Social Threat and Social Control

Description

This book examines the conflict theory of social control, particularly the threat hypothesis. It asserts that deviance and crime control are responses to social threats such as criminal acts and riots, and to people perceived as threatening such as minorities and the unemployed. The authors use threat hypothesis to organize the diverse literatures on social control, use new data to resolve crucial issues, and integrate current perspectives to develop the threat proposition. They analyze patterns of deviance and crime control ranging from fatal or lethal controls such as state executions or lynching, to physical restraint such as imprisonment, to beneficient controls such as mental health hospitalization and even welfare.

List of Illustrations

List of Tables

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to the Study of Social Control
Allen E. Liska

Part I: Fatal Controls

2. Toward a Threat Model of Southern Black Lynchings
Stewart E. Tolnay and E. M. Beck

3. Specifying and Testing the Threat Hypothesis: Police Use of Deadly Force
Allen E. Liska and Jiang Yu

Part II: Coercive Controls

4. The Reporting of Crime: A Missing Link in Conflict Theory
Barbara D. Warner

5. Minority Group Threat, Social Context, and Policing
Pamela Irving Jackson

6. Social Structure and Crime Control Revisited: The Declining Significance of Intergroup Threat
Mitchell B. Chamlin and Allen E. Liska

7. Extralegal Influences on Imprisonment: Explaining the Direct Effects of Socioeconomic Variables
James Inverarity

Part III: Beneficent Controls

8. The Mental Health and Criminal Justice Systems: Complementary Forms of Coercive Control
Thomas M. Arvanites

9. Intergroup Threat and Social Control Welfare Expansion among States during the 1960s and 1970s
Mitchell B. Chamlin

10. Conclusion: Developing Theoretical Issues
Allen E. Liska

Notes

References

List of Contributors

Index

Sujets

• Sociology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 juillet 1992
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781438411064
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 368 Mo

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