Social Threat and Social Control

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.

About the author

Allen E. Liska is Profesor of Sociology at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of The Impact of Attitudes on Behavior: The Consistence Controversy and Perspectives on Deviance. He is the coeditor of Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime: Problems and Prospects, also published by SUNY Press.

Product details

• Assisted by: Allen E Liska (Editor), Allen E. Liska (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1992
• EAN: 9780791409046
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-0904-6
• No. of pages: 254
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 363 g
• Series: Suny Series in Buddhist Studie; Suny Series in Buddhist Studie; Suny Deviance and Social Contr
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories