Books written by Kitty Calavita

Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

This finding is consistent with our qualitative data in which several of the law enforcement informants mentioned the reluctance of the U.S. Attorney in the Northern District to pursue S & L crooks . 18. Stephen Pizzo and Paul Muolo ...
Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis

Crime: Two Models of Criminogenesis. ... “United States of America before the Office of Thrift Supervision: In the Matter of Thomas Speigel, Former Director and Chief Executive Officer, ... New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989.
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic

At the informal level, Thomas was told, “We will schedule you in accordance with numerical order of consults.” Three months later, he was sent to an outside hospital for a CAT scan. By the time of his second review, Thomas had been ...
Immigrants at the Margins: Law, Race, and Exclusion in Southern Europe

Exposes the tension between the legal status of immigrants and the government emphasis on integration.
Inside the State: The Bracero Program, Immigration, and the I. N. S.

Digging deeper reveals the persistence of a structural catch-22.The digital edition features quality formatting, scaled tables, linked notes, active TOC, and even a fully linked subject-matter index.
Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

This harmony ideology, with its strong value placed on compromise and cooperation, was eventually incorporated into the local society and legal order. The Zapotec then exploited this “rhetoric of peace” as a shield with which they ...
Appealing to Justice: Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and Carceral Logic

Ultimately, Appealing to Justice reveals a system fraught with impediments and dilemmas, which delivers neither justice, nor efficiency, nor constitutional conditions of confinement.
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924

Now in its second edition, this groundbreaking book offers a materialist theory of the state to explain the zigzagging policies that alternately encouraged and ostensibly were meant to control the influx.
Invitation to Law and Society, Second Edition: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

... of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice by Lawrence M. Solan and Peter M. Tiersma Human Rights and Gender Violence: Translating International Law into Social Justice by Sally Engle Merry Just Words, Second Edition: Law, Language, ...
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1924

- Now in its Second Edition, this groundbreaking book offers a materialist theory of the state to explain the zigzagging policies that alternately encouraged and ostensibly were meant to control the influx.
Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to the use of the law in everyday life, as well as its potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its ...
Invitation to Law and Society: An Introduction to the Study of Real Law

While surveying prominent issues and distinctive approaches to the use of the law in everyday life, as well as its potential as a tool for social change, this volume provides a view of law that is more real but just as compelling as its ...
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor, 1820-1924

U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor, 1820-1924
California's "employer Sanctions": The Case of the Disappearing Law

Research report, commentary on the evolution and demise of 1971 labour legislation in California, USA restricting the employment of irregular migrants - discusses the theoretical background of "symbolic legal action",...