Michael Hechter

Christine Horne

This newly expanded and reorganized collection of readings provides a compelling exploration of what arguably remains the single most important problem in social theory: the problem of social order.

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Theories of Social Order

The Rewards of Punishment describes a new social theory of norms to provide a compelling explanation why people punish. Identifying mechanisms that link interdependence with norm enforcement, it reveals how social relationships lead individuals to enforce norms, even when doing so makes little sense. This groundbreaking book tells the whole story, from ideas, to experiments, to real-world applications. In addition to addressing longstanding theoretical puzzles—such as why harmful behavior is not always punished, why individuals enforce norms in ways that actually hurt the group, why people enforce norms that benefit others rather than themselves, why groups punish behavior that has only trivial effects, and why atypical behaviors are sometimes punished and sometimes not—it explores the implications of the theory for substantive issues, including norms regulating sex, crime, and international human rights.

A Relational Theory of Norm Enforcement

The Rewards of Punishment

Michael J. Lovaglia

This volume illustrates how experimental methods, particularly laboratory experiments, can be useful for researchers studying crime, deviance, and law. With accompanying commentary from well-know criminologists and legal scholars, this book makes the case that laboratory experiments have strengths that complement those of traditional methods of field experiments.

Christine Horne

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