Ruth Triplett
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3924382 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ruth Triplett |
| NOMBRES | Ruth |
| APELLIDO | Triplett |
| FIRMA | TRIPLETT R |
| AFILIACIONES | Old Dominion University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 28 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 133 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 28 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Revisiting Akers' Social Structure and Social Learning from a Problem-Solving Approach
In line with a long tradition of theorizing, this paper draws on critiques of Akers’ Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) to argue for a stronger grounding of the theory in symbolic interactionism. Drawing on the work of Mead, Blumer, and Maines, the argument is that to do so means grounding SSSL in a view of humans as acting and action as problem-solving. It also means incorporating an expanded understanding of the situation into the theo…
Political Efficacy, Police Legitimacy, and Public Support for Counterterrorism Measures in China
The threat of terrorism has surfaced as a top priority in national and global security over the past two decades. Drawing upon survey data collected by the Chinese General Social Survey, this study assesses the relationships among political efficacy, police legitimacy, and public support for counterterrorism measures in China. The majority of surveyed Chinese people do not favor aggressive law enforcement actions even when a terrorist attack is i…
Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City
Objective While empirical research on Chinese people's perceptions of crime has developed encouragingly during the past decade, an important issue regarding correlates of such fear – the media effect, frequently found by the Western literature as a critical source of fear – has largely eluded scholarly attention. This study investigates the effects of consumption of different media types on Chinese fear of crime, while taking a wide range of othe…
Crime, Social Learning Theory of
The social learning theory of crime argues that some people learn to commit crimes through the same process through which others learn to conform. The theory assumes that people, at birth, have neither a motivation to commit crime nor to conform. The theory then asks: Why does an individual commit crimes? The answer to this question stresses the process of learning, which involves the interaction between thought or cognition, behavior, and enviro…
Class and Crime
There is a longstanding controversy over the importance of social class in the production of criminal conduct. Some argue that there is a strong relationship between social class and crime, while others say there is little or no relationship. This controversy is often an argument over the the definition and measurement of crime, and the meaning of class
Capable Guardians in the Digital Environment
In this study, we use Routine Activities Theory to explore the role of digital literacy, a measure of guardianship, in the receipt of and response to phishing. Data for the study come from a nationally representative survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons. The analysis results in two conclusions. First, respondents with higher levels of digital literacy report receiving phishing e-mails more often, but report responding t…
Does 'Violent' Mean 'Bad'? Individual Definitions of Violence
People use the word "violent" to describe a wide range of behaviors. When referring to acts of force, however, past research indicates that people often reserve the word "violent" to refer to acts of force that they define as "bad." In the current study we use vignettes to explore variation in people's definitions of a particular instance of the use of force. The findings indicate support for the idea that people reserve the word "violent" to ref…
Crime and Class
Experiences of Domestic Violence as a Child and Career Choice
Churches as Neighborhood Organizations and Their Relationship to Street and Domestic Violent Crime
Recent developments in both theory and research on neighborhood crime have focused attention on the role of organizations. The current research builds on the existing literature to examine the relationship of churches to neighborhood "street" and domestic violence. The findings suggest that churches are fairly stable neighborhood organizations and not importantly heterogeneous, and neither factor appears to be related to neighborhood crime. Alter…
The Relationship Between Self-Control, Witnessing Domestic Violence, and Subsequent Violence
The notion that violence begets violence is well accepted. Less clear are the precise factors that link together child violence and adult violence in an individual's life course. This study examines the role that self-control has in linking together exposure to violence in a child's life and subsequent violence in that individual's life. A telephone survey with 375 residents in Southeastern Virginia was conducted. Attention is given to whether th…
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Our aim in this work is to: (1) determine how distinct the program structure and curriculum content for graduate education in Criminology was compared to Criminal Justice; and (2) evaluate whether the diversity or consistency of the curriculum in either field varied depending of what type of department was offering the degree. Differences in department titles, hours required for the M.A. degree, program descriptions, curriculum content and curric…
Race, Class or Neighborhood Context
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical linear modeling on 1,963 individuals nested within 66 neighborhoods, this study analyzes how individual‐level variables, including race, class, age, gender, victimization and contact with police, and neighborhood‐level factors, including racial composition, concen…
Assessing the Domestic Violence Training Needs of Benefits Workers
Crime, Social Learning Theory of
The social learning theory of crime basically argues that some people learn to commit crimes through the same process through which others learn to conform. The theory assumes that people are “blank slates” at birth, having neither a motivation to commit crime nor to conform. The theory then asks two questions. First, at the micro‐level, it asks why an individual commits crimes. The answer to this question stresses the process of learning, which …
Collective Efficacy and Crime
As described by Sampson et al. in 1997, collective efficacy describes a neighborhood‐level process that is important to understanding variation in crime rates across neighborhoods. Collective efficacy involves both the willingness of individuals in a neighborhood to work together toward a common goal, such as crime control, and mutual trust. Since the discussion of collective efficacy in the initial publication in 1997, collective efficacy has be…
Race and Crime
The importance of race in the production of criminal conduct has been an issue in American criminology for decades. The fact that minority groups, particularly African Americans, are disproportionately involved as offenders in the criminal justice system in the US is not in dispute. However, there is little agreement among criminologists on what this means. Some argue that the relationship between race and crime is largely the result of the condu…
Criminology/Criminal Justice Representation in the Discipline of Sociology
This paper examines changes in the representation of criminology, as an area of specialization, in the discipline of sociology between 1992 and 2002. Utilizing the ASA Guide to Graduate Programs in Sociology, we note faculty areas of specialization. We expect that criminology will appear more often as a specialty area in 1992 than 2002. All full‐time faculty in U.S. graduate programs in sociology are included in the analyses. We found no signific…
What drives punitive beliefs
Problem solving as reinforcement in adolescent drug use
Institutional Strength, Social Control and Neighborhood Crime Rates
While the systemic model that today's theories of social disorganization are based on acknowledges that neighborhood-based institutions may vary in their ability to contribute to effective social control, relatively little attention has been given to their role in understanding neighborhood rates of crime. At the same time, there is contradictory evidence about the role of social networks, which have been the focus of much research attention. Thi…
Examining the effect of work-home conflict on work-related stress among correctional officers
Responding to Troubled Youth
The effects of social area characteristics on the relationship between social class and delinquency
Specifying the Gender-Class-Delinquency Relationship
Traditionally, research on the class-crime relationship has ignored gender, while much of the past research on the gender-delinquency relationship has ignored class. Both feminist criminologists and social psychologists, such as House (1981), suggest that analyses of class and gender should involve the examination of how these factors shape individual lives. In this paper we explore the role of educational expectations as one factor shaped by bot…
What drives punitive beliefs
Work-related stress and coping among correctional officers
Institutional Strength, Social Control and Neighborhood Crime Rates
While the systemic model that today's theories of social disorganization are based on acknowledges that neighborhood-based institutions may vary in their ability to contribute to effective social control, relatively little attention has been given to their role in understanding neighborhood rates of crime. At the same time, there is contradictory evidence about the role of social networks, which have been the focus of much research attention. Thi…
Disaggregating Self‐reported Delinquency and Its Implications for Theory
This paper examines the theoretical import of disaggregating self‐reported delinquency data into two constituent parts: (1) prevalence data, which record the proportion of any group involved in crime, reject the decision to participate in crime, and (2) incidence data, which record the frequency of offending within the subgroup of participants, reject the decision to repeat a previously committed offense. The importance of this conceptual distinc…
Examining the effect of work-home conflict on work-related stress among correctional officers
Capable Guardians in the Digital Environment
In this study, we use Routine Activities Theory to explore the role of digital literacy, a measure of guardianship, in the receipt of and response to phishing. Data for the study come from a nationally representative survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons. The analysis results in two conclusions. First, respondents with higher levels of digital literacy report receiving phishing e-mails more often, but report responding t…
Churches as Neighborhood Organizations and Their Relationship to Street and Domestic Violent Crime
Recent developments in both theory and research on neighborhood crime have focused attention on the role of organizations. The current research builds on the existing literature to examine the relationship of churches to neighborhood "street" and domestic violence. The findings suggest that churches are fairly stable neighborhood organizations and not importantly heterogeneous, and neither factor appears to be related to neighborhood crime. Alter…
Specifying the Gender-Class-Delinquency Relationship
Traditionally, research on the class-crime relationship has ignored gender, while much of the past research on the gender-delinquency relationship has ignored class. Both feminist criminologists and social psychologists, such as House (1981), suggest that analyses of class and gender should involve the examination of how these factors shape individual lives. In this paper we explore the role of educational expectations as one factor shaped by bot…
The Relationship Between Self-Control, Witnessing Domestic Violence, and Subsequent Violence
The notion that violence begets violence is well accepted. Less clear are the precise factors that link together child violence and adult violence in an individual's life course. This study examines the role that self-control has in linking together exposure to violence in a child's life and subsequent violence in that individual's life. A telephone survey with 375 residents in Southeastern Virginia was conducted. Attention is given to whether th…
Problem solving as reinforcement in adolescent drug use
The effects of social area characteristics on the relationship between social class and delinquency
Assessing the Domestic Violence Training Needs of Benefits Workers
Media Consumption and Fear of Crime in a Large Chinese City
Objective While empirical research on Chinese people's perceptions of crime has developed encouragingly during the past decade, an important issue regarding correlates of such fear – the media effect, frequently found by the Western literature as a critical source of fear – has largely eluded scholarly attention. This study investigates the effects of consumption of different media types on Chinese fear of crime, while taking a wide range of othe…
Does 'Violent' Mean 'Bad'? Individual Definitions of Violence
People use the word "violent" to describe a wide range of behaviors. When referring to acts of force, however, past research indicates that people often reserve the word "violent" to refer to acts of force that they define as "bad." In the current study we use vignettes to explore variation in people's definitions of a particular instance of the use of force. The findings indicate support for the idea that people reserve the word "violent" to ref…
Disaggregating Self‐reported Delinquency and Its Implications for Theory
This paper examines the theoretical import of disaggregating self‐reported delinquency data into two constituent parts: (1) prevalence data, which record the proportion of any group involved in crime, reject the decision to participate in crime, and (2) incidence data, which record the frequency of offending within the subgroup of participants, reject the decision to repeat a previously committed offense. The importance of this conceptual distinc…
Case processing in the Harris county, Texas criminal justice system
Work-related stress and coping among correctional officers
The effects of social area characteristics on the relationship between social class and delinquency
Specifying the Gender-Class-Delinquency Relationship
Traditionally, research on the class-crime relationship has ignored gender, while much of the past research on the gender-delinquency relationship has ignored class. Both feminist criminologists and social psychologists, such as House (1981), suggest that analyses of class and gender should involve the examination of how these factors shape individual lives. In this paper we explore the role of educational expectations as one factor shaped by bot…
Responding to Troubled Youth
Examining the effect of work-home conflict on work-related stress among correctional officers
Institutional Strength, Social Control and Neighborhood Crime Rates
While the systemic model that today's theories of social disorganization are based on acknowledges that neighborhood-based institutions may vary in their ability to contribute to effective social control, relatively little attention has been given to their role in understanding neighborhood rates of crime. At the same time, there is contradictory evidence about the role of social networks, which have been the focus of much research attention. Thi…
What drives punitive beliefs
Problem solving as reinforcement in adolescent drug use
Criminology/Criminal Justice Representation in the Discipline of Sociology
This paper examines changes in the representation of criminology, as an area of specialization, in the discipline of sociology between 1992 and 2002. Utilizing the ASA Guide to Graduate Programs in Sociology, we note faculty areas of specialization. We expect that criminology will appear more often as a specialty area in 1992 than 2002. All full‐time faculty in U.S. graduate programs in sociology are included in the analyses. We found no signific…
Crime, Social Learning Theory of
The social learning theory of crime basically argues that some people learn to commit crimes through the same process through which others learn to conform. The theory assumes that people are “blank slates” at birth, having neither a motivation to commit crime nor to conform. The theory then asks two questions. First, at the micro‐level, it asks why an individual commits crimes. The answer to this question stresses the process of learning, which …
Collective Efficacy and Crime
As described by Sampson et al. in 1997, collective efficacy describes a neighborhood‐level process that is important to understanding variation in crime rates across neighborhoods. Collective efficacy involves both the willingness of individuals in a neighborhood to work together toward a common goal, such as crime control, and mutual trust. Since the discussion of collective efficacy in the initial publication in 1997, collective efficacy has be…
Race and Crime
The importance of race in the production of criminal conduct has been an issue in American criminology for decades. The fact that minority groups, particularly African Americans, are disproportionately involved as offenders in the criminal justice system in the US is not in dispute. However, there is little agreement among criminologists on what this means. Some argue that the relationship between race and crime is largely the result of the condu…
Race, Class or Neighborhood Context
The primary purpose of this study is to assess the relative effects of race and class, at both individual and neighborhood levels, on public satisfaction with police. Using hierarchical linear modeling on 1,963 individuals nested within 66 neighborhoods, this study analyzes how individual‐level variables, including race, class, age, gender, victimization and contact with police, and neighborhood‐level factors, including racial composition, concen…
Assessing the Domestic Violence Training Needs of Benefits Workers
Criminology and Criminal Justice
Our aim in this work is to: (1) determine how distinct the program structure and curriculum content for graduate education in Criminology was compared to Criminal Justice; and (2) evaluate whether the diversity or consistency of the curriculum in either field varied depending of what type of department was offering the degree. Differences in department titles, hours required for the M.A. degree, program descriptions, curriculum content and curric…
The Relationship Between Self-Control, Witnessing Domestic Violence, and Subsequent Violence
The notion that violence begets violence is well accepted. Less clear are the precise factors that link together child violence and adult violence in an individual's life course. This study examines the role that self-control has in linking together exposure to violence in a child's life and subsequent violence in that individual's life. A telephone survey with 375 residents in Southeastern Virginia was conducted. Attention is given to whether th…
Experiences of Domestic Violence as a Child and Career Choice
Churches as Neighborhood Organizations and Their Relationship to Street and Domestic Violent Crime
Recent developments in both theory and research on neighborhood crime have focused attention on the role of organizations. The current research builds on the existing literature to examine the relationship of churches to neighborhood "street" and domestic violence. The findings suggest that churches are fairly stable neighborhood organizations and not importantly heterogeneous, and neither factor appears to be related to neighborhood crime. Alter…
Crime and Class
Does 'Violent' Mean 'Bad'? Individual Definitions of Violence
People use the word "violent" to describe a wide range of behaviors. When referring to acts of force, however, past research indicates that people often reserve the word "violent" to refer to acts of force that they define as "bad." In the current study we use vignettes to explore variation in people's definitions of a particular instance of the use of force. The findings indicate support for the idea that people reserve the word "violent" to ref…
Crime, Social Learning Theory of
The social learning theory of crime argues that some people learn to commit crimes through the same process through which others learn to conform. The theory assumes that people, at birth, have neither a motivation to commit crime nor to conform. The theory then asks: Why does an individual commit crimes? The answer to this question stresses the process of learning, which involves the interaction between thought or cognition, behavior, and enviro…
Class and Crime
There is a longstanding controversy over the importance of social class in the production of criminal conduct. Some argue that there is a strong relationship between social class and crime, while others say there is little or no relationship. This controversy is often an argument over the the definition and measurement of crime, and the meaning of class
Capable Guardians in the Digital Environment
In this study, we use Routine Activities Theory to explore the role of digital literacy, a measure of guardianship, in the receipt of and response to phishing. Data for the study come from a nationally representative survey conducted by the American Association of Retired Persons. The analysis results in two conclusions. First, respondents with higher levels of digital literacy report receiving phishing e-mails more often, but report responding t…
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