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Steven E. Barkan is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Maine. His teaching and research interests include criminology, sociology of law and social movements. He is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems and had previously served as a member of the SSSP Board of Directors, as chair of its Law and Society Division and Editorial and Publications Committee, and as an advisory editor of its journal, Social Problems. He also previously served as a member of the council of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association and served on its student paper award committee as well as that of the ASA Crime, Law, and Deviance Section. He also served on the council of Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology honor society, and is a past president of the Text and Academic Authors Association. An earlier edition of this book was awarded the Textbook Excellence Award for Humanities/Social Sciences from this association.

Professor Barkan has written many journal articles dealing with topics such as racial prejudice and death penalty attitudes, racism and socioeconomic status as fundamental causes of street criminality, views on police brutality, political trials, and feminist and anti-hunger activism. These articles have appeared in the American Sociological Review, Critical Criminology, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Crime and Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Social Forces, Social Problems, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Perspectives and other journals.

Professor Barkan welcomes comments from students and faculty about this book. He can be reached by email.

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