Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1977

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Giles, Michael W.

Abstract

This thesis analyzes the legal institutional structure of the urban community, as symbolized by the police, to determine if differences in the capacity to function effectively was a significant factor in the urban racial violence of the mid-1960's. Performance capacity was operationalized by the following objective measures for pre-riot "normal" times: quality of manpower potential, municipal governmental structure, confrontation potential, and potential resources of the community. Additional independent variables were the city's total population and socio-economic measures of absolute and relative deprivation. Although the results were not conclusive, only a community's confrontation potential, potential resources , and total population size were found to significantly contribute to an explanation of a community's riot potential.

Extent

77 p.

Comments

Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters

Identifier

FADT13900

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