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High-Profile Publications Jan 2004–October 2010

Color Key
  • Faculty/research faculty
  • Graduate student at time of publication

Additional Select Publications

  • Baumer, Eric P. Forthcoming. “A Comprehensive Assessment of the Contemporary Crime Trends Puzzle.” National Academy of Sciences.
  • Beaver, Kevin M., Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, and John Paul Wright. Forthcoming. “Anabolic-androgenic Steroid Use and Involvement in Violent Behavior in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adult Males in the United States.” American Journal of Public Health.
  • LaFree, Gary, Baumer, Eric P., and Bob O'Brien. 2010. “Social Context and the Racial Gap in Violence: A City-Level Analysis of Changes in Black-White Homicide Arrest Ratios, 1960��2000.” American Sociological Review.
  • Stults, Brian J. and Eric Baumer. 2007. Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective." American Journal of Sociology.
  • Warren, Patricia and Amy Farrell. Forthcoming. “Racial Profiling and the Police: Can the Political Environment Foster Organizational Change?” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences.

Crime and Delinquency

  • Beaver, Kevin M., Chris L. Gibson, Michael G. Turner, Matt DeLisi, Michael G. Vaughn, and Ashleigh Holand. 2009. “The Stability of Delinquent Peer Associations: A Biosocial Test of Warr's Sticky Friends Hypothesis.”
  • Boutwell, Brian and Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Self-Control.”
  • Kleck, Gary and James C. Barnes. Forthcoming. “Deterrence and macro-level perceptions of punishment risks: is there a “collective wisdom?”
  • Kleck, Gary and James C. Barnes. Forthcoming. “Do More Police Generate More Crime Deterrence?”
  • Lucken, Karol and William D. Bales. 2008. “Florida's Sexually Violent Predator Program: An Examination of Risk and Civil Commitment Eligibility”
  • Warren, Patricia. 2008. “Perceptions of Police Disrespect During Vehicle Stops: A Race-Based Analysis.”

Criminology

  • Baumer, Eric P. and Janet Lauritsen. 2010 “Reporting Crime to the Police, 1973�2005: A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends in the NCS and NCVS.”
  • 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. 2008. "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.”
  • Chiricos, Ted, Kelle Barrick, William Bales, and Stephanie Bontrager. "The Labeling of Convicted Felons and Its Consequences for Recidivism."
  • Hay, Carter and Walter Forrest. 2008. “Self-Control and The Concept of Opportunity: Making the Case for a More Systematic Union.”
  • Mears, Daniel P. and William D. Bales. 2009. “Supermax Incarceration and Recidivism.”
  • Mears, Daniel P., Carter Hay, Marc Gertz, and Christina Mancini. 2007. "Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Courts."
  • Mears, Daniel P., Xia Wang, Carter Hay, and William D. Bales. Forthcoming. "Social Ecology and Recidivism: Implications for Prisoner Reentry."
  • Schreck, Christopher J., Eric A. Stewart, and D. Wayne Osgood. Forthcoming. “A Reappraisal of the Victim/Offender Overlap.”
  • Siennick, Sonja E. 2007. “The Timing and Mechanisms of the Offending-Depression Link.”
  • Siennick, Sonja E. and Jeremy Staff. 2008. “Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths.”
  • Stewart, Eric A. and Ronald L. Simons. 2010. “Race, Code of the Street, and Violent Delinquency: A Multilevel Investigation of Neighborhood Street Culture and Individual Norms of Violence.”
  • Jongyeon Tark and Gary Kleck. 2004. “Resisting crime: the effects of victim action on the outcomes of crimes.”
  • Gary Kleck, Brion Sever, Spencer Li, and Marc Gertz. 2005. “The missing link in general deterrence research.”
  • Warren, Patricia, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, William R. Smith, Matthew Zingraff, Marcinda Mason. 2006. “Driving While Black: Bias Processes and Racial Disparity in Stops.”

Criminology and Public Policy

  • 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.”
  • Stewart, Eric A.. 2007. “Either They Don't Know or They Don't Care: Black Males and Negative Police Experiences.”
  • Warren, Patricia. 2010. “Inequality by Design: The Connection between Race, Crime, Victimization and Social Policy.”
  • Warren, Patricia and Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. 2009. “Racial Profiling and Searches: Did the Politics of Racial Profiling Change Officer Behavior?”

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?”
  • Boutwell, Brian and Kevin M. Beaver. 2009. “The Intergenerational Transmission of Low Self-Control.”
  • Mears, Daniel P., Christina Mancini, and Eric A. Stewart. 2009. “Whites' Concern about Crime: The Effects of Interracial Contact.”
  • 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., Eric P. Baumer, Rod Brunson, and Ronald Simons. 2009. “Neighborhood Racial Context and Perceptions of Racial Discrimination among Black Youth.”
  • Warren, Patricia, Ted Chiricos, and William Bales. 2010. “(Forthcoming) The Imprisonment Penalty for Young Black and Hispanic Males: A Crime-Specific Analysis.”

Justice Quarterly

  • Kevin M. Beaver, Matt DeLisi, Mears, Daniel P., and Stewart, Eric. 2009. “Low Self-Control and Contact with the Criminal Justice System in a Nationally Representative Sample of Males.”
  • Gibson, Chris, Sara Z. Morris, and Kevin M. Beaver. Forthcoming. “Secondary Exposure to Violence during Childhood and Adolescence: Does Neighborhood Context Matter?”
  • Reisig, Michael D., William D. Bales, Carter Hay, and Xia Wang. Forthcoming. “Racial Inequality and Reconviction among African-American Male Offenders.”
  • 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."