Mary Ann Cohen

Biographic Data

ID76727
NAMEMary Ann Cohen
GIVEN NAMESMary Ann
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN M A
AFFILIATIONSVanderbilt University
ORCID0000-0002-1548-2773
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS32
TOTAL CITATIONS155
AUTHOR COUNT32
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1974
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX6

  • Social Psychological Perspectives on Political Polarization

    Open AccessJennifer C Cole, Ash Gillis et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Psychological…2025

    Political polarization is a barrier to enacting policy solutions to global issues. Social psychology has a rich history of studying polarization, and there is an important opportunity to define and refine its contributions to the present political realities. We do so in the context of one of the most pressing modern issues: climate change. We synthesize the literature on political polarization and its applications to climate change, and we propos…

  • Incidence and Costs of Personal and Property Crimes in the USA, 2017

    Open AccessTed R Miller, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2021Cited by: 4References: 9

    Total cost estimates for crime in the USA are both out-of-date and incomplete. We estimated incidence and costs of personal crimes (both violent and non-violent) and property crimes in 2017. Incidence came from national arrest data, multi-state estimates of police-reported crimes per arrest, national victimization and road crash surveys, and police underreporting studies. We updated and expanded upon published unit costs. Estimated crime costs to…

  • Pain, suffering, and jury awards

    Open AccessMary Ann CohenARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2021Cited by: 1References: 10

    Research summary This paper estimates the cost of wrongful convictions based on analysis of jury awards and settlements for individuals who were wrongfully convicted and incarcerated for crimes they did not commit. Key variables of interest are number of days spent in prison, days on probation, and demographics of wrongfully convicted and their families. The average “cost” of a wrongful conviction is estimated to be $6.1 million, or $1334 per day…

  • Appropriate Measurement and Use of “Costs of Crime” in Policy Analysis

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2020Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Intangible Costs of Crime Are Important

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Policy Analysis and…2020

  • Victim Compensation Policy and White‐Collar Crime

    Open AccessMiranda A Galvin, Thomas A Loughran et al.ARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2018Cited by: 3References: 18

    Research Summary We use survey data from a nationally representative sample to explore public support for taxpayer‐funded victim compensation programs for financial fraud, consumer fraud, identity theft, and burglary. We use contingent valuation (willingness‐to‐pay) methodology to infer preferences for compensation programs and explore predictors of those preferences. Overall, our findings reveal that the public strongly supports the implementati…

  • Examining Procedural Justice and Legitimacy in Corporate Offending and Beyond‐Compliance Behavior

    Open AccessMelissa L Rorie, Melissa Rorie et al.ARTICLELaw & Policy2018Cited by: 8References: 89

    Tom Tyler's Procedural Justice Theory has received support in a variety of studies using criminal justice authorities as the research focus. To date, the theory has not been empirically tested using corporate malfeasance as an outcome, despite evidence that procedural justice is important in achieving regulatory compliance. This study uses factorial survey methods to examine whether corporate behavior is predicted by professionals' perceptions of…

  • The Social Cost of a Racially Targeted Police Encounter

    Open AccessMary Ann CohenARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2017Cited by: 3References: 7

    This paper identifies the individual components of social harm associated with a hypothetical racially targeted police encounter. Individuals who believe they are being targeted by police because they are members of a racial minority may suffer from fear of physical harm and humiliation by the encounter itself. However, the very fact that individuals will be racially targeted for a police encounter also causes harm to other members of the minorit…

  • A systemic approach to understanding mental health and services

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark CohenARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2017Cited by: 1References: 61

  • The Costs of White-Collar Crime

    Mary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.BOOKOxford Handbook of White-Collar…2016

  • Bureaucracy, neoliberalism and perversion

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark CohenARTICLEPsychoanalysis Culture & Society2016References: 18

  • Willingness to Pay to Reduce White-Collar and Corporate Crime

    Open AccessMary Ann CohenARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2015Cited by: 1References: 1

    Consumer protection and financial regulatory agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) regulate various types of consumer, investor and financial frauds. Whether required or not, rulemaking proceedings oftentimes include some form of benefit-cost analysis. Thus, the benefits of proposed regulations – whether fully quantified or not – are a…

  • Benefits and Costs of a Targeted Intervention Program for Youthful Offenders

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Alex R PiqueroARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2015Cited by: 1References: 3

    This paper reports on a benefit-cost analysis of a targeted intervention program, the YouthBuild USA Offender Project (YBOP), aimed at low-income, criminal offenders who are 16–24 years old. Using data on 388 participants, we find: (1) evidence of reduced recidivism and improved educational outcomes that exceed our expectations based on similar cohorts and (2) evidence consistent with a positive benefit-cost ratio, indicating that every dollar sp…

  • Costs of Crime

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A CohenCHAPTEREncyclopedia of Theoretical…2014

    There are many reasons why criminologists and criminal justice policy analysts might want to understand the costs of crime. Among the most important reasons are to rank the severity of different crimes, to compare crime to other social ills, and to conduct cost–benefit analyses of alternative criminal justice policies. Estimating the costs of crime requires a significant amount of information that is not readily available. Crimes not only affect …

  • The Porter Hypothesis at 20

    Stefan Ambec, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEReview of Environmental Economics…2013

    Some twenty years ago, Harvard Business School economist and strategy professor Michael Porter challenged conventional wisdom about the impact of environmental regulation on business by declaring that well-designed regulation could actually enhance competitiveness. The traditional view of environmental regulation held by virtually all economists until that time was that requiring firms to reduce an externality like pollution necessarily restricte…

  • Violence and crime in the LAC region

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.CHAPTERLatin American Development…2010

    Challenges Background The public survey that was conducted by the IDB for the Copenhagen Challenge process identified the problem of “crime and violence” as one of the areas of major concern in the LAC region. In particular, the following items were identified (in descending or perceived priority): (a) high incidence of crime, (b) drug trafficking, (c) proliferation of violent youth gangs, (d) pervasiveness of money laundering, and (e) frequency …

  • Studying the costs of crime across offender trajectories

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Alex R Piquero et al.ARTICLECriminology & Public Policy2010Cited by: 17References: 9

    Research Summary Longitudinal studies of delinquency and crime have generated an important source of descriptive information regarding patterns of offending across the life course, and have helped inform and spur theoretical and methodological contributions. One particular method that has received considerable attention is based on offending trajectories, but applications of this method have not extended much beyond descriptive accounts of offend…

  • Why return to Bedford Falls? A contribution to understanding the enduring appeal of the film It's a Wonderful Life

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark CohenARTICLEPsychoanalysis Culture & Society2009References: 4

  • An approach to corpus-based discourse analysis

    Open AccessThomas A Upton, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEDiscourse Studies2009Cited by: 10References: 17

    This article presents a seven-step corpus-based approach to discourse analysis that starts with a detailed analysis of each individual text in a corpus that can then be generalized across all texts of a corpus, providing a description of typical patterns of discourse organization that hold for the entire corpus. This approach is applied specifically to a methodology that is used to analyze texts in terms of the functional/communicative structures…

  • New Evidence on the Monetary Value of Saving a High Risk Youth

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Quantitative Criminology2008

  • Report from the Field

    Mary Ann Cohen, Mark CohenARTICLECR The New Centennial Review2006

    Report from the Field:The Denver Spy Files Mark Cohen (bio) In March 2002, it was revealed that for decades the Denver Police Department (DPD) Intelligence Bureau had been conducting surveillance and keeping criminal intelligence files on activists engaged in constitutionally protected expressive activities. These files recorded, among other things, membership in organizations, attendance at demonstrations, expressed opinions, car license numbers…

  • Willingness‐to‐pay for Crime Control Programs

    Open AccessMary Ann Cohen, Mark A Cohen et al.ARTICLECriminology2004Cited by: 52References: 10

    This paper reports on a new methodology to estimate the “cost of crime.” It is adapted from the contingent valuation method used in the environmental economics literature and is itself used to estimate the public's willingness to pay for crime control programs. In a nationally representative sample of 1,300 U.S. residents, we found that the typical household would be willing to pay between $100 and $150 per year for programs that reduced specific…

  • Determinants of environmental innovation in US manufacturing industries

    Open AccessSmita B Brunnermeier, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Environmental…2003

  • Rites of Realism

    Andre Brazin, Mary Ann Cohen et al.BOOKRites of Realism2003

  • Does the Market Value Environmental Performance

    Shameek Konar, Mary Ann Cohen et al.ARTICLEThe Review of Economics and…2001

    Previous studies that attempt to relate environmental to financial performance have often led to conflicting results due to small samples and subjective environmental performance criteria. We report on a study that relates the market value of firms in the S&P 500 to objective measures of their environmental performance. After controlling for variables traditionally thought to explain firm-level financial performance, we find that bad environmenta…