Stuart Henry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3603588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Henry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Henry |
| SIGNATURE | HENRY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | San Diego State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1931 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Complex Colorblindness in Police Processes and Practices
Racial disparities in police-community encounters are well documented, with people of color experiencing higher levels of police scrutiny. Far less is known about how police officers perceive the racial dynamics at play in their work. As part of a 2016 study of traffic stops in San Diego, we conducted in-depth interviews with 52 city police officers. Despite evidence of racial disparities in SDPD practices related to post-stop outcomes, officers …
Sanctions
Sanctions are deprivation(s) of value that inflict harm on a subject in response to an act considered a harm/offense. The deprivations exist on multiple dimensions that include limits to freedom, restrictions on time, separation from significant others, punishments to the body, transformations of social identity and status, reductions of property, all of which have a negative psychological impact. They can range from informal sanctions such as st…
Legal Systems: Private
Constitutive Criminology
Influenced primarily by social constructionism, structuration theory, and postmodernism, constitutive criminology is a subfield of critical criminology that takes a holistic approach to crime and its control, while redefining crime as expressions of power that harm others. Constitutive criminology explains crime as the outcome of the interplay of micro and macro relations of power. The approach argues that crime is a coproduction of human agents'…
School Violence Beyond Columbine: A Complex Problem in Need of an Interdisciplinary Analysis
Before Columbine, people tended to look at school violence in fragmented ways, which reflected a disciplinary analysis of social problems. Explanations about the causes of school violence tended toward psychological and developmental explanations about why school-age children become violent and social control theory about the lack of attachment and involvement by youth in conventional culture. Corresponding policies to deal with the problem focus…
Deviance, Constructionist Perspectives
Constructionist perspectives are ways of viewing reality as a human cognitive or social production. The extent to which reality is seen as having an independent existence outside the human mind or social processes distinguishes different versions of constructionist theory, as does whether the construction occurs individually or socially. Individual or personal constructionism refers to how humans make cognitive meaning of their experiences of the…
What Is Crime? Controversies over the Nature of Crime and What to Do about It
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Crime in Context: The Scope of the Problem Part 3 Classic Statements Chapter 4 The Nature of Crime Chapter 5 Who Is the Criminal? Chapter 6 Defining Patterns of Crime and Types of Offenders Chapter 7 Defenders of Order or Guardians of Human Rights? Part 8 New Directions Chapter 9 Crime as Social Interaction Chapter 10 Defining Crime in a Community Setting: Negotiation and Legitimation of Community Claims Chapter 1…
What Is School Violence: An Integrated Definition
In the analysis of school violence, there is a tendency for commentators to define the scope of the problem narrowly. Typically, they focus on interpersonal violence: between students or by students toward their teachers. In this article, it is argued that not only does the complexity of this issue defy such a simplistic framing but dealing with the problem at that level does not go far enough. It fails to address the wider context of school viol…
Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism
Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism
Legislating Just Cause, 1980-92
This article analyzes the concept of just cause that appears in the arbitration literature and in common law, and it goes on to examine the extent and nature of just cause in state legislative proposals for employment-termination law. The research summarizes the results of a survey of the fifty states between 1980 and 1993 to establish the extent to which bills on employment termination for employees of privately owned, nonunionized firms incorpo…
Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory
This paper synthesizes recent trends in the development of critical criminology into a new theoretical direction in thinking about crime. It rejects approaches to criminological theory that reduce crime to an outcome of micro causes or macro contexts. It suggests instead that thinking about crime should be reconsidered as the coterminous discursive production by human agents of an ideology of crime that sustains it as a concrete reality. It argue…
Policing for Profit: The Private Security Sector
The Criminological Context The Growth of Private Security in Britain The Nature and Range of Services in the Contract Private Security Industry In-house Security and the Security Hardware Industries Private Eyes Private Spies? Private Security Causes for Concern Self-regulation in the Private Security Sector Towards Effective Licensing, Regulation and Accountability Conclusion Limits, Possibilities and Cautious Proposals
Justice on the Margin: Can Alternative Justice be Different
This paper examines the way that extreme cases of alternative justice, that is the non‐state forms of private justice in co‐operatives, reproduce capitalist legal control forms, even where co‐optation is absent. Drawing on the constitutive social theory of Giddens and others, the paper points to the inevitability of such reproduction by marginal justice institutions. This inevitability is argued to result from marginal justice practitioners shari…
Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law
This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social control that exist ostensibly outside the formal legal system but on which it crucially depends. Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law will be of interest to students of law, sociology, and criminology. Dr. Stuart Henry is curren…
Issues and Prospects for the Study of Informal Economies: Concepts, Research Strategies, and Policy
This article considers the current state of knowledge about informal economies. Criticism of the value of the informal economy concept is addressed by considering the multiple disciplinary interests in the topic, the confusion over an appropriate definition, and the problems of classification and explanation. A multidisciplinary, macro-micro approach is suggested. The joint ethnography-sruvey method has been found to be the most productive resear…
The Political Economy of Informal Economies
This article considers the mutual interrelationship between informal economies and the wider political economy of capitalism. Four dimensions are discussed: (1) the generation of informal economies as a paradoxical outcome of distinguishing them from capitalism; (2) the support given by capitalism and reciprocated by informal economies that enables each to gain strength from their similarities; (3) the opposition to informal economies that is ref…
Disciplinary Pluralism: Four Models of Private Justice in the Workplace
This paper develops a typology of four different models of discipline that operate in the workplace. These models are derived from a systematic analysis of the literature using a framework developed by criminologists for examining crime and criminal justice systems. The analysis focuses on each model's views of human nature, social order, rule creation, crime and deviance, disciplinary procedure and philosophy of sanctioning. The analysis highlig…
Reconstructing American Law
Community Justice, Capitalist Society, and Human Agency: The Dialectics of Collective Law in the Cooperative
This paper examines the relationship between social structures and community justice. It rejects both those arguments that see community justice as independent experiments for the development of an alternative system of justice and those that see such experiments as functioning solely in the interests of dominant legal and social structures. Based on a study of the collective justice systems of a variety of small-scale cooperatives, the paper dev…
Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law
Contradictions of Collective Justice: The Case of the Co‐op Cops 1
This article draws on evidence from my recent study of non‐state forms of social control (Henry 1983) in order to demonstrate that informal collective justice is no less subject to a range of inherent contradictions than is the official criminal justice system. It is argued that while some of these contradictions can be traced to the wider social structure of capitalism in which the alternative collective forms are located, others stem directly f…
Informal Institutions: Alternative Networks in the Corporate State
The Working Unemployed: Perspectives on the Informal Economy and Unemployment
Economic Special-Opportunity Conduct and Crime
Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory
This paper synthesizes recent trends in the development of critical criminology into a new theoretical direction in thinking about crime. It rejects approaches to criminological theory that reduce crime to an outcome of micro causes or macro contexts. It suggests instead that thinking about crime should be reconsidered as the coterminous discursive production by human agents of an ideology of crime that sustains it as a concrete reality. It argue…
Community Justice, Capitalist Society, and Human Agency: The Dialectics of Collective Law in the Cooperative
This paper examines the relationship between social structures and community justice. It rejects both those arguments that see community justice as independent experiments for the development of an alternative system of justice and those that see such experiments as functioning solely in the interests of dominant legal and social structures. Based on a study of the collective justice systems of a variety of small-scale cooperatives, the paper dev…
Complex Colorblindness in Police Processes and Practices
Racial disparities in police-community encounters are well documented, with people of color experiencing higher levels of police scrutiny. Far less is known about how police officers perceive the racial dynamics at play in their work. As part of a 2016 study of traffic stops in San Diego, we conducted in-depth interviews with 52 city police officers. Despite evidence of racial disparities in SDPD practices related to post-stop outcomes, officers …
What Is School Violence: An Integrated Definition
In the analysis of school violence, there is a tendency for commentators to define the scope of the problem narrowly. Typically, they focus on interpersonal violence: between students or by students toward their teachers. In this article, it is argued that not only does the complexity of this issue defy such a simplistic framing but dealing with the problem at that level does not go far enough. It fails to address the wider context of school viol…
The Political Economy of Informal Economies
This article considers the mutual interrelationship between informal economies and the wider political economy of capitalism. Four dimensions are discussed: (1) the generation of informal economies as a paradoxical outcome of distinguishing them from capitalism; (2) the support given by capitalism and reciprocated by informal economies that enables each to gain strength from their similarities; (3) the opposition to informal economies that is ref…
The Working Unemployed: Perspectives on the Informal Economy and Unemployment
Crime at Work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft
We argue that the theft of goods from work and their subsequent resale might usefully be considered in a social anthropological frame: as the transferring of goods from our economy's dominant market exchange sphere to what we call the illegal amateur trading sphere. We show that pecuniary reward is alien to the amateur sphere and that a wide range of social features which belie normal market principles characterize the transactions. These feature…
School Violence Beyond Columbine: A Complex Problem in Need of an Interdisciplinary Analysis
Before Columbine, people tended to look at school violence in fragmented ways, which reflected a disciplinary analysis of social problems. Explanations about the causes of school violence tended toward psychological and developmental explanations about why school-age children become violent and social control theory about the lack of attachment and involvement by youth in conventional culture. Corresponding policies to deal with the problem focus…
Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law
This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social control that exist ostensibly outside the formal legal system but on which it crucially depends. Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law will be of interest to students of law, sociology, and criminology. Dr. Stuart Henry is curren…
Issues and Prospects for the Study of Informal Economies: Concepts, Research Strategies, and Policy
This article considers the current state of knowledge about informal economies. Criticism of the value of the informal economy concept is addressed by considering the multiple disciplinary interests in the topic, the confusion over an appropriate definition, and the problems of classification and explanation. A multidisciplinary, macro-micro approach is suggested. The joint ethnography-sruvey method has been found to be the most productive resear…
Disciplinary Pluralism: Four Models of Private Justice in the Workplace
This paper develops a typology of four different models of discipline that operate in the workplace. These models are derived from a systematic analysis of the literature using a framework developed by criminologists for examining crime and criminal justice systems. The analysis focuses on each model's views of human nature, social order, rule creation, crime and deviance, disciplinary procedure and philosophy of sanctioning. The analysis highlig…
Constitutive Criminology: Beyond Postmodernism
Legislating Just Cause, 1980-92
This article analyzes the concept of just cause that appears in the arbitration literature and in common law, and it goes on to examine the extent and nature of just cause in state legislative proposals for employment-termination law. The research summarizes the results of a survey of the fifty states between 1980 and 1993 to establish the extent to which bills on employment termination for employees of privately owned, nonunionized firms incorpo…
The Hidden Economy: The Context and Control of Borderline Crime
The other Side of the Fence
Concerning Our Great American Plains. A Historical Development
The Great Awakening in New England
A Miscellany of American Christianity: Essays in Honor of H. Shelton Smith
Fencing with Accounts: The Language of Moral Bridging
The other Side of the Fence
On the Fence
Crime at Work: The Social Construction of Amateur Property Theft
We argue that the theft of goods from work and their subsequent resale might usefully be considered in a social anthropological frame: as the transferring of goods from our economy's dominant market exchange sphere to what we call the illegal amateur trading sphere. We show that pecuniary reward is alien to the amateur sphere and that a wide range of social features which belie normal market principles characterize the transactions. These feature…
The Hidden Economy: The Context and Control of Borderline Crime
The Hidden Economy
Workers Who Drink: Their Treatment in an Industrial Setting (Book)
Economic Special-Opportunity Conduct and Crime
The Working Unemployed: Perspectives on the Informal Economy and Unemployment
Informal Institutions: Alternative Networks in the Corporate State
Contradictions of Collective Justice: The Case of the Co‐op Cops 1
This article draws on evidence from my recent study of non‐state forms of social control (Henry 1983) in order to demonstrate that informal collective justice is no less subject to a range of inherent contradictions than is the official criminal justice system. It is argued that while some of these contradictions can be traced to the wider social structure of capitalism in which the alternative collective forms are located, others stem directly f…
Reconstructing American Law
Community Justice, Capitalist Society, and Human Agency: The Dialectics of Collective Law in the Cooperative
This paper examines the relationship between social structures and community justice. It rejects both those arguments that see community justice as independent experiments for the development of an alternative system of justice and those that see such experiments as functioning solely in the interests of dominant legal and social structures. Based on a study of the collective justice systems of a variety of small-scale cooperatives, the paper dev…
Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law
Issues and Prospects for the Study of Informal Economies: Concepts, Research Strategies, and Policy
This article considers the current state of knowledge about informal economies. Criticism of the value of the informal economy concept is addressed by considering the multiple disciplinary interests in the topic, the confusion over an appropriate definition, and the problems of classification and explanation. A multidisciplinary, macro-micro approach is suggested. The joint ethnography-sruvey method has been found to be the most productive resear…
The Political Economy of Informal Economies
This article considers the mutual interrelationship between informal economies and the wider political economy of capitalism. Four dimensions are discussed: (1) the generation of informal economies as a paradoxical outcome of distinguishing them from capitalism; (2) the support given by capitalism and reciprocated by informal economies that enables each to gain strength from their similarities; (3) the opposition to informal economies that is ref…
Disciplinary Pluralism: Four Models of Private Justice in the Workplace
This paper develops a typology of four different models of discipline that operate in the workplace. These models are derived from a systematic analysis of the literature using a framework developed by criminologists for examining crime and criminal justice systems. The analysis focuses on each model's views of human nature, social order, rule creation, crime and deviance, disciplinary procedure and philosophy of sanctioning. The analysis highlig…
Justice on the Margin: Can Alternative Justice be Different
This paper examines the way that extreme cases of alternative justice, that is the non‐state forms of private justice in co‐operatives, reproduce capitalist legal control forms, even where co‐optation is absent. Drawing on the constitutive social theory of Giddens and others, the paper points to the inevitability of such reproduction by marginal justice institutions. This inevitability is argued to result from marginal justice practitioners shari…
Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law
This book, first published in 1983, looks at discipline in industry and shows how private justice is integrally bound up with formal law. It is a timely examination of the forms of social control that exist ostensibly outside the formal legal system but on which it crucially depends. Private Justice: Towards Integrated Theorising in the Sociology of Law will be of interest to students of law, sociology, and criminology. Dr. Stuart Henry is curren…
Policing for Profit: The Private Security Sector
The Criminological Context The Growth of Private Security in Britain The Nature and Range of Services in the Contract Private Security Industry In-house Security and the Security Hardware Industries Private Eyes Private Spies? Private Security Causes for Concern Self-regulation in the Private Security Sector Towards Effective Licensing, Regulation and Accountability Conclusion Limits, Possibilities and Cautious Proposals
Constitutive Criminology: The Maturation of Critical Theory
This paper synthesizes recent trends in the development of critical criminology into a new theoretical direction in thinking about crime. It rejects approaches to criminological theory that reduce crime to an outcome of micro causes or macro contexts. It suggests instead that thinking about crime should be reconsidered as the coterminous discursive production by human agents of an ideology of crime that sustains it as a concrete reality. It argue…
Legislating Just Cause, 1980-92
This article analyzes the concept of just cause that appears in the arbitration literature and in common law, and it goes on to examine the extent and nature of just cause in state legislative proposals for employment-termination law. The research summarizes the results of a survey of the fifty states between 1980 and 1993 to establish the extent to which bills on employment termination for employees of privately owned, nonunionized firms incorpo…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (17 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (10 works) · Economics (10 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Social science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Law and economics (8 works)