seems to be a resistance to everyday domination defined less by anger and defiance than by dignity and humor.

labeling theory suggests that to understand crime we must understand the social processes through which crime is constructed.

if the empire could offer a sort of shambling material self-reliance, could it offer some sort of analytic and aesthetic self-reliance, too?

I also hoped to do my job as a criminologist.

themselves, inevitably, in the middle of larger debates over morality, decency, justice, and the social good.

acquisition and exchange except, well, shopping at the mall.

intimately, sensually, filthily, from the bottom up,

presenting in their analysis of these processes their own critical judgments about social benefit and social harm.

the morality of this work is also marginal;