William B Bankston
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3887958 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | William B Bankston |
| NOMBRES | William B |
| APELLIDO | Bankston |
| FIRMA | BANKSTON W B |
| AFILIACIONES | Louisiana State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 194 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2013 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
A Service Town
This article examines the industrial structure of the offshore oil industry utilizing the framework of the civic community thesis. This theory posits that communities with an economic structure that includes a dominance of small locally owned businesses will have higher levels of civic welfare and will subsequently experience positive community effects. This article first focuses on rural southern communities, whose economic structure is heavily …
Framing Perceptions of Oil Development and Social Disruption
This paper examines the perceived relationship between the presence and growth of the offshore oil industry in Louisiana and patterns of social disruption, particularly crime. Interview data were obtained from long-time residents in the coastal region of Louisiana, and a social constructionist perspective was used to frame the perceptions of these individuals (N = 94). Much previous research on the effects offshore oil development and its cyclica…
Revisiting the Southern Culture of Violence
This analysis revisits the Southern culture of violence thesis. Several limitations of prior research are addressed by probing for a cultural influence on situation- and race-specific rates of homicide in both rural and urban communities. Negative binomial regression analyses of county-level homicide and census data indicate that the density of Southern-born whites is positively associated with white argument-based homicide rates in rural areas. …
Economic Fluctuation and Crime
This research examines the relationship between patterns of crime and the development of the oil and gas extraction industry in the coastal regions of Louisiana using pooled time-series analysis. The suggestion of a link between these phenomena has often been made, but little systematic research has been conducted to determine if there is indeed a crime–oil development nexus. Limited previous research has focused primarily on the issue of "boom a…
Political Structure, Economic Inequality,and Homicide
We examine the relationship between political structure, economic inequality, and rates of homicide for a diverse sample of 50 countries by using World Health Organization cause-of-death homicide data circa 1990. By conceptualizing homicide as a means of conflict resolution, we expect countries with a more centralized state structure to have lower average homicide rates than countries with a decentralized democratic political structure owing to t…
Gender Equality and the Sex Ratio of Intimate Killing
This study examines variance in the sex ratio of intimate killing (SROK) across U.S. cities. The research primarily focuses on the influence that varying degrees of gendered economic equality have on the SROK. Also, we examine this relationship in economic and regional/cultural contexts. The results of OLS regression analyses reveal a significant negative influence of female economic equality (as measured by the sex ratios of employment) on the S…
Parity and disparity among three measures of fear of crime
Research on fear of crime often concerns problems associated with measuring fear of crime. Most of the literature in this area critiques "global measures," which are the most commonly used, and suggests movement to more specific measures of fear of crime. Although much has been said about the use of alternative measures of fear, seldom has research provided comparative analyses of the alternative measures. Using a conceptual model based on previo…
Single female-headed households, handgun possession, and the fear of rape
The influence of fear of rape, perceived risk of rape, and prior victimization on the presence of handguns in single female‐headed households is examined. On the basis of previous research, a causal model that includes a number of control factors is developed and tested. Prior criminal victimization of the household was the only factor that was a significant predictor of the presence of a handgun. Interestingly, fear of rape had a negative, altho…
The Influence of Fear of Crime, Gender, and Southern Culture on Carrying Firearms for Protection
This research examines the influence of fear of crime, gender, and a southern cultural tradition on the frequency of carrying firearms for protection against criminal victimization. Analysis of carrying guns for protection, as opposed to having them in the home or owning them for this purpose, is argued to remove some methodological problems plaguing much previous research. Fear of crime is not found to be a significant predictor of carrying; how…
Carrying Firearms for Protection
The authors develop a causal model of the determinants of carrying firearms for protection. It is argued that the examination of carrying a gun as a dependent variable is methodologically more advantageous than using gun ownership as the dependent variable. Through use of path analysis, the direct and indirect effects on gun carrying behavior are identified. The results suggest most crime specific variables, e.g. fear of criminal victimization, d…
Victimization and Fear of Crime among the Elderly
Determinants of lethal and nonlethal violence
This paper explores some possible theoretical distinctions between lethal and nonlethal encounters. Generally, theories of interpersonal violence have not focused on differences between these types of outcomes as involving factors intrinsic to the interaction process itself. It is argued that the logic of control theory offers a perspective which could direct future research to reveal differences in the interaction processes which lead to lethal …
Natural disasters, convergence, and four‐wheel drive “machines
This paper identifies an emergent form of behavior in disaster events which is defined as deviant by the victims of a disaster. The form of behavior described here is referred to as recreational convergence. It is emergent in the sense that it results from the propensity of individuals to converge on a disaster situation in interaction with the mass availability of a new technological product, the recreational vehicle. Such behavior is viewed in …
Fear of the drunk driver
This paper analyzes public perceptions of drunk driving with respect to risk of being victimized, seriousness of the offense, and fear of being victimized. This is based on a state‐wide survey of Louisiana driver's license holders. Compared to other crimes, even murder and rape, it was found that drunk driving ranked highest in its fear invoking quality. An argument is made that this phenomenon should be interpreted from a theoretical standpoint …
Capital Punishment
New Perspectives on Prison and Imprisonment
Southern culture and patterns of victim-offender relationships in homicide
This paper examines the relative influence of Southern culture versus social structural features on primary (dispute motivated) and nonprimary (crime motivated) homicide rates in Louisiana. Multiple regression analysis is used to compare the determinants of homicide in parishes ("counties") with typical Southern cultural heritage with those of parishes with French‐Catholic heritage. It was found that Southern culture exerted a greater positive in…
Organizational and Extra-Organizational Determinants of Occupationally Induced Social Marginality
This paper explores the occupational sources of social marginality in merchant seamen. The total institutional characteristics of the work setting of this group are influential in producing this effect, and a number of organizational and extra-organizational variables are examined as determinants. Several were found to have significant impact on the degree of social marginality experienced by seamen and collectively the independent variables pred…
The moral career of the reformed compulsive eater
This paper reports the findings of an intensive study of participants in a “self‐help” weight control group. The objective of the study was to investigate the development of deviant identity among the obese and the process by which the group of reformed deviants effected changes in the eating behavior of its members. Participant observation and interviews revealed successful members experience a radical conversion and that these converts to confo…
Legal and extralegal offender traits and decision making in the criminal justice system
On the basis of multiple regression analysis, a number of legal and extralegal adult offender traits were examined as determinants of the severity of probation officers’ presentence recommendations and judicial dispositions and success on probation. Data were collected on a total of 399 cases on which presentence recommendations were requested by the criminal court of a large southern city. Analysis revealed that some legal statuses have a modera…
Religion and Suicide
Journal Article Religion and Suicide: A Research Note on Sociology's "One Law" Get access William B. Bankston, William B. Bankston Louisiana State University Address correspondence to William Bankston, Department of Sociology, Room 126 Stubbs Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5411. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar H. David Allen, H. David Allen University of New Orleans Search for othe…
The Culture of Public Problems
knows 'drunk driving' is a 'serious' offense. And yet, everyone knows lots of 'drunk drivers' who don't get involved in accidents, don't get caught by the police, and manage to compensate adequately for their 'drunken disability.' Everyone also knows of 'drunk drivers' who have been arrested and gotten off easy. Gusfield's book dissects the conventional wisdom about 'drinking-driving' and examines the paradox of a 'serious' offense that is usuall…
Toward a general model of the process of radical conversion
The influence of southern culture on race-specific homicide rates
The influence of cultural and structural variables on race‐specific homicide rates in the political subunits of Louisiana is analyzed with the purpose of further explication of the independent role these factors play as determinants of lethal violence. It is argued that the southern culture of violence hypothesis is more appropriately tested through separate examination of white, black, and total rates of homicide. The results of this study indic…
Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Legislation Providing More Severe Threatened Sanctions
In 1971, the Tennessee legislature enacted legislation providing for mandatory jail sentences and driver's license revocations for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. This new law had no demonstrable impact on the highway traffic fatalities rate‐the intended objective. This paper explores the reasons for this apparent lack of impact. Data suggest that, while there was some increase in the severity of sanctions imposed on drunken driver…
Parity and disparity among three measures of fear of crime
Research on fear of crime often concerns problems associated with measuring fear of crime. Most of the literature in this area critiques "global measures," which are the most commonly used, and suggests movement to more specific measures of fear of crime. Although much has been said about the use of alternative measures of fear, seldom has research provided comparative analyses of the alternative measures. Using a conceptual model based on previo…
The Influence of Fear of Crime, Gender, and Southern Culture on Carrying Firearms for Protection
This research examines the influence of fear of crime, gender, and a southern cultural tradition on the frequency of carrying firearms for protection against criminal victimization. Analysis of carrying guns for protection, as opposed to having them in the home or owning them for this purpose, is argued to remove some methodological problems plaguing much previous research. Fear of crime is not found to be a significant predictor of carrying; how…
Toward a general model of the process of radical conversion
Political Structure, Economic Inequality,and Homicide
We examine the relationship between political structure, economic inequality, and rates of homicide for a diverse sample of 50 countries by using World Health Organization cause-of-death homicide data circa 1990. By conceptualizing homicide as a means of conflict resolution, we expect countries with a more centralized state structure to have lower average homicide rates than countries with a decentralized democratic political structure owing to t…
Gender Equality and the Sex Ratio of Intimate Killing
This study examines variance in the sex ratio of intimate killing (SROK) across U.S. cities. The research primarily focuses on the influence that varying degrees of gendered economic equality have on the SROK. Also, we examine this relationship in economic and regional/cultural contexts. The results of OLS regression analyses reveal a significant negative influence of female economic equality (as measured by the sex ratios of employment) on the S…
Framing Perceptions of Oil Development and Social Disruption
This paper examines the perceived relationship between the presence and growth of the offshore oil industry in Louisiana and patterns of social disruption, particularly crime. Interview data were obtained from long-time residents in the coastal region of Louisiana, and a social constructionist perspective was used to frame the perceptions of these individuals (N = 94). Much previous research on the effects offshore oil development and its cyclica…
Revisiting the Southern Culture of Violence
This analysis revisits the Southern culture of violence thesis. Several limitations of prior research are addressed by probing for a cultural influence on situation- and race-specific rates of homicide in both rural and urban communities. Negative binomial regression analyses of county-level homicide and census data indicate that the density of Southern-born whites is positively associated with white argument-based homicide rates in rural areas. …
Carrying Firearms for Protection
The authors develop a causal model of the determinants of carrying firearms for protection. It is argued that the examination of carrying a gun as a dependent variable is methodologically more advantageous than using gun ownership as the dependent variable. Through use of path analysis, the direct and indirect effects on gun carrying behavior are identified. The results suggest most crime specific variables, e.g. fear of criminal victimization, d…
Economic Fluctuation and Crime
This research examines the relationship between patterns of crime and the development of the oil and gas extraction industry in the coastal regions of Louisiana using pooled time-series analysis. The suggestion of a link between these phenomena has often been made, but little systematic research has been conducted to determine if there is indeed a crime–oil development nexus. Limited previous research has focused primarily on the issue of "boom a…
The influence of southern culture on race-specific homicide rates
The influence of cultural and structural variables on race‐specific homicide rates in the political subunits of Louisiana is analyzed with the purpose of further explication of the independent role these factors play as determinants of lethal violence. It is argued that the southern culture of violence hypothesis is more appropriately tested through separate examination of white, black, and total rates of homicide. The results of this study indic…
Religion and Suicide
Journal Article Religion and Suicide: A Research Note on Sociology's "One Law" Get access William B. Bankston, William B. Bankston Louisiana State University Address correspondence to William Bankston, Department of Sociology, Room 126 Stubbs Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5411. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar H. David Allen, H. David Allen University of New Orleans Search for othe…
Single female-headed households, handgun possession, and the fear of rape
The influence of fear of rape, perceived risk of rape, and prior victimization on the presence of handguns in single female‐headed households is examined. On the basis of previous research, a causal model that includes a number of control factors is developed and tested. Prior criminal victimization of the household was the only factor that was a significant predictor of the presence of a handgun. Interestingly, fear of rape had a negative, altho…
A Service Town
This article examines the industrial structure of the offshore oil industry utilizing the framework of the civic community thesis. This theory posits that communities with an economic structure that includes a dominance of small locally owned businesses will have higher levels of civic welfare and will subsequently experience positive community effects. This article first focuses on rural southern communities, whose economic structure is heavily …
Southern culture and patterns of victim-offender relationships in homicide
This paper examines the relative influence of Southern culture versus social structural features on primary (dispute motivated) and nonprimary (crime motivated) homicide rates in Louisiana. Multiple regression analysis is used to compare the determinants of homicide in parishes ("counties") with typical Southern cultural heritage with those of parishes with French‐Catholic heritage. It was found that Southern culture exerted a greater positive in…
Toward a Macro‐sociological Interpretation of General Deterrence
This paper is focused on the problem of general deterrence as a macro‐sociological phenomenon. An attempt has been made to integrate existing literature into a set of testable hypotheses Three perspectives on general deterrence are examined, including the classical school of criminology and the positions of Durkheim and Sumner. The variables of certainty and seventy, type of threatened behavior, latent deterrent functions of legal threats, and no…
Organizational and Extra-Organizational Determinants of Occupationally Induced Social Marginality
This paper explores the occupational sources of social marginality in merchant seamen. The total institutional characteristics of the work setting of this group are influential in producing this effect, and a number of organizational and extra-organizational variables are examined as determinants. Several were found to have significant impact on the degree of social marginality experienced by seamen and collectively the independent variables pred…
The moral career of the reformed compulsive eater
This paper reports the findings of an intensive study of participants in a “self‐help” weight control group. The objective of the study was to investigate the development of deviant identity among the obese and the process by which the group of reformed deviants effected changes in the eating behavior of its members. Participant observation and interviews revealed successful members experience a radical conversion and that these converts to confo…
Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Legislation Providing More Severe Threatened Sanctions
In 1971, the Tennessee legislature enacted legislation providing for mandatory jail sentences and driver's license revocations for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. This new law had no demonstrable impact on the highway traffic fatalities rate‐the intended objective. This paper explores the reasons for this apparent lack of impact. Data suggest that, while there was some increase in the severity of sanctions imposed on drunken driver…
Toward a Macro‐sociological Interpretation of General Deterrence
This paper is focused on the problem of general deterrence as a macro‐sociological phenomenon. An attempt has been made to integrate existing literature into a set of testable hypotheses Three perspectives on general deterrence are examined, including the classical school of criminology and the positions of Durkheim and Sumner. The variables of certainty and seventy, type of threatened behavior, latent deterrent functions of legal threats, and no…
Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Legislation Providing More Severe Threatened Sanctions
In 1971, the Tennessee legislature enacted legislation providing for mandatory jail sentences and driver's license revocations for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. This new law had no demonstrable impact on the highway traffic fatalities rate‐the intended objective. This paper explores the reasons for this apparent lack of impact. Data suggest that, while there was some increase in the severity of sanctions imposed on drunken driver…
Toward a general model of the process of radical conversion
The influence of southern culture on race-specific homicide rates
The influence of cultural and structural variables on race‐specific homicide rates in the political subunits of Louisiana is analyzed with the purpose of further explication of the independent role these factors play as determinants of lethal violence. It is argued that the southern culture of violence hypothesis is more appropriately tested through separate examination of white, black, and total rates of homicide. The results of this study indic…
Legal and extralegal offender traits and decision making in the criminal justice system
On the basis of multiple regression analysis, a number of legal and extralegal adult offender traits were examined as determinants of the severity of probation officers’ presentence recommendations and judicial dispositions and success on probation. Data were collected on a total of 399 cases on which presentence recommendations were requested by the criminal court of a large southern city. Analysis revealed that some legal statuses have a modera…
Religion and Suicide
Journal Article Religion and Suicide: A Research Note on Sociology's "One Law" Get access William B. Bankston, William B. Bankston Louisiana State University Address correspondence to William Bankston, Department of Sociology, Room 126 Stubbs Hall, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803-5411. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar H. David Allen, H. David Allen University of New Orleans Search for othe…
The Culture of Public Problems
knows 'drunk driving' is a 'serious' offense. And yet, everyone knows lots of 'drunk drivers' who don't get involved in accidents, don't get caught by the police, and manage to compensate adequately for their 'drunken disability.' Everyone also knows of 'drunk drivers' who have been arrested and gotten off easy. Gusfield's book dissects the conventional wisdom about 'drinking-driving' and examines the paradox of a 'serious' offense that is usuall…
Organizational and Extra-Organizational Determinants of Occupationally Induced Social Marginality
This paper explores the occupational sources of social marginality in merchant seamen. The total institutional characteristics of the work setting of this group are influential in producing this effect, and a number of organizational and extra-organizational variables are examined as determinants. Several were found to have significant impact on the degree of social marginality experienced by seamen and collectively the independent variables pred…
The moral career of the reformed compulsive eater
This paper reports the findings of an intensive study of participants in a “self‐help” weight control group. The objective of the study was to investigate the development of deviant identity among the obese and the process by which the group of reformed deviants effected changes in the eating behavior of its members. Participant observation and interviews revealed successful members experience a radical conversion and that these converts to confo…
Capital Punishment
New Perspectives on Prison and Imprisonment
Southern culture and patterns of victim-offender relationships in homicide
This paper examines the relative influence of Southern culture versus social structural features on primary (dispute motivated) and nonprimary (crime motivated) homicide rates in Louisiana. Multiple regression analysis is used to compare the determinants of homicide in parishes ("counties") with typical Southern cultural heritage with those of parishes with French‐Catholic heritage. It was found that Southern culture exerted a greater positive in…
Natural disasters, convergence, and four‐wheel drive “machines
This paper identifies an emergent form of behavior in disaster events which is defined as deviant by the victims of a disaster. The form of behavior described here is referred to as recreational convergence. It is emergent in the sense that it results from the propensity of individuals to converge on a disaster situation in interaction with the mass availability of a new technological product, the recreational vehicle. Such behavior is viewed in …
Fear of the drunk driver
This paper analyzes public perceptions of drunk driving with respect to risk of being victimized, seriousness of the offense, and fear of being victimized. This is based on a state‐wide survey of Louisiana driver's license holders. Compared to other crimes, even murder and rape, it was found that drunk driving ranked highest in its fear invoking quality. An argument is made that this phenomenon should be interpreted from a theoretical standpoint …
Victimization and Fear of Crime among the Elderly
Determinants of lethal and nonlethal violence
This paper explores some possible theoretical distinctions between lethal and nonlethal encounters. Generally, theories of interpersonal violence have not focused on differences between these types of outcomes as involving factors intrinsic to the interaction process itself. It is argued that the logic of control theory offers a perspective which could direct future research to reveal differences in the interaction processes which lead to lethal …
Carrying Firearms for Protection
The authors develop a causal model of the determinants of carrying firearms for protection. It is argued that the examination of carrying a gun as a dependent variable is methodologically more advantageous than using gun ownership as the dependent variable. Through use of path analysis, the direct and indirect effects on gun carrying behavior are identified. The results suggest most crime specific variables, e.g. fear of criminal victimization, d…
The Influence of Fear of Crime, Gender, and Southern Culture on Carrying Firearms for Protection
This research examines the influence of fear of crime, gender, and a southern cultural tradition on the frequency of carrying firearms for protection against criminal victimization. Analysis of carrying guns for protection, as opposed to having them in the home or owning them for this purpose, is argued to remove some methodological problems plaguing much previous research. Fear of crime is not found to be a significant predictor of carrying; how…
Single female-headed households, handgun possession, and the fear of rape
The influence of fear of rape, perceived risk of rape, and prior victimization on the presence of handguns in single female‐headed households is examined. On the basis of previous research, a causal model that includes a number of control factors is developed and tested. Prior criminal victimization of the household was the only factor that was a significant predictor of the presence of a handgun. Interestingly, fear of rape had a negative, altho…
Parity and disparity among three measures of fear of crime
Research on fear of crime often concerns problems associated with measuring fear of crime. Most of the literature in this area critiques "global measures," which are the most commonly used, and suggests movement to more specific measures of fear of crime. Although much has been said about the use of alternative measures of fear, seldom has research provided comparative analyses of the alternative measures. Using a conceptual model based on previo…
Gender Equality and the Sex Ratio of Intimate Killing
This study examines variance in the sex ratio of intimate killing (SROK) across U.S. cities. The research primarily focuses on the influence that varying degrees of gendered economic equality have on the SROK. Also, we examine this relationship in economic and regional/cultural contexts. The results of OLS regression analyses reveal a significant negative influence of female economic equality (as measured by the sex ratios of employment) on the S…
Political Structure, Economic Inequality,and Homicide
We examine the relationship between political structure, economic inequality, and rates of homicide for a diverse sample of 50 countries by using World Health Organization cause-of-death homicide data circa 1990. By conceptualizing homicide as a means of conflict resolution, we expect countries with a more centralized state structure to have lower average homicide rates than countries with a decentralized democratic political structure owing to t…
Framing Perceptions of Oil Development and Social Disruption
This paper examines the perceived relationship between the presence and growth of the offshore oil industry in Louisiana and patterns of social disruption, particularly crime. Interview data were obtained from long-time residents in the coastal region of Louisiana, and a social constructionist perspective was used to frame the perceptions of these individuals (N = 94). Much previous research on the effects offshore oil development and its cyclica…
Revisiting the Southern Culture of Violence
This analysis revisits the Southern culture of violence thesis. Several limitations of prior research are addressed by probing for a cultural influence on situation- and race-specific rates of homicide in both rural and urban communities. Negative binomial regression analyses of county-level homicide and census data indicate that the density of Southern-born whites is positively associated with white argument-based homicide rates in rural areas. …
Economic Fluctuation and Crime
This research examines the relationship between patterns of crime and the development of the oil and gas extraction industry in the coastal regions of Louisiana using pooled time-series analysis. The suggestion of a link between these phenomena has often been made, but little systematic research has been conducted to determine if there is indeed a crime–oil development nexus. Limited previous research has focused primarily on the issue of "boom a…
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