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Publikováno v:
Sociological Inquiry. 86:166-188
The greater prevalence of intraracial crime to interracial crime is a common finding in criminology. This issue is best understood when specific crimes are studied from a proper theoretical basis. We argue that variation in rates of cross-racial crim
Autor:
Darrell D. Irwin, Cecil L. Willis
Publikováno v:
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 38:63-81
Since Deng Xiaoping introduced a market economy in the mid-1970s, China has achieved great progress and its citizens have greater incomes. Yet, current research documents an increase in organized crime and corruption in China. The focus of this resea
Publikováno v:
Urban Affairs Review. 49:141-155
Standard sociology and criminology have not been sufficiently sensitive to the unique characteristics that places have. It has been implicitly assumed that one place (be it a neighborhood, census track, or metropolitan area) is interchangeable with a
Autor:
Cecil L. Willis
Publikováno v:
The American Sociologist. 41:190-209
My first semester as a tenure-track faculty member at a mid-size university began ignominiously and suggested that my academic career might be short-lived. It began with a blistering memo that was stridently critical of the academic dean’s policy w
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Journal of Criminal Justice. 27:227-238
Comparative criminology continues to develop at an accelerated pace. Today, cross-national empirical studies of crime are quite common and comparative theories of crime, such as the Durkheimian-modernization theory, Marxian World Systems/Dependency t
Autor:
Michael Supancic, Cecil L. Willis
Publikováno v:
Journal of Crime and Justice. 21:191-215
Drawing on the research literature on community-based crime control, this article explores the role of extralegal justice as an important complement to more formal legal justice efforts employed by communities to regulate crime. Several structural fe
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International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 20:15-29
Comparative criminology is making an impressive imprint in academic circles. This is evident by the burgeoning number of studies, journal articles, books, college courses, symposia, and conferences devoted to comparative issues. Our reading of existi
Autor:
Cecil L. Willis, Stephen J. McNamee
Publikováno v:
Knowledge. 15:396-416
Publication patterns in the leading journals of chemistry, economics, philosophy, and sociology between 1960 and 1985 are examined Patterns of institutional stratification are indicated by the dispersion of institutional affiliations among authors, p
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The American Sociologist. 21:99-115
This paper examines the impact of the recent feminization of the sociological profession on gender differences in patterns of publication in leading sociology journals. Our findings show that women are better represented in the leading journals in an
Autor:
Stephen J. McNamee, Cecil L. Willis
Publikováno v:
Knowledge. 11:363-381
This article examines the impact of editor-author networks of institutional ties on publication patterns in three leading sociology journals between 1960 and 1985. The "invisible college," a social network of elite scholars, is discussed as the major