Edwin M Lemert
Biographic Data
| ID | 95253 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Edwin M Lemert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Edwin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Lemert |
| SIGNATURE | LEMERT E M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 65 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1942 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
The Trouble with Evil
Crime and Criminology
How much do we really know about crime and criminals? About the effectiveness - or otherwise- of the measures used by courts to deter, reform, or incapacitate offenders? In this critical introduction, refreshingly free of jargon or political bias, Nigel Walker tackles these and other central questions of the criminological debate. No respecter of accepted orthodoxies, he highlights the fallacies and failings of most explanations of criminal behav…
Visions of Social Control
Introduction. 1. The Master Patterns. 2. Inside the System. 3. Deposits of Power. 4. Stories of Change. 5. The Professionals. 6. Visions of Order. 7. What Is To Be Done. Appendix. Index
Juvenile Justice Italian Style
The juvenile court in Italy was established many years after those in the United States and other European countries. Even after its creation problems of differentiation and staffing remained, and delays plus ineffective services continue to complicate day-to-day operations of the juvenile courts. I propose that the juvenile court in Italy has been a spurious development, reflecting contradictions between the culture of legal certainty and famili…
Runaways--Illegal Aliens in Their Own Land
Issues in the Study of Deviance
Several issues in the study of deviance are discussed: the definition of deviance; the significance of the deviant act; cultural relativism; the influence of social structures and causation. By using departures from rules to define deviance, sociologists may repeat fallacies of formalistic jurisprudence. Deviance is best left undefined, and preferably delimited ontologically in terms of middle range theory. Spector and Kitsuse's revisionist theor…
Offenders in the Community
Brought to Justice
Albion's Fatal Tree
James McEvoy III
Choice and Change in Juvenile Justice
Roscoe Pound
SSSP as the Organization of a Social Movement
Journal Article SSSP as the Organization of a Social Movement: Comments and Suggestions Get access Herbert A. Aurbach Herbert A. Aurbach (SSSP Executive Officer) Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 24, Issue 1, 1 October 1976, Pages 37–53, https://doi.org/10.2307/800320 Published: 02 August 2014
Alcohol and Health
The African Beer Gardens of Bulawayo
Beyond Mead
I should say parenthetically that reading the essay left me spelled by the beauty of its words and niceties of expression, as well as overwhelmed by its sense of prophecy. It recalled me to an old auctorial ideal espoused by James Branch Cabell, namely that we should write beautifully of things as they are. But having had time to cast off Manning's spell, I conclude that sociologists sometimes write beautifully of things as they are not and that …
Images of Deviance
Handbook on the Study of Social Problems
Cottrell and Social Problems
I recall that Cottrell taught a course in social problems and assigned a text with that title. However, to the best of my recollection, there was little correspondence between the text theory, if it may be called that, and Cottrell's lectures. That which remains as a memory of the course is primarily a diagram likely to appear on the blackboard at what to me were odd and unpredictable moments. I can best liken the diagram to a broken wheel with p…
Nouvelles perspectives en sociologie de la déviance
Robert Philippe, Kellens Georges. Nouvelles perspectives en sociologie de la déviance. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1973, 14-3. pp. 371-395
Social Action and Legal Change
The Silverlake Experiment
General and Theoretical
The Mark of Cain
The Varieties of Delinquent Experience. Bernard Rosenberg , Harry Silverstein Present Conduct and Future Delinquency. D. J. West Delinquency
Social pathology
Paranoia and the Dynamics of Exclusion
Is There a Natural History of Social Problems
Beyond Mead
I should say parenthetically that reading the essay left me spelled by the beauty of its words and niceties of expression, as well as overwhelmed by its sense of prophecy. It recalled me to an old auctorial ideal espoused by James Branch Cabell, namely that we should write beautifully of things as they are. But having had time to cast off Manning's spell, I conclude that sociologists sometimes write beautifully of things as they are not and that …
On the Penitentiary System in the United States and Its Application in France
On the Penitentiary System in the United States is a graceful and thoughtful study of importance to the history of correctional theory and practice, and its republican by Southern Illinois University Press, with an excellent concise introduction by Prof. Thorsten Sellin, is commendable.-Norvel Morris, The Nation The Words of these two distinguished Frenchmen have a remarkably correct application in this day and generation. This book has a histori…
The Booster and the Snitch
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger Get access Edwin M. Lemert Edwin M. Lemert University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 2, Autumn 1958, Pages 141–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/798886 Published: 08 August 2014
Girls at Vocational High
Issues in the Study of Deviance
Several issues in the study of deviance are discussed: the definition of deviance; the significance of the deviant act; cultural relativism; the influence of social structures and causation. By using departures from rules to define deviance, sociologists may repeat fallacies of formalistic jurisprudence. Deviance is best left undefined, and preferably delimited ontologically in terms of middle range theory. Spector and Kitsuse's revisionist theor…
Albion's Fatal Tree
Changing the Lawbreaker
Alcohol and the Northwest Coast Indians
Images of Deviance
The Folkways and Social Control
FAVORITE question which J. E. Hagerty used to ask his graduate students at Ohio State University was: How could the man who wrote What Social Classes Owe To One Another be a good sociologist? Graduate students who were ready for anything on the Folkways frequently found this question embarrassing. It is also true that most sociologists have not paid much attention to the ramifications of Sumner's philosophical and economic essays, his political a…
Juvenile Justice Italian Style
The juvenile court in Italy was established many years after those in the United States and other European countries. Even after its creation problems of differentiation and staffing remained, and delays plus ineffective services continue to complicate day-to-day operations of the juvenile courts. I propose that the juvenile court in Italy has been a spurious development, reflecting contradictions between the culture of legal certainty and famili…
Society and Personality Disorders
Cottrell and Social Problems
I recall that Cottrell taught a course in social problems and assigned a text with that title. However, to the best of my recollection, there was little correspondence between the text theory, if it may be called that, and Cottrell's lectures. That which remains as a memory of the course is primarily a diagram likely to appear on the blackboard at what to me were odd and unpredictable moments. I can best liken the diagram to a broken wheel with p…
General and Theoretical
The Mark of Cain
Nouvelles perspectives en sociologie de la déviance
Robert Philippe, Kellens Georges. Nouvelles perspectives en sociologie de la déviance. In: Revue française de sociologie, 1973, 14-3. pp. 371-395
Hustlers, Beats, and Others. Ned Polsky
Juvenile justice—quest and reality
Persuasion and Healing
Stuttering among the North Pacific Coastal Indians
The Grand Jury as an Agency of Social Control
The discussion should have centered around the anachronistic methods and procedures of the national life. It should also have considered the inadequate training of lawyer-judges for the tasks they regularly undertake. Modern times require modern techniques, as well as an understanding of scientific methods. This is one of the most important problems we now face after the war. The necessity for highly trained, expertly qualified individuals to fun…
The Folkways and Social Control
FAVORITE question which J. E. Hagerty used to ask his graduate students at Ohio State University was: How could the man who wrote What Social Classes Owe To One Another be a good sociologist? Graduate students who were ready for anything on the Folkways frequently found this question embarrassing. It is also true that most sociologists have not paid much attention to the ramifications of Sumner's philosophical and economic essays, his political a…
Social Participation and Totalitarian War
Total war requires planning of civilian as well as military activities. Yet our social control is unstable because of antiquated conceptions regarding individual participation. Citizens are more specialized in their interests and outlooks than traditional theory assumes, yet they are also more capable of individual resourcefulness, within the framework of a plan, than government practices encourage. Total war and also post-war society will demand…
The Use of Psychodrama in the Treatment of Speech Defects
The Grand Jury as an Agency of Social Control
The discussion should have centered around the anachronistic methods and procedures of the national life. It should also have considered the inadequate training of lawyer-judges for the tasks they regularly undertake. Modern times require modern techniques, as well as an understanding of scientific methods. This is one of the most important problems we now face after the war. The necessity for highly trained, expertly qualified individuals to fun…
Analyzing Social Problems
Social pathology
Educational Characteristics of Alcoholics. Some Critical Comments
Is There a Natural History of Social Problems
Social Pathology
Stuttering among the North Pacific Coastal Indians
Society and Personality Disorders
The Life and Death of an Indian State
The Gulf of Georgia Salish tribes — the Homalthko, Tlahoose, Sliammon and Seschelt — which are subjects of this report, present a challenging problem in Northwest Coast acculturation for the following reasons: (1) the almost complete sloughing-off at a relatively early contact period of their ceremonial culture (that is, of the potlatches and dancing rituals that are generally accepted as the main integrating features of Northwest Coast Indian cu…
Alcohol and the Northwest Coast Indians
Disorders of Character
III. Alcoholism and the Sociocultural Situation
On Alcoholism Among the Northwest Coast Indians
The Use of Alcohol in Three Salish Indian Tribes
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger
The Behavior of the Systematic Check Forger Get access Edwin M. Lemert Edwin M. Lemert University of California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 6, Issue 2, Autumn 1958, Pages 141–149, https://doi.org/10.2307/798886 Published: 08 August 2014
The Occurrence and Sequence of Events in the Adjustment of Families to Alcoholism
The Disease Concept of Alcoholism . E. M. Jellinek
Alcoholism
The Disease Concept of Alcoholism E. M. Jellinek
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Disease Concept of Alcoholism. By E. M. Jellinek. New Haven, Connecticut: Millhouse Press, 1960, ix + 246 pp. $6.00. Edwin M. Lemert Edwin M. Lemert University of California at Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 8, Issue 4, Spring 1961, Pages 373–374, https://doi.org/10.2307/799354 Published: 07 August 2014
Sociological Theory and Mental Disorder. H. Warren Dunham
Alcoholism
Book Reviews Alcoholism: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Edited by David J. Pittman. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1959. XVIII + 96 pp. $3.75. Edwin M. Lemert Edwin M. Lemert University of California at Davis Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 8, Issue 4, Spring 1961, Pages 374–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/799355 Published: 07 August 2014
Dependency in Married Alcoholics
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