William T. Lyons, Jr. is Doctor and Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science, University of Akron, USA.

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• Contents: Series preface; Introduction. Police Powers: Street stops and broken windows: terry, race and disorder in New York City, Jeffrey Fagan and Garth Davies; Theorizing policing: the drama and myth of crime control in the NYPD, Peter K. Manning; The role of procedural justice and legitimacy in shaping public support for policing, Jason Sunshine and Tom R. Tyler; Schools as communities: the relationships among communal school organization, student bonding and school disorder, Allison Ann Payne, Denise C. Gottfredson and Gary D. Gottfredson; Legal cynicism and (subcultural?) tolerance of deviance: the neighborhood context of racial differences, Robert J. Sampson and Dawn Jeglum Bartusch. Racial Profiling: Deadly symbiosis: when ghetto and prison meet and mesh, Loïc Wacquant; Race and place: the ecology of racial; profiling African American motorists, Albert J. Meehan and Michael C. Ponder; Narratives of the death sentence: toward a theory of legal narrativity, Benjamin Fleury-Steiner; Executing Hortons: racial crime in the 1988 Presidential campaign, Tali Mendelberg; Racial typification of crime and support for punitive measures, Ted Chiricos, Kelly Welch and Marc Gertz.The Incarceration Explosion: Ballot manipulation and the 'menace of negro domination': racial threat and felon disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002, Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza; The impact of incarceration on wage mobility and inequality, Bruce Western ; The mark of a criminal record, Devah Pager;Coercive mobility and crime: a preliminary examination of concentrated incarceration and social disorganization, Todd R. Clear, Dina R. Rose, Elin Waring and Kirsten Scully; Why are US incarceration rates so high?, Michael Tonry. Political Challenges: The punishment across time and space: a pooled time-series analysis of imprisonment rates, David Jacobs and Jason T. Carmichael; The politics of punishing: building a state governance theory of American imprisonment, Vanessa Barker; The political response to black insurgency: a critical test of competing theories of the State, Richard C. Fording; Megan's Law: crime and democracy in late modern America, Jonathan Simon; The politics of crime and punishment, William Lyons and Stuart Scheingold; Name index.