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Witnessing for sociology : sociologists in court

Author: Pamela Jenkins; J Stephen Kroll-Smith
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Witnessing for sociology.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996
(OCoLC)604150431
Online version:
Witnessing for sociology.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996
(OCoLC)608442928
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Pamela Jenkins; J Stephen Kroll-Smith
ISBN: 0275948528 9780275948528
OCLC Number: 33668050
Description: x, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Old stories, new audiences: sociological knowledge in courts / Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins --
"We don't deal in probabilities here": tales of a quantitative sociologist in court / Joseph E. Jacoby --
Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: self-defense of the statistical expert / William E. Feinberg --
Sociology and capital murder: a question of life or death / Craig J. Forsyth --
When murder may be suicide and "yes" means "I heard you": the sociologist as a cultural interpreter / Patricia G. Steinhoff --
Contested knowledge: battered women as agents and victims / Pamela J. Jenkins --
Sociology and the new religions: "brainwashing" the courts, and religious freedom / James T. Richardson --
Sociology, medicine, and chemical dependency: embedding drugs and alcohol in sociocultural contexts / Barry Kinsey --
The sociologist, gangs, and battered women: representing the discipline in the courts / Lee H. Bowker --
Sociology and negligent security: premise liability and crime prediction / Lydia Voigt and William E. Thornton, Jr. --
Obscenity and child pornography: sociology in defense of sexually oriented materials / Philip Holley --
Toxins in the environment, damage to the community: sociology and the toxic court --
J. Steven Picou --
Housing the homeless: the sociologist as expert and activist / Hilary Silver, Steven Fishbach, and Judith Kaye.
Responsibility: edited by Pamela J. Jenkins and Steve Kroll-Smith ; foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang ; afterword by Kai Erikson.

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