Introduction Gordon Hawkins 1
1 Corrections 29
1 Street Gangs behind Bars&James B.Jacobs 29
2 The Prosaic Sources of Prison Violence&Hans W.Mattick 46
2 Courts 59
3 The Offer That Cannot Be Refused&Hans Zeisel 59
3 Death Penalty 65
4 Hans Mattick and the Death Penalty： Sentimental Notes on Two Topics&Norval Morris 65
4 Deterrence 85
5 The Morality of Deterrence&Johannes Andenaes 85
6 The Legal Threat as an Instrument of Social Change&Franklin E.Zimring and Gordon Hawkins 100
5 Mental Illness and the Criminal Law 117
7 The Brothel Boy： A Frag-ment of a Manuscript&Norval Morris 117
6 Organized Crime 135
8 Organized Crime in Urban Society： Chicago in the Twentieth Century&Mark H.Haller 135
9 God and the Mafia&Gordon Hawkins 157
7 Police 187
10 The Historical Roots of Police Behavior： Chicago,1890-1925&Mark H.Haller 187
8 Politics of Change 209
11 The Pessimistic Hypothesis：An Immodest Proposal&Hans W.Mattick 209
12 The Popular Myth of the Victimless Crime&Dallin H.Oaks 215
13 In Defense of Decriminal-ization： A Reply to Dallin Oaks&Gordon Hawkins 233
9 Sentencing 249
14 Sentencing Reform in America&Michael H.Tonry and Norval Morris 249
15 Making the Punishment Fit the Crime： A Consumer’s Guide to Sentencing Reform&Franklin E.Zimring 267
10 Violence 279
16 Black Crime, Black Victims&Norval Morris and Michael H.Tonry 279
11 Youth Crime 289
17 The Chicago Youth Development Project&Hans W.Mattick 289
18 Kids, Groups, and Crime：Some Implications of a Well-Known Secret&Franklin E.Zimring 299
Appendix 321
In Memoriam： Hans Mattick,1920-1978&Gordon Hawkins 321
Cumulative Bibliography 329
Publications from the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, 1965-1982 329
Index 351