1. Introduction 1
A tool and an idea 1
Confessing society 5
Myopic Panopticon 6
Satire in science 8
2. Key Concepts 11
Context of discovery and justification 11
Rhetorical redescription 13
The concept of normalization 15
Interpretive frames constrained but not determined by data 17
Neutralization theory: Offenders as innovating ideologists 18
Public criminology 19
Area and period focus 20
3. Contours of the Battlefield 22
The abnormality paradigm 24
The normality paradigm 28
4. Discovery of Hidden Crime 39
The view from within: Moral statistics and the official control barrier 40
Per scientiam ad justitiam 46
The white-collar offender as a prototype of the hidden criminal 55
The immediate foreground 62
Sophia Moses Robison 73
Sutherland experiments in the 1930s 78
Harnessing confession: Austin Larimore Porterfield 82
The law-abiding law-breaker 91
Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study 101
Normalization of sex: The Kinsey Report 103
The Americanization of the hidden crime survey in the 1950s 108
5. He Who is Without Sin Among You Let Him Cast the First Stone: Deployment of Hidden Crime Studies in the Nordic Area 126
Twelve-year hunt for the dark number 127
Normality of crime as a policy frame 129
Anomalous findings 139
Additional sources of the normality frame 145
Later developments in hidden crime data interpretation 150
Effects of the hidden crime survey 155
6. Concluding Discussion 160
Internal logic: The diffusion of the survey method to new topics 161
Preconditions of survey penetration 163
From abnormality to flexible normalization 164
Sociological bid for disciplinary hegemony 166
The populist soil 167
Can self-report surveys increase crime? 169
The changing political uses of crime survey 171
The expanding circle 175
Bibliography 177
Index 197