Scott Menard
Biographic Data
| ID | 3797902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Scott Menard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Scott |
| FAMILY NAME | Menard |
| SIGNATURE | MENARD S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8757-4247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 137 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Collective Behavior and the Generality of Integrated Theory
This paper uses integrated theory to explain gang fighting. Integrated theory combines elements of social control, social learning, and strain theories. We focus on gang fighting to assess the generality of integrated theory because it constitutes serious violent collective behavior which is linked to other problem behaviors. Few explanations for such behavior are offered. We examine the relationship between integrated theory and gang fighting us…
Perceptions of Unfairness in Police Questioning and Arrest Incidents
Much research on the topic of police fairness focuses on a general concept of fairness. However, it has been suggested that when individuals are asked how they feel about police overall, they base their answers on specific incidents (J. Frank, B. Smith, & K. Novak, 2005). The current study examines predictors of the perception of police fairness during the most recent incident of police contact. Results indicate that when individuals are asked to…
Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence on Substance Use and Depression for Women and Men
It's Official
An Intergenerational Test of Integrated Theory
The integrated theory proposed by Elliott et al. (1979), combining strain, social control, and social learning theories, has been tested and supported for individuals who were adolescents in the mid-1970s. The present research tests this theory in parallel models for a first generation consisting of a national sample of adolescents in 1976–1978, and a second generation, the adolescent children of the first generation, in 2002–2004. There is evide…
Self Reports of Being Falsely Accused of Criminal Behavior
The occurrence of false accusations of illegal behavior is investigated using cross-sectional, long-term recall data for two generations of a national probability sample of individuals. The analysis examines whether being a "usual suspect" based on past criminal behavior; "guilt by association" based on the illegal behavior of one's friends; academic achievement based on self-reported grades in school; and sociodemographic variables including gen…
Extending Interactional Theory
Interactional theory argues that theoretical variables and delinquency have reciprocal causal relationships. While empirical support for the reciprocal relationships has been found, the impact of delinquency on later changes in the variables, including attenuated attachment to family, needs more elaboration. Labeling theory may offer a constructive extension to interactional theory, given their common emphases on theoretical integration, age-vary…
Long term impact of youth sports participation on illegal behavior
Previous research into the relationship between sports and illegal behavior has left it unclear whether sports participation acts as a preventative measure or a risk factor for illegal behavior. The present study examines the relationship between sports involvement and illegal behavior, in both the long and the short-term, in a national sample, using propensity score matching and negative binomial regression to examine the short and long-term imp…
Standards for Standardized Logistic Regression Coefficients
Standardized coefficients in logistic regression analysis have the same utility as standardized coefficients in linear regression analysis. Although there has been no consensus on the best way to construct standardized logistic regression coefficients, there is now sufficient evidence to suggest a single best approach to the construction of a standardized logistic regression coefficient that can be used in the same way across a broad range of pro…
Distribution and Correlates of Self-Reported Crimes of Trust
This study examines the distribution and correlates of a special class of property crimes, crimes of trust, using longitudinal and cross sectional self-report data from a national sample. We begin by defining crimes of trust and consider their conceptual relationship to "conventional" property crimes, which we here characterize as crimes of stealth, and to white collar crimes, which are defined in terms of the social status of the perpetrators. C…
Logistic Regression
Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Linear Regression and Logistic Regression Chapter 2. Log-Linear Analysis, Logit Analysis, and Logistic Regression Chapter 3. Quantitative Approaches to Model Fit and Explained Variation Chapter 4. Prediction Tables and Qualitative Approaches to Explained Variation Chapter 5. Logistic Regression Coefficients Chapter 6. Model Specification, Variable Selection, and Model Building Chapter 7. Logistic Regression Diagno…
Handbook of longitudinal research
Longitudinal research is a broad field in which substantial advances have been made over the past decade. Unlike many of the existing books that only address the analysis of information. The of Longitudinal Research covers design and measurement as well as the data analysis. Designed for use by a wide-ranging audience, this Handbook not only includes perspective on the methodological and data analysis problems in longitudinal research but it also…
Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods
This is a study of successful youth development in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago - a study of how children living in the worst neighborhoods develop or fail to develop the values, competencies and commitments that lead to a productive, healthy responsible adult life. While there is a strong focus on neighborhood effects, the study employs a multicontextual model examining both the direct effects of the neighborhood ecolo…
Six Approaches to Calculating Standardized Logistic Regression Coefficients
This article reviews six alternative approaches to constructing standardized logistic regression coefficients. The least attractive of the options is the one currently most readily available in logistic regression software, the unstandardized coefficient divided by its standard error (which is actually the normal distribution version of the Wald statistic). One alternative has the advantage of simplicity, while a slightly more complex alternative…
Applied Logistic Regression Analysis
Longitudinal Research
Repeat Victimization in a High-Risk Neighborhood Sample of Adolescents
Repeat victimization may involve multiple incidents of victimization in a single year, multiple years of victimization, or both. This study examines both types of repeat victimization as well as the concentration of victimization among a relatively few highfrequency victims and the intermittency of victimization in a sample of adolescents in high-risk neighborhoods. During a 5-year period, the results indicate that chronic, multiple, intermittent…
Family Context and Criminal Victimization in Adolescence
In this article, data from the Denver Youth Survey, a panel study of families in Denver, Colorado, are used to investigate the influence of family factors in predicting adolescent victimization. Statistically controlling for respondents' sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity), we examine the predictive impact on adolescent victimization of family sociodemographic characteristics, family vulnerability to victimization, parental …
Continuities in marital violence
Changes in Conventional Attitudes and Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence
The relationship between conventional beliefs and illegal behavior is a concern of social psychological theories (cognitive consistency) and criminological theories (learning and control). Empirical evidence from correlational studies has, to date, suggested that illegal behavior influences conventional beliefs more than conventional beliefs influence illegal behavior. The limitations of a purely correlational approach to examining the relationsh…
Data set comparability and short-term trends in crime and delinquency
Residual Gains, Reliability, and Theucr‐ncs Relationship
Encouraging news for criminologists (in the year 2050)? A comment on O'Brien (1990)
Cross-national models of fertility, Family planning, and development
Multiple Problem Youth
Continuities in marital violence
UCR and NCS
Changes in Conventional Attitudes and Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence
The relationship between conventional beliefs and illegal behavior is a concern of social psychological theories (cognitive consistency) and criminological theories (learning and control). Empirical evidence from correlational studies has, to date, suggested that illegal behavior influences conventional beliefs more than conventional beliefs influence illegal behavior. The limitations of a purely correlational approach to examining the relationsh…
A Structuralist Critique of the IQ-Delinquency Hypothesis
The hypothesis that IQ is an important variable in explaining delinquent behavior among juveniles is examined theoretically and empirically. From a structuralist perspective, delinquent behavior is a consequence of social institutional practices, rather than of individual characteristics. The correlation of IQ with delinquency is not because IQ exerts any casual influence on delinquent behavior but because, in certain institutional settings (the …
Family Context and Criminal Victimization in Adolescence
In this article, data from the Denver Youth Survey, a panel study of families in Denver, Colorado, are used to investigate the influence of family factors in predicting adolescent victimization. Statistically controlling for respondents' sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity), we examine the predictive impact on adolescent victimization of family sociodemographic characteristics, family vulnerability to victimization, parental …
It's Official
Distribution and Correlates of Self-Reported Crimes of Trust
This study examines the distribution and correlates of a special class of property crimes, crimes of trust, using longitudinal and cross sectional self-report data from a national sample. We begin by defining crimes of trust and consider their conceptual relationship to "conventional" property crimes, which we here characterize as crimes of stealth, and to white collar crimes, which are defined in terms of the social status of the perpetrators. C…
Fertility, development, and family planning
Extending Interactional Theory
Interactional theory argues that theoretical variables and delinquency have reciprocal causal relationships. While empirical support for the reciprocal relationships has been found, the impact of delinquency on later changes in the variables, including attenuated attachment to family, needs more elaboration. Labeling theory may offer a constructive extension to interactional theory, given their common emphases on theoretical integration, age-vary…
Repeat Victimization in a High-Risk Neighborhood Sample of Adolescents
Repeat victimization may involve multiple incidents of victimization in a single year, multiple years of victimization, or both. This study examines both types of repeat victimization as well as the concentration of victimization among a relatively few highfrequency victims and the intermittency of victimization in a sample of adolescents in high-risk neighborhoods. During a 5-year period, the results indicate that chronic, multiple, intermittent…
Long term impact of youth sports participation on illegal behavior
Previous research into the relationship between sports and illegal behavior has left it unclear whether sports participation acts as a preventative measure or a risk factor for illegal behavior. The present study examines the relationship between sports involvement and illegal behavior, in both the long and the short-term, in a national sample, using propensity score matching and negative binomial regression to examine the short and long-term imp…
Fertility, development, and family planning, 1970–1980
Inequality and fertility
Data set comparability and short-term trends in crime and delinquency
Residual Gains, Reliability, and Theucr‐ncs Relationship
Fertility, family planning, and development
An Intergenerational Test of Integrated Theory
The integrated theory proposed by Elliott et al. (1979), combining strain, social control, and social learning theories, has been tested and supported for individuals who were adolescents in the mid-1970s. The present research tests this theory in parallel models for a first generation consisting of a national sample of adolescents in 1976–1978, and a second generation, the adolescent children of the first generation, in 2002–2004. There is evide…
Encouraging news for criminologists (in the year 2050)? A comment on O'Brien (1990)
Cross-national models of fertility, Family planning, and development
A Research Note on International Comparisons of Inequality of Income
Gini-based measures of income inequality for different countries vary on three dimensions: extent of coverage (national, urban, etc.), type of population (households, workers, etc.), and time period. Analyses of national income inequality have treated measures which vary on these dimensions as though they were identical. In most cases, this is not justified, based on reliability coefficients among these measures. While national household income d…
Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence on Substance Use and Depression for Women and Men
Self Reports of Being Falsely Accused of Criminal Behavior
The occurrence of false accusations of illegal behavior is investigated using cross-sectional, long-term recall data for two generations of a national probability sample of individuals. The analysis examines whether being a "usual suspect" based on past criminal behavior; "guilt by association" based on the illegal behavior of one's friends; academic achievement based on self-reported grades in school; and sociodemographic variables including gen…
Going Down, Going Up
The relative importance of family planning and development for fertility reduction
The relative importance of family planning and development for fertility reduction
Fertility, development, and family planning
A Structuralist Critique of the IQ-Delinquency Hypothesis
The hypothesis that IQ is an important variable in explaining delinquent behavior among juveniles is examined theoretically and empirically. From a structuralist perspective, delinquent behavior is a consequence of social institutional practices, rather than of individual characteristics. The correlation of IQ with delinquency is not because IQ exerts any casual influence on delinquent behavior but because, in certain institutional settings (the …
Inequality and fertility
IQ and Delinquency
Fertility, family planning, and development
A Research Note on International Comparisons of Inequality of Income
Gini-based measures of income inequality for different countries vary on three dimensions: extent of coverage (national, urban, etc.), type of population (households, workers, etc.), and time period. Analyses of national income inequality have treated measures which vary on these dimensions as though they were identical. In most cases, this is not justified, based on reliability coefficients among these measures. While national household income d…
Fertility, development, and family planning, 1970–1980
UCR and NCS
Going Down, Going Up
Multiple Problem Youth
Perspectives on Population
This comprehensive, multidisciplinary collection of readings is specifically designed as a sourcebook on population. It includes articles from all major theoretical perspectives and levels of aggregation from micro-decision making processes to macro-historical processes. Issues include: the economics of fertility, social causes of morality, illegal immigration and refugee migration, Third World urbanization, Malthusian, Marxian and demographic tr…
Cross-national models of fertility, Family planning, and development
Encouraging news for criminologists (in the year 2050)? A comment on O'Brien (1990)
Residual Gains, Reliability, and Theucr‐ncs Relationship
Data set comparability and short-term trends in crime and delinquency
Continuities in marital violence
Changes in Conventional Attitudes and Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence
The relationship between conventional beliefs and illegal behavior is a concern of social psychological theories (cognitive consistency) and criminological theories (learning and control). Empirical evidence from correlational studies has, to date, suggested that illegal behavior influences conventional beliefs more than conventional beliefs influence illegal behavior. The limitations of a purely correlational approach to examining the relationsh…
Family Context and Criminal Victimization in Adolescence
In this article, data from the Denver Youth Survey, a panel study of families in Denver, Colorado, are used to investigate the influence of family factors in predicting adolescent victimization. Statistically controlling for respondents' sociodemographic characteristics (age, gender, ethnicity), we examine the predictive impact on adolescent victimization of family sociodemographic characteristics, family vulnerability to victimization, parental …
Repeat Victimization in a High-Risk Neighborhood Sample of Adolescents
Repeat victimization may involve multiple incidents of victimization in a single year, multiple years of victimization, or both. This study examines both types of repeat victimization as well as the concentration of victimization among a relatively few highfrequency victims and the intermittency of victimization in a sample of adolescents in high-risk neighborhoods. During a 5-year period, the results indicate that chronic, multiple, intermittent…
Applied Logistic Regression Analysis
Longitudinal Research
Six Approaches to Calculating Standardized Logistic Regression Coefficients
This article reviews six alternative approaches to constructing standardized logistic regression coefficients. The least attractive of the options is the one currently most readily available in logistic regression software, the unstandardized coefficient divided by its standard error (which is actually the normal distribution version of the Wald statistic). One alternative has the advantage of simplicity, while a slightly more complex alternative…
Good Kids from Bad Neighborhoods
This is a study of successful youth development in poor, disadvantaged neighborhoods in Denver and Chicago - a study of how children living in the worst neighborhoods develop or fail to develop the values, competencies and commitments that lead to a productive, healthy responsible adult life. While there is a strong focus on neighborhood effects, the study employs a multicontextual model examining both the direct effects of the neighborhood ecolo…
Handbook of longitudinal research
Longitudinal research is a broad field in which substantial advances have been made over the past decade. Unlike many of the existing books that only address the analysis of information. The of Longitudinal Research covers design and measurement as well as the data analysis. Designed for use by a wide-ranging audience, this Handbook not only includes perspective on the methodological and data analysis problems in longitudinal research but it also…
Psychology (24 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Demography (14 works) · Demography (14 works) · Mathematics (14 works) · Population (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Economics (9 works) · Statistics (9 works)