Focusing on a variety of criminal activities, the author applies his structural criminology to the relationships of power which operate in a range of institutional spheres. He looks at the relationship between class and criminality, showing the inadequacy of a simple causal link and discussing the prevalence of "white collar" crime. Hagan sees other significant structures of power in the relative influence of corporate actors - for example large commercial establishments - who bring charges against individuals, and he analyzes both the legal outcome of such conflicts and the symbolic aspects of sentencing and judicial operations in general. Throughout, these essays stress the structural importance of unemployment, race and gender in the legal definitions of criminal behaviour and the need to situate each factor within its complex of power relationships.
Prologue : toward a structural criminology
White-collar crime and punishment
Corporate advantage
Addictive sanction
Ceremonial justice
Race, class and the perception of criminal injustice
Power-control theory of gender and delinquency
Class dynamics of the family and delinquency
Feminist scholarship and power-control theory
Gender and the search for deviant role exits
Epilogue : future of structural criminology
White-collar crime and punishment
Corporate advantage
Addictive sanction
Ceremonial justice
Race, class and the perception of criminal injustice
Power-control theory of gender and delinquency
Class dynamics of the family and delinquency
Feminist scholarship and power-control theory
Gender and the search for deviant role exits
Epilogue : future of structural criminology
