ABSTRACT
The first edition of this book was published in 1995 to mark the retirement of Sheldon L. Messinger from the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley. The scope and orientation of this Enlarged Second Edition remain the same, but we have excluded all personal tributes and references to Messinger's own contribution to the study of punishment and social control. 1In recognition of the continued growth and diversity of interest in this field, seven completely new chapters have been added2 and seven of the original chapters have been updated and revised.
