Reading Suggestions
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Social Psychology Student

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Other Reading Lists Rachelle Thibodeau's Activism & Psychology Resources Page includes great bibliographies the Radical Psychology Nework's Books & Reviews Page has short reviews and other information introductions to the 19 chapters in Critical Psychology: An Introduction (Fox & Prilleltensky, 1997) East Side Institute for Short Term Psychotherapy's Bibliography (more philosophically oriented) readings for a seminar on Corporate Domination list of critical articles published in the APA's journal American Psychologist   Please let me know about other lists to include here

Page 2 Societal Trends (Technology, Community, Individualism, Inequality, Corporations, more) Anarchism Tragedy of the Commons Environment, Communalism, & Utopia Power, Oppression, Law, & Social Change Page 1 List Purpose Psychology & the Status Quo Education, Training, Research, & Publication Human Nature, Human Origins, & Personality Family, Sex Roles, Feminism, Developmental Psychology Mental Disorder, Disability, & the Therapeutic State

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Societal Trends (Technology, Community, Individualism, Capitalism, Corporations, Inequality, more)

Argyle, Michael (1991). Cooperation: The Basis of Sociability. London: Routledge.

Barnet, Richard J. & Cavanagh, John (1994). Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and the New World Order. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Coleman, James S. (1982). The Asymmetric Society. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press.

Conway, F., & Siegelman, J. (1979). Snapping: America's epidemic of sudden personality change. New York: Delta.

Conway, F., & Siegelman, J. (1984). Holy terror: The fundamentalist war on America's freedoms in religion, politics, and our private lives. New York: Delta.

Coontz, Stephanie. (1992). The way we never were: American families and the nostalgia trap. New York: Basic Books.

Edney, Julian. Greed.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. (1990). Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class. New York: Harper Perennial.

Ellul, J. (1964). The Technological Society. New York: Vintage.

Etzioni, Amitai. (1993). The Spirit of Community. New York: Touchstone.

Fox, Dennis R. (1986). Technology, Productivity, and Psychological Needs. In J. W. Murphy & J. T. Pardeck (Eds.), Technology and Human Productivity: Challenges For The Future (pp. 59-66). Westport, CT: Greenwood Press.

Fox, Dennis R. (1996).The Law Says Corporations are Persons, but Psychology Knows Better. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 14, 339-359.

Fromm, Erich (1941). Escape from freedom. New York: Holt, Rinehart.

Fromm, Erich (1955). The sane society. New York: Holt, Rinehart.

Gans, H. J. (1973). More equality. New York: Vintage.

Garson, Barbara (1988). Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers are Transforming the Office of the Future into the Factory of the Past. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Goodman, Paul. (1971). Confusion and Disorder. In Drawing the Line: The Political Essays of Paul Goodman. New York: Dutton, 1977.

Green, P. (1981). The pursuit of inequality. New York: Pantheon.

Gross, B. (1980). Friendly fascism: The new face of power in America. Boston: South End Press.

Gusfield, J. R. (1975). Community: A critical response. New York: Harper.

Hacker, Andrew. (1995). Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (Expanded and Updated). New York: Ballantine.

Harris, M. (1981). America now: The anthropology of a changing culture. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Hawken, P., Ogilvy, J., & Schwartz, P. (1982). Seven tomorrows: Toward a voluntary history. New York: Bantam Books.

Herman, Edward W., & Chomsky, Noam (1988). Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media. New York: Pantheon.

Hirsch, F. (1978). Social limits to growth. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Hochschild, J. L. (1981). What's fair? American beliefs about distributive justice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Jorstad, E. (1981). The politics of moralism: The new Christian right in American life. Minneapolis: Augsburg.

Kasser, Tim. (2002). The High Price of Materialism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Kasser, T., & Kanner, A. D. (Eds.) (2003) Psychology and Consumer Culture: The Struggle for a Good Life in a Materialistic World. Washington, DC: APA Books.

Korten, David C. (1995).When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT & San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers & Kumarian Press.

Lasch, C. (1979). The culture of narcissism: American life in an age of diminishing expectations. New York: Warner.

Mander, J. (1978). Four arguments for the elimination of television. New York: Morrow Quill.

Mansbridge, Jane J. (Ed.) (1990). Beyond Self-Interest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mitchell, A. (1983). The nine American lifestyles: Who we are and where we are going. New York: Warner.

Postman, Neil, & Powers, Steve. (1992). How to Watch TV News. New York: Penguin.

Putney, S., & Putney, G. J. (1964). The adjusted American: Normal neuroses in the individual and society. New York: Harper.

Reich, C. A. (1970). The greening of America: How the youth revolution is trying to make America livable. New York: Random House.

Rifkin, J. (1981). Entropy: A new world view. New York: Bantam.

Ritz, Dean (Ed.). (2001). Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy: A Book of History and Strategy. New York: Apex Press.

Roszak, T. (1969). The making of a counter culture: Reflections on the technocratic society and its youthful opposition. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.

Rothenberg, Paula S. (1995). Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (3rd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press.

Rushikoff, Douglas. (1994). Media Virus! Hidden Agendas in Popular Culture. New York: Ballantine Books.

Sale, Kirkpatrick. (1995). Rebels against the future: The Luddites and their war on the Industrial Revolution. Lessons for the Computer Age. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.

Sarason, Seymour B. (1974). The psychological sense of community: Prospects for a community psychology. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Sarason, Seymour B. (1983, April). Another View of Technology's Wonders. APA Monitor, p. 5.

Schrank, J. (1977). Snap, crackle, and popular taste: The illusion of choice in America. New York: Dell.

Sklar, Holly. (1995). Chaos or community? Seeking solutions, not scapegoats for bad economics. Boston: South End Press.

Slater, P. (1970). The pursuit of loneliness: American culture at the breaking point. Boston: Beacon Press.

Slater, P. (1974). Earthwalk. Garden City, New York: Anchor Press.

Sloan, Tod. (1996). Damaged Life: The Crisis of the Modern Psyche. New York: Routledge.

Spence, J. T. (1985). Achievement American Style: The Rewards and Costs of Individualism. American Psychologist, 40, 1285-1295.

Stansky, P. (1983). On Nineteen Eighty-Four. New York: Freeman.

Tapp, June Louin, & Krinsky, Fred (Eds.) (1971). Ambivalent America: A Psycho-political Dialogue. Beverly Hills, CA: Glencoe Press.

Toffler, Alvin (1971). Future shock. New York: Bantam.

Toffler, Alvin (1979). The third wave. New York: Bantam.

Wachtel, Paul L. (1983). The poverty of affluence: A psychological portrait of the American way of life. New York: Free Press.

Yablonsky, L. (1972). Robopaths: People as machines. Baltimore: Penguin.

Corporate Domination seminar readings

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Anarchism

Avrich, Paul (1988). Anarchist Portraits. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Bakunin, M. (1882). God and the state. New York: Dover.

Barclay, H. (1982). People without government: An anthropology of anarchism. London: Kahn.

Benello, C. George (Len Krimerman, Frank Lindenfeld, Carol Korty, & Julian Benello, Eds.). (1992). From the Ground Up: Essays on Grassroots & Workplace Democracy. Boston: South End Press.

Bookchin, Murray (1971). Post-scarcity anarchism. Palo Alto, CA: Ramparts.

Bookchin, Murray. (1980). Toward an ecological society. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Bookchin, Murray (1982). The ecology of freedom: The emergence and dissolution of hierarchy. Palo Alto, CA: Cheshire Books.

Bookchin, Murray (1995). Re-enchanting Humanity: A Defense of the Human Spirit Against Anti-Humanism, Misanthropy, Mysticism and Primitivism. London: Cassell.

Chomsky, Noam (1973). For reasons of state. New York: Vintage Books.

Chomsky, Noam (1981). Radical priorities. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

DeLeon, D. (1978). The American as anarchist. Baltimore: John Hopkins U Press.

Falk, R. A. (1978). Anarchism and world order. In J. R. Pennock & J. W. Chapman (Eds.), Anarchism. New York: NY University Press.

Fenn, Richard K. (1986). The Spirit of Revolt: Anarchism and the Cult of Authority. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield.

Fox, Dennis R. (1985). Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons. American Psychologist, 40, 48-58.

Fox, Dennis R. (1986). Four Reasons for Humanistic Psychologists to Advocate Anarchism. Transformations, 2(1), 17-23.

Fromm, E. (1955). Summary--Conclusion. In The Sane Society. New York: Fawcett.

Goldman, Emma (1934). Was My Life Worth Living?

Goodman, Paul (Stoehr, T., Ed.). (1979). Drawing the Line: The Political Essays of Paul Goodman. New York: Dutton.

Kropotkin, P. (1897). The State: Its Historic Role. London: Freedom Press.

Miller, D. (1984). Anarchism. London: Dent.

Pennock, J. R., & Chapman, J. W. (Eds.). (1978). Anarchism. New York: NY University Press.

Perlin, T. M. (Ed.). (1979). Contemporary anarchism. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

Ritter, A. (1980). Anarchism: A theoretical analysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Routley, R., & Routley, V. (1982). The Irrefutability of Anarchism. Social Alternatives, 2(3), 23-29.

Sarason, Seymour B. (1976). Community psychology and the anarchist insight. American Journal of Community Psychology, 4, 243-261.

Sennett, R. (1971). The uses of disorder: Personal identity and city life. New York: Knopf.

Taylor, M. (1982). Community, anarchy, and liberty. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Vaneigem,Raoul The Revolution of Everyday Life

Watson, David (1996). Beyond Bookchin: Preface for a Future Social Ecology. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.

Wolff, R. P. (1970). In defense of anarchism. New York: Harper & Row.

Zerzan, John The Mass Psychology of Misery

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Tragedy of the Commons

Crowe, B. (1969). The tragedy of the commons revisited. Science, 166, 1103-1107.

Edney, J. J. (1980). The commons problem: Alternative perspectives. American Psychologist, 35, 131-150.

Edney, J. J. (1981a). Paradoxes on the commons: Scarcity and the problem of equality. Journal of Community Psychology, 9, 3-34.

Fox, Dennis R. (1985). Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons. American Psychologist, 40, 48-58.

Hardin, G. (1968). The tragedy of the commons. Science, 162, 1243-1248.

Hardin, G. (1972). Exploring new ethics for survival. New York: Penguin Books.

Hardin, G., & Baden, J.(Eds.).(1977). Managing the commons. San Francisco: Freeman.

Heilbroner, R. L. (1980). An inquiry into the human prospect. New York: Norton.

Ophuls, W. (1977). Ecology and the politics of scarcity. San Francisco: Freeman.

Roberts, A. (1979). The self-managing environment. London: Allison & Busby.

Taylor, M. (1976). Anarchy and cooperation. London: Wiley.

Zerzan, John (2002). Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization. Los Angeles: Feral House.

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Environment, Communalism, and Utopia

Barbour, I. G. (1980). Technology, environment, and human values. New York: Praeger.

Buber, M. (1949). Paths in utopia. Boston: Beacon.

Coates, Chris, Jonathan How, Lee Jones, William Morris, & Andy Wood (1995). Diggers & Dreamers 96/97: The Guide to Co-operative Living. Winslow, Bunckinghamshire: D & D Publications.

Fox, Dennis R. (1985). Psychology, Ideology, Utopia, and the Commons. American Psychologist, 40, 48-58.

Gardner, H. (1978). The children of prosperity: Thirteen modern American communes. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Geller, E. S., Winett, R. A., & Everett, P. B. (1982). Preserving the environment: New strategies for behavior change. New York: Pergamon.

Hawken, Paul (1994). The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability. New York: HarperCollins.

Hayden, D. (1984). Redesigning the American dream: The future of housing, work, and family life. New York: Norton.

Hess, K. (1979). Community technology. New York: Harper & Row.

Kanter, R. M. (1972). Commitment and community: Communes and utopias in sociological perspective. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Kanter, R. M. (Ed.). (1973). Communes: Creating and managing the collective life. New York: Harper & Row.

Kinkade, Kat (1994). Is it Utopia Yet? An Insider's View of Twin Oaks Community in its 26th Year. Louisa, VA: Twin Oaks Communty.

Mannison, D. S., McRobbie, M. A., & Routley, R. (Eds.). (1980). Environmental Philosophy. Canberra: Australian National University, Research School of Social Sciences.

Manuel, F. E., & Manuel, F. P. (1979). Utopian thought in the Western world. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press.

Maslow, A. H. (1965). Eupsychian management: A journal. Homewood, IL: Irwin/Dorsey.

Moment, G. B., & Kraushaar, O. F. (Eds.). (1980). Utopias: The American experience. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press.

Moos, R., & Brownstein, R. (1977). Environment and utopia: A synthesis. New York: Plenum.

Musgrove, F. (1974). Ecstasy and holiness: CounterCulture and the open society. Bloomington: University of Indiana Press.

Popenoe, C., & Popenoe, O. (1984). Seeds of tomorrow: New age communities that work. San Francisco: Harper.

Rabin, A. I., & Beit-Hallahmi, B. (1982). Twenty years later: Kibbutz children grown up. New York: Springer.

Sakolsky, Ron, & Koehnline, James (eds.). (1993). Gone to Croatan: Origins of North American Dropout Culture. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia.

Sale, Kirkpatrick (1980). Human scale. New York: Putnam.

Schumacher,E. F.(1973). Small is beautiful: Economics as if people mattered. New York: Harper.

Stokols, D. (Ed.). (1977). Perspectives on environment and behavior: Theory, research, and applications. New York: Plenum.

Tax, Sol (1977). Anthropology for the world of the future: Thirteen professions and three proposals. Human Organization, 36, 225-234.

Tokar, Brian. (1997). Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash. Boston: South End Press.

Varela, J. A. (1971). Psychological solutions to social problems: An introduction to social technology. New York: Academic Press.

Varela, J. A. (1977). Social technology. American Psychologist, 32, 914-923.

Veysey, L. (1973). The communal experience: Anarchist and mystical counter-cultures in America. New York: Harper.

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Power, Oppression, Law, and Social Change

Alinsky, S. D. (1971). Rules for radicals. New York: Vintage.

Alliance for Justice. (1993). Justice for Sale: Shortchanging the Public Interest for Private Gain. Washington, DC: Alliance for Justice.

Anderson, W. (1973). Politics and the new humanism. Pacific Palisades, CA: Goodyear.

Black, D. (1989). Sociological justice. New York: Oxford University Press.

Bonsignore, J. J., Katsh, E., d'Errico, P., Pipkin, R. M., Arons, S., & Rifkin, J. (1989). Before the Law: An Introduction to the Legal Process (4th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Bradney, A. (1985). Taking law less seriously: An anarchist legal theory. Legal Studies, 5, 133-150.

Bulhan, H. A. (1985). Franz Fanon and the psychology of oppression. New York: Plenum Press.

Chomsky, Noam (1970). Language and Freedom. In For Reasons of State. New York: Random House, 1973.

Cohen, R. L. (1989). Fabrications of justice. Social Justice Research, 3, 31-46.

Darrow, C. (1902). Crime and Criminals.

Deci, E. L. (1980). The psychology of self-determination. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.

Deutsch, M. (1985). Distributive justice: A social-psychological approach. New Haven: Yale University.

Deutsch, M., and Steil, J. M. (1988). Awakening the Sense of Injustice. Social Justice Research, 2, 3-23.

Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. London: Allen Lane.

Fox, Dennis R. (1991). Social Science's Limited Role in Resolving Psycholegal Social Problems. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 17, 159-166.

Fox, Dennis R. (1993). The Autonomy-Community Balance and the Equity-Law Distinction: Anarchy's Task for Psychological Jurisprudence. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 11, 97-109.

Fox, Dennis R. (1993). Psychological Jurisprudence and Radical Social Change. American Psychologist, 48, 234-241.

Fox, Dennis R. (1993). Where's the Proof that Law is a Good Thing? Law and Human Behavior, 17, 257-258. [Comment]

Fox, Dennis R. (1996).The Law Says Corporations are Persons, but Psychology Knows Better. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 14, 339-359.

Fox, Dennis. (1997). Psychology and Law: Justice Diverted. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.

Fox, Dennis R. (1997). False Consciousness About Law's Legitimacy. Psicología Política.

Gamson, W. A. (1975). The Strategy of Social Protest.

Grier, W., & Cobbs, P. (1968). Black rage. New York: Basic.

Greenberg, Edward S. (1985). Capitalism and the American Political Ideal. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe.

Greenberg, Edward S. (1989). The American Political System: A Radical Approach. (5th ed.). Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman.

Gurr, T. A. (1970). Why Men Rebel.

Haney, Craig (1980). Psychological and Legal Change: On the Limits of a Factual Jurisprudence. Law and Human Behavior, 4, 147-200.

Haney, Craig (1991). The Fourteenth Amendment and Symbolic Legality: Let Them Eat Due Process. Law and Human Behavior, 15, 183-204.

Haney, Craig (1993). Psychology and Legal Change: The Impact of a Decade. Law and Human Behavior, 17, 371-398.

Hagen, Margaret . (1997). Whores of the Court: The Fraud of Psychiatric Testimony and the Rape of American Justice. Harper-Collins.

Hampden-Turner, C. (1971). Radical man: The process of psychosocial development. Garden City, NY: Anchor Books.

Hoffer, Eric (1951). The true believer: Thoughts on the nature of mass movements. New York: Harper.

Holterman, T., & van Maarseveen, H. (Eds.) (1984). Law and anarchism. Montreal: Black Rose Books.

Joffe, J. M., & Albee, G. W. (Eds.). (1981). Prevention through political action and social change. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England.

Jost, J. T. (1995). Negative illusions: Conceptual clarification and psychological evidence concerning false consciousness. Political Psychology, 16, 397-424.

Jost, J. T., & Major, B. (2001). The psychology of legitimacy: Emerging perspectives on ideology, justice, and intergroup relations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Kairys, David (Ed.). (1990). The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique (Rev. ed.). New York: Pantheon.

Kairys, David (1993). With Liberty and Justice for Some: A Critique of the Conservative Supreme Court. New York: The New Press.

Kelly, Charles. M. (2000). Class War in America: How Eonomic and Political Conservatives are Exploiting Low- and Middle-Income Americans. Santa Barbara, CA: Fithian Press.

Kelman, Herbert C., & Hamilton, V. Lee (1989). Crimes of Obedience: Toward a Social Psychology of Authority and Obedience. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.

Kennedy, Duncan (1982). Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy. In D. Kairys (Ed.), The Politics of Law: A Progressive Critique. New York: Pantheon.

Kohn, Alfie (1986). No Contest: The Case Against Competition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin.

Korten, David C. (1995). When Corporations Rule the World. West Hartford, CT & San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers & Kumarian Press.

Melton, Gary B., & Saks, Michael J. (1986). The Law as an Instrument of Socialization and Social Structure. In G. B. Melton (Ed.), The Law as a Behavioral Instrument.. Lincoln: University of Nebraska.

Memmi, A. (1968). Dominated man: Notes towards a portrait. New York: Orion Press.

Milgram, Stanley (1974). Obedience to authority: An experimental view. New York: Harper.

Mills, C. W. (1956). The power elite. New York: Oxford University Press.

Moane, G. (1999). Gender and colonialism: A psychological analysis of oppression and liberation. London: Macmillan.

Montero, Maritza. (1997). Political Psychology: A Critical Perspective. Chapter in D. Fox & I. Prilleltensky (Eds.), Critical Psychology: An Introduction. London: Sage Publications.

Ng, S. H. (1980). The social psychology of power. New York: Academic Press.

Nimmo, D., & Combs, J. E. (1980). Subliminal politics: Myths and mythmakers in America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.

Parenti, Michael (1978). Power and the powerless. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Parenti, Michael (1994). Land of Idols: Political Mythology in America. New York: St. Martin's Press.

Parenti, Michael (1996). Dirty Truths: Reflections on Politics, Media, Ideology, Conspiracy, Ethnic Life and Class Power. San Francisco: City Lights Books.

Pratkanis, Anthony, & Aronson, Elliot (1992). Age of Propaganda: The Everyday Use and Abuse of Persuasion. New York: Freeman.

Prilleltensky, Isaac, & Gonick, Lev (1996). Polities Change, Oppression Remains: On the Psychology and Politics of Oppression. Political Psychology, 17, 127-148.

Rabinowitz, V. (1982). The Radical Tradition in the Law. In D. Kairys (Ed.), The Politics of Law. New York: Pantheon.

Reich, Wilhelm (1942). The Mass Psychology of Fascism. 1970 edition: New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Reiman, Jeffrey H. (1990). The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan.

Roesch, Ron (1995). Creating Change in the Legal System: Contributions From Community Psychology. Law and Human Behavior, 19, 325-343.

Ryan, W. (1971). Blaming the victim. New York: Vintage.

Ryan, W. (1981). Equality. New York: Pantheon.

Sampson, E. E. (1983). Justice and the Critique of Pure Psychology. New York: Plenum.

Sampson, R. (1965). The psychology of power. New York: Pantheon.

Satin, M. (1979). New age politics: Healing self and society. New York: Delta.

Schwartz, Michael (Ed.). (1987). The Structure of Power in America: The Corporate Elite as a Ruling Class. New York: Holmes & Meier.

Sennett, Richard (1980). Authority. New York: Vintage.

Smith, M. Brewster (1969). Some Thoughts On The Legitimation of Evil. In Social Psychology and Human Values: Selected Essays. Chicago: Aldine.

Spence, Gerry. (1990). With Justice for None: Destroying an American Myth. New York: Penguin.

Sennett, R., & Cobb, J. (1972). The hidden injuries of class. New York: Vintage Press.

Sieber, J. E. (Ed.). (1983). Whose ethics? On the perils and dilemmas of studying powerful persons [Special Issue]. Society for the Advancement of Social Psychology Newsletter, 9(4).

Stone, W. F. (1974). The psychology of politics. New York: Free Press.

Tapp, June L., & Levine, Felice J. (Eds.). (1977). Law, Justice, and the Individual in Society: Psychological and Legal Issues. New York: Holt, Rinehart.

Tifft, L. T. (1979). The Coming Redefinitions of Crime: An Anarchist Perspective. Social Problems, 26, 392-402.

Wineman, S. (1984). The Politics of Human Services: Radical Alternatives to the Welfare State. Boston: South End Press.

Zinn, Howard (1980). A People's History of the United States. New York: Harper & Row.