Social Threat and Social Control, livre ebook

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. LiskaPart 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 YuPart 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 InverarityPart 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