Testing the Economic Production and Conflict Models of Crime Control

Liska, Allen E.; Chamlin, Mitchell B.; Reed, Mark D.

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“…A recent study by Liska et al (1985) provides additional support for the significance of power-threat factors in the social control of blacks. Using data on arrests for 77 U.S. cities over 100,000 population, they find no support for the traditional conflict perspective which holds that class composition has a greater effect on arrest rates than does racial composition.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…Within this framework, predicted discrimination against blacks by agencies of criminal justice is said to result from their generally low socioeconomic status in American society. That is, race effects are said to be less important for determining rates and levels of criminal punishment than the effects of social class (Liska et al 1985). This model predicts similar treatment for blacks, American Indians, Asian-Americans, Hispanics, lower-class whites, and other low-status groups.…”

Section: Social Class and Racementioning

confidence: 92%

“…A number of investigators (Kleck 1981;Liska et al 1985;Peterson and Hagan 1984) have recently raised significant questions regarding the adequacy of existing theory for explaining black-white punishment differentials. But most of these critiques have been done within the context of primarily empirical analyses and there has been little effort devoted to a systematic rethinking of the theoretical frameworks that have guided research on race and criminal punishment.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Thus, to the extent that racial differences in criminal punishment result from extra-class-based influences, the conflict model as derived from these researchers may not be adequate for explaining the racial patterns observed in many empirical investigations. For example, Liska et al (1985) report race to be much more significant than social class for explaining rates of arrest across major American cities during recent years.…”

Section: Social Class and Racementioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment

1987

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. Oxford University Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Social Forces. AbstractResearch on race and punishment for crime has produced inconsistent findings. Most previous reviews of the literature have been focused primarily on the numerous methodological flaws that may give rise to such inconsistencies. In this paper I suggest that inconsistent or anomalous findings in this area of research may also result from problems of conceptualization and theory. More specifically, it is argued that the conflict perspective must be substantially revised to begin to account for various anomalies observed by empirical researchers. Such a need for revision is the consequence of both problems in the original formulation of the perspective and its oversimplification within the empirical literature. One of the most widely debated issues in the criminological literature is whether there is racial bias in the administration of justice. In addition to numerous empirical investigations, there have been efforts in recentyears to review previous studies and to determine where the weight of the evidence lies (Green 1971; Hagan 1974; Hagan and Bumiller 1983; Hardy 1983; Kleck 1981; Spohn et al. 1981-82).As in other areas of social research, most studies of racial bias in the administration of justice involve black-white comparisons. Reviews of empirical investigations have shown a large number of these studies to report significantly greater rates and levels of punishment for blacks than for whites.1 Others report no significant differences between the races. Still others find that in certain instances, whites receive significantly more punishment for crime than do blacks (e.g., Bernstein et al. 1977;Bullock 1961;Gibson 1978;Levin 1972). This latter finding is often described as an anomaly or inconsistency given the theoretical model that has guided research on this topic.

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Section: Social Class and Racementioning

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“…We think that this explanation is unlikely. Workload and resources, the two components of system overload, have been operationalized in a corresponding manner in the past (Liska, Chamlin and Reed, 1985). Similarly, a number of macro-social analyses of crime control, rooted in the conflict perspective, have indirectly measured threat from culturally diverse groups in terms of the percentage of Downloaded by [University of Louisville] at 09:30 20 December 2014…”

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A Quantitative Analysis of Vagrancy Arrests in Milwaukee, 1930-1972

Chamlin

Brandl

1998

Journal of Crime and Justice

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Based on the qualitative analysis of historical documents, scholars from a variety of disciplines have devised competing, and often incompatible, explanations for the application of vagrancy law in the United States. This study attempts to clarify this debate by evaluated hypotheses derived from theoretical work of Chambliss, Adler, and Watts. The longitudinal, multivariate analyses of changes, over time, in vagrancy arrest rates within Milwaukee, 1930-1 972, provide substantial support for Chambliss's contentions, but not for those of Adler or Watts. The implications of these findings for future research are discussed.--___---____

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Racial and Ethnic Threat

Stults¹,

Swagar²

2018

The Handbook of Race, Ethnicity, Crime, and Justice

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Testing the Economic Production and Conflict Models of Crime Control

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Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment

Beyond Anomalies: Rethinking the Conflict Perspective on Race and Criminal Punishment

A Quantitative Analysis of Vagrancy Arrests in Milwaukee, 1930-1972

Racial and Ethnic Threat

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