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The paper examines the theoretical and empirical adequacy of Donald Black's (1976) The Behavior of Law . The work is found to be logically incoherent and its operationalization of variables problematic. The evidence that bears on its propositions does not consistently support them.
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David F. Greenberg (1983) studied this question.
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