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.