Marjorie S Zatz
Biographic Data
| ID | 301993 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie S Zatz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie S |
| FAMILY NAME | Zatz |
| SIGNATURE | ZATZ M S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 221 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Limits of Discretion: Challenges and Dilemmas of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement
The history of US immigration policy and practice reflects a series of attempts to address complex political demands and organizational tensions. Yet this complexity has rendered comprehensive immigration reform elusive in recent decades. When legislative action appears impossible, what other avenues are available to confront these challenges? During the first term of the Obama administration, prosecutorial discretion emerged as a key mechanism. …
Immigration, Crime, and Victimization: Rhetoric and Reality
Contrary to popular perceptions that immigration increases crime, the research literature demonstrates that immigration generally serves a protective function, reducing crime. This review takes as its starting point the contradiction between the rhetoric and the reality of immigration and crime in the United States. We begin by exploring the conditions under which immigration reduces crime and those under which it has less or no effect, with part…
Girls’ Experiences With Violence: An Analysis of Violence Against and by At-Risk Girls
A growing body of work has emerged that examines crime and delinquency as gendered events. Given the prevalence of violence in the lives of women and girls, scholars have used various theoretical perspectives, including feminist pathways and "doing gender," to investigate the victimization-offending overlap. The authors contribute to this literature through an analysis of juvenile court records using a sample of at-risk girls. The authors identif…
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Noncompliance with Juvenile Court Supervision
Determination of whether a youth is compliant with the conditions of probation and, if not, how to ensure future compliance is an important intermediate stage in juvenile court decision making. Yet, little is known about the conditions under which noncompliance is or is not documented in the youth's file, what happens to noncompliant youth, and whether documentation of noncompliance is influenced by race and class. Probation officers necessarily …
Youth Is Enmeshed in a Highly Dysfunctional Family System”: Exploring the Relationship Among Dysfunctional Families, Parental Incarceration, and Juvenile Court Decision Making
Although prior work has substantiated the role of external attributes in juvenile court decision making, no study to date has examined how family situational factors as well as maternal and paternal incarceration affect juvenile court officials' responses to troubled youth. Using quantitative and qualitative juvenile court data from a large urban county in the southwest, this study draws on attribution theory to examine how family structure, perc…
Criers, liars, and manipulators: Probation officers' views of girls
This study examines the perceptions of girls held by juvenile probation officers, psychologists, and others involved in juvenile court decision making. Through qualitative analysis of girls' probation case files and indepth interviews with juvenile probation officers, we discuss the social construction of gender, race, culture, and class. Our findings suggest that in an environment marked by scarce resources, gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes …
Voices From the Barrio: Chicano/a Gangs, Families, and Communities
Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 youth gang members and 20 adult neighborhood leaders and youth service providers, we explore the complicated relationships among gang members, their families, and other residents of poor Chicano/a and Mexicano/a barrios in Phoenix. Listening to the multiple voices of community members allows for a multifaceted understanding of the complexities and contradictions of gang life, both for the youths and for the la…
Making Law: The State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions
Preface: Marjorie S. Structural Contradictions 1. On Lawmaking William J. Chambliss 2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control William J. Chambliss 3. The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin William J. Chambliss 4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest Dilemmas Raymond J. Michalowski 5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Isreal Ephraim Tabory PART II. Ideology 6. Structural Contradic…
Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies
This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing on how women have grappled with political subordination and sexual exploitation, the contributors confront the complex intersection of class, race, eth…
Using and Abusing Mexican Farmworkers: The Bracero Program and the INS
nUited States immigration policy historically has been plagued by the contradictory demands of capitalists for foreign workers and of domestic labor for limits on immigration to reduce wage suppression and competition for jobs. Foreign relations and fiscal concerns add to policymakers' frustrations. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has the seemingly impossible job of controlling illegal immigration without harming an economy that …
Popular Justice in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Cultural Capital, Gender, and the Structural Transformation of Legal Practice
In this article we clarify and modify Marxian and postindustrial predictions about the structural transformation of the legal profession, especially as they relate to gender differences in the law firm. In doing so, we utilize the concept of cultural capital and highlight the changing gender stratification of legal practice. We find that there is a growing centralization and concentration of cultural capital in law firms, so that both men and wom…
The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing
Racial/ethnic discrimination in criminal justice processing has been the subject of heated debate for several decades. This article traces findings from four historical waves of research on sentencing disparities. Particular attention is given to changes in research methodologies and data sources, the social contexts within which research has been conducted, and the various forms that bias can manifest. It explores the change from findings of ove…
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1925
Los Cholos: Legal Processing of Chicano Gang Members
Recent work suggests that the label “gang member” is an important contingency in the legal processing of juveniles. An event-history analysis of 1,916 court referrals for 257 Chicano boys indicates that gang membership does not have an independent impact on their rate of movement through the juvenile court system to various outcomes. However, the effects of school performance, prior record, offense characteristics, and complaint type on rates of …
Pleas, priors, and prison: Racial/ethnic differences in sentencing
The social organization of criminal justice processing: An event history analysis
Race, Ethnicity, and Determinate Sentencing: A New Dimension to an Old Controversy
A study of 4729 sentences handed out during the first year of determinate sentencing in California shows subtle differences in the sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and Chicanos. As expected, main effects of race/ethnicity are not found. However, the type of offense, mode of disposition, and the defendant's prior record do affect sentencing differently, even with determinate sentencing, depending on the defendant's race/ethnicity. The detrimental eff…
Comparative Deviance and C riminology
Race, Ethnicity, and Determinate Sentencing: A New Dimension to an Old Controversy
A study of 4729 sentences handed out during the first year of determinate sentencing in California shows subtle differences in the sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and Chicanos. As expected, main effects of race/ethnicity are not found. However, the type of offense, mode of disposition, and the defendant's prior record do affect sentencing differently, even with determinate sentencing, depending on the defendant's race/ethnicity. The detrimental eff…
Immigration, Crime, and Victimization: Rhetoric and Reality
Contrary to popular perceptions that immigration increases crime, the research literature demonstrates that immigration generally serves a protective function, reducing crime. This review takes as its starting point the contradiction between the rhetoric and the reality of immigration and crime in the United States. We begin by exploring the conditions under which immigration reduces crime and those under which it has less or no effect, with part…
Voices From the Barrio: Chicano/a Gangs, Families, and Communities
Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 youth gang members and 20 adult neighborhood leaders and youth service providers, we explore the complicated relationships among gang members, their families, and other residents of poor Chicano/a and Mexicano/a barrios in Phoenix. Listening to the multiple voices of community members allows for a multifaceted understanding of the complexities and contradictions of gang life, both for the youths and for the la…
Los Cholos: Legal Processing of Chicano Gang Members
Recent work suggests that the label “gang member” is an important contingency in the legal processing of juveniles. An event-history analysis of 1,916 court referrals for 257 Chicano boys indicates that gang membership does not have an independent impact on their rate of movement through the juvenile court system to various outcomes. However, the effects of school performance, prior record, offense characteristics, and complaint type on rates of …
Cultural Capital, Gender, and the Structural Transformation of Legal Practice
In this article we clarify and modify Marxian and postindustrial predictions about the structural transformation of the legal profession, especially as they relate to gender differences in the law firm. In doing so, we utilize the concept of cultural capital and highlight the changing gender stratification of legal practice. We find that there is a growing centralization and concentration of cultural capital in law firms, so that both men and wom…
Pleas, priors, and prison: Racial/ethnic differences in sentencing
Youth Is Enmeshed in a Highly Dysfunctional Family System”: Exploring the Relationship Among Dysfunctional Families, Parental Incarceration, and Juvenile Court Decision Making
Although prior work has substantiated the role of external attributes in juvenile court decision making, no study to date has examined how family situational factors as well as maternal and paternal incarceration affect juvenile court officials' responses to troubled youth. Using quantitative and qualitative juvenile court data from a large urban county in the southwest, this study draws on attribution theory to examine how family structure, perc…
The social organization of criminal justice processing: An event history analysis
The Limits of Discretion: Challenges and Dilemmas of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement
The history of US immigration policy and practice reflects a series of attempts to address complex political demands and organizational tensions. Yet this complexity has rendered comprehensive immigration reform elusive in recent decades. When legislative action appears impossible, what other avenues are available to confront these challenges? During the first term of the Obama administration, prosecutorial discretion emerged as a key mechanism. …
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Noncompliance with Juvenile Court Supervision
Determination of whether a youth is compliant with the conditions of probation and, if not, how to ensure future compliance is an important intermediate stage in juvenile court decision making. Yet, little is known about the conditions under which noncompliance is or is not documented in the youth's file, what happens to noncompliant youth, and whether documentation of noncompliance is influenced by race and class. Probation officers necessarily …
Popular Justice in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Using and Abusing Mexican Farmworkers: The Bracero Program and the INS
nUited States immigration policy historically has been plagued by the contradictory demands of capitalists for foreign workers and of domestic labor for limits on immigration to reduce wage suppression and competition for jobs. Foreign relations and fiscal concerns add to policymakers' frustrations. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has the seemingly impossible job of controlling illegal immigration without harming an economy that …
Comparative Deviance and C riminology
Race, Ethnicity, and Determinate Sentencing: A New Dimension to an Old Controversy
A study of 4729 sentences handed out during the first year of determinate sentencing in California shows subtle differences in the sentencing of Whites, Blacks, and Chicanos. As expected, main effects of race/ethnicity are not found. However, the type of offense, mode of disposition, and the defendant's prior record do affect sentencing differently, even with determinate sentencing, depending on the defendant's race/ethnicity. The detrimental eff…
Los Cholos: Legal Processing of Chicano Gang Members
Recent work suggests that the label “gang member” is an important contingency in the legal processing of juveniles. An event-history analysis of 1,916 court referrals for 257 Chicano boys indicates that gang membership does not have an independent impact on their rate of movement through the juvenile court system to various outcomes. However, the effects of school performance, prior record, offense characteristics, and complaint type on rates of …
Pleas, priors, and prison: Racial/ethnic differences in sentencing
The social organization of criminal justice processing: An event history analysis
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1925
The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing
Racial/ethnic discrimination in criminal justice processing has been the subject of heated debate for several decades. This article traces findings from four historical waves of research on sentencing disparities. Particular attention is given to changes in research methodologies and data sources, the social contexts within which research has been conducted, and the various forms that bias can manifest. It explores the change from findings of ove…
Cultural Capital, Gender, and the Structural Transformation of Legal Practice
In this article we clarify and modify Marxian and postindustrial predictions about the structural transformation of the legal profession, especially as they relate to gender differences in the law firm. In doing so, we utilize the concept of cultural capital and highlight the changing gender stratification of legal practice. We find that there is a growing centralization and concentration of cultural capital in law firms, so that both men and wom…
Popular Justice in Revolutionary Nicaragua
Using and Abusing Mexican Farmworkers: The Bracero Program and the INS
nUited States immigration policy historically has been plagued by the contradictory demands of capitalists for foreign workers and of domestic labor for limits on immigration to reduce wage suppression and competition for jobs. Foreign relations and fiscal concerns add to policymakers' frustrations. The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has the seemingly impossible job of controlling illegal immigration without harming an economy that …
Building with Our Hands: New Directions in Chicana Studies
This is the first interdisciplinary collection of articles addressing the unique history of Chicana women. From a diverse range of perspectives, a new generation of Chicana scholars here chronicles the previously undocumented rich tapestry of Chicanas' lives over the last three centuries. Focusing on how women have grappled with political subordination and sexual exploitation, the contributors confront the complex intersection of class, race, eth…
Making Law: The State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions
Preface: Marjorie S. Structural Contradictions 1. On Lawmaking William J. Chambliss 2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime Control William J. Chambliss 3. The Political Economy of Opium and Heroin William J. Chambliss 4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest Dilemmas Raymond J. Michalowski 5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in Isreal Ephraim Tabory PART II. Ideology 6. Structural Contradic…
Voices From the Barrio: Chicano/a Gangs, Families, and Communities
Based on in‐depth interviews with 33 youth gang members and 20 adult neighborhood leaders and youth service providers, we explore the complicated relationships among gang members, their families, and other residents of poor Chicano/a and Mexicano/a barrios in Phoenix. Listening to the multiple voices of community members allows for a multifaceted understanding of the complexities and contradictions of gang life, both for the youths and for the la…
Criers, liars, and manipulators: Probation officers' views of girls
This study examines the perceptions of girls held by juvenile probation officers, psychologists, and others involved in juvenile court decision making. Through qualitative analysis of girls' probation case files and indepth interviews with juvenile probation officers, we discuss the social construction of gender, race, culture, and class. Our findings suggest that in an environment marked by scarce resources, gender and racial/ethnic stereotypes …
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Noncompliance with Juvenile Court Supervision
Determination of whether a youth is compliant with the conditions of probation and, if not, how to ensure future compliance is an important intermediate stage in juvenile court decision making. Yet, little is known about the conditions under which noncompliance is or is not documented in the youth's file, what happens to noncompliant youth, and whether documentation of noncompliance is influenced by race and class. Probation officers necessarily …
Youth Is Enmeshed in a Highly Dysfunctional Family System”: Exploring the Relationship Among Dysfunctional Families, Parental Incarceration, and Juvenile Court Decision Making
Although prior work has substantiated the role of external attributes in juvenile court decision making, no study to date has examined how family situational factors as well as maternal and paternal incarceration affect juvenile court officials' responses to troubled youth. Using quantitative and qualitative juvenile court data from a large urban county in the southwest, this study draws on attribution theory to examine how family structure, perc…
Immigration, Crime, and Victimization: Rhetoric and Reality
Contrary to popular perceptions that immigration increases crime, the research literature demonstrates that immigration generally serves a protective function, reducing crime. This review takes as its starting point the contradiction between the rhetoric and the reality of immigration and crime in the United States. We begin by exploring the conditions under which immigration reduces crime and those under which it has less or no effect, with part…
Girls’ Experiences With Violence: An Analysis of Violence Against and by At-Risk Girls
A growing body of work has emerged that examines crime and delinquency as gendered events. Given the prevalence of violence in the lives of women and girls, scholars have used various theoretical perspectives, including feminist pathways and "doing gender," to investigate the victimization-offending overlap. The authors contribute to this literature through an analysis of juvenile court records using a sample of at-risk girls. The authors identif…
The Limits of Discretion: Challenges and Dilemmas of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement
The history of US immigration policy and practice reflects a series of attempts to address complex political demands and organizational tensions. Yet this complexity has rendered comprehensive immigration reform elusive in recent decades. When legislative action appears impossible, what other avenues are available to confront these challenges? During the first term of the Obama administration, prosecutorial discretion emerged as a key mechanism. …
Political science (17 works) · Law (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Ethnic group (5 works)