Symbolic Justice
The Status Politics of the American Probation Movement
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10563166 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Hagan (0000-0002-4262-9822, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 295-309 |
| Publication date | 1979-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Focus (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0237 • E-ISSN: 2162-1128 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00380237.1979.10570354 |
| OpenAlex | W2322531378 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 32 |
This paper addresses in substantive terms an emerging debate between Marxian and Weberian perspectives on crime and law. It is argued that the cooptive character of the American probation movement and its impact on juvenile and criminal law is an anomaly for orthodox Marxian theory and its preoccupation with coercive strategies of crime control. Revisionist Marxian perspectives similarly fail to account for the growth of this movement. An alternative Weberian approach is then articulated. It is found that probation legislation evolved at a federal level in juxtaposition to American temperance legislation, drawing its base of support from status groups reluctant to support the latter social movement, as well as from the leadership and rank and file organization of a voluntary association, the National Probation Association. The attention of a Weberian approach to such factors of organization and status helps to correct a one-sidedness in the Marxian class analysis of crime and law
Character (mathematics · Crime control · Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Legislation · Movement (music · Political science · Politics · Rank (graph theory · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Law
Sociological methodology, 1969
Social control of the welfare state
Symbolic crusade
Punishment and Social Structure
The Fiscal Crisis of the State
The structure of scientific revolutions
Criminality and legal order
The discovery of the asylum
Handbook of Criminology
The New Criminology
One Hundred Years of Probation 1841-1941
The Progress of Probation and Social Treatment in the Courts
The Common Law History of Probation. An Illustration of the "Equitable" Growth of Criminal Law
Adult Probation Laws of the United States
The Courts Interpret the Federal Probation Act
Robustness in Regression Analysis
Law, Morality and Society
Class, Conflict, and Criminalization
The Development of the Federal Probation System
Rediscovering Delinquency
The Assignment of Numbers to Rank Order Categories
Symbols and Political Quiescence
Madness and Segregative Control
Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance
Moral Passage
Philosophy and Sociology of Crime Control
Path Analysis and Ordinal Data
On one-dimensional Marxist criminology
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1980 - 1987 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |