Marian J Borg
Biographic Data
| ID | 118051 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marian J Borg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marian J |
| FAMILY NAME | Borg |
| SIGNATURE | BORG M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6929-417X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Toward a Holistic, Age-Graded Understanding of Excessive Internet Use: An Application of Containment Theory
The growing prevalence of internet use and evidence indicating both harmful and beneficial consequences of 'being on-line' suggest the importance of understanding risk and protective factors that may prevent use from becoming 'excessive.' While research has explored the psychological factors precipitating excessive use, few analyses have focused simultaneously on the impact of individual traits and social attachments. Drawing on Walter Reckless' …
Hate Crime as Social Control: Integrating Black's Theories of Conflict Management and Social Time
Despite three decades of hate crime research encompassing both group threat theories and micro-level perspectives, the social milieu explaining bias-motivated crime remains inconclusive. Empirical inconsistencies regarding the social dynamics and structural features conducive to hate crime suggest the need for alternative frameworks for understanding bias-motivated behavior. We integrate Black's theory of social control with his theory of social …
Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil
This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, “across time and space?” Our research merges these questions by exploring the applicability of Black's theory in a Latin American context. Data collected from a nation…
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition
What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to isolate the core issues that influence the formulation of legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies for advising governments considering changes to their policy on capital punishme…
Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates
This research explores the utility of Black's theory of law for explaining differences in homicide clearance rates across large cities in the United States. Using insights from the social disorganization literature, we develop and evaluate hypotheses regarding homicide clearance rates and aggregate measures of stratification, morphology, culture, organization, and alternative social control. Our findings support the argument that the rate of clea…
The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates
Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution. After reviewing recent changes in public opinion regarding the death penalty, we review the findings of social science research pertinent to each of these issues. Our analysis suggests that social science scholarship is changing the way Am…
Expressing Conflict, Neutralizing Blame, and Making Concessions in Small‐Claims Mediation
This research examines the link between the way small‐claims mediation participants express their conflicts and their willingness to engage in concession‐making. Observations of seventy‐seven mediation participants suggest that a significant factor in this relationship is the way participants manage the issue of blame. The research identifies three categories of mediants: individuals named in a civil suit who represent themselves; agents, usually…
Drug testing in organizations: Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control
Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control to the case of workplace drug testing, this study seeks to evaluate the conditions associated with the use of compliance strategies to manage deviance. Using a 1991 data set consisting of the first nationally representative sample of U.S. work organizations, the analysis addresses whether the likelihood of drug testing increases as an organization's workforce becomes larger, less st…
America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction
Vicarious Homicide Victimization and Support for Capital Punishment: A Test of Black's Theory of Law
This article examines the relationship between experiencing the homicide of a family member, friend, or acquaintance and the likelihood of support for capital punishment. Homicide victims'family and friends are often portrayed as strong advocates of the death penalty. Yet, the effect of vicarious homicide victimization on support for capital punishment has never been systematically examined, and in fact, Donald Black's theory of law suggests an i…
The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness? Regional Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
This study explores the relevance of the “southern subculture of violence” thesis in a context not previously examined: attitudes toward capital punishment for convicted murderers. If southerners are more aggressive in their interpersonal relationships, then to what degree do cultural factors affect their punishment decisions? Analysis of data from the 1990 General Social Survey indicates little overall variation in levels of support for the deat…
Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work
Introduction: Public Policy and the Explanation of Crime (Hugh D. Barlow. ) Transformation Versus Revolutionism and Reformism: Policy Implications of Conflict Theory (Austin T. Turk. ) Rethinking Crime Theory and Policy: The New Sociology of Crime and Disrepute (John Hagan. ) Controlling Delinquency: Recommendations from General Strain Theory (Robert Agnew. ) The Notion of Control and Criminologys Policy Implications (Jack P. Gibbs. ) The Public …
The structure of social monitoring in the process of social control
This article examines the concept of social monitoring, defined as the process of collecting, storing, and exchanging conflict information. The social control literature recognizes that information provides the basis for responding to grievances, yet few discussions focus on the process by which this information is generated. This article provides conceptual clarification of social monitoring by suggesting a framework for quantifying the process …
Conflict management in the modern world-system
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll: Virginia 1989
Journal Article RACE-OF-INTERVIEWER EFFECTS IN A PREELECTION POLL VIRGINIA 1989 Get access STEVEN E. FINKEL, STEVEN E. FINKEL associate professor of government and foreign affairs and associate director of the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK, THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Surve…
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll: Virginia 1989
Journal Article RACE-OF-INTERVIEWER EFFECTS IN A PREELECTION POLL VIRGINIA 1989 Get access STEVEN E. FINKEL, STEVEN E. FINKEL associate professor of government and foreign affairs and associate director of the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK, THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Surve…
Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates
This research explores the utility of Black's theory of law for explaining differences in homicide clearance rates across large cities in the United States. Using insights from the social disorganization literature, we develop and evaluate hypotheses regarding homicide clearance rates and aggregate measures of stratification, morphology, culture, organization, and alternative social control. Our findings support the argument that the rate of clea…
Vicarious Homicide Victimization and Support for Capital Punishment: A Test of Black's Theory of Law
This article examines the relationship between experiencing the homicide of a family member, friend, or acquaintance and the likelihood of support for capital punishment. Homicide victims'family and friends are often portrayed as strong advocates of the death penalty. Yet, the effect of vicarious homicide victimization on support for capital punishment has never been systematically examined, and in fact, Donald Black's theory of law suggests an i…
Conflict management in the modern world-system
Drug testing in organizations: Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control
Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control to the case of workplace drug testing, this study seeks to evaluate the conditions associated with the use of compliance strategies to manage deviance. Using a 1991 data set consisting of the first nationally representative sample of U.S. work organizations, the analysis addresses whether the likelihood of drug testing increases as an organization's workforce becomes larger, less st…
Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil
This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, “across time and space?” Our research merges these questions by exploring the applicability of Black's theory in a Latin American context. Data collected from a nation…
Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll: Virginia 1989
Journal Article RACE-OF-INTERVIEWER EFFECTS IN A PREELECTION POLL VIRGINIA 1989 Get access STEVEN E. FINKEL, STEVEN E. FINKEL associate professor of government and foreign affairs and associate director of the Center for Survey Research at the University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK, THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK associate professor of sociology and director of the Center for Surve…
Conflict management in the modern world-system
The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness? Regional Variation in Support for Capital Punishment
This study explores the relevance of the “southern subculture of violence” thesis in a context not previously examined: attitudes toward capital punishment for convicted murderers. If southerners are more aggressive in their interpersonal relationships, then to what degree do cultural factors affect their punishment decisions? Analysis of data from the 1990 General Social Survey indicates little overall variation in levels of support for the deat…
Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work
Introduction: Public Policy and the Explanation of Crime (Hugh D. Barlow. ) Transformation Versus Revolutionism and Reformism: Policy Implications of Conflict Theory (Austin T. Turk. ) Rethinking Crime Theory and Policy: The New Sociology of Crime and Disrepute (John Hagan. ) Controlling Delinquency: Recommendations from General Strain Theory (Robert Agnew. ) The Notion of Control and Criminologys Policy Implications (Jack P. Gibbs. ) The Public …
The structure of social monitoring in the process of social control
This article examines the concept of social monitoring, defined as the process of collecting, storing, and exchanging conflict information. The social control literature recognizes that information provides the basis for responding to grievances, yet few discussions focus on the process by which this information is generated. This article provides conceptual clarification of social monitoring by suggesting a framework for quantifying the process …
Vicarious Homicide Victimization and Support for Capital Punishment: A Test of Black's Theory of Law
This article examines the relationship between experiencing the homicide of a family member, friend, or acquaintance and the likelihood of support for capital punishment. Homicide victims'family and friends are often portrayed as strong advocates of the death penalty. Yet, the effect of vicarious homicide victimization on support for capital punishment has never been systematically examined, and in fact, Donald Black's theory of law suggests an i…
America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction
The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates
Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution. After reviewing recent changes in public opinion regarding the death penalty, we review the findings of social science research pertinent to each of these issues. Our analysis suggests that social science scholarship is changing the way Am…
Expressing Conflict, Neutralizing Blame, and Making Concessions in Small‐Claims Mediation
This research examines the link between the way small‐claims mediation participants express their conflicts and their willingness to engage in concession‐making. Observations of seventy‐seven mediation participants suggest that a significant factor in this relationship is the way participants manage the issue of blame. The research identifies three categories of mediants: individuals named in a civil suit who represent themselves; agents, usually…
Drug testing in organizations: Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control
Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control to the case of workplace drug testing, this study seeks to evaluate the conditions associated with the use of compliance strategies to manage deviance. Using a 1991 data set consisting of the first nationally representative sample of U.S. work organizations, the analysis addresses whether the likelihood of drug testing increases as an organization's workforce becomes larger, less st…
Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates
This research explores the utility of Black's theory of law for explaining differences in homicide clearance rates across large cities in the United States. Using insights from the social disorganization literature, we develop and evaluate hypotheses regarding homicide clearance rates and aggregate measures of stratification, morphology, culture, organization, and alternative social control. Our findings support the argument that the rate of clea…
Capital Punishment: Strategies for Abolition
What are the critical factors that determine whether a country replaces, retains or restores the death penalty? Why do some countries maintain the death penalty in theory but in reality rarely invoke it? By asking these questions, the editors hope to isolate the core issues that influence the formulation of legislation so that they can be incorporated into strategies for advising governments considering changes to their policy on capital punishme…
Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil
This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, “across time and space?” Our research merges these questions by exploring the applicability of Black's theory in a Latin American context. Data collected from a nation…
Toward a Holistic, Age-Graded Understanding of Excessive Internet Use: An Application of Containment Theory
The growing prevalence of internet use and evidence indicating both harmful and beneficial consequences of 'being on-line' suggest the importance of understanding risk and protective factors that may prevent use from becoming 'excessive.' While research has explored the psychological factors precipitating excessive use, few analyses have focused simultaneously on the impact of individual traits and social attachments. Drawing on Walter Reckless' …
Hate Crime as Social Control: Integrating Black's Theories of Conflict Management and Social Time
Despite three decades of hate crime research encompassing both group threat theories and micro-level perspectives, the social milieu explaining bias-motivated crime remains inconclusive. Empirical inconsistencies regarding the social dynamics and structural features conducive to hate crime suggest the need for alternative frameworks for understanding bias-motivated behavior. We integrate Black's theory of social control with his theory of social …
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