Department of Sociology
801 22nd Street, NW, Suite 409
Washington, DC 20052

Phone: (202) 994-6345
Fax: (202) 994-3239
soc@gwu.edu

Steve Tuch, Chair
Ivy Ken, Graduate Studies
Daina Eglitis, Undergraduate Studies
Emily Morrison, Human Services
Octavia Kelsey, Dept. Operations Supervisor
William Chambliss

William Chambliss

Title — Professor of Sociology

Office — Phillips 409 B

Phone — 202-994-6899

E-mail — wchamb@gwu.edu

Current Research

Forthcoming: The Essence of Criminology (With Aida Haas). McGraw-Hill Publisher.

Current research focuses on the political economy of the history and contemporary practice of piracy and smuggling.

and International drug policies and their impact.

Background

Professor Chambliss has received numerous awards for his research and teaching including the prestigious Edwin H. Sutherland Award from the American Society of Criminology, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Sociological Association, the Bruce Smith Lifetime Achievement Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1999 Professor Chambliss was awarded an honorary doctorate of law from the University of Guelph, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been recognized as an outstanding teacher by being inducted into the George Washington University Chapter of Golden Key International Honour Society and the National Honor Society for Outstanding Teachers. In the spring of 2006, Prof. Chambliss participated in the Oxford Roundtable on Criminal Justice at Oxford University, England. In March 2008 Professor Chambliss delivered the Beto Chair Lecture in Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University. In May 2008, Professor Chambliss organized a workshop on state crime at the Onati International Institute for the Study of Law and Society in Onati, Spain which included papers by an international group of scholars from Europe, New Zealand, Asia, and America. He also presented two papers at the workshop: "International Drug Policy and State Crime" and "Prosecutorial Misconduct as State Crime" (with J. Jeffrey Chambliss).


Publications

Books:

    * 2011. Key Issues in Crime and Punishment (ed. five volumes). Sage.
    * 2010. State Crime in the Global Age (ed) (with Raymond Michalowski and Ronald Kramer). Willan.
    * 2004. Social Problems, Law and Society (with Richard Dello Buono and A. Kathryn Stout). NY: Rowman and Littlefield.
    * 2001. Power, Politics, and Crime. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
    * 1997. Sociology, 2nd Edition (with Richard Appelbaum). NY: Longman.
    * 1994. Making Law: The Law, State and Structural Contradictions (co-edited with Marjorie Zatz). Bloomington, IN:
                 Indiana University Press.
    * 1990. Criminal Law, Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Casebook (with Tom Courtless). Menlo Park, CA.
    * 1988. Exploring Criminology. NY: Macmillan.
    * 1984. Criminal Law in Action, 2nd Edition (editor). NY: John Wiley.
    * 1982. Law, Order and Power (with Robert Seidman). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
    * 1981. Organizing Crime (with Alan Block). NY: Elsevier.
    * 1978. On the Take. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.
    * 1976. Whose Law? What Order? (co-edited with Milton Mankoff). NY: John Wiley.
    * 1975. Sociology: The Discipline and its Direction (with Thomas E. Ryther). NY: McGraw-Hill.
    * 1975. Criminal Law in Action (editor). NY: John Wiley.
    * 1974. Problems of Industrial Society (editor). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
    * 1973. Sociological Readings in the Conflict Perspective (editor). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
    * 1972. Boxman: A Professional Thief's Journey (with Harry King). NY: Harper & Row.
    * 1971. Law, Order, and Power (with Robert B. Seidman). Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing.
    * 1970. A Research Bibliography on the Sociology of Law (with Robert B. Seidman). Berkeley, CA: Glendessary Press.
    * 1969. Crime and the Legal Process (editor). NY: McGraw-Hill.

Articles:

    * 2011. "Pink Panthers and Mafia Myths" (with Elizabeth Williams) Routledge Handbook of Transnational Organized Crime.
    * 2008. "America's Crime Control Industry: A Self Perpetuating System" in Margaret Beare (ed.) Honouring Social Justice.
                  Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
    * 2005. "Personal Journeys in Sociology." Michigan Sociological Review, 19, 1-14.
    * 1996. "Another Lost War: The Costs and Consequences of Drug Prohibition." Social Justice, 22, 101-124.
    * 1994. "Policing the Ghetto Underclass: The Politics of Law and Law Enforcement." Social Problems, May, 177-194.
    * 1989. "State Organized Crime." Criminology, 27, 183-208.
    * 1980. "On Lawmaking." British Journal of Law and Society, Winter, 149-172.
    * 1977. "Markets, Profits, Labor and Smack." Contemporary Crises, 1, 53-77.
    * 1975. "Toward a Political Economy of Crime." Theory and Society, March, 149-170.
    * 1973. "The Saints and the Roughnecks." Society Nov/Dec, 24-31.
    * 1967. "Types of Deviance and the Effectiveness of Legal Sanctions." Wisconsin Law Review, 3, 703-719.
    * 1964. "A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy." Social Problems, Summer, 67-77.

Classes Taught

SOC 2136: Criminology
SOC 2181: Organized Crime
SOC 2189: Crime in Film and Fiction
SOC 4192: Fieldwork in Criminal Justice
SOC 6238: Development of Sociological Theory
SOC 6259: Criminology