Forging Social Order and Its Breakdown: Riot and Reform in U.S. Prisons
研究了1990年代新墨西哥州和纽约州监狱改革的截然不同结果，提出国家中心理论解释社会秩序如何崩溃或恢复，对学校等层级机构有启示。
Two cases of prison reform in the 1990s had widely divergent results. New Mexico privatized several prisons and these prisons were quickly beset by multiple riots. New York's publicly run Rikers Island prison, by contrast, adopted reforms that ended many years of riots and violence. Prevailing theories of prison riots cannot account for these divergent outcomes. A state-centered theory of social order explains both cases, showing how prison administrators and state and national governments can create the conditions under which social order breaks down or is restored. This analysis has implications for forging social order in other hierarchical institutions, such as schools, that are responsible for the welfare of their dependent clients.