The Behavior of Social Control

The best way to improve this draft would be to sharpen it, to figure out which idea is central, and to re-edit the draft to put that idea in front, developing it and discovering its implications, paragraph by paragraph. The present draft has an emotional center in its discussion of community response to student suicides, but an intellectual commitment to a discussion of Donald Black's schematic and de-psychologized form of social "explanation." They do not work terribly well whether with or against one another, so the essay at present achieves neither its full possibilities of emotional power or analytic clarity.