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A Study of Sentencing in the Hennepin County and Ramsey County District Courts

Previous articleNext article No AccessA Study of Sentencing in the Hennepin County and Ramsey County District CourtsWilliam M. RhodesWilliam M. Rhodes Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Legal Studies Volume 6, Number 2Jun., 1977 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467575 Views: 6Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Kathleen Daly, Rebecca L. Bordt Sex effects and sentencing: An analysis of the statistical literature, Justice Quarterly 12, no.11 (Mar 1995): 141–175.https://doi.org/10.1080/07418829500092601DARRELL STEFFENSMEIER, JOHN KRAMER, CATHY STREIFEL GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT DECISIONS, Criminology 31, no.33 (Aug 1993): 411–446.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1993.tb01136.xB. Keith Crew Sex differences in criminal sentencing: Chivalry or patriarchy?, Justice Quarterly 8, no.11 (Mar 1991): 59–83.https://doi.org/10.1080/07418829100090911Roger Douglas Does the magistrate matter? Sentencers and sentence in the victorian magistrates' courts, Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology 22, no.11 (Nov 2016): 40–59.https://doi.org/10.1177/000486588902200103JAMES D. UNNEVER, LARRY A. HEMBROFF The Prediction of Racial/Ethnic Sentencing Disparities: An Expectation States Approach, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25, no.11 (Aug 2016): 53–82.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427888025001004Roger Douglas Tolerated contests? Plea and sentence in the Victorian magistrates' courts, Journal of Criminal Justice 16, no.44 (Jan 1988): 269–290.https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(88)90016-5DAN R. DALTON, WILLIAM D. TODOR GENDER AND WORKPLACE JUSTICE: A FIELD ASSESSMENT, Personnel Psychology 38, no.11 (Mar 1985): 133–151.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1744-6570.1985.tb00545.xAustin Lovegrove An empirical study of sentencing disparity among judges in an Australian criminal court, Applied Psychology 33, no.11 (Jan 1984): 161–176.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1464-0597.1984.tb01425.xAIDAN R. VINING Developing Aggregate Measures of Disparity, Criminology 21, no.22 (May 1983): 233–252.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1983.tb00260.x

Bail Risk: A Multivariate Analysis

Previous articleNext article No AccessBail Risk: A Multivariate AnalysisStevens H. Clarke, Jean L. Freeman, and Gary G. KochStevens H. Clarke Search for more articles by this author , Jean L. Freeman Search for more articles by this author , and Gary G. Koch Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Legal Studies Volume 5, Number 2Jun., 1976 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467556 Views: 17Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1977 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Will Dobbie, Jacob Goldin, Crystal S. Yang The Effects of Pre-Trial Detention on Conviction, Future Crime, and Employment: Evidence from Randomly Assigned Judges, American Economic Review 108, no.22 (Feb 2018): 201–240.https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20161503DEAN A. DABNEY, JOSHUA PAGE, VOLKAN TOPALLI American Bail and the Tinting of Criminal Justice, The Howard Journal of Crime and Justice 56, no.44 (Jul 2017): 397–418.https://doi.org/10.1111/hojo.12212Gary G. Koch, Dennis B. Gillings Inference, Design‐Based vs . Model‐Based, (Sep 2014).https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118445112.stat01616Brian Johnson, Christopher Kierkus, Christine Yalda Who Skips? An Analysis of Bail Bond Failure to Appear, Journal of Applied Security Research 9, no.11 (Jan 2014): 1–16.https://doi.org/10.1080/19361610.2014.852005DAVID S. ABRAMS, CHRIS ROHLFS OPTIMAL BAIL AND THE VALUE OF FREEDOM: EVIDENCE FROM THE PHILADELPHIA BAIL EXPERIMENT, Economic Inquiry 49, no.33 (Apr 2010): 750–770.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1465-7295.2010.00288.xMariana Martinez, Fabio Sánchez, Holly Kosiewicz Is Justice Blind? An Examination of Disparities in Homicide Sentencing in Colombia, 1980-2000, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 2009).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1478170Gary G. Koch, Dennis B. Gillings Inference, Design-Based vs. Model-Based, (Sep 2008).https://doi.org/10.1002/9780471462422.eoct995Thomas J. Miles An Empirical Analysis of the FBI's Ten Most Wanted, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies 5, no.22 (Jun 2008): 275–308.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1740-1461.2008.00125.xSteven D. Levitt, Thomas J. Miles Chapter 7 Empirical Study of Criminal Punishment, (Jan 2007): 455–495.https://doi.org/10.1016/S1574-0730(07)01007-9Gary G. Koch, Dennis B. Gillings Inference, Design-Based vs. Model-Based, (Aug 2006).https://doi.org/10.1002/0471667196.ess1235.pub2Boon-Tiong Lim, Euston Quah, Khye-Chong Tan The Economics of Bail Setting and Social Welfare, International Review of Law and Economics 25, no.44 (Dec 2005): 592–603.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2005.12.005Mandeep K. Dhami From discretion to disagreement: explaining disparities in judges' pretrial decisions, Behavioral Sciences & the Law 23, no.33 (Jan 2005): 367–386.https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.619 By Thomas J. Miles Estimating the Effect of America's Most Wanted: A Duration Analysis of Wanted Fugitives Miles, The Journal of Law and Economics 48, no.11 (Jul 2015): 281–306.https://doi.org/10.1086/428718 Eric Helland and Alexander Tabarrok The Fugitive: Evidence on Public versus Private Law Enforcement from Bail Jumping Helland/Tabarrok, The Journal of Law and Economics 47, no.11 (Jul 2015): 93–122.https://doi.org/10.1086/378694Hindy Lauer Schachter Supervised Pretrial Release: Policy Issues That Must Be Explored to Create Appropriate Programs, Criminal Justice Policy Review 7, no.3-43-4 (Sep 1995): 255–274.https://doi.org/10.1177/088740349500700303JOHN S. GOLDKAMP, PETER R. JONES Pretrial Drug-Testing Experiments in Milwaukee and Prince George's County: The Context of Implementation, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29, no.44 (Aug 2016): 430–465.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427892029004003Mary A. Toborg, Anthony M.J. Yezer, John A. Carver Pretrial Urine-Testing in the District of Columbia: Its Usefulness for Risk Classification and as a “Signaling Device” for Release Risk, Journal of Drug Issues 21, no.22 (Apr 1991): 369–381.https://doi.org/10.1177/002204269102100208Celesta A. Albonetti, Robert M. Hauser, John Hagan, Ilene H. Nagel Criminal justice decision making as a stratification process: The role of race and stratification resources in pretrial release, Journal of Quantitative Criminology 5, no.11 (Mar 1989): 57–82.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01066261 John R. Lott, Jr. Should the Wealthy Be Able to "Buy Justice"?, Journal of Political Economy 95, no.66 (Oct 2015): 1307–1316.https://doi.org/10.1086/261517William Rhodes A survival model with dependent competing events and right-hand censoring: Probation and parole as an illustration, Journal of Quantitative Criminology 2, no.22 (Jun 1986): 113–137.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01074576Elizabeth M. Suval, Matthew T. Zingraff Should Pre-Trial Release Programs Be Expanded?, Criminal Justice Policy Review 1, no.22 (May 1986): 140–154.https://doi.org/10.1177/088740348600100202Ebbe B. Ebbesen, Vladimir J. Konečni Criticisms of the criminal justice system: A decision making analysis, Behavioral Sciences & the Law 3, no.22 (Dec 2013): 177–194.https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370030206Frances P. Bernat Gender Disparity in the Setting of Bail, Journal of Offender Counseling Services Rehabilitation 9, no.1-21-2 (Oct 2008): 21–47.https://doi.org/10.1300/J264v09n01_02Ebbe B. Ebbesen, Vladimir J. Konečni Criticisms of the criminal justice system: A decision making analysis, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 3, no.22 (Jan 1985): 177–194.https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6696(1985)3:2<177::AID-JHBS2300030206>3.0.CO;2-C References, (Jan 1984): 399–409.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-627180-5.50028-5 Samuel L. Myers, Jr. The Economics of Bail Jumping, The Journal of Legal Studies 10, no.22 (Oct 2015): 381–396.https://doi.org/10.1086/467687

SEX DIFFERENCES IN DELINQUENCY

Abstract This paper explores a much neglected issue in delinquency research—the relationship between sexual status and self‐reported delinquent action. Utilizing questionnaire data from a large sample of black and white adolescents, females were found to report less delinquent activity than males. However, sexual status explained very little variance in delinquent action and when controls for “intervening” sociological variables were implemented the impact of sexual status ws reduced even more. When introduced in a multivariate analysis together with measures of an adolescent's relationships with conventional and unconventional persons, values and institutions sexual status explained between 0.5% and 2% of the variance in delinquency within the two racial categories. Nevertheless, a small statistically significant relationship persisted and can be given a variety of sociological and nonspciological interpretations.

A Statistical Analysis of Sentencing in Federal Courts: Defendants Convicted after Trial, 1967-1968

THE research reported on here is designed to illuminate the effects on sentence of presumably legitimate sentencing factors such as the crime committed, the defendant's age, and his prior record. Some illegitimate factors are suspected of having an effect on the sentencing decision, factors such as the type of counsel and the defendant's race; these too are explored. It is also widely believed that sentencing is intimately intertwined with and may be affected by the needs arising out of the conviction process. This creates the strong possibility that correctionally irrelevant factors may nevertheless determine some part of the sentence. A sentence arrived at as an "administrative accommodation" is unlikely to be a sentence derived from exclusive focus on deterrence or the "rehabilitative ideal." The specific question addressed here is whether the type of trial conviction--bench trial versus jury trial-is a sentencing factor, and if so, how important it is. Whether waiver of a jury in favor of a bench trial should result in a lower sentence for otherwise similarly situated defendants is precisely the type of question that might receive different responses from a prosecutor than from a correctional official.

Crime Control in California

Previous articleNext article No AccessCrime Control in CaliforniaLlad Phillips and Harold L. Votey, Jr.Llad Phillips Search for more articles by this author and Harold L. Votey, Jr. Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Legal Studies Volume 4, Number 2Jun., 1975 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467535 Views: 14Total views on this site Citations: 32Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1975 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article: References, (Jan 2019): 453–702.https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-804417-9.16001-6Žarko Braković, Božidar Banović Efficiency of competent state authorities in detecting and approving criminal reports of violent property crime, Bezbednost, Beograd 61, no.33 (Jan 2019): 54–81.https://doi.org/10.5937/bezbednost1903054B Iljoong Kim, 변재욱 The Effects on Crime of Law Enforcement and Labor Market Characteristics in Korea: An Empirical Inquiry, KUKJE KYUNGJE YONGU 18, no.44 (Dec 2012): 55–89.https://doi.org/10.17298/kky.2012.18.4.003John L. Worrall, Tomislav V. Kovandzic Police levels and crime rates: An instrumental variables approach, Social Science Research 39, no.33 (May 2010): 506–516.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.02.001John L. Worrall Does Targeting Minor Offenses Reduce Serious Crime? A Provisional, Affirmative Answer Based on an Analysis of County-Level Data, Police Quarterly 9, no.11 (Aug 2016): 47–72.https://doi.org/10.1177/1098611103258929Mats Persson, Claes-Henric Siven Incentive and incarceration effects in a general equilibrium model of crime, Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 59, no.22 (Feb 2006): 214–229.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2004.03.011John L. Worrall, Pamela Schram, Eric Hays, Matthew Newman An analysis of the relationship between probation caseloads and property crime rates in California counties, Journal of Criminal Justice 32, no.33 (May 2004): 231–241.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2004.02.003John L Worrall, Travis C Pratt On the consequences of ignoring unobserved heterogeneity when estimating macro-level models of crime, Social Science Research 33, no.11 (Mar 2004): 79–105.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0049-089X(03)00040-1Isaac Ehrlich Criminal Justice, (Jan 2017): 553–560.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-74173-1_107Todd L. Cherry Financial penalties as an alternative criminal sanction: Evidence from panel data, Atlantic Economic Journal 29, no.44 (Dec 2001): 450–458.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02299333Silvia M. Mendes, Michael D. McDonald Putting Severity of Punishment Back in the Deterrence Package, Policy Studies Journal 29, no.44 (Nov 2001): 588–610.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02112.xMark Gius The Economics of the Criminal Behavior of Young Adults., American Journal of Economics and Sociology 58, no.44 (Oct 1999): 947–957.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1999.tb03402.xHope Corman, Naci H. Mocan A Time-Series Analysis of Crime, Deterrence and Drug Abuse in New York City, SSRN Electronic Journal (Jan 1999).https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.159028H. Naci Mocan, Hope Corman An Economic Analysis of Drug Use and Crime, Journal of Drug Issues 28, no.33 (Jul 1998): 613–629.https://doi.org/10.1177/002204269802800303Bruce L. Benson, David W. Rasmussen, Iljoong Kim Deterrence and Public Policy: Trade-Offs in the Allocation of Police Resources, International Review of Law and Economics 18, no.11 (Mar 1998): 77–100.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0144-8188(97)00059-8Kwabena Gymah-Brempong Race and Crime: What is the Connection?, (Jan 1997): 133–155.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-6157-6_7THOMAS B. MARVELL, CARLISLE E. MOODY SPECIFICATION PROBLEMS, POLICE LEVELS, AND CRIME RATES*, Criminology 34, no.44 (Nov 1996): 609–646.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1996.tb01221.xIsaac Ehrlich Crime, Punishment, and the Market for Offenses, Journal of Economic Perspectives 10, no.11 (Feb 1996): 43–67.https://doi.org/10.1257/jep.10.1.43Gary E. Marche The Production of Homicide Solutions., American Journal of Economics and Sociology 53, no.44 (Oct 1994): 385–401.https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1536-7150.1994.tb02610.xDavid A. Ward, Mark C. Stafford, Louis N. Gray, Ben A. 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Votey, Jr. Scandinavian Drinking-Driving Control: Myth or Intuition?, The Journal of Legal Studies 11, no.11 (Oct 2015): 93–116.https://doi.org/10.1086/467694Harold L. Votey Constructing a Quasi-Controlled Environment, Evaluation Review 5, no.11 (Jul 2016): 90–122.https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X8100500105 Harold L. Votey, Jr. Detention of Heroin Addicts, Job Opportunities, and Deterrence, The Journal of Legal Studies 8, no.33 (Oct 2015): 585–606.https://doi.org/10.1086/467623Leslie Sebba Some Explorations in the Scaling of Penalties, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 15, no.22 (Aug 2016): 247–265.https://doi.org/10.1177/002242787801500209 Llad Phillips , Harold L. Votey, Jr. , and John Howell Handguns and Homicide: Minimizing Losses and the Costs of Control, The Journal of Legal Studies 5, no.22 (Oct 2015): 463–478.https://doi.org/10.1086/467559

Scaling Seriousness: An Evaluation of Magnitude and Category Scaling Techniques

Unidimensional attitude scaling in social research encompasses a variety of measurement techniques. A relevant issue in the application of any of these, however, is the extent to which different procedures yield similar results. For example, one might expect that since magnitude and category scales represent two distinct and different types of scaling, each would generate different sets of results. In categorical analysis, the subjects' judgements involve placing responses into intervals or categories; magnitude scaling involves judging strength or salience and order on a more expansive and continuous scale. Research in psychophysical scaling suggests, however, that category and magnitude scales are logarithmically related.' The purpose of this present report is to empirically display the relationship between these scale types within the context of the measurement of delinquency. It is thought that insight on selecting scale types for delinquency research can be gained by examining whether similar seriousness scores result from these methods.

Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research: Some Alternative Analyses of Geographically Distributed Data

To assess the substantive importance of methodological issues identified in a series of critiques of delinquency area studies, a carefully focused reanalysis was undertaken using data analyzed in an earlier study. The modification of factor analytic procedures to avoid mistakes identified in these critiques produced a clearer picture of the factors reflected in the variables used to describe 100 Indianapolis census tracts but also necessitated alternative treatments of census tract delinquency rates. An examination of results produced by these treatments, which included (1) a modified social area analysis, (2) a modified predictive attribute analysis, and (3) an analysis of covariance, clearly indicates that correction of the methodological shortcomings requires little or no modification of the substantive conclusions about the relative importance of economic, family, and racial factors presented by studies published prior to 1967. Studies of the residential distribution of children charged with delinquency in urban areas have been criticized on methodological grounds almost from their inception.1 In recent years, the most impressive methodological critiques of such studies appeared in 1967 when Hirschi and Selvin published their appraisal of analytic methods used in delinquency research, Gordon assessed studies by Lander (1954), Bordua (1958-59), and Chilton (1964), and Wilk's review of ecological studies of the correlates of crime and delinquency was published by the National Crime Commission.2 These critiques either identified or reemphasized a number of problems in correlational studies of geographically distributed dataproblems they did not always resolve. An examination of the nature of a few of these critiques indicates why this was sometimes the

Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research: Some Alternative Analyses of Geographically Distributed Data

Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research: Some Alternative Analyses of Geographically Distributed Data

Sanctions for the Drinking Driver: An Experimental Study

Previous articleNext article No AccessSanctions for the Drinking Driver: An Experimental StudyH. Laurence Ross and Murray BlumenthalH. Laurence Ross Search for more articles by this author and Murray Blumenthal Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Legal Studies Volume 3, Number 1Jan., 1974 Sponsored by The University of Chicago Law School Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/467509 Views: 12Total views on this site Citations: 9Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1974 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:B. Goldacre Commentary: Randomized trials of controversial social interventions: slow progress in 50 years, International Journal of Epidemiology 44, no.11 (Feb 2015): 19–22.https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyv005David Weisburd Randomized Experiments in Criminal Justice Policy: Prospects and Problems, NCCD news 46, no.22 (Sep 2016): 181–193.https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128700046002003Anthony J. Petrosino Specifying Inclusion Criteria for a Meta-Analysis, Evaluation Review 19, no.33 (Jul 2016): 274–293.https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X9501900303Barbara J. Morse, Delbert S. Elliott Effects of Ignition Interlock Devices on DUI Recidivism: Findings from a Longitudinal Study in Hamilton County, Ohio, NPPA Journal 38, no.22 (Sep 2016): 131–157.https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128792038002001Joan Petersilia Implementing Randomized Experiments, Evaluation Review 13, no.55 (Jul 2016): 435–458.https://doi.org/10.1177/0193841X8901300501Susan Caringella-Macdonald An examination of drunken driving law reform, American Journal of Criminal Justice 13, no.22 (Mar 1989): 170–196.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02887508David P. Farrington Advancing knowledge about delinquency and crime: The need for a coordinated program of longitudinal research, Behavioral Sciences & the Law 6, no.33 (Jan 1988): 307–331.https://doi.org/10.1002/bsl.2370060304Edna Erez Randomized experiments in correctional context: Legal, ethical, and practical concerns, Journal of Criminal Justice 14, no.55 (Jan 1986): 389–400.https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2352(86)90107-8Robert T. Holden Rehabilitative Sanctions for Drunk Driving: an Experimental Evaluation, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 20, no.11 (Aug 2016): 55–72.https://doi.org/10.1177/002242788302000105

The Influence of Funding Agencies on Juvenile Delinquency Research

The Influence of Funding Agencies on Juvenile Delinquency Research

The Influence of Funding Agencies on Juvenile Delinquency Research

Journal Article The Influence of Funding Agencies on Juvenile Delinquency Research Get access John F. Galliher, John F. Galliher University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar James L. Mc Cartney James L. Mc Cartney University of Missouri, Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 21, Issue 1, Summer 1973, Pages 77–90, https://doi.org/10.2307/799978 Published: 07 August 2014

Evaluation Research in Crime and Delinquency: A Reappraisal

Evaluation Research in Crime and Delinquency: A Reappraisal

The Medium Is the Message: Firearm Caliber as a Determinant of Death from Assault

* Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice, University of Chicago. Jerald Kessler, now a third-year student at the University of Chicago Law School, performed with diligence and creativity as a research assistant on this project. Steven Harris, a second-year student at the Law School, conducted a helpful survey of the literature on intent in violent attack. The Chicago Police Department, in particular Mr. Michael Spiotto, provided access to the department files on reported fatal and nonfatal attacks that were used in this study. 1 Franklin E. Zimring, Is Gun Control Likely To Reduce Violent Killings?, 35 U. Chi. L. Rev. 721-24, 730-37 (1968). A third report, Homicide in Chicago, 1965-70, grows out of the same research project, a study of violent attack in Chicago supported by the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago. Other data on the issue of weapon dangerousness are developed in George D. Newton and Franklin E. Zimring, Firearms and Violence in American Life (Staff Report (7) to the Nat'l Comm'n on the Causes and Prevention of Violence 1969). See, e.g., id. at 44 and 177-79 (relationship between relative degree of gun use and extent to which guns are more lethal than knives), 46-47 (death rates from gun vs. nongun armed robbery), 69-74 (effect of increase in gun ownership and use on death from assault in Detroit), 76-77 (relationship between relative gun use in robbery and assault in major cities).

Allen Barton Comments on Hauser's "Context and Consex"

Previous articleNext article No AccessCommentary and DebateAllen Barton Comments on Hauser's "Context and Consex"Allen H. Barton, and Robert M. HauserAllen H. Barton Search for more articles by this author , and Robert M. Hauser Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 76, Number 3Nov., 1970 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/224955 Views: 3Total views on this site Citations: 14Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1970 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Tay Jeong Contextual fallacy in MLMs with cross-level interaction: A critical review of neighborhood effects on psychiatric resilience, Social Science & Medicine 37 (Aug 2022): 115279.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115279Robert M. Hauser A Life in Sociology, Annual Review of Sociology 43, no.11 (Jul 2017): 1–18.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-soc-060116-053434William H Sewell, Robert M Hauser, Kristen W Springer, Taissa S Hauser AS WE AGE: A REVIEW OF THE WISCONSIN LONGITUDINAL STUDY, 1957–2001, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 20 (Jan 2003): 3–111.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0276-5624(03)20001-9A V Diez-Roux Bringing context back into epidemiology: variables and fallacies in multilevel analysis., American Journal of Public Health 88, no.22 (Feb 1998): 216–222.https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.2.216Martin Thrupp The School Mix Effect: the history of an enduring problem in educational research, policy and practice, British Journal of Sociology of Education 16, no.22 (Jul 2006): 183–203.https://doi.org/10.1080/0142569950160204M Susser The logic in ecological: I. The logic of analysis., American Journal of Public Health 84, no.55 (May 1994): 825–829.https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.84.5.825DENISE C. GOTTFREDSON, RICHARD J. McNEIL, GARY D. GOTTFREDSON Social Area Influences on Delinquency: A Multilevel Analysis, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 28, no.22 (Aug 2016): 197–226.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427891028002005Charles J. Fombrun Attributions of Power Across a Social Network, Human Relations 36, no.66 (Jun 1983): 493–507.https://doi.org/10.1177/001872678303600601 Bibliography, Current Sociology 30, no.33 (Dec 1982): 123–178.https://doi.org/10.1177/001139282030003013Glenn Firebaugh Assessing Group Effects, Sociological Methods & Research 7, no.44 (Jun 2016): 384–395.https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417900700402Lutz Erbring, Alice A. Young Individuals and Social Structure, Sociological Methods & Research 7, no.44 (Jun 2016): 396–430.https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417900700404Roland J. Liebert Research-Grant Getting and Productivity among Scholars, The Journal of Higher Education 48, no.22 (Nov 2016): 164–192.https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.1977.11780345George Farkas Specification, Residuals and Contextual Effects, Sociological Methods & Research 2, no.33 (Feb 1974): 333–363.https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417400200304Robert M. Hauser Contextual Analysis Revisited, Sociological Methods & Research 2, no.33 (Feb 1974): 365–375.https://doi.org/10.1177/004912417400200305

Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods

This remarkable guide to delinquency studies was co-winner of the 1968 C. Wright Mills Award for the best book in the field of social problems. The work is in effect three books in one: a forthright account of how to analyze survey data, a penetrating critique of delinquency research, and a set of original essays on methodology. It is a landmark work that continues to serve as an essential tool for those who both study and want to learn about deviance. In the new introduction, Travis Hirschi describes the setting in which Delinquency Research was written, noting that it exudes a confident optimism that well-conducted research and analysis will quickly lead to important advances in the field. Hirschi maintains that twenty-eight years after Delinquency Research was first published the validity of its optimistic view has been confirmed by the fact that the field of criminology is among the leading producers of high quality research. As a result, we know more about crime and delinquency than ever before. Delinquency Research forms the basis for present and future studies of criminology and is a necessary addition to the libraries of sociologists, criminologists, scholars in the area of delinquency, and students interested in research methods.

Book Review: Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods

Book Review: Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods

Delinquency Research: An Appraisal of Analytic Methods. Travis Hirschi , Hanan C. Selvin

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Socialization in Correctional Communities: A Replication

Klein, M. W. and L. Y. Crawford. 1967 Groups, gangs, and cohesiveness. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 4 (January):63-75. Kobrin, S. 1951 conflict of values in delinquency areas. American Sociological Review 16 (October) :653-661. Kobrin, S., J. Puntil and E. Peluso. 1967 Criteria of status among street corner groups. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 4 (January):98-118. Lohman, J. D. 1957 Juvenile Delinquency. Cook County: Office of the Sheriff. Miller, W. B. 1958 Lower-class culture as a generating milieu of gang delinquency. Journal of Issues XIV (Summer):5-19. Matza, David. 1964 Delinquency and Drift. New York: Wiley. Reis;, A. J., Jr. and A. L. Rhodes. 1961 distribution of juvenile delinquency in the social class structure. American Sociological Review 26 (October):720-732. Scott, P. 1956 Gangs and delinquent groups in London. British Journal of Delinquency VII (July) :4-26. Shaw, Clifford R. 1931 The Jack Roller: A Delinquent Boy's Own Story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Shaw, C. R. and H. D. McKay. 1931 Social factors in juvenile delinquency. Report on the Causes of Crime. Washington: National Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement. Short, J. F., Jr. 1960 sociocultural context of delinquency. Crime and Delinquency (October) :365375. 1963 Introduction to Frederic M. Thrasher, The Gang. Chicago University Press. Short, James F., Jr. and Fred L. Strodtbeck. 1965 Group Process and Gang Delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Smith, M. 1943 empirical scale of prestige of occupations. American Sociological Review 8 (April): 185-192. Spergel, Irving. 1964 Racketville, Slumtown, Haulburg: An Exploratory Study of Delinquent Subcultures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Thrasher, Frederic M. 1936 The Gang. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Torgerson, Warren S. 1958 Theory and Methods of Scaling. New York: Wiley.

Disclosure of delinquent behavior under conditions of anonymity and nonanonymity.

This study was undertaken to determine whether anonymity is a necessary condition for candid self-report of antisocial behavior. A checklist of antisocial behaviors was filled out both anonymously and nonanonymously by high school and delinquent boys. Although both groups disclosed more antisocial behavior when protected by anonymity, differences in scores under the 2 administration s were comparatively small. The changes in candor were also more pronounced for slight infractions than for serious violations. Correlational analysis showed that individuals maintained about the same ranking on antisocial behavior in both administrations of the checklist. Scores on the 2 administration s of the checklist correlated equally highly with other criteria of delinquency. It was concluded that the importance of anonymity has been overemphasized in research on delinquency using self-report techniques. A number of recent delinquency researchers, dissatisfied with the proliferation of research comparing institutionalized delinquents and nondelinquents, have turned to the study of self-reported adolescent misbehavior. This method has yielded some provocative findings (e.g., Short & Nye, 1958), and has revitalized old and fundamental questions about delinquency. A resurgence of interest in socioeconomic status and delinquency, for example, is partly attributable to the impact of this method. Few investigators, however, have tried to study the validity of the self-report method in delinquency research. An obstacle to such studies is the anonymity under which reports of antisocial behavior are made. Anonymous reports of antisocial behavior usually cannot be related to data on boys available from other sources. Predictive, longitudinal, and other validity studies become difficult, if not impossible, when boys do not sign their names to checklists of delinquent behavior. Short and Nye (1958), however, stress the importance of anonymity. According to these authors, rapport can only be obtained where boys have nothing to gain either by withholding or distorting information. Recent in

CHILDBEARINC—ITS SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS

RICHARDSON, STEPHEN A. AND; GUTTMACHER, ALAN F.; RUNNERSTROM, LILLIAN R.N. Author Information