Diana R Gordon

Biographic Data

ID3876640
NAMEDiana R Gordon
GIVEN NAMESDiana R
FAMILY NAMEGordon
SIGNATUREGORDON D R
AFFILIATIONSCity University of New York
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS25
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX3

  • Public-empowering justice

    Open AccessDiana R GordonARTICLEPunishment & Society2006References: 9

    In mature democracies citizens are being gradually empowered to make important decisions about how to handle crime and disorder and to assume an active role in making their communities safer. Do the justifications for this partial shift away from the commitment to adversarial, state-centered criminal justice apply to democratizing countries? Viewed individually, the arguments for public-empowering justice in transitional states are all quite part…

  • Democratic consolidation and community policing

    Diana R GordonARTICLEPolicing & Society2001Cited by: 8References: 16

    Community policing is currently seen as essential to public policing in a democracy. Yet the consolidation of a new democracy poses potentially conflicting demands that may defeat efforts to move in this direction. The study reported here examines the rise and decline of Community Police Forums in South Africa, a high‐priority effort to democratize the state police during the 1994–1999 transition from apartheid to democracy. The South African exp…

  • Law in Politics

    Open AccessJohn C Brigham, John Brigham et al.ARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1996

    This article examines politics on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, for evidence of law at the constitutive level. We see legal relations shaping grassroots struggles over public space and housing as forums, claims, and political positions. This view challenges instrumental conceptions of law still prominent in some social-scientific approaches.

  • Law in Politics

    Open AccessJohn C Brigham, John Brigham et al.ARTICLELaw & Social Inquiry1996Cited by: 3

    This article examines politics on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York City, for evidence of law at the constitutive level. We see legal relations shaping grassroots struggles over public space and housing as forums, claims, and political positions. This view challenges instrumental conceptions of law still prominent in some social-scientific approaches

  • The Return of the Dangerous Classes

    James A Inciardi, Diana R GordonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1995

    The on in America continues to be fought with old weapons. Harsh punishments continue to be handed out to offenders, but these measures fail to control the most forms of illicit drug use. This text identifies a shadow agenda sustaining the war on drugs, in which fighting drugs offers an opportunity for both political elites and ordinary citizens to create enemies - blacks, youths, immigrants - who can be blamed for American social and economic il…

  • Urban Crime Policy

    Diana R Gordon, Jack R Greene et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs1992Cited by: 2References: 4

    Crime is not a problem of the justice system. Rather, criminal activity results from social factors beyond the direct control of justice agencies. There are limits to the ability of the justice system to reduce crime through more arrests, convictions, and harsher punishments. The authors explore the effects of crime control policy and debate beliefs held by victims of crime. Justice agencies, they argue, can contribute to improving the quality of…

  • The American Way of Crime Control

    Jerome H Skolnick, Diana R GordonARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1990

  • The Electronic Panopticon

    Open AccessDiana R GordonARTICLELatin American Politics and Society1987Cited by: 12

  • Parole

    Open AccessDiana R GordonARTICLEPolitical Science Quarterly1977

  • Cities, Crisis and Change

    David R Morgan, Edward C Banfield et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1974