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Robert Jackall

Class of 1956 Prof. of
Sociology & Public Affairs

B.A. Fordham University
Ph.D. New School for Social Research

MAJOR INTERESTS

  • Bureaucracy & punishment
  • Violence
  • Terrorism & national security
  • Occupations & professions

SELECTED RECENT PUBLICATIONS

  • Moral Mazes: The World of Corporate Managers Oxford University Press, 1988
  • Propaganda (1995), editor. Main Trends of the Modern World Series, Arthur J. Vidich and Robert Jackall, eds. NYU Press, 1994
  • Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders & the Forces of Order Harvard University Press, 1997
  • Image Makers: Advertising, Public Relations, and the Ethos of Advocacy with Janice M. Hirota; University of Chicago Press, 2000
  • "Review Essay: What Kind of Order?" Criminal Justic Ethics 2003 (downloadable as an Adobe Acrobat pdf)
  • Street Stories: The World of Police Detectives (Harvard University Press, 2005).
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