Reactions to flag desecration in American society: Exploring the contours of formal and informal social control |
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Authors: | Michael Welch Jennifer L. Bryan |
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Affiliation: | (1) Administration of Justice, Rutgers University, P.O. Box 5062, 08903-5062 New Brunswick, NJ;(2) Yale University, USA |
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Abstract: | Although flag burnings today rarely draw the amount of attention they received in the late 1980s, efforts to protect the flag have persisted for nearly a decade. Accordingly, the flag protection campaign has captured the interest of intellectuals from various academic backgrounds, including political scientists, egal scholars, and journalists. Conspicuously absent from the literature on flag desecration, however, are sociologists and criminologists. Combining historical evidence with recent cases, this article unveils key sociological aspects of social control, including formal and informal responses to flag desecration. |
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