Some Explorations in the Sociology of Alcohol Ron Roizen Wallace, Idaho N.B.  Because of changing web addresses at Points and for other reasons I've removed active links from this page.  Please contact me at ronroizen@frontier.com for access to items listed below.  Thanks! Book: The Rossi Murder and the unwritten law in 1916's Wallace Idaho (2021), available at Amazon.  In 1916, Herman J. Rossi, one of Wallace, Idaho's leading citizens, shot and killed his young wife's lover, Clarence "Gabe" Dahlquist.  Three months later, a jury readily acquitted Rossi after a week-long trial.  The unwritten law was widely credited for the jury's verdict.  This book explores both Rossi's trial and the historical sociology of the unwritten law.  Rossi's wife's alcoholism and the temperance movement's remarkable cultural hold in Idaho at this time played key roles in this drama. Posts at the POINTS Blog and my personal blog: Probably not secrecy, based on the minutes of a 1942 meeting, at Points, posted 12/8/16 Probably not secrecy, based on the minutes of a 1942 meeting, at my personal blog, posted 12/3/16 Marijuana's and alcohol's differing paths toward domestication, posted 11/28/16 Collier's 1943 Snapshot of the First Yale Summer School of Alcohol Studies, posted 6/5/13 On E.M. Jellinek's Trail, posted 4/25/13 The Temperance Question in Idaho's Constitution, posted 2/25/13 Reflecting on Idaho U.S. Senator Mike Crapo's Unfortunate and Humbling DUI, posted 12/28/12 Catching Up With Bruce Holley Johnson, Ph.D., posted 7/5/12 A Footnote to Pauly (1994): Yandell Henderson's Lusitania Letters, posted 5/17/12 Reflections on the NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 2, posted 4/13/12 Reflections on the Scheduled NIAAA/NIDA Merger, Part 1, posted 4/12/12 Addiction, History and Historians: Ron Roizen's Response to David Courtwright's Reply, posted 3/22/12 "So Logical to Us": Donna Krulitz Smith's Account of the Complex and Compelling Story of the Prohibition Experience in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of Northern Idaho, posted 2/24/12 Mrs. Marty Mann and the Medicalization of Alcoholism, posted 12/16/11 Big Questions, Free Will, and Addiction, posted 12/1/11 Dry Pushback Against Mann's Alcoholism Movement and Robert King Merton's Manifest and Latent Functions: A Perplexing Combination, posted 11/17/11 Washington State's Prop. 1183 Passes Easily, posted 11/9/11 Stigma on Alcoholism: A Modest Proposal, posted 11/8/11 Washington State's Prop. 1183: The Iowa Dustup and Trends Thereafter, posted 10/24/11 Washington State's Proposition 1183: Consumer Convenience or Culture and History?, posted 10/6/11 Thoreau's Lament on Cider's Fall, posted 8/16/11 E.M. Jellinek's Departure from Budapest in 1920, Part 2, posted 8/5/11 E.M. Jellinek's Essay on Drinking's Symbolism: Another Look, posted 7/22/11 The Hanging of Jack Slade, A Rowdy Drunk, posted 7/9/11 Keller's Reticence: A Note on the Perils of Insider Historiography, posted 6/28/11 Glimpses of Blythewood, posted 6/21/11 Who Bought Whom? Revisiting "Bowman's Compromise," posted 6/9/11 E.M. Jellinek at Worcester: A Bare Beginning, posted 6/5/11 Glatt and Popper in Helsinki: A Personal Anecdote, posted 5/31/11 What Time Do You Want It To Be? Finessing Science, Part Two. posted 5/28/11 What Time Do You Want It To Be? Finessing Science at the National Council on Alcoholism and at Yale, posted 5/26/11 Cherry-Picking the History of the Alcoholism Movement, posted 5/20/11 Historical Change in Problem Definition, Problem Ownership, and Scientific Paradigms: Shifts in the U.S. definition of alcohol problems since Repeal (2004) (pdf download) Brief look back at origins of U.S. post-Repeal alcohol science (1998) -- path to JSAD pdf download The American Discovery of Alcoholism, 1933-1939 (1991) Spanish translation of Chapter 1, by Laura Mancini, here Bulgarian translation of Chapter 1, by Zlatan Dimitrov, here Bulgarian translation of Chapter 2, by Zlatan Dimitrov, here Azerbaijanian translation of Chapter 1, by Qalina Najafova, here Azerbaijanian translation of Chapter 2, by Qalina Najafova, here Urdu translation of Chapter 1, by Samuel Badree, here Catalan translation of Chapter 1, by Chema Bescos, here Paradigm sidetracked, 1940-1944 (1993) Four unsung moments in the genesis of the modern alcoholism movement in the United States (1996) Finding symbolic middle ground between alcohol and illicit drugs (1993), pdf download here Re-emergence of college drinking as a U.S. alcohol problems focus in the 1990s (1998) Dogpounds, deviance, & drunks (1973) Danish translation by Anna Polonski here Hungarian translation by Zsolt Boros here Portuguese translation by Artur Weber, here Spanish translation by Lera Domartina, here Georgian translation by Ana Mirilashvili, here Dutch translation by Justin Watson, here Thai translation by Ashna Bhatt, here Greek translation by Maria Grigoriou, here . Epidemiology & Cross Cultural Studies: Robin Room and Ron Roizen, "Some notes on the study of drinking contexts," Drinking and Drug Practices Surveyor, 8:25-33, (Aug.) 1973 (pdf download). Cirrhosis mortality and per capita consumption of distilled spirits, U.S., 1949-1994 (1999) Cultural control of drinking by universal moderation or differential access (1988) in Estonian, here, translated by Adrian Pantilimonu in French, here, translated by Mathilde Guibert Barriers to alcoholism treatment (1977) . History of Scientific Ideas: Overlooking Terris (1999)  Wartime Paris, cirrhosis mortality, and the ceteris paribus assumption (2002) Some notes on the new paradigmatic environment of "natural remission" studies in alcohol research (2001) -- pdf download The coming crisis in alcohol social science (2000) -- pdf download Stalking the origins of historical U.S. per capita alcohol consumption statistics (1993) The strange case of the Jellinek Formula's sex ratio (1980) Ascription of problems to drinking (1975) in Dutch, here in German, here in Polish, here in Hungarian, here in Indonesian, here  in Estonian, here in Russian, here in Portuguese, here  in Ukrainian, here in Spanish, here in Georgian, here in Thai, here . Tributes: Joseph R. Gusfield (download pdf) Kaye Middleton Fillmore (download pdf) Robert Straus (download pdf) Footnotes in the History of Alcohol Science: E.M. Jellinek: Summing Up (2014)--pdf download Idaho's liquor privatization issue promises regional split (2013) E.M. Jellinek's departure from Budapest in 1920, part one (2009) Why did Tiebout omit mention of Mann's homosexuality? (2007) Dr. Wyckoff's Untimely Death (2007) A note on Marty Mann's interesting habit of leaving Dr. Foster Kennedy's name unspoken E.M. Jellinek and All That! (2000) Jellinek's Phantom Doctorate (1997) Where Did Mrs. Marty Mann Learn Alcoholism Was A Disease (1997) Marty Mann: An experiment that failed . Controlled-Drinking as Case Study in Scientific Controversy: The Great Controlled-Drinking Controversy (1987) Rand Report Commentary (1977) Comment on 1997 U.S. News & World Report Cover Story (1997) . Forensic Alcohol Sociology Case #1 . Book Reviews, Commentaries, & Letters: The new manichaeism in alcohol science (2000) in French, here, translated by Mathilde Guibert Review of False Fixes (1997) Review of Navajo Drinking Careers (1996) Letter to Science:  Women alcoholics at Bellevue, 1918-1919 (1996) Talk presented to high school students:  A Sociological Look at Alcohol-Related Problems (1978--pdf download) Review of Forward Together (1993) Review of Mr. Sam (1991) Two books on African Alcohol Problems reviewed (1989) Review of Alcoholism in America by Sarah Tracy (2008--pdf download)