsu.edu MAP881f@mail.smsu.edu 417-836-5683 RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP!! Sociology of Law Section Membership Application Type of Membership: _____ Regular ($12) _____ Student ($5) _____ I am not an ASA member. Please send a membership form. 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