| Law, order, and power WJ Chambliss, RB Seidman Addison-Wesley, 1971 | 1766 | 1971 |
| A sociological analysis of the law of vagrancy WJ Chambliss Soc. Probs. 12, 67, 1964 | 832 | 1964 |
| State-organized crime WJ Chambliss Criminology 27, 183, 1989 | 608 | 1989 |
| On the take: From petty crooks to presidents WJ Chambliss Indiana University Press, 1978 | 504 | 1978 |
| The saints and the roughnecks WJ Chambliss Society 11 (1), 24-31, 1973 | 495 | 1973 |
| Policing the ghetto underclass: The policing of law WJ Chambliss Soc. Probs. 41, 177, 1994 | 429 | 1994 |
| Power, politics and crime WJ Chambliss Routledge, 2018 | 424 | 2018 |
| Crime and the legal process WJ Chambliss (No Title), 1969 | 417 | 1969 |
| Organizing crime AA Block, WJ Chambliss Elsevier, 1981 | 398 | 1981 |
| Toward a political economy of crime WJ Chambliss Theory and Society 2, 149-170, 1975 | 395 | 1975 |
| Types of deviance and the effectiveness of legal sanctions WJ Chambliss Wis. L. Rev., 703, 1967 | 395 | 1967 |
| On lawmaking WJ Chambliss British Journal of Law and Society 6 (2), 149-171, 1979 | 195 | 1979 |
| Crime control and ethnic minorities: Legitimizing racial oppression by creating moral panics WJ Chambliss Ethnicity, race, and crime: Perspectives across time and place, 235-58, 1995 | 169 | 1995 |
| Making law: The state, the law, and structural contradictions WJ Chambliss, MS Zatz Indiana University Press, 1993 | 168 | 1993 |
| Functional and conflict theories of crime WJ Chambliss MSS Modular Publications, 1974 | 153 | 1974 |
| The deterrent influence of punishment WJ Chambliss Crime & Delinquency 12 (1), 70-75, 1966 | 148 | 1966 |
| Whose law? What order?: A conflict approach to criminology WJ Chambliss, M Mankoff Wiley, 1976 | 137 | 1976 |
| Status consistency and political attitudes KD Kelly, WJ Chambliss American Sociological Review, 375-382, 1966 | 135 | 1966 |
| Vice, corruption, bureaucracy, and power WJ Chambliss Wis. L. Rev., 1150, 1971 | 125 | 1971 |
| Exploring criminology WJ Chambliss (No Title), 1988 | 124 | 1988 |
