The Social Structure of Right and Wrong, Revised Edition

This revised paperback edition features a new prologue and updated citation. The book extends the theoretical approach of Black's classic Behavior of Law (1976) to a dramatically larger universe: the handling of conflict across societies and history. It also introduces and illustrates Black's "pure sociology," a new theoretical paradigm applicable to human behavior of every kind.

Audience: Sociologists and social theorists concerned with law, social control, and morality. Students and instructors in upper division and graduate level courses in sociology of law, anthropology of law, social control, conflict management, deviant behavior and social control, and criminology.