About the Book:” . . . a distinct, broad, but compelling framework for examining a variety of laws and social policies.” Legal Studies Forum” . . . a very rich volume that has something to offer to many different tastes . . . an excellent companion to the main textbook in a large undergraduate law-and-society course.” Contemporary SociologyNo issue has captured the imagination of social scientists and legal scholars more consistently than the creation of laws. The political implications of the study of law and society often create ideological diatribes with little attention to empirical detail. In this book, legal scholars, sociologists, political scientists, and anthropologists join in an attempt to develop and refine a structural theory of law.Table of Contents: Preface: Marjorie S. ZatzAcknowledgmentsPART I. Structural Contradictions1. On LawmakingWilliam J. Chambliss2. The Creation of Criminal Law and Crime ControlWilliam J. Chambliss3. The Political Economy of Opium and HeroinWilliam J. Chambliss4. The Contradictions of Corrections: An Inquiry into Nest DilemmasRaymond J. Michalowski5. Anti-Democratic Legislation in the Service of Democracy: Anti-Racism in IsrealEphraim TaboryPART II. Ideology6. Structural Contradictions and Ideological Consistency: Changes in the Form and Content of Cuban Criminal LawMarjorie S. Zatz and James H. McDonald7. Worker Safety, Law, and Social Change: The Italian Case Kitty Calavita8. Understanding the Emrgence of Law and Public Policy: Toward a Relational Model of the StateNancy A. Wonders and Frederic I. SolopPART III. Conflicts and Dilemmas9. The Contradictions of Immigration Lawmaking: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986Kitty Calavita10. Toward a Class-Dialectical Model of Power: An Empirical Assessment of Three Competing Models of Political PowerJ. Allen Whitt11. State-Organized CrimeWilliam J. Chambliss12. State-Organized Homicide: A study of Seven CIP Plans to Assassinate Fidel CastroMark S. HammPART IV. Strategies and Triggering Events13. Social Structure, Crime, and Politics: A Conflict Model of the Criminal Law Formation ProcessEdmund F. Mcarrell and Thomas C. Catellano14. Other People’s Money Revisited: Collective Embezzlement in the Savings and Loan and Insurance Industries15. Structural Contradictions and th production of New Legal Institutions: The Transformation of Industrial Accident Law RevisitedRyken GrattetPART V. Conclusions16. Future DiretionsMarjorie S. Zatz and William J. ChamblissContributors Index