Witnessing for Sociology

PAMELA J. JENKINS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of New Orleans.STEVE KROLL-SMITH is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Environmental Social Science Research Institute at the University of New Orleans.

• Foreword by Marvin E. Wolfgang Old Stories, New Audiences: Sociological Knowledge in Courts by Steve Kroll-Smith and Pamela J. Jenkins The Numbers Game "We Don't Deal in Probabilities Here:" Tales of a Quantitative Sociologist in Court by Joseph E. Jacoby Shadowboxing with Mark Twain: Self Defense of the Statistical Expert by William E. Feinberg Humanizing the Defendant Sociology and Capital Murder: A Question of Life or Death by Craig J. Forsyth When Murder May Be Suicide and "Yes" Means "I Heard You": The Sociologist as Cultural Interpreter by Patricia G. Steinhoff Contested Knowledge: Battered Women as Agents and Victims by Pamela J. Jenkins Sociology, Medicine, and Psychology: Hints of a Paradigm Shift Sociology and the New Religions: "Brainwashing, the Courts, and Religious Freedom" by Jim Richardson Sociology, Medicine and Chemical Dependency: Embedding Drugs and Alcohol in Socio-Cultural Contexts by Barry Kinsey The Sociologist, Gangs, and Battered Women: Representing the Discipline in the Courts by Lee Bowker Defining the Limits of Moral Accountability Sociology and Negligent Security: Premise Liability and Crime Prediction by Lydia Voigt and William Thornton, Jr. Obscenity and Child Pornography: Sociology in Defense of Sexually-Oriented Materials by Philip Holley Toxins in the Environment, Damage to the Community: Sociology and the Toxic Tort by Steve Picou Housing the Homeless: The Sociologist as Expert and Activist by Hilary Silver, Steven Fischbach, and Judith Kaye Afterword by Kai Erikson Index