John A Conley
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201640 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Conley |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Conley |
| SIGNATURE | CONLEY J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Against Uniformity
Marie de Gournay’s defense of figurative language and her attack on the purified language championed by the neoclassical Parisian establishment is a political as well as aesthetic polemic. The neoclassical ideal of clear, concise speech not only impoverishes language through its animus toward the use of metaphor; it assaults human subjectivity by suppressing the expression of rare emotional states through idiosyncratic symbols. The effort to impo…
The Politics of Critical Theory, by George Snedeker. Introduction by Michael Brown. Lanham, Md
The contribution of George Snedeker's The Politics of Critical Theory represents a corrective within and to the discipline of sociology, revisiting some key thinkers in order to revitalize the critical potentials of sociology. One of Snedeker's most notable interventions concerns the necessity of literary criticism for any sociology worth the name. Although Snedeker, in the end, falls short of realizing such a synthesis, his book still offers a u…
Historical perspective and criminal justice
Explaining underrepresentation of black officers in city police agencies
Doing it by the book
The Summoning of Everyman . Geoffrey Cooper , Christopher Wortham
Economics and the social reality of prisons
Police in Urban America, 1860-1920
Journal Article Police in Urban America, 1860–1920 Get access Monkkonen Eric H., Police in Urban America, 1860–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xv, 220 pp. $24.95. John A. Conley John A. Conley University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 384–386, https://doi.org/10.2307/844946 Published: 01 Oc…
Beyond Legislative Acts
In 1975 the author was appointed by the Governor to serve as the Chair of the Corrections Committee of the Oklahoma Crime Commission. That Committee was involved in the evaluation of the penal system and the development of recommendations for reform. It became apparent that neither academics nor public officials could explain why the penal system had such serious problems even though the state had conducted numerous investigations of the prisons …
Detroit and the problem of order, 1830–1880
Popular justice
Prisons, Production, and Profit
Journal Article Prisons, Production, and Profit: Reconsidering the Importance of Prison Industries Get access John A. Conley John A. Conley University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 1980, Pages 257–275, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.2.257 Published: 01 December 1980
American prisons
Criminal justice history as a field of research
The Doctrine of Friendship in Everyman
The Gawain-Poet
Chaucer the Maker . John Speirs
Explaining underrepresentation of black officers in city police agencies
Prisons, Production, and Profit
Journal Article Prisons, Production, and Profit: Reconsidering the Importance of Prison Industries Get access John A. Conley John A. Conley University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 1980, Pages 257–275, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.2.257 Published: 01 December 1980
Doing it by the book
The Doctrine of Friendship in Everyman
Chaucer the Maker . John Speirs
The Gawain-Poet
The Doctrine of Friendship in Everyman
Criminal justice history as a field of research
American prisons
Popular justice
Prisons, Production, and Profit
Journal Article Prisons, Production, and Profit: Reconsidering the Importance of Prison Industries Get access John A. Conley John A. Conley University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 14, Issue 2, Winter 1980, Pages 257–275, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/14.2.257 Published: 01 December 1980
Beyond Legislative Acts
In 1975 the author was appointed by the Governor to serve as the Chair of the Corrections Committee of the Oklahoma Crime Commission. That Committee was involved in the evaluation of the penal system and the development of recommendations for reform. It became apparent that neither academics nor public officials could explain why the penal system had such serious problems even though the state had conducted numerous investigations of the prisons …
Detroit and the problem of order, 1830–1880
Economics and the social reality of prisons
Police in Urban America, 1860-1920
Journal Article Police in Urban America, 1860–1920 Get access Monkkonen Eric H., Police in Urban America, 1860–1920. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. xv, 220 pp. $24.95. John A. Conley John A. Conley University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 26, Issue 4, October 1982, Pages 384–386, https://doi.org/10.2307/844946 Published: 01 Oc…
The Summoning of Everyman . Geoffrey Cooper , Christopher Wortham
Doing it by the book
Explaining underrepresentation of black officers in city police agencies
Historical perspective and criminal justice
The Politics of Critical Theory, by George Snedeker. Introduction by Michael Brown. Lanham, Md
The contribution of George Snedeker's The Politics of Critical Theory represents a corrective within and to the discipline of sociology, revisiting some key thinkers in order to revitalize the critical potentials of sociology. One of Snedeker's most notable interventions concerns the necessity of literary criticism for any sociology worth the name. Although Snedeker, in the end, falls short of realizing such a synthesis, his book still offers a u…
Against Uniformity
Marie de Gournay’s defense of figurative language and her attack on the purified language championed by the neoclassical Parisian establishment is a political as well as aesthetic polemic. The neoclassical ideal of clear, concise speech not only impoverishes language through its animus toward the use of metaphor; it assaults human subjectivity by suppressing the expression of rare emotional states through idiosyncratic symbols. The effort to impo…
Sociology (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Law (9 works) · History (7 works) · Art (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Psychology (5 works)