Poverty, Segregation, and Race Riots: 1960 to 1993

Mirage of Police Reform: Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy

“…Empirical support has been found for the role of social marginality or disadvantage in racial violence, and also for the impact of "closed and unresponsive political systems" that provide no channels through which grievances can be addressed (Lieske 1978(Lieske , 1329. Other research has pointed toward "hypersegregation of Blacks in urban settings" that breaks down, with increasing interracial contact and competition (Olzak et al 1996).…”

The Diffusion of Collective Violence: Infectiousness, Susceptibility, and Mass Media Networks

“…Carter also did not restrict his attention to a subset of cities as many others have (e.g. Spilerman 1970Spilerman , 1971Spilerman , 1976Myers 1997b;Olzak, Shanahan, and McEneaney 1996;Jiobu 1971). Limiting analysis to a subset of cities (based primarily on population size) was necessary in these studies because indicators of theoretical concepts were not available for many of the smaller cities.…”

Reputation, group structure and social tensions

“…Some scholars have claimed that segregation increases the risk of ethnic con ‡ict (Diez Medrano, 1994;Olzak, Shanahan, and McEneaney, 1996), while others have argued that segregation, taking the form of "partition", could be a solution to ethnic con ‡ict (Horowitz, 1985) 5 .…”