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Summary
"A brilliant synthesis of sensitive and insightful case studies and the development of hypotheses and a multi-level model of 'dispute management.' It is this difficult combination that makes this work a distinctive and powerful contribution to this relatively unexplored , yet increasingly important, domain of research." -- Ray Corrado, Criminology, Simon Fraser University
This book offers a study of deviance and dispute management in a comparative perspective. Conventional wisdom and professional knowledge assume a clear line between the study of disputes and deviance. The authors provide the basic steps for integrating the study of disputes with research on the sociology of law and deviance. They examine the conditions crucial to dispute analysis: the nature of social and political relationships, informal and formal social control, cost, time, and access to dispute forums.
"This study is a gold mine of insights, revelations, and critical reflections on the inter-connectedness of social psychological, social, cultural, economic, political, demographic, and geographic factors. It penetrates, unpacks, and reveals the inter-connectedness of both important micro-level and macro-level social, economic, and political structure."-- Richard L. Harris, Harvard University
Pat Lauderdale is Professor of Justice and Adjunct Professor of Law at Arizona State University. Michael Cruit is Acting Director of Herbert Blumer Institute, Costa Rica.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Scope
Introduction
Disputes, Law, and Deviance
The Setting
Social Relationships and Disputing
Rationalization and Access to Dispute Forums
Time
Cost
The Politics of Dispute Management in Costa Rica: An Introduction to the Case
2. The Disputing Process
Case 1 - Resident or Squatter?
Case 2 - The Colorado Camp
Case 3 - The House Without a Home
Case 4 - Denouncing the Campesino
Case 5 - The Fruit of the Land
Case 6 - The Sierpe Gift
Case 7 - The Absentee Landlord and the Local
Case 8 - The Inspection
Case 9 - The Rainy Season
3. An Analysis of Dispute Management: The Absence of Resolution
The Nature of the Social Relationship
Simplex/Multiplex
Insiders/Outsiders
Social Context and Social Relationships
Access and Social Context
Time and Social Context
Cost and Social Context
4. Conflict and the Struggle for Control
Cultural Dimensions
Tide-Time
Milla Maritima
Private/Productive Property
Nonviolent Disputing
Encompassing Issues
Modes of Dispute Management
Social Control and Deviance
Epilogue: Justice and Social Control
Appendix A: Agrarian Reform in Central America
Introduction
Rationalization and Land Reform
The World-Polity Perspective
Land Tenure and Reform
The Incorporation of Central America
The Commodification of Land
World System Impact
Conclusion
Appendix B: The Rationalization of Law in Costa Rica
