Richard A Wright
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 274395 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Richard A Wright |
| NOMBRES | Richard A |
| APELLIDO | Wright |
| FIRMA | WRIGHT R A |
| AFILIACIONES | Kansas State University Manhattan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 65 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 261 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 65 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1976 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Investigating the acoustic fidelity of vowels across remote recording methods
Our study tests the acoustic fidelity of remote recordings, using a large variety of stimuli and recording environments. Remote recordings support crucial uses like reaching isolated populations and more speakers; however, it is important to be aware of any limitations therein. A 188-word list was constructed from each English consonant followed by each vowel. Words recorded by one male and one female speaker in a sound-attenuated booth were inpu…
George Demko, 1933-2015
Our memorial to a longtime friend, George Demko, looks at his career accomplishments through the eyes of some of his former students, colleagues, and a publisher. In their own words, rather than ou
Talker Versus Dialect Effects on Speech Intelligibility
This study investigates the relative effects of talker-specific variation and dialect-based variation on speech intelligibility. Listeners from two dialects of American English performed speech-in-noise tasks with sentences spoken by talkers of each dialect. An initial statistical model showed no significant effects for either talker or listener dialect group, and no interaction. However, a mixed-effects regression model including several acousti…
Migration
"Migration: An Introduction." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), pp. 223–224
Intraspeaker variability in vowel production
Operations on the Boundary
A study of individual and situational antecedents of violent victimization
Researchers traditionally rely on routine activities and lifestyle theories to explain the differential risk of victimization; few studies have also explored nonsituational alternative explanations. We present a conceptual framework that links individual trait and situational antecedents of violent victimization. Individual risk factors include low self-control and weak social ties with the family and school. Situational risk factors include havi…
Recent changes in the most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks
(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
As contemporary international migrants forge new webs of connection and social fields between distant places, transnational scholarship seeks to understand and theorize these emerging spaces. Our account of the Salvadoran transnational social field centered in northern New Jersey contributes to the development of transnational theory by considering how a particular legal provision—temporary protective status (TPS)—permeates daily life. We argue t…
Is deviance “DeadH? The decline of a sociological research specialization
The chronicles of the renaissance
Recent changes in the most-cited scholars in criminology A comparison of textbooks and journals
Left Out? The coverage of critical perspectives in introductory criminology textbooks, 1990–1999
Some Reflections on Relevance in Rediscovering Geography
Evaluating Criminology and Criminal Justice
Using citation analysis, this study examines the influence and prestige of scholars, journals, and university departments in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. In the tradition of Marvin E. Wolfgang'sEvaluating Criminology, the authors apply this quantitative method to evaluate the impact of individuals and their research efforts on two fields and to identify interconnections among scholars and their publications. This examination of…
From luminary to lesser-known
I reanalyze four citation studies of criminology/criminal justice journals and books to demonstrate that the authors of criminology textbooks in past years, considered as a group, were better-known scholars than the authors of textbooks today. When authors/co-authors of criminology textbooks published from 1936 to 1965 are compared with authors/co-authors of criminology textbooks published from 1984 to 1993, many more of the former ranked among t…
The most-cited scholars and works in critical criminology
Previous studies that reported the most-cited scholars and works in criminology and criminal justice journals and textbooks neglected the contributions of critical criminologists to crime and justice scholarship. This paper extends citation analysis to the study of critical criminology. Through an examination of 18 books published from 1980 to 1997 and three journals published from 1991 to 1995, we list the 50 most-cited scholars in critical crim…
Using Campus Crime Statistics in Classroom Discussions of Official Measures of Crime
L'A. montre de quelle maniere l'analyse des statistiques concernant la criminalite sur les campus universitaires americains peut contribuer a faire envisager de facon critique les mesures officielles de la criminalite. Il presente un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1974 et 1995, par le F.B.I. aux Etats-Unis, sur ce phenomene. Il presente une experience pedagogique qui vise a faire decouvrir aux etudiants en quoi consiste la criminalite…
Taboo until today? The coverage of biological arguments in criminology textbooks, 1961 to 1970 and 1987 to 1996
The Most-Cited Scholars and Works in Women and Crime Publications
Previous studies that have reported the most-cited scholars and works in criminology and criminal justice journals and textbooks have seldom acknowledged the important contributions of women and/or women and crime scholars to criminology and criminal justice. Here we extend citation analysis to the examination of 174 women and crime publications appearing from 1990 to 1996. We list the 50 most-cited scholars and the 29 most-cited works in these p…
Do introductory criminal justice textbooks cite the most influential criminal justicians? Further estimations of the “match” between what journals report and what textbooks discuss
A recent study developed a procedure to use citation analyses of criminology journals and textbooks to estimate the “match” between what journals report and what textbooks discuss. Here this estimation procedure is extended to criminal justice journals and textbooks. Sixteen criminal justice textbooks published from 1989 to 1993 are ranked by how prominently they cite the 20 most frequently cited scholars in recent leading criminal justice journa…
Textbook adoption and other landmark decisions
We examine the coverage of court cases in 23 introductory criminal justice textbooks published from 1986 to 1995. The 30 cases receiving the most coverage (in inches of print) in the textbooks are identified and ranked by the amount of attention each receives. Collectively these cases can be considered the “landmark” decisions in the textbooks. We then evaluate the criminal justice textbooks by how extensively they cover (1) court cases in genera…
Teaching Criminology
The Linkage between Immigration and Internal Migration in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States
This paper investigates the relationship between the internal migration of native‐born workers and flows of immigrants to the United States using the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census Bureau microsamples. A growing body of research asserts that places like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami suffer net losses of native‐born workers, particularly the unskilled, because of immigration. We contend that large metropolitan areas suffer net losses of internal mig…
The missing or misperceived effects of punishment
I compare the quantity and the quality of the coverage of deterrence in seven leading criminology and sociology journals and in 53 introductory criminology textbooks published from 1956 to 1965 and 1984 to 1993. My data show that 1) despite a marked increase in the amount of deterrence research reported in the leading journals, recent criminology textbooks devote little more coverage to the topic than did their predecessors, and 2) many recent te…
(Re)producing Salvadoran Transnational Geographies
As contemporary international migrants forge new webs of connection and social fields between distant places, transnational scholarship seeks to understand and theorize these emerging spaces. Our account of the Salvadoran transnational social field centered in northern New Jersey contributes to the development of transnational theory by considering how a particular legal provision—temporary protective status (TPS)—permeates daily life. We argue t…
The Linkage between Immigration and Internal Migration in Large Metropolitan Areas in the United States
This paper investigates the relationship between the internal migration of native‐born workers and flows of immigrants to the United States using the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Census Bureau microsamples. A growing body of research asserts that places like New York, Los Angeles, and Miami suffer net losses of native‐born workers, particularly the unskilled, because of immigration. We contend that large metropolitan areas suffer net losses of internal mig…
Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York
Diaspora 5:3 1996 Daily Life in the Transnational Migrant Community of San Agustín, Oaxaca, and Poughkeepsie, New York1 Alison Mountz Dartmouth College Richard A. Wright Dartmouth College Introduction Ten young men hold a simple white casket in place in the back ofa red van with New York license plates. They accompany the casket through town to the cemetery in San Agustín, Mexico. They are the only male migrants remaining after the Christmas holi…
Is deviance “DeadH? The decline of a sociological research specialization
Recent changes in the most-cited scholars in criminology A comparison of textbooks and journals
The most-cited scholars in criminology
Intraspeaker variability in vowel production
Taboo until today? The coverage of biological arguments in criminology textbooks, 1961 to 1970 and 1987 to 1996
The most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks, 1989–1993
Recent changes in the most-cited scholars in criminal justice textbooks
Twenty Recent Criminology Textbooks
I have written extensively about the shortcomings in criminology textbooks (e.g., see Wright 1987, 1990, 1992, 1993), including a previous review essay in Teaching Sociology that examined 10 texts published from 1987 to 1989 (Wright 1990). This earlier review essay concluded that Recent criminology texts show much diversity but little overall quality and little consistency in the coverage of current developments (Wright 1990, p. 560). Here I will…
Was there a “golden past” for the introductory sociology textbook? A citation analysis of leading journals
From vanguard to vanished
Talker Versus Dialect Effects on Speech Intelligibility
This study investigates the relative effects of talker-specific variation and dialect-based variation on speech intelligibility. Listeners from two dialects of American English performed speech-in-noise tasks with sentences spoken by talkers of each dialect. An initial statistical model showed no significant effects for either talker or listener dialect group, and no interaction. However, a mixed-effects regression model including several acousti…
Left Out? The coverage of critical perspectives in introductory criminology textbooks, 1990–1999
Women as "Victims" and as "Resisters
Richard A. Wright, Women as "Victims" and as "Resisters": Depictions of the Oppression of Women in Criminology Textbooks, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 23, No. 2, Teaching about Inequality and Diversity: Age, Class, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity (Apr., 1995), pp. 111-121
When Pictures Lie
This paper examines a neglected topic in the teaching sociology literature-textbook photographs. We offer a case study which shows that criminology textbookphotographs misrepresent what the texts say by underestimating the seriousness ofwhite-collar crimes and overestimating the seriousness of street crimes. Questionnaire data are also provided to support the argument that many students are sensitive to the messages in textbookphotographs. The pa…
Ten Recent Criminology Textbooks
Textbook bashing probably ranks second only to complaining about administrators as the most popular lament among academics. Criminologists certainly are exception to the rule-in the many workshops and roundtables on teaching criminology that I have chaired over the years, one striking consensus has been that there is no such thing as a good criminology textbook. Here I will show that this complaint contains much truth. This essay reviews 10 of th…
Are "Sisters in Crime" Finally Being Booked? The Coverage of Women and Crime in Journals and Textbooks
Much recent criticism of criminology textbooks has centered on the lack of space devoted to women, both as criminals and as victims of (see Wilson and Rigsby 1975; Balkan et al. 1980; Gibbons 1982; Schur 1984). Few authors, however, provide substantial empirical evidence to support their criticisms; Balkan et al. (1980, p. iii), for example, simply assert that material on . .. has been neglected in conventional [criminology] texts. Gibbons (1982,…
Where There's a Will, There's No Way
L'A. examine l'influence qu'a pu presenter la sociologie, evoluant d'un paradigme structuraliste dominant a un paradigme de l'action, sur des manuels de criminologie publies de 1956 a 1965 et de 1983 a 1992. Il montre que malgre cette transition, qui reconnait l'importance a la fois du determinisme social et du choix individuel dans les comportements criminels, les auteurs de manuels criminologiques durant ces deux periodes tendent a s'appuyer su…
Migration
"Migration: An Introduction." Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 104(2), pp. 223–224
Using Campus Crime Statistics in Classroom Discussions of Official Measures of Crime
L'A. montre de quelle maniere l'analyse des statistiques concernant la criminalite sur les campus universitaires americains peut contribuer a faire envisager de facon critique les mesures officielles de la criminalite. Il presente un certain nombre de donnees collectees entre 1974 et 1995, par le F.B.I. aux Etats-Unis, sur ce phenomene. Il presente une experience pedagogique qui vise a faire decouvrir aux etudiants en quoi consiste la criminalite…
When job “openings” weren’t
"Toward a Theoretical Conceptualization of "Silence in the Classroom
Professor Martha Gimenez has written an interesting and seminal article exploring several mostly structural factors that contribute to the shrouding of learners into what Freire (1970, 1985) terms a culture of silence. To solve the problem of silence in the classroom, she offers some intriguing recommendations-ranging from the creation of individualized paths for students to attain undergraduate degrees to the reorganization of universities so th…
Incorporating Women and Crime Topics into Criminology Classes
Numerous authors have recently commented about the relative neglect of any meaningful discussion in the sociology classroom of women as criminals and crime victims (see Wilson and Rigsby 1975; Smart and Smart 1978; Morash et al. 1982; Gibbons 1983; Renzetti 1984; Wright 1985). For example, Wilson and Rigsby (1975) and Gibbons (1983) have noted the conspicuous failure of criminology textbooks to examine women and crime topics. In addition, Wright …
Sociological Essays and Research
The Dialectic of Pronouns
This article challenges the folk-urban evolutionary tradition that is exemplified by Toennies' Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft and supported by Durkheim's concepts of mechanical and organic solidarity. I argue that the relationship between these dichotomous concepts is essentially dialectical. Hence, in modern industrial systems, Gemeinschaft (the thesis, symbolized by the pronoun “I”) and Gesellschaft (the antithesis, symbolized by “we”) ultimatel…
Traditions of American Education
African Philosophy
The question of African philosophy do we have an African philosophy? investigating African philosophy the African philosophical tradition the African foundations of Greek philosophy time in Yoruba thought casual theory in Akwapim Akan philosophy how not to compare African thought with Western thought the categories of Mtu and the categories of Aristotle person and community in African traditional thought the human person and immortality in Ibo me…
Sociological Footprints
This mainstream reader is balanced to include classical, contemporary, popular and multicultural work. SOCIOLOGICAL FOOTPRINTS is so balanced that it can accompany any of our Introduction to Sociology texts (a correlation guide helps professors using Wadsworth texts by such authors as Kendall, Stark and Ferrante use this reader as part of their course). It has established itself as a well-rounded text that presents a wide variety of different typ…
Sociology
Criminology Textbook Annotations
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sociology
Is Sociological Theory Useful in Nonacademic Employment? The Views of Sociologists, Employers, and Former Students
This paper summarizes and critiques previous studies of the opinions of three groups (sociologists, nonacademic employers, and former sociology students) regarding the usefulness of sociological theory in nonacademic work. Existing studies show that: (1) most sociologists agree that sociological theory has much relevance to nonacademic employment; (2) nonacademic employers are somewhat skeptical and suspicious of the relevance of theoretical skil…
The Executioner's Song
Are "Sisters in Crime" Finally Being Booked? The Coverage of Women and Crime in Journals and Textbooks
Much recent criticism of criminology textbooks has centered on the lack of space devoted to women, both as criminals and as victims of (see Wilson and Rigsby 1975; Balkan et al. 1980; Gibbons 1982; Schur 1984). Few authors, however, provide substantial empirical evidence to support their criticisms; Balkan et al. (1980, p. iii), for example, simply assert that material on . .. has been neglected in conventional [criminology] texts. Gibbons (1982,…
Incorporating Women and Crime Topics into Criminology Classes
Numerous authors have recently commented about the relative neglect of any meaningful discussion in the sociology classroom of women as criminals and crime victims (see Wilson and Rigsby 1975; Smart and Smart 1978; Morash et al. 1982; Gibbons 1983; Renzetti 1984; Wright 1985). For example, Wilson and Rigsby (1975) and Gibbons (1983) have noted the conspicuous failure of criminology textbooks to examine women and crime topics. In addition, Wright …
Response to Review by Weitzel-O'Neill
International Relations and Politics
"Toward a Theoretical Conceptualization of "Silence in the Classroom
Professor Martha Gimenez has written an interesting and seminal article exploring several mostly structural factors that contribute to the shrouding of learners into what Freire (1970, 1985) terms a culture of silence. To solve the problem of silence in the classroom, she offers some intriguing recommendations-ranging from the creation of individualized paths for students to attain undergraduate degrees to the reorganization of universities so th…
The "Friendly Student" Exercise
In Invitation to Sociology, Berger (1963, p. 23) observes that first wisdom of sociology is (that) . . . are not what they seem. Reiterating this view, Lee (1978, pp. 217, 36) contends that sociology demonstrates that things are seldom what they seem, and adds that sociologists should review critically the folk wisdoms and other theories by which people try to live. These and related arguments suggest that a primary use of sociology is to debunk …
Ten Recent Criminology Textbooks
Textbook bashing probably ranks second only to complaining about administrators as the most popular lament among academics. Criminologists certainly are exception to the rule-in the many workshops and roundtables on teaching criminology that I have chaired over the years, one striking consensus has been that there is no such thing as a good criminology textbook. Here I will show that this complaint contains much truth. This essay reviews 10 of th…
Taking Sides
White-collar crime in the criminal justice curriculum
Recognition of the significance of white-collar crime has grown substantially in recent years, but this growth has not been reflected adequately in the field of criminal justice or in the criminal justice curriculum. Through a content analysis of criminal justice and criminology textbooks and program course offerings the authors demonstrate the relative neglect of white-collar crime, and especially its marginal position in the criminal justice cu…
Women Speak This Week
Several recent articles have noted the difficulty of encouraging current sociology students to participate in class discussions (Gimenez 1989; Holtz 1989; Wright 1989). Traditional gender roles. which foster independence and assertiveness among men and encourage dependence and passivity among women, make it especially challenging to promote class participation among female students (O'Keefe and Fampel 1987). We describe an exercise that is simple…
Sociology
Identity and the Question of African Philosophy
From vamps and tramps to teases and flirts
This paper compares the coverage of women and crime topics in all known introductory criminology textbooks published from 1956 to 1965 (N = 15) and from 1981 to 1990 (N = 29). Few changes are noted over time, either in the number of pages devoted to women and crime topics or in the women and crime topics discussed most often by textbook authors. I also examine in detail several sexist themes regarding women as criminals and crime victims, which a…
When Pictures Lie
This paper examines a neglected topic in the teaching sociology literature-textbook photographs. We offer a case study which shows that criminology textbookphotographs misrepresent what the texts say by underestimating the seriousness ofwhite-collar crimes and overestimating the seriousness of street crimes. Questionnaire data are also provided to support the argument that many students are sensitive to the messages in textbookphotographs. The pa…
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