A Sociology of Crime

Stephen Hester was Professor of Sociology at Bangor University, UK. He retired in 2009 but continued to be active in ethnomethodological and conversation-analytic research. He authored, co-authored or co-edited eight books and over forty articles and book chapters, notably An Invitation to Ethnomethodology and Orders of Ordinary Action, both with David Francis, and Descriptions of Deviance, a book on membership categorization analysis left unfinished at his untimely death in April 2014. Peter Eglin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He has been Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universität Konstanz and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford. As a visiting professor he has taught at the University of Toronto, Northumbria University and Bangor University. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. He has contributed chapters to the Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights (2013) and the Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture (2014). He wrote extensively with Stephen Hester, including the monograph The Montreal Massacre.

1. Sociology

Part I: Positively UndertakenIntroduction
2. State
3. Society

Part II: Interpretatively Turned

Introduction
4. Claims-Making
5. Defining the Situation
6. Practical Reasoning

Part III: Politically Challenged
Introduction
7. Class
8. Gender
9. Race

Part IV: Epistemically UnderminedIntroduction
10. Power
11. People?

12: Conclusion