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Toward An Interparadigmatic Dialogue On Goffman, James J. Chriss
Toward An Interparadigmatic Dialogue On Goffman, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
The Young Parsons And The Mature Habermas, James J. Chriss
The Young Parsons And The Mature Habermas, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Habermas, Goffman, And Communicative Action: Implications For Professional Practice, James J. Chriss
Habermas, Goffman, And Communicative Action: Implications For Professional Practice, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Some Thoughts On Recent Efforts To Further Systematize Goffman, James J. Chriss
Some Thoughts On Recent Efforts To Further Systematize Goffman, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Murder, Capital Punishment, And Deterrence: A Review Of The Evidence And An Examination Of Police Killings., William C. Bailey, Ruth Peterson
Murder, Capital Punishment, And Deterrence: A Review Of The Evidence And An Examination Of Police Killings., William C. Bailey, Ruth Peterson
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
This paper reviews and assesses the empirical literature on murder, capital punishment, and deterrence. There is a large body of evidence regarding these issues, with studies yielding a rather consistent pattern of nondeterrence. However, most investigations are limited because they rely upon the general homicide rate as the criterion variable, although both legally and theoretically, different types of murder may be differentially subject to deterrence. As an example of how deterrence investigations may benefit from examining different types of homicide, we conduct a monthly time-series analysis of the possible deterrent effect of the provision for capital punishment, levels of execution, …
Spain On Status And Space: A Comment, James J. Chriss
Spain On Status And Space: A Comment, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Looking Back On Goffman: The Excavation Continues, James J. Chriss
Looking Back On Goffman: The Excavation Continues, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Durkheim's Cult Of The Individual As Civil Religion: Its Appropriation By Erving Goffman, James J. Chriss
Durkheim's Cult Of The Individual As Civil Religion: Its Appropriation By Erving Goffman, James J. Chriss
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Rape And Dimensions Of Gender Socioeconomic Inequality In U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Ruth Peterson, William C. Bailey
Rape And Dimensions Of Gender Socioeconomic Inequality In U.S. Metropolitan Areas, Ruth Peterson, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
There is a growing consensus that a major cause of the rape problem is the subordinate position of women in the social, political, and economic order. Despite this consensus, there have been few structural analyses of rape and inequality. Further, extant investigations suffer from a number of serious shortcomings such that, at present, there is not a sound basis for accepting, or rejecting, rape and inequality arguments. Correcting for many of the limitations of previous studies, this investigation extends our understanding of the role of gender socioeconomic inequality and other structural factors in the etiology of rape. The …
Felony Murder And Capital Punishment: An Examination Of The Deterrence Question, Ruth Peterson, William C. Bailey
Felony Murder And Capital Punishment: An Examination Of The Deterrence Question, Ruth Peterson, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides. However, the criterion variable in most investigations has been total homicides—most of which bear no legal or theoretical relationship to capital punishment. To address this fundamental data problem, this investigation used Federal Bureau of Investigation data for 1976–1987 to examine the relationship between capital punishment and felony murder, the most common type of capital homicide. We conducted time series analyses of monthly felony murder rates, the frequency of executions, and the amount and type of television coverage of executions over the period. The analyses revealed …
Goffman Revisions, Philip Manning
Goffman Revisions, Philip Manning
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
Erving Goffman's reputation as a cynic stems from his text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which portrays the self as a manipulative confidence trickster. However, matters are more complicated than they first appear. There are two versions of the text, one published in 1956, the other in 1959, and Goffman's revisions to the latter quietly challenge the cynicism of the former. Focussing on these revisions makes the text look rather different. Goffman has two voices in The Presentation of Self and the aim of this paper is to allow each to be heard.
Murder And Capital-Punishment In The Evolving Context Of The Post-Furman Era, Ruth D. Peterson, William C. Bailey
Murder And Capital-Punishment In The Evolving Context Of The Post-Furman Era, Ruth D. Peterson, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
In view of (1) escalating national attention, and political and judicial activity centering on capital punishment during the past decade and a half, and (2) concomitant changes in homicides this paper investigates the impact of the death penalty on state homicide rates for the post-Furman period, 1973 -84 The research also addresses the debate over the relative merits of the contiguous state matching strategy versus multiple regression as a means of controlling for the influence of possible confounding factors in examining the capital punishment/homicide relationship. The two approaches yield quite similar results. Consistent with a long line of deterrence research, …
Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson
Police Killings And Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period, William C. Bailey, Ruth D. Peterson
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
In view of (1) escalating national attention and political and judicial activity centering on capital punishment during recent years and (2) concomitant changes in police killing rates, this paper investigates the impact of the death penalty on rates of lethal assaults against the police for the post-Furman period, 1973–1984. In keeping with recent investigations of deterrence and general homicides, multiple regression is used as a means of controlling for the influence of possible confounding variables in examining the capital punishment/police killings relationship. Consistent with previous investigations, the present analysis provides no indication that our national return to capital punishment …
Patterns Of Homicide In North India: Some Sociological Hypotheses, Hans Nagpaul
Patterns Of Homicide In North India: Some Sociological Hypotheses, Hans Nagpaul
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
Numerous and varied incidents of homicide are provided. The typical psychiatric and criminological hypotheses appear to be inadequate. Rather a sociological explanation based on rapidly shifting societal major upheavels seem to be a sounder hypothesis.
Poverty, Inequality, And City Homicide Rates: Some Not So Unexpected Findings, William C. Bailey
Poverty, Inequality, And City Homicide Rates: Some Not So Unexpected Findings, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
Messner's recent investigation of homicide and relative and absolute economic deprivation is replicated here, but cities rather than SMSA's and three years (1950, 1960, 1970) rather than one (1970) are considered. Because of tremendous intra-unit variation for SMSAs with respect to homicides and sociodemographic characteristics (an important variation that is masked when data are aggregated on a SMSA level), cities are a preferable unit of analysis in cross-sectional investigations of homicide. Where Messner found a significant negative relationship between percentage of poverty (absolute deprivation) and homicides, I consistently find the opposite pattern as predicted. In both studies, however, there is …
Disaggregation In Deterrence And Death Penalty Research: The Case Of Murder In Chicago, William C. Bailey
Disaggregation In Deterrence And Death Penalty Research: The Case Of Murder In Chicago, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
This article examines the deterrent effect of executions on first-degree murders in Chicago, Illinois for the period 1915-1921. Chicago provides an ideal research setting since there is close geographic proximity between the place where first-degree murders are committed and the place where the convicted murderers are executed. The population density factor included in the model is very highly correlated with the nonwhite population, male population fifteen to thirty-four years of age, and the foreign born population variables. In examining monthly first-degree murders and total criminal homicides, two execution measures are utilized: the actual number of monthly executions, and a dummy …
Capital Punishment And Lethal Assaults Against Police, William C. Bailey
Capital Punishment And Lethal Assaults Against Police, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
This investigation provides a multivariate analysis of the deterrent effect of the death penalty on the rate of lethal assaults against the police. Examining state level data for the period 1961 to 1971, we hypothesize a significant inverse relationship between the rate of police killings and (1) the statutory provision for capital punishment and (2) the execution rate of convicted murderers. Contrary to the deterrence hypotheses, no support is found for the argument that the provision and use of the death penalty provides an added measure of protection for the police. Rather, variation in police killings rates, like the general …
Deterrence And The Celerity Of The Death Penalty - A Neglected Question In Deterrence Research, William C. Bailey
Deterrence And The Celerity Of The Death Penalty - A Neglected Question In Deterrence Research, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
This paper examines the deterrent effect of the celerity of the death penalty on homicide rates. Although in recent years there have been a number of investigations of the certainty of execution and deterrence, the effect of celerity of execution has not been examined empirically. As a result, we can only speculate about the merit of the deterrence hypothesis for the celerity of executions, and how previous deterrence and death penalty investigations may be biased due to celerity being ignored. The deterrent effect of the certainty and celerity of the death penalty on homicide rates is examined cross-sectionally for states. …
Review Of Executions In America, William C. Bailey
Review Of Executions In America, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
Reviews the book "Executions in America," by William J. Bowers.
Certainty Of Arrest And Crime Rates For Major Felonies: Research Note, William C. Bailey
Certainty Of Arrest And Crime Rates For Major Felonies: Research Note, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
A recent investigation by Tittle and Rowe (1974) examining the deterrent effect of the certainty of arrest on felony rates in Florida is briefly summarized and critiqued. Examination shows their analysis to suffer from serious theoretical and methodological limitations. To extend their investigation and thus better understand the deterrent effect of arrest we examine the relationship between arrest rates and offense rates for cities and counties of Florida for seven major felonies. Analysis lends general support to the deterrence argument, but shows that the effect of arrest is not uniform for each offense, with different levels of arrest (certainty of …
Crime, Punishment And Personality: Examination Of Deterrence Question, William C. Bailey, Ruth P. Lott
Crime, Punishment And Personality: Examination Of Deterrence Question, William C. Bailey, Ruth P. Lott
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
While the presumed deterrent effect of punishment provides the cornerstone of the criminal justice system, it would be a mistake to assume that deterrence is well established in both theory and research. Recognizing the limitations of deterrence investigations, this study examines the relationship between a person's perceptions of punishment and their actual criminal involvement. Most deterrence investigations have focused primarily upon homicide and the death penalty. Although these investigations suggest that the threat of sanctions may have an important deterrent effect, careful examination shows them to suffer from serious theoretical and methodological limitations. Through this study, it was found out …
Use Of Death Penalty V. Outrage At Murder: Some Additional Evidence And Considerations, William C. Bailey
Use Of Death Penalty V. Outrage At Murder: Some Additional Evidence And Considerations, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
In this paper we summarize and analyze Glaser and Zeigler's attempt to empirically examine three explanations of why murder rates have generally been highest in states where capital punishment has been used the most. Examination shows their analysis to suffer from serious methodological shortcomings. Neither their data nor additional evidence presented here lends much support to their conclusion that (1) both frequent use of the death penalty and high murder rates are consequences of a low valuation of life and (2) homicide rates can be reduced by abolition of the death penalty.
Murder And Death Penalty, William C. Bailey
Murder And Death Penalty, William C. Bailey
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
The article examines the relationship between homicide and capital punishment. Studies by several researches have convinced most students of homicide that the ineffectiveness of the death penalty as a deterrent to murder has been demonstrated conclusively. Not all remain convinced, however, of the conclusiveness of the evidence. Comparative examinations of homicide rates before and after abolition, and in some cases, the restoration of the death penalty, have also questioned the efficacy of capital punishment. In sum, the evidence reported here falls within the pattern of previous death penalty investigations which span five decades.
Crime And Deterrence: Correlation Analysis, William C. Bailey, J. David Martin, Louis N. Gray
Crime And Deterrence: Correlation Analysis, William C. Bailey, J. David Martin, Louis N. Gray
Sociology & Criminology Faculty Publications
A correlation analysis of the severity and certainty of punish ment and offense rates for the major index crimes produces results consistent with the predictions of deterrence theory. Certainty of punishment proves to be the chief deterrent for most crimes. Homicide, however, is influenced by severity, pos sibly reflecting the differences between homicide and other of fenses. Little evidence of interaction is found between certainty and severity in effects on crime rate. A powerfunction proves to better describe the relationship between the punishment varia bles and crime rates than a rectilinear equation-a conclusion which, even apart from the date, appears …