Disorderly Conduct

This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jackson
will stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selections
range freely over a wide spectrum of American social conditions, public
policy, and crime and punishment issues from the mid-1960s to the present.
The essays remain remarkably fresh and crucially central to issues in
contemporary American society. They will appeal to the general reader
as well as to readers with more specialized interests in the criminal
justice system and social policy.