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.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

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

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

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

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

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