David Shichor
Biographic Data
| ID | 244170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Shichor |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Shichor |
| SIGNATURE | SHICHOR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University, San Bernardino |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The French–Italian Controversy
This article focuses on a "scientific" controversy that took place at the end of the nineteenth century between the Italian positivist school of Lombroso and his followers and a group of French intellectuals centered around the professional journal Les Archieves de l'anthropologie criminelle. The exploration of this controversy is rarely included in criminology/criminal justice curriculum. It demonstrates the conflicting approaches to biological …
A Research Note
This paper deals with a sparsely researched topic-the victimization of females by fraud. A nationwide survey of victims of a large-scale telemarketing scheme showed that onlya small percentage of the victims were females. Both financial and emotional consequencesgenerally were more severe for the older than for the younger women
Private Prisons in Perspective
This article deals with several conceptual issues concerning the privatisation of prisons. The focus is on the private operation rather than the financing and the construction of facilities. Typically, the issue of correctional privatisation is debated on utilitarian grounds, the main supporting argument centring on cost effectiveness, while such issues as ethics, symbolism, motivation, and accountability are neglected. The article highlights pro…
Punishment for Profit
Faculty Malfeasance
This study evaluates deviance among academicians in university settings. A typology is suggested which includes two dimensions and delineates four basic types of academic deviance. The relationship of these types to university and disciplinary organization is offered as the sources of academic deviance are explained
Corporate Deviance and Corporate Victimization
Corporate deviance is organizational deviance occurring on the behalf of the corporation in the course of working in it. Many corporate deviant acts occur as an outcome of the often-conflicting goals of profit maximization and free competition. This paper attempts to analyze various classifications of corporate violations, corporate harms, corporate victimizations, and corporate victims. It suggests that various kinds of corporate victimization c…
Urban Structure and Victimization
Mass media and delinquency prevention
This paper focuses on the Oscar winning television documentary “Scared Straight.” This documentary describes the Juvenile Awareness Project (JAP) at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, which attempts to deter juvenile delinquency by briefly exposing young offenders to the harsh realities of prison life. The paper analyzes the possible reasons for the popularity of this show and the JAP. It is suggested that factors such as the public perception of…
Socialization
Failure to provide adequate “socialization” is seen as a major factor in delinquent involvement. Some radical Marxist criminologists claim that the use of the socialization factor as an explanation of juvenile delinquency is functionalist and conservative. A review of explanations for juvenile. delinquency in political regimes based on socialist ideology indicates that socialization is employed more often to explain delinquent involvement than in…
Citations in introductory criminology textbooks
Urban Structure and Victimization
Periodical Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Journals in criminology and criminal justice have been ranked using subjective techniques to assess journal presitige as well as objective measures intended to assess journal eminence. Two recent studies have resulted in somewhat similar rankings of professional journals although each used distinct methods of data analysis and asked different research questions. This finding suggests that there is a consensus among professionals in the field conc…
Juvenile Delinquency
An analysis of citations in introductory criminology textbooks
Prestige of Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice
The prestige of professional journals is an important element in the academic world because of the relationship of journal prestige to the careers of individuals and to the reputations of academic institutions. This study investigates the system of journal prestige in the field of criminology and criminal justice, using the ratings of professional journals obtained from a sample of respondents who are members of professional associations in crimi…
Begging in Israel
This article'represents an exploratory study of the widespread phenomenon of begging and the personal characteristics, career development, and attitudes of beggars in Israel. The study indicates the deep roots of the Jewish religious cultural tradition of charity. Begging and beggars have a somewhat more positive public image than that found in most other industrial societies. This in turn reflects on the beggar's self‐concept, which is less nega…
The relationship of criminal victimization, police per capita and population density in twenty-six cities
An Empirical Comparison of the Validity of UCR and NCS Crime Rates
A large volume of criminological research uses either the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) or the National Crime Surveys (NCS) as a source for data on crime rates. The validity of both these measures, however, has been criticized. In this paper we assess the validity of these two indicators of the crime rate for six different types of crimes by examining their “convergent” and “nomological” validity. We find a moderate to high degree of convergent val…
A comparative exploration of prison discipline
Population Density and Criminal Victimization Some Unexpected Findings in Central Cities
Criminal behavior and criminal victimization have been associated with population density in the criminological literature. and this has led re‐ searchers to argue that there is a positive zero‐order relationship between population density and crime rates. However, using National Crime Survey victimization data we found that there is no simple relationship between population density and crime rates in 26 large American cities. Property crimes nit…
Prestige of Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice
The prestige of professional journals is an important element in the academic world because of the relationship of journal prestige to the careers of individuals and to the reputations of academic institutions. This study investigates the system of journal prestige in the field of criminology and criminal justice, using the ratings of professional journals obtained from a sample of respondents who are members of professional associations in crimi…
Population Density and Criminal Victimization Some Unexpected Findings in Central Cities
Criminal behavior and criminal victimization have been associated with population density in the criminological literature. and this has led re‐ searchers to argue that there is a positive zero‐order relationship between population density and crime rates. However, using National Crime Survey victimization data we found that there is no simple relationship between population density and crime rates in 26 large American cities. Property crimes nit…
An analysis of citations in introductory criminology textbooks
An Empirical Comparison of the Validity of UCR and NCS Crime Rates
A large volume of criminological research uses either the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) or the National Crime Surveys (NCS) as a source for data on crime rates. The validity of both these measures, however, has been criticized. In this paper we assess the validity of these two indicators of the crime rate for six different types of crimes by examining their “convergent” and “nomological” validity. We find a moderate to high degree of convergent val…
Begging in Israel
This article'represents an exploratory study of the widespread phenomenon of begging and the personal characteristics, career development, and attitudes of beggars in Israel. The study indicates the deep roots of the Jewish religious cultural tradition of charity. Begging and beggars have a somewhat more positive public image than that found in most other industrial societies. This in turn reflects on the beggar's self‐concept, which is less nega…
The relationship of criminal victimization, police per capita and population density in twenty-six cities
Periodical Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Journals in criminology and criminal justice have been ranked using subjective techniques to assess journal presitige as well as objective measures intended to assess journal eminence. Two recent studies have resulted in somewhat similar rankings of professional journals although each used distinct methods of data analysis and asked different research questions. This finding suggests that there is a consensus among professionals in the field conc…
Punishment for Profit
Mass media and delinquency prevention
This paper focuses on the Oscar winning television documentary “Scared Straight.” This documentary describes the Juvenile Awareness Project (JAP) at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, which attempts to deter juvenile delinquency by briefly exposing young offenders to the harsh realities of prison life. The paper analyzes the possible reasons for the popularity of this show and the JAP. It is suggested that factors such as the public perception of…
A comparative exploration of prison discipline
Population Density and Criminal Victimization Some Unexpected Findings in Central Cities
Criminal behavior and criminal victimization have been associated with population density in the criminological literature. and this has led re‐ searchers to argue that there is a positive zero‐order relationship between population density and crime rates. However, using National Crime Survey victimization data we found that there is no simple relationship between population density and crime rates in 26 large American cities. Property crimes nit…
The relationship of criminal victimization, police per capita and population density in twenty-six cities
An Empirical Comparison of the Validity of UCR and NCS Crime Rates
A large volume of criminological research uses either the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) or the National Crime Surveys (NCS) as a source for data on crime rates. The validity of both these measures, however, has been criticized. In this paper we assess the validity of these two indicators of the crime rate for six different types of crimes by examining their “convergent” and “nomological” validity. We find a moderate to high degree of convergent val…
Prestige of Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice
The prestige of professional journals is an important element in the academic world because of the relationship of journal prestige to the careers of individuals and to the reputations of academic institutions. This study investigates the system of journal prestige in the field of criminology and criminal justice, using the ratings of professional journals obtained from a sample of respondents who are members of professional associations in crimi…
Begging in Israel
This article'represents an exploratory study of the widespread phenomenon of begging and the personal characteristics, career development, and attitudes of beggars in Israel. The study indicates the deep roots of the Jewish religious cultural tradition of charity. Begging and beggars have a somewhat more positive public image than that found in most other industrial societies. This in turn reflects on the beggar's self‐concept, which is less nega…
Juvenile Delinquency
An analysis of citations in introductory criminology textbooks
Socialization
Failure to provide adequate “socialization” is seen as a major factor in delinquent involvement. Some radical Marxist criminologists claim that the use of the socialization factor as an explanation of juvenile delinquency is functionalist and conservative. A review of explanations for juvenile. delinquency in political regimes based on socialist ideology indicates that socialization is employed more often to explain delinquent involvement than in…
Citations in introductory criminology textbooks
Urban Structure and Victimization
Periodical Prestige in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Journals in criminology and criminal justice have been ranked using subjective techniques to assess journal presitige as well as objective measures intended to assess journal eminence. Two recent studies have resulted in somewhat similar rankings of professional journals although each used distinct methods of data analysis and asked different research questions. This finding suggests that there is a consensus among professionals in the field conc…
Urban Structure and Victimization
Mass media and delinquency prevention
This paper focuses on the Oscar winning television documentary “Scared Straight.” This documentary describes the Juvenile Awareness Project (JAP) at Rahway State Prison in New Jersey, which attempts to deter juvenile delinquency by briefly exposing young offenders to the harsh realities of prison life. The paper analyzes the possible reasons for the popularity of this show and the JAP. It is suggested that factors such as the public perception of…
Corporate Deviance and Corporate Victimization
Corporate deviance is organizational deviance occurring on the behalf of the corporation in the course of working in it. Many corporate deviant acts occur as an outcome of the often-conflicting goals of profit maximization and free competition. This paper attempts to analyze various classifications of corporate violations, corporate harms, corporate victimizations, and corporate victims. It suggests that various kinds of corporate victimization c…
Faculty Malfeasance
This study evaluates deviance among academicians in university settings. A typology is suggested which includes two dimensions and delineates four basic types of academic deviance. The relationship of these types to university and disciplinary organization is offered as the sources of academic deviance are explained
A Research Note
This paper deals with a sparsely researched topic-the victimization of females by fraud. A nationwide survey of victims of a large-scale telemarketing scheme showed that onlya small percentage of the victims were females. Both financial and emotional consequencesgenerally were more severe for the older than for the younger women
Private Prisons in Perspective
This article deals with several conceptual issues concerning the privatisation of prisons. The focus is on the private operation rather than the financing and the construction of facilities. Typically, the issue of correctional privatisation is debated on utilitarian grounds, the main supporting argument centring on cost effectiveness, while such issues as ethics, symbolism, motivation, and accountability are neglected. The article highlights pro…
Punishment for Profit
The French–Italian Controversy
This article focuses on a "scientific" controversy that took place at the end of the nineteenth century between the Italian positivist school of Lombroso and his followers and a group of French intellectuals centered around the professional journal Les Archieves de l'anthropologie criminelle. The exploration of this controversy is rarely included in criminology/criminal justice curriculum. It demonstrates the conflicting approaches to biological …
Psychology (18 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (7 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (5 works)