Amici

Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section
American Sociological Association

Volume 6, Number 2   (Spring, 1999)

                                   
                           SOCIOLOGY OF LAW
                         SECTION SESSIONS FOR
                            UPCOMING ASAs:

Reminder from Robin Stryker: "Sociology of Law Section Day at the 1999 
meetings will be August 9.  All our Section-sponsored sessions will be on 
that day. (In Iowa, it is never too early to look forward to summer, even 
August in Chicago...) The exception is that the paper session Bill Bielby 
is organizing (as a joint session with Organizations, Occupations and 
Work) will be on either August 8 or August 9.  I look forward to seeing 
you at all at our sessions.  And I'm sure our Chair, Susan Silbey, looks 
forward to seeing you ALL at our Section's Business Meeting, as do I, 
your Chair-elect who will have committees to fill for next year!"  

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Session Title: 
Law as a Resource for Shaping and Reshaping Gender Relations 

Session Sponsor: Sociology of Law  
(cosponsored by Section on Sex and Gender)
Session Category: Regular Paper Session
 
Organizer & Presider : Lisa J. McIntyre, Washington State University

Papers:

Mary A Burbach, University of Nebraska at Omaha
"Motherhood Discourse in the Law: Biological Fathers and 
	Third Party Cases."

Sandy Welsh, Myrna Dawson and Anette Nierobisz, 
	University of Toronto
"Do Extra Legal Characteristics Matter? Sexual Harassment Complaint
	Outcomes and the Canadian Human Rights Commission."

Erin L. Kelly, Princeton University
"Clear Laws and Compliance? Employers' Family Leave Policies 
	After the Family and Medical Leave Act"

Susan E. Dalton, University of California at Santa Barbara
"Non-Biological Mothers and the Boundaries of Motherhood: 
	An Analysis of California Family Law"

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Session Title: Law, Governance and Global Change

Session Sponsor: Sociology of Law
Session Category: Section Invited Panel

Organizer & Presider: Robin Stryker, University of Iowa

Papers:

Kim Lane Scheppele, University of Pennsylvania
"The Rise of Courtocracy"

Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota
"Modern Law as a Global Institutional Model"

Bryant Garth, American Bar Foundation
"Legal Strategies as Part of the Inter-nationalization of National 	
	Palace Wars"

Terrence Halliday, American Bar Foundation and Bruce Carruthers, 
	Northwestern University
"Law and Creative Destruction: Corporate Bankruptcy 
	Around the Globe"

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Session Title:  Law and Inequalities of Race, Class, and Gender

Session Sponsor: Section on Organizations, Occupations & Work and
				Section on Sociology of Law
Session Category:  Section paper session

Organizer:  William T. Bielby, University of California, Santa Barbara
Presider:  Ryken Grattet, University of California, Davis

Papers:  

Celesta A. Albonetti, University of Iowa
"Judicial Discretion Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines: The Role 
      of Offender Characteristics and Departures on Sentence Severity"

Annette Nierobisz, University of Toronto
"Employing Law in Changing Economies:  Mapping the Influence of
	Economic Context on Judicial Decision-Making"

Pamela J. Forman, University of California Davis, Washington Center
"Coercive Isomorphism and Gendered Organizations:  The Impact of
 	Title IX on Intercollegiate Athletics"

Abigail C. Saguy, Princeton University
"Sexual Harassment in France and the United States:  
	Rethinking the Meaning of the Workplace"

Marla R. H. Kohlman, Kenyon College
"A Comparative Analysis of Sexual Harassment:  Estimating the
	Impact of Race, Class, and Gender"

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                               CALL FOR MANUSCRIPTS

"Drs. Saundra Westervelt and John Humphrey, the University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, are soliciting quality article submissions for an
edited volume on wrongful conviction, entitled Wrongly Convicted: When
Justice Fails.  This volume will provide the first com-pilation of the
most recent research on the problem of wrongful conviction, serving as a
guide both for policy initiatives and future research. 
    
	Contributors are asked to submit manuscripts for review that
address any of the following general topics: characteristics of the
wrongly convicted (social and legal), mechanisms of eventual exoneration,
responses by the criminal justice system (judicial and legislative),
cross-cultural studies, and case studies. Submissions in a variety of
styles are welcome: reviews of existant literature, law review articles,
case studies, and articles based on original research. Manuscripts should
be 15-25 pages in length, comply with ASA style, and include a brief
vitae. The deadline for submissions is April 15, 1999. 

      Please send two copies of the manuscript. For more information or 
to submit articles contact: Dr. Saundra D. Westervelt, Department of 
Sociology, UNC-Greensboro, P.O. Box 26170, Greensboro, NC 27402-6170. 
Phone: #336-334-5295.

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                          RECENT PUBLICATIONS
                                   
                      Prepared by Matt Silberman

                               ARTICLES

Elizabeth Heger Boyle and John W. Meyer (1998). "Modern Law as a 
Secularized and Global Model: Implications for the Sociology of Law,"
Soziale Welt 49: 275-294 (invited reprint of book chapter).

Elizabeth Heger Boyle (1998). "Political Frames and Legal Activity: The 
Case of Nuclear Power in Four Countries," Law & Society Review 32: 141-174.

Mathieu Deflem (forthcoming, 1999). "Ferdinand Tonnies on Crime and 
Society: An Unexplored Contribution in Criminological Sociology." History 
of the Human Sciences.

Robert Dingwall (1999). "Professions and Social Order in a Global 
Society", International Review of Sociology 9; 1: 131-140 (in press).

Lauren Edelman, Christopher Uggen and Howard Erlanger (forthcoming, 
1999). "Legal Threats and Organizational Buffers: Grievance Procedures as 
Rational Myth," American Journal of Sociology.

George Gonos (1997). "The Contest Over 'Employer' Status in the Postwar 
United States: The Case of Temporary Help Firms," Law and Society Review 
31:81-110.

David F. Greenberg and Nancy Larkin (1998). "The Incapacitation of 
Criminal Opiate Users," Crime and Delinquency 44:205-228.

Robert Kidder (1998) "Justice and Power in Studies of Legal Pluralism" in 
Bryant Garth and Austin Sarat, eds. Justice and Power in Studies of Legal 
Pluralism, v. 1, pp. 194-207, Evanston: Northwestern University Press 
(Co-published with the American Bar Association)

Robert Kidder (1997) "Disasters Chronic and Acute: Issues in the Study of 
Environmental Pollution in Urban Japan" in P.P. Karan and Kristin 
Stapleton, eds. The Japanese City, pp. 156-175,  Lexington, Kentucky: 
University of Kentucky Press.

Susan McCoin (1998). "Law and Sex Status:  Implementing the Concept of  
Sexual Property," 19 (3) Women's Rights Law Reporter 19:237-245.

Calvin Morrill, Michelle Johnson, and Tyler Harrison (1998). "Voice and 
Context in Simulated Everyday Legal Discourse: The Influence of Sex 
Differences and Social Ties,"  Law & Society Review 32: 639-665.

George Pavlich (1998). "Phrasing Injustice: Critique in an Uncertain
Ethos," Studies in Law, Politics and Society  18: 245-269.

George Pavlich (1998). "Political Logic, Colonial Law and the Land of  
the Long White Cloud," Law and Critique IX(2): 175-206.

George Pavlich (1999). "Criticism and Criminology: In Search of 
Legitimacy," Theoretical Criminology. 3(1): 29-51.

Jonathan Simon and Christina Spaulding (1999). "Tokens of Our
Esteem: Aggravating Factors in the Era of Deregulated Death Penalties," 
in The Killing State: Capital Punishment in Law,
Politics, and Culture, Austin Sarat, ed. (Oxford University Press):81-114.

Jonathan Simon (1998). "Refugees in a Carceral Age: The Rebirth of
Immigration Prisons in the United States," Public Culture 10:577-606.

Jonathan Simon (1998). "Managing the Monstrous: Sex Offenders and the New 
Penology," Psychology, Public Policy and Law 3:452-468.

Jonathan Simon.(1998). "Driving Governmentality: Automobile Accidents, 
Insurance and the Challenge to Social Order in the Inter-War Years, 
1919-1941," Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 4:521-588.

Jonathan Simon (1998). ".Discipline & Punish: The Birth of a Middle-Range
Research Strategy," in Required Reading: Sociology's Most Influential
Books, Dan Clawson, ed. (Amherst: University of Massachusetts
Press):47-55. 

Jonathan Simon (1998). "Ghosts of the Disciplinary Machine: Lee Harvey 
Oswald, Life-History, and the Truth of Crime," Yale Law Journal10:75-113.

Mark C. Suchman (1998). "Working Without a Net: The Sociology of Legal 
Ethics in Corporate Litigation," Fordham Law Review 67 (2): 837-874.

Christopher Uggen (1999). "Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A 
Job Quality Model of Work and Crime," Social Problems 46:1-25.     

Christopher Uggen and Jennifer Janikula (forthcoming, 1999). "Volunteer 
Work and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood,"  Social Forces.

Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt (1998)."Crime in the
Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance," Law and Society Review
32:401-28.

Christopher Uggen and Irving Piliavin (1998). "Asymmetrical Causation and 
Criminal Desistance," Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88:1389-1412.

Scot Wortley, John Hagan, and Ross Macmillan (1997). "Just Des(s)erts? 
The Racial Polarization of Perceptions of Criminal Injustice," Law & 
Society Review 31: 637-676.
                                   
                                   
                                   
                                 BOOKS

William J. Chambliss:
POWER, POLITICS, AND CRIME
(Westview Press 1999 forthcoming).

An analysis of how politicians and law enforcement agencies create panic 
and fear of crime by distorting and manipulating reality in the reporting 
of crime and the systematic enforcement of criminal law against the poor 
and powerless minorities.
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Nicole Rafter.
CREATING BORN CRIMINALS. (Univ.
of Ilinois Press 1997). 
 
This is a study of the impact of the US eugenics movement on
criminological theory, criminal law, and the US prison system.  It covers
the creation of a previously unrecognized type of prison, the eugenic
prison designed to hold people deemed genetically inferior till they were
beyond the point of reproducing.

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James Tucker.
THE THERAPEUTIC CORPORATION
(Oxford University Press 1999). 

(This book is part of Oxford's "Studies on Law and Social Control" 
series. Donald Black is the series editor.)

THE THERAPEUTIC CORPORATION examines social control in organizations 
without traditional forms of authority.  It applies Donald Black's new 
paradigm of "pure sociology" that explains social control with the 
direction and location of conflict in social space.  The central finding 
is that therapy, a form of social control normally thought to be confined 
to the offices of psychiatrists and the wards of mental hospitals, is the 
most common way of handling conflict in "postbureaucratic" organizations. 
Support for this claim comes mainly from an in-depth investigation of 
life inside an employee-owned manufacturing corporation where people are 
relatively equal and socially close.  The book also draws on empirical 
material on social control from settings with similar social environments 
such as worker collectives, utopian communites, and Japanese 
corporations, and those where inequality and social distance are extreme 
such as slave plantations, serf estates, and early capitalist factories.  

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Saundra Davis Westervelt.
SHIFTING THE BLAME: How
Victimization Became a Criminal
Defense. (Rutgers University Press 1998). 

Shifting the Blame traces the development, use, and expansion of the 
victimization defense strategy, or "abuse excuse." More than just a study 
of legal history, Westervelt develops a sociological framework for 
explaining the institutionalization of this new defense strategy in 
battered women's self-defense cases in the late 1970s and early '80s.  In 
addition, Shifting the Blame looks at the victimization defense strategy 
as an indicator of far-reaching changes in the way our culture views 
victimhood, womanhood, and responsibility.

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                            CALL FOR A NEW EDITOR
                                   
    This is the last issue of AMICI under the editorship of Robert Kidder. 
    
    The Sociology of Law Section therefore invites applications for the
position of Editor, to begin with the Fall, 1999 issue. 
    
    AMICI is published twice each year.  The editor works with the Chair
of the Publications Committee to collect items for inclusion in each
issue.  The editor reviews each entry for errors, sets up the entries into
the newsletter format, and then sends the final camera-ready copy to the
ASA headquarters for final printing and distribution.  ASA takes care of
final production and mailing. 

   Applications for the position of Editor should be sent no later than
July 15, 1999, to Susan Silbey, Department of Sociology, Wellesley
College, Wellesley, MA 02181. 
                                   
                           JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

     The Law & Society Program at the University of California-Santa
Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor
position to begin July 1, 2000. We are particularly interested in
sociologists and anthropologists who have research and teaching interests
in culture and law. For the purposes of this search our conception of
culture is quite open, and does not signify a preference for a particular
style of research. 

     Applicants should send a c.v., a letter describing teaching and
research interests, and the names and addresses of three references to
Junior Search Committee, Law & Society Program, University of California,
Santa Barbara CA 93106. Closing date for applications is October 15, 1999.
The University of California is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer. 

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CORRECTION: The editor wants to
apologize to Patricia Gwartney, member
of the Section's Article Prize Committee,
for badly misconstruing her name in the
last issue of AMICI.