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The Social Science Journal. 39:465-470
School shootings have become a subject of intense national debate. The present study is a content analysis and interpretation of television evening newscast coverage of these crimes. The focus is on ABC, CBS, and NBC nightly newscasts. Findings from
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The Social Science Journal. 33:321-333
For nearly a decade it has been commonly assumed that seat belt laws save lives. Using traffic fatality data from 1983 through 1993 this paper offers evidence to call this assumption into question. For several years traffic fatality rates have been d
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Criminal Justice and Behavior. 12:305-331
Building upon the work of Stinchcombe, Taylor et al., the present research attempts to assess the impact of victimization, salience, and attribution on four measures of criminal sanctioning: general punishment, rehabilitation, capital punishment, and
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Journal of Drug Issues. 10:29-44
A historical dialectical model of deviance is presented and contrasted with the empiricist conception of unidirectional causation. This historical model, focusing on the interaction over time between culture or ideology and socially structured realit
Autor:
Michael Sheahan, Jennifer Lee Niedospial, Richard A. Mathers, Bruce G. Link, Francis T. Cullen, Gregory A. Clark
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International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. 9:15-28
It is commonly asserted that the public is indifferent toward white-collar crime and hence is reluctant to “get tough” with more “respectable” criminals. However, such a contention fails to consider that there are many varieties of upperworld
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The Sociological Quarterly. 19:129-140
This paper makes an initial statement regarding the conceptual and empirical utility of the social contagion image as posited by Blumer and Klapp. Their position is then criticized on the basis of its assumption that unverified and unusual sensory ex
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Criminal Justice and Behavior. 12:171-192
Prevailing studies of the link between social class and delinquency typically assume that parental SES is an adequate measure of the affluence or deprivation juveniles experience. This approach has thus masked the possibility that the economic resour
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Criminology. 26:235-261
Despite the plethora of studies of broken homes, multivariate studies comparing the effects of the broken home and other theoretically relevant measures of the quality of family life are rare. This study examines the family structure versus family fu
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Journal of Criminal Justice. 11:481-493
It is commonly asserted that white-collar crime flourishes because the public is unaware of its costs and indifferent to its control. Survey data collected in Illinois indicate, however, that the public perceives white-collar offenses to have greater
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American Sociological Review. 34:416