This article was presented originally as a paper at the March 1981 meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Convention in Philadelphia. I wish to thank the discussant at the panel, David O. Friedrichs, as well as Ben Menke, Terry Cook, and the anonymous reviewers forContemporary Crises for their encouraging and helpful comments on this earlier draft. The article would have been better had I taken all their suggestions to heart. I am, of course, responsible for not doing so.