Thomas G Blomberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 230125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas G Blomberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas G |
| FAMILY NAME | Blomberg |
| SIGNATURE | BLOMBERG T G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Evolving technologies in law enforcement
Real-time crime centers (RTCCs) have rapidly proliferated among law enforcement agencies in the United States, becoming a central feature in modern policing. However, research on RTCCs remains limited, particularly regarding the recent surge in their development. Using data from a nationally representative survey of law enforcement agencies, this study examines the development of RTCCs and their operational characteristics. Results reveal that RT…
Challenges and Prospects for Evidence-Informed Policy in Criminology
The relevance of criminology to matters of public policy has been hotly debated throughout the history of the discipline. Yet time and again, we have borne witness to the consequences of harmful criminal justice practices that do little to reduce crime or improve the lives of our most vulnerable populations. Given the urgent need for evidence-informed responses to the problems that face our society, we argue here that criminologists can and shoul…
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice
Research Summary We explored the extent to which the implementation of a pretrial risk assessment instrument (PRAI) corresponded to changes in the pretrial processing of defendants using multiple administrative data sources from a large county in the southeastern United States. Our findings revealed little evidence of reductions in detention lengths or increases in the use of nonfinancial forms of release following the tool's adoption. This was l…
Individual characteristics and community context in decisions to divert or arrest
Diversion programs are increasingly being implemented as an alternative to more severe sanctions, especially within juvenile justice. The civil citation program in Florida is unique in that it diverts juveniles away from the justice system at the earliest decision point of arrest. However, despite its growing use in a number of states, there is little research on the program's implementation and outcomes, namely, it remains unknown if the program…
Becoming Deviant
Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding and identification of the offenses as prohibited behavior by the transgressor. The process can be summarized as affinity, affiliation, and signification. The sequential process Matza describes allow…
Recidivism and Inmate Mental Illness
Purpose: With over 700,000 mentally ill inmates are held in U.S. jails and prisons, this study provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of mental illness among released prisoners on a series of re-entry recidivism outcomes. Methods: Using a cohort of 200,889 inmates released from Florida prisons from 2004 to 2011, several recidivism outcomes are examined among 40,145 individuals with a mental health diagnosis and 10,826 with a serious me…
Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy
Police and Crime
Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion
Research Summary The juvenile court was established to help children through the use of punishment and rehabilitation and, in so doing, “save” them from a life of crime and disadvantage. Diversion programs and policies emerged in the 1970s as one way to achieve this goal. Despite concerns about its potential harm, diversion became increasingly popular in subsequent decades. We examine the logic of a prominent contemporary diversion effort, civil …
Net‐Widening
The number of people under correctional or criminal justice supervision in the United States has continued to grow over the past several decades, despite a decline in the overall crime rate. This can be attributed to what is known as net‐widening. Net‐widening occurs when correctional programs are implemented as supplements to one another rather than as alternatives, thereby increasing the total number of people who are subject to correctional co…
Seeking Causality in a World of Contingency
Addressing Causal Uncertainty in the Application of Criminological Research to Public Policy
Continuing to Advance Criminology and Public Policy
Is Educational Achievement a Turning Point for Incarcerated Delinquents Across Race and Sex
Confronting crime with science
Incarceration, education and transition from delinquency
Lifers
Editors’comments
Under Surveillance
Research Summary: This study addresses the effectiveness of electronic monitoring (EM) for serious offenders supervised in the community. Using data on 75,661 offenders placed on home confinement in Florida from 1998 to 2002, we find that both radio‐frequency and global positioning system monitoring significantly reduce the likelihood of technical violations, reoffending, and absconding for this population of offenders. Additionally, we find that…
Assessment of the Program Implementation of Comprehensive Victim Services in a One-Stop Location
Today, more than 10,000 programs provide services to crime victims across the United States. Despite this large number of programs, however, it is estimated that only a small fraction of the 38 million annual crime victims actually receive services following their victimization. Moreover, most victim services programs are able to provide only limited and fragmented services. In contrast, the Jacksonville Victim Services Center, Florida, is recogn…
American Penology
American Penology
Punishment and Social Control
While crime, law, and are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. After September 11 has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of and social con…
Crime and Disrepute
The Changing Face of Crime Classical Theories of Crime and Disrepute A New Sociology of Crime and Disrepute White-Collar Crime in a Global Economy Criminal Injustice in America
Stacking the Deck by Piling Up Sanctions
Intermediate punishment as referred to in the United States or intermediate sanctions as referred to in England ad Wales are emerging as major crime control refonn strategies despite the absence of empirical justification for these strategies. The essential goal underlying these strategies is to provide more proportionate and tough sentencing alternatives to prisons and nominal probation. This paper provides an assessment of several salient opera…
Under Surveillance
Research Summary: This study addresses the effectiveness of electronic monitoring (EM) for serious offenders supervised in the community. Using data on 75,661 offenders placed on home confinement in Florida from 1998 to 2002, we find that both radio‐frequency and global positioning system monitoring significantly reduce the likelihood of technical violations, reoffending, and absconding for this population of offenders. Additionally, we find that…
Diversion and Accelerated Social Control
Incarceration, education and transition from delinquency
Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion
Research Summary The juvenile court was established to help children through the use of punishment and rehabilitation and, in so doing, “save” them from a life of crime and disadvantage. Diversion programs and policies emerged in the 1970s as one way to achieve this goal. Despite concerns about its potential harm, diversion became increasingly popular in subsequent decades. We examine the logic of a prominent contemporary diversion effort, civil …
Is Educational Achievement a Turning Point for Incarcerated Delinquents Across Race and Sex
Recidivism and Inmate Mental Illness
Purpose: With over 700,000 mentally ill inmates are held in U.S. jails and prisons, this study provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of mental illness among released prisoners on a series of re-entry recidivism outcomes. Methods: Using a cohort of 200,889 inmates released from Florida prisons from 2004 to 2011, several recidivism outcomes are examined among 40,145 individuals with a mental health diagnosis and 10,826 with a serious me…
Challenges and Prospects for Evidence-Informed Policy in Criminology
The relevance of criminology to matters of public policy has been hotly debated throughout the history of the discipline. Yet time and again, we have borne witness to the consequences of harmful criminal justice practices that do little to reduce crime or improve the lives of our most vulnerable populations. Given the urgent need for evidence-informed responses to the problems that face our society, we argue here that criminologists can and shoul…
Individual characteristics and community context in decisions to divert or arrest
Diversion programs are increasingly being implemented as an alternative to more severe sanctions, especially within juvenile justice. The civil citation program in Florida is unique in that it diverts juveniles away from the justice system at the earliest decision point of arrest. However, despite its growing use in a number of states, there is little research on the program's implementation and outcomes, namely, it remains unknown if the program…
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice
Research Summary We explored the extent to which the implementation of a pretrial risk assessment instrument (PRAI) corresponded to changes in the pretrial processing of defendants using multiple administrative data sources from a large county in the southeastern United States. Our findings revealed little evidence of reductions in detention lengths or increases in the use of nonfinancial forms of release following the tool's adoption. This was l…
The Juvenile Court As An Organization And Decision-Making System
Although juvenile court literature is replete with studies describing the court's humanitarian philosophy and development, little attention has been given to the organizational character of the courts. As a result, current literature and empirical findings concerning juvenile court decision-making are fragmentary and discontinuous. The need to order the literature and findings, and develop an integrative framework to guide future research is clea…
Seeking Causality in a World of Contingency
Lifers
Editors’comments
The Juvenile Court As An Organization And Decision-Making System
Although juvenile court literature is replete with studies describing the court's humanitarian philosophy and development, little attention has been given to the organizational character of the courts. As a result, current literature and empirical findings concerning juvenile court decision-making are fragmentary and discontinuous. The need to order the literature and findings, and develop an integrative framework to guide future research is clea…
Diversion and Accelerated Social Control
Stacking the Deck by Piling Up Sanctions
Intermediate punishment as referred to in the United States or intermediate sanctions as referred to in England ad Wales are emerging as major crime control refonn strategies despite the absence of empirical justification for these strategies. The essential goal underlying these strategies is to provide more proportionate and tough sentencing alternatives to prisons and nominal probation. This paper provides an assessment of several salient opera…
Punishment and Social Control
While crime, law, and are subjects that have everyday meanings not very far from their academic representations, is one of those terms that appear in the sociological discourse without any corresponding everyday usage. This concept has a rather mixed lineage. After September 11 has become a slogan that conveys all things to all people but carries some very specific implications on interrogation and civil liberties for the future of and social con…
Crime and Disrepute
The Changing Face of Crime Classical Theories of Crime and Disrepute A New Sociology of Crime and Disrepute White-Collar Crime in a Global Economy Criminal Injustice in America
Assessment of the Program Implementation of Comprehensive Victim Services in a One-Stop Location
Today, more than 10,000 programs provide services to crime victims across the United States. Despite this large number of programs, however, it is estimated that only a small fraction of the 38 million annual crime victims actually receive services following their victimization. Moreover, most victim services programs are able to provide only limited and fragmented services. In contrast, the Jacksonville Victim Services Center, Florida, is recogn…
American Penology
American Penology
Under Surveillance
Research Summary: This study addresses the effectiveness of electronic monitoring (EM) for serious offenders supervised in the community. Using data on 75,661 offenders placed on home confinement in Florida from 1998 to 2002, we find that both radio‐frequency and global positioning system monitoring significantly reduce the likelihood of technical violations, reoffending, and absconding for this population of offenders. Additionally, we find that…
Editors’comments
Lifers
Confronting crime with science
Incarceration, education and transition from delinquency
Continuing to Advance Criminology and Public Policy
Is Educational Achievement a Turning Point for Incarcerated Delinquents Across Race and Sex
Seeking Causality in a World of Contingency
Addressing Causal Uncertainty in the Application of Criminological Research to Public Policy
Net‐Widening
The number of people under correctional or criminal justice supervision in the United States has continued to grow over the past several decades, despite a decline in the overall crime rate. This can be attributed to what is known as net‐widening. Net‐widening occurs when correctional programs are implemented as supplements to one another rather than as alternatives, thereby increasing the total number of people who are subject to correctional co…
Advancing Criminology and Criminal Justice Policy
Police and Crime
Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion
Research Summary The juvenile court was established to help children through the use of punishment and rehabilitation and, in so doing, “save” them from a life of crime and disadvantage. Diversion programs and policies emerged in the 1970s as one way to achieve this goal. Despite concerns about its potential harm, diversion became increasingly popular in subsequent decades. We examine the logic of a prominent contemporary diversion effort, civil …
Becoming Deviant
Becoming Deviant describes a process by which people move from an affinity for certain prohibited behaviors to full-blown deviance. This process includes affiliation with circles and settings that include or sponsor offenses, followed by understanding and identification of the offenses as prohibited behavior by the transgressor. The process can be summarized as affinity, affiliation, and signification. The sequential process Matza describes allow…
Recidivism and Inmate Mental Illness
Purpose: With over 700,000 mentally ill inmates are held in U.S. jails and prisons, this study provides a comprehensive assessment of the effect of mental illness among released prisoners on a series of re-entry recidivism outcomes. Methods: Using a cohort of 200,889 inmates released from Florida prisons from 2004 to 2011, several recidivism outcomes are examined among 40,145 individuals with a mental health diagnosis and 10,826 with a serious me…
Individual characteristics and community context in decisions to divert or arrest
Diversion programs are increasingly being implemented as an alternative to more severe sanctions, especially within juvenile justice. The civil citation program in Florida is unique in that it diverts juveniles away from the justice system at the earliest decision point of arrest. However, despite its growing use in a number of states, there is little research on the program's implementation and outcomes, namely, it remains unknown if the program…
Pretrial risk assessment instruments in practice
Research Summary We explored the extent to which the implementation of a pretrial risk assessment instrument (PRAI) corresponded to changes in the pretrial processing of defendants using multiple administrative data sources from a large county in the southeastern United States. Our findings revealed little evidence of reductions in detention lengths or increases in the use of nonfinancial forms of release following the tool's adoption. This was l…
Criminology (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (18 works) · Political science (18 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Criminal justice (8 works) · Law (8 works)