Disorderly Conduct - Hardcover

Bruce Jackson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252019059 ISBN 13: 9780252019050

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1992

Synopsis

This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jackson
will stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selections
range freely over a wide spectrum of American social conditions, public
policy, and crime and punishment issues from the mid-1960s to the present.
The essays remain remarkably fresh and crucially central to issues in
contemporary American society. They will appeal to the general reader
as well as to readers with more specialized interests in the criminal
justice system and social policy.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jackson will stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selections range freely over a wide spectrum of American social conditions, public policy, and crime and punishment issues from the mid-1960s to the present: the pulse of America as felt through a row of bayonet-carrying troops on the Pentagon porch; how prisoners get through the toughest days in the toughest prison in Texas, and how narcotics cops do the same on their beats in Harlem; miners and mine owners trying to get a piece of the dream in eastern Kentucky; an upper-middle-class party in Chicago where, instead of alcohol, the host served some of the best pharmaceutical dope available in the Midwest. Jackson cares deeply about the causes and ideas he explores. A master of economical and sharp expression, he appproaches(sic) the American social scene with a rare independence and vision. Readers will learn, for example, why he believes that "most of the people who commit crimes which could send them to prison do not go", and why the prison population "reflects only that part of the criminal world that isn't smart, rich, dishonest, or lucky enough to stay out of jail". The essays in this book remain remarkably fresh and crucially central to issues in contemporary American society. They will appeal to the general reader as well as to readers with more specialized interests in the criminal justice system and social policy.

About the Author:

Jackson is a SUNY Distinguished Professor and Samuel P. Capen Professor of American Culture at the State University of New York at Buffalo.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0252019059
• ISBN 13: 9780252019050
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280