1. See, for example, Kristin Bumiller, The Civil Rights Society (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988) and In an Abusive State (Durham: Duke University Press, 2008).
2. For a discussion of these issues confronting sociology, see, for example, Pierre Bourdieu and Loic J. D. Wacquant, eds, An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
3. For further elaboration on the effects of legalized accountability, see Charles R. Epp, Making Rights Real (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010).
4. Lewis A. Coser, Greedy Institutions (New York: Free Press, 1974).
5. Murray Edelman, The Symbolic Uses of Politics (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1964).