... their nonfarm dwelling. A comparison of the personal characteristics of victims and non-victims offers support for Roberta Senechal de la Roche’s theoretical perspective emphasizing the social marginality of victims. Black men who were married and the head of their household enjoyed a lower likelihood...

... took the place of the asylum and shaped the rise of the prison industrial complex and creating new forms of social marginality....

... important differentials in the risk of victimization according to both social marginality and social standing. However, what motivated mobs to exercise discretion in their targeting of victims cannot be known. Mobs did consider potential community reaction in their selection of victims...

...Chapters 4 and 5 demonstrated that individual-level characteristics linked to social marginality or higher-status differentially affected black and mixed-race men's vulnerability to mob violence based on the local context. This chapter attempts to integrate these two sets of findings by examining...