Law and Society (11th Edition) – PDF

About The Author

Steven E. Barkan

Professor Steven E. Barkan is Professor of Sociology at the University of Maine, where he has taught since 1979. His teaching and research interests include sociology of law, criminology, and social movements. Barkan is a past president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) and has served as chair of its Law and Society Division and as a Council member of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. His articles have appeared in the Justice Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Journal of Crime and Justice, American Sociological Review, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency,and other journals. He is the author of several forthcoming textbooks, including Race, Crime, and Criminal Justice in America with Oxford University Press.

Steven Vago

Dr. Steven Vago earned two Ph.D.s: one in Anthropology and one in Sociology at Washington University in St. Louis. During graduate school, he was an integral part of the creation of an alcohol treatment program at Malcolm Bliss Hospital in St. Louis. Vago became part of the Department of Sociology at St. Louis University after finishing his graduate studies and was a full professor there by the age of 37. Thereafter, Steve chaired the Department of Sociology several times, teaching at St. Louis University for over thirty years. During the 1970s, Vago was asked by the United Nations to work for its member agency UNESCO and worked in Paris for several years in their Office of Population and Demography. At the end of his teaching career in 2001, Dr. Vago retired to Bellingham, Washington, with his wife. Vago passed away in 2010, at the age of 73.