Talk:The Behavior of Law

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The result was: promoted by Maculosae tegmine lyncis (talk) 16:28, 27 April 2026 (UTC)

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• ... that a key text of the sociology of law, The Behavior of Law, argues that people of higher social status are more likely to use law than those of lower status? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2094813
  • ALT1: ... that in a key text of the sociology of law, The Behavior of Law, legal behavior is explained without reference to individual motives or intentions? Source: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2094813
  • Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Madeline Woo

Created by Piotrus (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 594 past nominations.

_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 14:42, 23 March 2026 (UTC).

• Hi @Piotrus:, I had a go at this. Its a large well researched article referencing a major body of thought. The hook facts may well be in the source but it would take a long period of study to check (key texts??). Can I suggest that you add a quote of the specific bit of the source that supports these propositions. The second hook is not too approachable. The first hook is more intriguing... I'd suggest:

alt2 ... that one of Black's Behaviours of Law is that its the richer person in a dispute who's more likely to call the police". Victuallers (talk) 08:32, 30 March 2026 (UTC)

@Piotrus: Victuallers (talk) 10:05, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

@Victuallers: Here are part of the cited article that I used to write the part of the article that was then digested into the ALT0 (i.e., here's the requsted quotation): "A corollary to the proposition tested above is that people with less wealth are "less likely to call upon law in their dealings with one an- other . . . " (1976: 17). What this implies, then, is that victimizations between per- sons known to each other (and, hence, likely to be similar in social rank) are more likely to be reported to the police by per- sons of higher rank than by persons of lower rank" and "Thus, Black's prediction that people with less wealth are less likely to call upon law in their dealings with one another does not find support in these data." (Black's claims have been challenged by other scholars, as we have seen, but here I am focusing on his claims, not on his critics), and the claim the hook is clearly attributed to the work. --_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here} 11:16, 11 April 2026 (UTC)

Alt0 and alt2 are good to go. Victuallers (talk) 12:57, 11 April 2026 (UTC)