Donald Black (born 1941) is a University Professor of the Social Sciences at the University of Virginia. Black received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1968, and he taught at Yale and Harvard before moving to Virginia in 1985. Black is the author of The Behavior of Law, The Manners and Customs of the Police, and Sociological Justice, all of which present various aspects of his theory of law. More recently, The Social Structure of Right and Wrong extends the theory to address conflict management more broadly. It thus focuses on instances where people handle conflicts through means other than the law, such as through gossip, avoidance, suicide, or feuding. Black's latest book, Moral Time, identifies the causes of moral conflict in all human relationships. Black is also the founder of pure sociology, a distinctive theoretical approach that explains human behavior with its social geometry. Since pure sociology is a general sociological paradigm, it may be applied to subjects other than law, conflict, and conflict management—for example, art, religion, and ideas. See also Legal behavior References Further reading Works by Black 1970. “Production of Crime Rates.” American Sociological Review 35:733-748. 1971. “The Social Organization of Arrest.” Stanford Law Review 23:1087-1111. 1972. “The Boundaries of Legal Sociology.” Yale Law Journal 81:1086-1100. 1973. “The Mobilization of Law.” Journal of Legal Studies 2:125-149. 1973. “Introduction.” Pages 1–14 in The Social Organization of Law, edited by Donald Black and Maureen Mileski. New York: Academic Press. 1976. The Behavior of Law. New York: Academic Press. 1979. “Common Sense in the Sociology of Law.” American Sociological Review 44(1):18-27. 1979. “A Note on the Measurement of Law.” Informationsbrief für Rechtssoziologie, Sonderheft 2:92-106. 1979. “A Strategy of Pure Sociology.” Pages 149–168 in Theoretical Perspectives in Sociology, edited by Scott G. McNall. New York: St. Martin's Press. 1980. The Manners and Customs of the Police. New York: Academic Press. 1981. “The Relevance of Legal Anthropology.” Contemporary Sociology 10(1):43-46. 1983. “Crime as Social Control.” American Sociological Review 48:34-45. 1984. Toward a General Theory of Social Control, Volume 1: Fundamentals. Orlando: Academic Press. (editor) 1984. “Preface.” Toward a General Theory of Social Control, Volume 1: Fundamentals, edited by Donald Black. Orlando: Academic Press. 1984. “Social Control as a Dependent Variable.” In Toward a General Theory of Social Control, Volume 1: Fundamentals, edited by Donald Black. Orlando: Academic Press. (editor) 1984. Toward a General Theory of Social Control,