FSU College of Criminology and Criminal Justice

High-Profile Publications Jan 2004–October 2008

Criminology

• Baumer, Eric P. and Regan Gustafson. 2007. “Social Organization and Instrumental Crime: Assessing the Empirical Validity of Classic and Contemporary Anomie Theories.”
• Beaver, Kevin M. Forthcoming. "Nonshared Environmental Influences on Adolescent Delinquent Involvement and Adult Criminal Behavior."
• Beaver, Kevin M., Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, John Paul Wright, and Brian Boutwell. Forthcoming. “The Relationship between Self-Control and Language: Evidence of a Shared Etiological Pathway.”
• Bontrager, Stephanie, William D. Bales, and Ted Chiricos. 2005. “Race, Ethnicity, Threat, and the Labeling of Convicted Felons.”
• Chiricos, Ted, Kelle Barrick, William Bales, and Stephanie Bontrager. "The Labeling of Convicted Felons and Its Consequences for Recidivism."
• Chiricos, Ted, Kelly Welch, and Marc Gertz. 2004. “The Racial Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Measures.”
• Hay, Carter and Walter Forrest. Forthcoming. “Self-Control and The Concept of Opportunity: Making the Case for a More Systematic Union.”
• Hay, Carter and Walter Forrest. 2006. “The Development of Self-Control: Examining Self-Control Theory's Stability Thesis.”
• Kleck, Gary, Brion Sever, Spencer Li, and Marc Gertz. 2005 “The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research.”
• Kleck, Gary and Jongyeon Tark. 2004. “Resisting Crime: The Effects of Victim Action on the Outcomes of Crimes.”
• Kubrin, Charis E. and Eric A. Stewart. 2006. "Predicting Who Reoffends: The Neglected Role of Neighborhood Context in Recidivism Studies."
• Mears, Daniel P., Carter Hay, Marc Gertz, and Christina Mancini. 2007. "Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Courts."
• Mears, Daniel P. and Avinash S. Bhati. 2006. “No Community Is an Island: The Effects of Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate Communities.”
• Mears, Daniel P., Xia Wang, Carter Hay, and William D. Bales. Forthcoming. "Social Ecology and Recidivism: Implications for Prisoner Reentry."
• McGloin, Jean Marie, Christopher J. Sullivan, Alex R. Piquero, and Sarah Bacon. 2008. “Investigating the Stability of Co-offending and Co-offenders among a Sample of Youthful Offenders.”
• Parker, Karen F., Brian J. Stults, and Steven K. Rice. 2005. “Racial Threat, Concentrated Disadvantage, and Social Control: Considering the Macro-Level Sources of Variation in Arrests.”
• Schreck, Christopher J., Eric A. Stewart, and D. Wayne Osgood. Forthcoming. “A Reappraisal of the Victim/Offender Overlap.”
• Warren, Patricia, Donald Tomaskovic Devey, William Smith, Matthew Zingraff, and Marcinda Mason. 2006. "Driving while Black: Bias Processes and Racial Disparity in Police Stops."
• Wright, John Paul and Kevin M. Beaver. 2005. “Do Parents Matter in Creating Self-Control in their Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s Theory of Low Self-Control.”

Criminology and Public Policy

• Bales, William D., Laura E. Bedard, Susan T. Quinn, David T. Ensley, and Glen P. Holley. 2005. “Recidivism of Public and Private State Prison Inmates in Florida.”
• Barker, Vanessa. 2006. “Deliberating Crime and Punishment: A Way Out of Get Tough Justice?”
• Baumer, Eric P. 2008. “Evaluating the Balance Sheet of Asset Forfeiture Laws: Toward Evidence-Based Policy Assessments.”
• Mears, Daniel P. 2008. “Accountability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Corrections: Shining a Light on the Black Box of Prison Systems.”
• Padgett, Kathy G., William D. Bales, and Thomas G. Blomberg. 2005. “Under Surveillance: An Empirical Test of the Effectiveness and Consequences of Electronic Monitoring.”
• Rosenfeld, Richard, Rob Fornango, and Eric P. Baumer. 2005. “Evaluating the Impact of Law Enforcement Interventions on Homicide Rates.”
• Stewart, Eric A.. 2007. "Either They Don't Know or They Don't Care: Black Males and Negative Police Experiences."

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

• Bales, William D. and Daniel P. Mears. 2008. “Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism?”
• Hay, Carter, Edward Fortson, Dusten Hollist, Irshad Altheimer, and Lonnie Schaible. 2006. “The Impact of Community Disadvantage on the Relationship between the Family and Juvenile Crime.”
• Hay, Carter and Michelle M. Evans. 2006. “Has Roe v. Wade Reduced U.S. Crime? Examining the Link between Mother’s Pregnancy Intentions and Children’s Later Involvement in Law-Violating Behavior.”
• Kleck, Gary. 2004. “Measures of Gun Ownership Levels for Macro-level Crime and Violence Research.”
• Schreck, Christopher J., Melissa W. Burek, Eric A. Stewart, and J. Mitchell Miller. Forthcoming. "Distress and Violent Victimization among Young Adolescents: A Test of the Social Interactionist Explanation and a Case Study of Early Puberty."
• Stewart, Eric A., Christopher J. Schreck, and Ronald L. Simons. 2006. "I Ain't Gonna Let No One Disrespect Me": Does the Code of the Street Reduce or Increase Violent Victimization among African American Adolescents?"

Justice Quarterly

• Gibson, Chris, Sara Z. Morris, and Kevin M. Beaver. Forthcoming. “Secondary Exposure to Violence during Childhood and Adolescence: Does Neighborhood Context Matter?”
• Hogan, Michael, Ted Chiricos, and Marc Gertz. 2005. “Economic Insecurity, Blame, and Punitive Attitudes.”
• Mears, Daniel P., and Jamie Watson. 2006. “Towards a Fair and Balanced Assessment of Supermax Prisons.”
• Reisig, Michael D., William D. Bales, Carter Hay, and Xia Wang. Forthcoming. “Racial Inequality and Reconviction among African-American Male Offenders.”
• Stewart, Eric, Kirk W. Elifson, and Claire E. Sterk. 2004.“Integrating the General Theory of Crime into an Explanation of Criminal Victimization Among Female Offenders.”
• Stewart, Eric A. and Ronald L. Simons. 2006. “Structure and Culture in African-American Adolescent Violence: A Partial Test of the Code of the Street Thesis.” (2007 MacNamara Award Winner: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences).
• Tittle, Charles, Lisa Broidy, and Marc Gertz. 2008. “Strain, Crime, and Contingencies.”
• Wright, John Paul, Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, and Michael G. Vaughn. Forthcoming. "Evidence of Negligible Parenting Influences on Self-Control, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency in a Sample of Monozygotic Twins."

Law and Society Review

• Barker, Vanessa. 2007. “The Politics of Pain: A Political Institutionalist Analysis of Crime Victims’ Moral Protests.”
• Messner, Steven F., Eric P. Baumer, and Richard Rosenfeld. 2006. “Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment.”