William Chambliss | Academic Influence

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William Chambliss

Criminal Justice

#24

World Rank

#31

Historical Rank

#18

USA Rank

Criminology

#13

World Rank

#19

Historical Rank

#8

USA Rank

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William Chambliss

Sociology

#186

World Rank

#248

Historical Rank

#94

USA Rank

sociology Degrees

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William Chambliss's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of Washington
Masters Sociology University of Washington
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Joseph Chambliss was an American criminologist and sociologist. He was a professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at The George Washington University for over 20 years. He was a pioneer of the conflict theory which concluded, among other things, that conflict between different social classes is the fundamental force in capitalist societies. In addition to his transformative scholarly contributions, he was a teacher-scholar and mentor to many of today’s leading criminologists and sociologists.

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William Chambliss's Published Works

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Law, Order and Power (1973) (361)
A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy (1964) (335)
Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement (1994) (241)
The saints and the roughnecks (1973) (199)
Power, Politics, and Crime (1999) (178)
Toward a political economy of crime (1975) (136)
Crime and the legal process (1968) (114)
Social Problems: A Modern Approach. (1967) (96)
Making Law the State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions (1995) (85)
On the Take: From Petty Crooks to Presidents. (1988) (83)
Status Consistency and Political Attitudes (1966) (73)
The Deterrent Influence of Punishment (1966) (70)
State crime in the global age (2013) (59)
On the Validity of Official Statistics A Comparative Study of White, Black, and Japanese High-School Boys (1969) (53)
Whose Law? What Order? A Conflict Approach to Criminology (1976) (44)
Generating fear: The politics of crime reporting (1997) (42)
The Selection of Friends (1965) (40)
Criminal law in action (1975) (31)
Sociology: A Brief Introduction (1997) (27)
Slaughtering the Bison, Controlling Native Americans: A State Crime and Green Criminology Synthesis (2014) (21)
Status integration and suicide: an assessment. (1966) (19)
ON TRASHING MARXIST CRIMINOLOGY (1989) (18)
Sociological Readings in the Conflict Perspective (1973) (18)
Chiaraijima Village : land tenure, taxation and local trade 1818-1884 (1966) (16)
Markets, profits, labor and smack (1977) (15)
Another Lost War: The Costs and Consequences of Drug Prohibition (2016) (14)
Should Drugs Be Legalized (1989) (13)
Japanese Legislation in the Meiji era (1958) (11)
ON THE SYMBIOSIS BETWEEN CRIMINAL LAW AND CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR (2004) (10)
Developments in crime and crime control research : German studies on victims, offenders, and the public (1992) (10)
The Legal Process in the Community Setting (1966) (9)
Criminology: Connecting Theory, Research, and Practice (2011) (9)
The Negative Self: An Empirical Assessment of a Theoretical Assumption (1964) (6)
Urban Homicide in the United States, 1980-2010 (2015) (6)
Juvenile crime and justice (2011) (6)
The Politics of Crime Statistics (2007) (5)
Sociology: the discipline and its direction (1975) (5)
Trading Textbooks for Prison Cells. (1991) (4)
Transnational Organized Crime and Social Sciences Myths (2011) (3)
Crime and criminal behavior (2011) (3)
White Collar Crime and Criminology@@@White Collar Crime: The Uncut Version. (1984) (3)
Police and law enforcement (2011) (3)
Problems of industrial society (1973) (3)
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70. By John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003. Pp. vii+338. $49.95. (2005) (3)
Courts, law, and justice (2011) (2)
Family of Outcasts: A New Theory of Delinquency. (1966) (2)
Why the U.S. Government is Not Contributing to the Resolution of the Nation's Drug Problem (1994) (2)
A Professional Thief's Journey. (1985) (2)
Criminal Law, Criminology, and Criminal Justice: A Casebook (1991) (2)
Whose Law? What Order?: A Conflict Approach to Criminology. (1976) (2)
Sociology of the law : a research bibliography (1970) (2)
An introduction to the field of state crime research (2015) (1)
Book Review:Status Integration and Suicide: A Sociological Study. Jack P. Gibbs, Walter T. Martin (1966) (1)
A Short History of Japan. By Ian Nish. New York, Frederick A. Praeger, 1968. 238 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Glossary, Index. $6.00. (1969) (0)
Editorial statement (1977) (0)
Teaching, researching and explaining state crimes (2015) (0)
REJOINDER TO COMMENTS ON ‘THE NEGATIVE SELF’ (1966) (0)
Crime Myths And Smoke Screens (2018) (0)
8. America’s Crime Control Industry: A Self Perpetuating System (2008) (0)
Volume Information (1987) (0)
Editorial statement (1985) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
The Politics Of Fear (2018) (0)
Books Received / Livres recus ^ July/juillet 2009 (2009) (0)
Toward a Sociology of Organizational Criminal Conspiracies (2019) (0)
Finding Crime I: The Ghetto (2018) (0)
Crime and Delinquency (2022) (0)
Summary, Conclusions, And Solutions (2018) (0)
Finding Crime II: The White Lower Class (2018) (0)
BLOCKS IN COMPLEX ORGANIZATIONS (2016) (0)
Crimen estatal organizado (2019) (0)
Control, resistance and the future of state crime research (2015) (0)
Varieties of state crimes (2015) (0)
Book Review:Social Psychology. William W. Lambert, Wallace E. Lambert (1965) (0)
Book Reviews (2001) (0)
New York City Homicides 1960-2005: The Implications of Competing Interpretations (2010) (0)
The War On Drugs: America’s Ethnic Cleansing (2018) (0)
Marketing Crime: The Politics Of Crime Statistics (2018) (0)
Editorial statement (1978) (0)

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