Richard Rosenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 104397 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Rosenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Rosenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | ROSENFELD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri–St. Louis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5007-8290 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 18 |
Studying Crime Trends: Introduction to the Special Issue
The study of change over time in crime rates is as old as criminology itself. A fundamental question about crime rates is whether they are moving up or down. This special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice brings together recent research on trends in crime and related issues, such as arrests, imprisonment, terrorism, and reporting crimes to the police. These papers show that the study of crime trends is alive and well in crimin…
Forecasting Future Crime Rates
Despite its importance for testing criminological theories and informing crime control policy, forecasting crime rates has all but disappeared from criminology. We argue for a resurgence of crime forecasting in the study of crime trends. As an example of the value, as well as the challenges, of forecasting, we engage in a forecasting exercise based on data from New York City. We discuss each of the steps taken to forecast New York’s violent and p…
Crime Dynamics: Why Crime Rates Change Over Time
This Element reviews and augments research on changes over time in U.S. crime rates during the past several decades. Major topics include the data sources for studying crime trends; the relationship between homicide rates and rates of property crime, imprisonment, and firearm availability; trends in crime by sex, race, and age; the relationship between crime trends and economic conditions; crime trends and social institutions; abrupt changes in c…
Homicide, Acquisitive Crime, and Inflation: A City-Level Longitudinal Analysis
Building on research by Rosenfeld et al., citylevel random coefficients panel models reveal a significant association between inflation and homicide rates that is only partially mediated by acquisitive crime. Inflation is more strongly associated with homicide rates in more disadvantaged cities. The impact of inflation on public safety should be considered when setting and evaluating economic policy. Future research should address the mechanisms,…
Crime, quarantine, and the U.S. coronavirus pandemic
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide: An Analysis of Metropolitan Counties, 1980-2010
Recent scholarship has examined changes in the geographic distribution of poor persons in America, but it remains unclear whether high- and low- poverty neighborhoods have become more, or less, spatially clustered over the past several decades. Additionally, while many have argued that growth in both high-poverty spatial clusters and high-low poverty spatial clusters could yield conditions that are conducive to increases in homicide, previous res…
Enforcement trends in the city of St. Louis from 2007 to 2017: Exploring variability in arrests and criminal summonses over time and across communities
The goal of this study is twofold: (a) to describe trends in enforcement activity in the city of St. Louis from 2007 through 2017 and (b) to document community variation in these trends. Five types of enforcement actions are examined: felony, misdemeanor, municipal, and bench warrant arrests and criminal summonses‐in‐lieu of arrest. Results indicate that enforcement activity decreased over the study period, particularly for nonfelony arrests amon…
Did de‐policing cause the increase in homicide rates
Research Summary Widespread protests and demands for accountability in the wake of broadly publicized police killings of unarmed civilians coincided with the marked upturn in homicide levels, especially in large U.S. cities, in 2015. Many observers, including prominent political figures, claimed that de‐policing caused the homicide rate to rise: Fearing increased legal liability and publicity, the police employed less proactive enforcement and ma…
Studying Crime Trends: Normal Science and Exogenous Shocks
The study of crime trends has proceeded along two paths: 1) normal science investigations of slow‐moving and tractable changes in crime rates and explanatory conditions and 2) research encounters with unexpected and abrupt changes in crime rates resulting from exogenous shocks. I draw from my research on the relationship between crime rates and changing macroeconomic conditions to illustrate the pains and pleasures of studying crime trends with t…
Bringing Crime Trends Back into Criminology: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and a Blueprint for Future Inquiry
Rates of street crime have dropped substantially over the past several decades, but important nuances of this decline are underappreciated and the reasons for it remain unclear. We suggest that the narrow conception of change adopted within criminology has hindered the field's capacity to develop a stronger scientific understanding of crime trends. Criminology has focused heavily on within-person changes in crime, devoting comparatively little at…
Effects of Prohibition and Decriminalization on Drug Market Conflict: Comparing Street Dealers, Coffeeshops, and Cafés in Amsterdam
Research Summary To reduce individual and social harms, most nations prohibit certain psychoactive drugs. Yet, prior scholarship has suggested that prohibition reduces illicit drug sellers’ access to law and thereby increases predation against and retaliation by them. No prior study, however, has directly tested that theory by comparing drug sellers of different legal statuses operating in a single place and time. This study analyzes rates of vic…
Trends in Street Crime and the Crime Drop
After rising for nearly three decades, rates of street crime have declined in the United States since the early 1990s. Researchers have attributed the crime swings to changes in the economy, age structure, imprisonment, and drug markets. Recent studies also highlight the role of immigration, abortion policy, and policing. A major challenge for future research on crime trends is to explain why street crime did not increase during the Great Recessi…
Race, Crime, and the Micro‐Ecology of Deadly Force
Research Summary Limitations in data and research on the use of firearms by police officers in the United States preclude sound understanding of the determinants of deadly force in police work. The current study addresses these limitations with detailed case attributes and a microspatial analysis of police shootings in St. Louis, MO, between 2003 and 2012. The results indicate that neither the racial composition of neighborhoods nor their level o…
Police Killings and Sociological Research
This essay serves as a response to Hirschfield's (2015) article, “Lethal Policing: Making Sense of American Exceptionalism,” published in the December 2015 issue of this journal
The Strange Career of Immigration in American Criminological Research
Crime and Inflation in Cross-National Perspective
Inflation belongs in the repertoire of economic indicators used in research on crime patterns. A resurgence of research on the relationship between economic conditions and crime has occurred in recent years, most of it showing crime increases during economic downturns and declines during recoveries. The so-called Great Recession of 2008–9 broke this pattern; crime rates fell or were flat. Historical scholarship on long-term crime increases during…
The Effects of Directed Patrol and Self‐initiated Enforcement on Firearm Violence: A Randomized Controlled Study of Hot Spot Policing
Targeted policing has proven effective in reducing serious crime in areas where it is highly concentrated, but the enforcement mechanisms responsible for the success of so‐called hot spots strategies remain poorly understood. This study evaluates the effects of a 9‐month randomized controlled hot spots field experiment on firearm assaults and robberies in St. Louis, Missouri. Thirty‐two firearm violence hot spots were randomly allocated to two tr…
Crime and the Economy
Two of the world's leading experts explore the connections between crime and economic conditions, covering a range of theoretical and empirical approaches, in a lively and readable manner
Policing Race: The Racial Stratification of Searches in Police Traffic Stops
Research on race effects in police traffic stops is theoretically underdeveloped. In this study, we derive propositions from Donald Black's theory of law to explain the interaction effects of officer and driver race on searches in traffic stops in St. Louis, Missouri. Our citywide results and those for stops in predominantly White communities are generally consistent with the theory: Searches are more likely in stops of Black drivers than in thos…
From mass incarceration to targeted policing: Introduction to the Special Issue
The Big Picture: 2010 Presidential Address to the American Society of Criminology
Microanalysis holds sway over macroanalysis in contemporary criminology. All of criminology would be better off if greater attention were devoted to the big picture—the relationship between crime and the interplay of institutions in the social systems of whole societies. Microlevel researchers often assume that the reduction of individual criminal propensities leads ipso facto to reductions in aggregate crime rates, but the implied connection is …
Sociology: A View From the Diaspora
From the vantage point of criminology, one of sociology's main export subject areas, the present and future of sociology appear a good deal more promising than John Holmwood's essay on the discipline's misfortune would suggest. Sociology remains in high demand by students and faculty hiring remains strong, even in its more critical sub-fields, such as race and ethnicity, sex and gender, and social inequality. Holmwood is correct that sociology is…
The crime drop in comparative perspective: The impact of the economy and imprisonment on American and European burglary rates
Influential statements on recent American crime reductions maintain that the crime drop was confined to the USA. Yet other research has revealed comparable crime decreases in Europe. We suggest that the USA and European crime declines occurred in tandem because they were both brought about by upturns in the economy. In light of US research showing crime reductions resulting from growth in imprisonment, we also examine the possibility that rising …
Recidivism and Its Discontents
Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime
Although illicit drug activity occurs within local communities, past quantitative research on drug markets and violent crime in the United States has been conducted mainly at the city level. The authors use neighborhood-level data from the city of Miami to test hypotheses regarding the effect of drug activity and traditional indicators of social disorganization on rates of aggravated assault and robbery. The results show that drug activity has ro…
Social Capital and Homicide
Despite recent theoretical attention to and its impact on a range of public problems, including crime, few studies have evaluated the relationship between crime rates and levels of social capital across populations. That research gap is due, in part, to the absence of macro-level empirical indicators of social capital. In this article, we measure social capital as a latent construct with aggregated voting and organizational membership data, and s…
Does Immigration Increase Homicide? Negative Evidence From Three Border Cities
Understanding the complex relationship between immigration and crime was once a core concern of American sociology. Yet the extensive post-1965 wave of immigration to the United States has done little to rekindle scholarly interest in this topic, even as politicians and other public figures advocate public policies to restrict immigration as a means of preventing crime. Although both popular accounts and sociological theory predict that immigrati…
Dimensions of Social Capital and Rates of Criminal Homicide
Robert Putnam comprehensively analyzes the multidimensional nature of social capital and makes a persuasive argument for its relevance to various community social problems, including violent crime. However, systematic empirical evaluations of the links between the multiple dimensions of social capital and violence are limited by the lack of adequate measures. Using data from the Social Capital Benchmark Survey, the authors model the relationships…
Exposure Reduction or Retaliation? The Effects of Domestic Violence Resources on Intimate-Partner Homicide
Rates of homicide involving intimate partners have declined substantially over the past 25 years in the United States, while public awareness of and policy responses to domestic violence have grown. To what extent has the social response to domestic violence contributed to the decline in intimate-partner homicide? We evaluate the relationship between intimate-partner homicide and domestic violence prevention resources in 48 large cities between 1…
Race, Crime, and the Micro‐Ecology of Deadly Force
Research Summary Limitations in data and research on the use of firearms by police officers in the United States preclude sound understanding of the determinants of deadly force in police work. The current study addresses these limitations with detailed case attributes and a microspatial analysis of police shootings in St. Louis, MO, between 2003 and 2012. The results indicate that neither the racial composition of neighborhoods nor their level o…
Policing Race: The Racial Stratification of Searches in Police Traffic Stops
Research on race effects in police traffic stops is theoretically underdeveloped. In this study, we derive propositions from Donald Black's theory of law to explain the interaction effects of officer and driver race on searches in traffic stops in St. Louis, Missouri. Our citywide results and those for stops in predominantly White communities are generally consistent with the theory: Searches are more likely in stops of Black drivers than in thos…
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis
This research examines the effects of social context on support for the death penalty using individual-level data from the 1974–98 Gen-eral Social Survey (GSS), which have been linked with aggregate-level data on homicide rates and sociodemographic, political, and economic characteristics. Consistent with instrumental, social threat, and constructionist perspectives, this study finds that residents of areas with higher homicide rates, a larger pr…
Snitching and the Code of the Street
Journal Article Snitching and the Code of the Street Get access Richard Rosenfeld, Richard Rosenfeld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Jacobs, Bruce A. Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard Wright Richard Wright **University of Missouri‐St. Louis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminol…
The Impact of Order‐maintenance Policing on New York City Homicide and Robbery Rates: 1988‐2001
Local officials and national observers have attributed the New York City drop in violent crime during the 1990s to the aggressive enforcement of public order, but relevant research is limited and yields contrasting conclusions regarding the effects of order‐maintenance policing (OMP) on violent crime trends in New York City. The current study investigates the effects of order‐maintenance arrests on precinct‐level robbery and homicide trends in Ne…
The Impact of Economic Conditions on Robbery and Property Crime: The Role of Consumer Sentiment
Despite its long history in criminology, research on the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and rates of common crime remains limited. That is in part because many analysts doubt that any systematic relationship exists and in part because of disagreement with regard to the validity of the indicators typically used to measure economic conditions. We argue in this article that good theoretical reasons exist to expect macroeconomic effect…
Social Disorganization, Drug Market Activity, and Neighborhood Violent Crime
Although illicit drug activity occurs within local communities, past quantitative research on drug markets and violent crime in the United States has been conducted mainly at the city level. The authors use neighborhood-level data from the city of Miami to test hypotheses regarding the effect of drug activity and traditional indicators of social disorganization on rates of aggravated assault and robbery. The results show that drug activity has ro…
Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross- National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory
Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld, Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross- National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory, Social Forces, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Jun., 1997), pp. 1393-1416
Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment
This study probes the interconnections among distrust of government, the historical context, and public support for the death penalty in the United States with survey data for area-identified samples of white and black respondents. Multilevel statistical analyses indicate contrary effects of government distrust on support for the death penalty for blacks and whites, fostering death penalty support among whites and diminishing it among blacks. In …
Did Ceasefire, Compstat , and Exile Reduce Homicide
Research Summary: Police officials across the United States often claimed credit for crime reductions during the 1990s. In this article, we examine homicide trends in three cities that mounted widely publicized policing interventions during the 1990s: Boston's Operation Ceasefire, New York's Compstat, and Richmond, Virginia's Project Exile. Applying growth‐curve analysis to data from the 95 largest U.S. cities and controlling for conditions known…
The crime drop in comparative perspective: The impact of the economy and imprisonment on American and European burglary rates
Influential statements on recent American crime reductions maintain that the crime drop was confined to the USA. Yet other research has revealed comparable crime decreases in Europe. We suggest that the USA and European crime declines occurred in tandem because they were both brought about by upturns in the economy. In light of US research showing crime reductions resulting from growth in imprisonment, we also examine the possibility that rising …
The Effects of Directed Patrol and Self‐initiated Enforcement on Firearm Violence: A Randomized Controlled Study of Hot Spot Policing
Targeted policing has proven effective in reducing serious crime in areas where it is highly concentrated, but the enforcement mechanisms responsible for the success of so‐called hot spots strategies remain poorly understood. This study evaluates the effects of a 9‐month randomized controlled hot spots field experiment on firearm assaults and robberies in St. Louis, Missouri. Thirty‐two firearm violence hot spots were randomly allocated to two tr…
Trend and Deviation in Crime Rates: A Comparison of Ucr and NCS Data for Burglary and Robbery
Trends and year‐to‐year deviations in UCR and NCS data on burglary and robbery are examined for the period 1973 to 1985. We find strong correspondence between year‐to‐year deviations in UCR crime rates and NCS victimization rates for both crime types. The difference between the two data series lies primarily in their contrasting trends, although there is some evidence that trends in UCR and NCS crime rates have been converging in recent years. Ex…
Did de‐policing cause the increase in homicide rates
Research Summary Widespread protests and demands for accountability in the wake of broadly publicized police killings of unarmed civilians coincided with the marked upturn in homicide levels, especially in large U.S. cities, in 2015. Many observers, including prominent political figures, claimed that de‐policing caused the homicide rate to rise: Fearing increased legal liability and publicity, the police employed less proactive enforcement and ma…
Bringing Crime Trends Back into Criminology: A Critical Assessment of the Literature and a Blueprint for Future Inquiry
Rates of street crime have dropped substantially over the past several decades, but important nuances of this decline are underappreciated and the reasons for it remain unclear. We suggest that the narrow conception of change adopted within criminology has hindered the field's capacity to develop a stronger scientific understanding of crime trends. Criminology has focused heavily on within-person changes in crime, devoting comparatively little at…
The Big Picture: 2010 Presidential Address to the American Society of Criminology
Microanalysis holds sway over macroanalysis in contemporary criminology. All of criminology would be better off if greater attention were devoted to the big picture—the relationship between crime and the interplay of institutions in the social systems of whole societies. Microlevel researchers often assume that the reduction of individual criminal propensities leads ipso facto to reductions in aggregate crime rates, but the implied connection is …
The social sources of homicide in different types of societies
Studying Crime Trends: Normal Science and Exogenous Shocks
The study of crime trends has proceeded along two paths: 1) normal science investigations of slow‐moving and tractable changes in crime rates and explanatory conditions and 2) research encounters with unexpected and abrupt changes in crime rates resulting from exogenous shocks. I draw from my research on the relationship between crime rates and changing macroeconomic conditions to illustrate the pains and pleasures of studying crime trends with t…
Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory
This article examines the effects on national homicide rates of political efforts to insulate personal well-being from market forces. Drawing upon recent work by Esping-Andersen and the institutional-anomie theory of crime, we hypothesize that levels of homicide will vary inversely with the “decommodification of labor.” We develop a measure of decommodification based on levels and patterns of welfare expenditures and include this measure in a mul…
Robert Merton's Contributions to the Sociology of Deviance
This paper assesses the theoretical and policy significance of one of Robert Merton's most influential contributions to modern sociology, the anomie or 'strain' theory of deviant behavior. The enduring theoretical significance of strain theory lies in its sociological completeness. Strain theory preserves the interconnection between culture and social structure which is neglected or defined away by cultural and control theories of deviance. In it…
Sociology and Public Policy: The Case of Presidential Commissions
The Hidden Injuries of Class
On the Social Mechanisms of White Supremacy: A Comment and Analysis
Sociology and Public Policy: The Case of Presidential Commissions
Robert Merton's Contributions to the Sociology of Deviance
This paper assesses the theoretical and policy significance of one of Robert Merton's most influential contributions to modern sociology, the anomie or 'strain' theory of deviant behavior. The enduring theoretical significance of strain theory lies in its sociological completeness. Strain theory preserves the interconnection between culture and social structure which is neglected or defined away by cultural and control theories of deviance. In it…
The social sources of homicide in different types of societies
Trend and Deviation in Crime Rates: A Comparison of Ucr and NCS Data for Burglary and Robbery
Trends and year‐to‐year deviations in UCR and NCS data on burglary and robbery are examined for the period 1973 to 1985. We find strong correspondence between year‐to‐year deviations in UCR crime rates and NCS victimization rates for both crime types. The difference between the two data series lies primarily in their contrasting trends, although there is some evidence that trends in UCR and NCS crime rates have been converging in recent years. Ex…
The Ucr‐ncs Relationship Revisited: A Reply to Menard
Discrepant values, correlated measures: Cross-city and longitudinal comparisons of self-reports and urine tests of cocaine use among arrestees
Neighborhoods and Crime: The Dimensions of Effective Community Control. Robert J. Bursik, Jr. , Harold G. Grasmick
Societal Isolation, Violent Norms, and Gender Relations: A Reexamination and Extension of Levinson's Model of Wife Beating
This article reanalyzes cross-cultural data on wife beating using Murdock and White's Standard Cross-Cultural Sample. Geographic isolation, violent norms, and intergender competition over material and intimate resources and rewards emerge as significant sources of cross-cultural variation in spouse abuse. The conclusion, which provides a provocative foundation for future research, is that wife beating is more common in cultures that embrace the u…
The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream
Ethnic organized crime is a phenomenon that has been largely ignored by social scientists and historians, and dismissed as a subject not to be taken too seriously by those researching the mobility patterns of their own ethnic ancestors or current minority newcomers. The Crooked Ladder represents a groundbreaking attempt to describe how some members of ethnic minorities have utilized organized crime as one vehicle of upward mobility, advancing fro…
Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory
This article examines the effects on national homicide rates of political efforts to insulate personal well-being from market forces. Drawing upon recent work by Esping-Andersen and the institutional-anomie theory of crime, we hypothesize that levels of homicide will vary inversely with the “decommodification of labor.” We develop a measure of decommodification based on levels and patterns of welfare expenditures and include this measure in a mul…
Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross- National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory
Steven F. Messner, Richard Rosenfeld, Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross- National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory, Social Forces, Vol. 75, No. 4 (Jun., 1997), pp. 1393-1416
Explaining Recent Trends in U.S. Homicide Rates
Alfred Blumstein, Richard Rosenfeld, Explaining Recent Trends in U.S. Homicide Rates, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 88, No. 4, Symposium: Why Is Crime Decreasing? (Summer, 1998), pp. 1175-1216
The Influence of Crack Cocaine on Robbery, Burglary, and Homicide Rates: A Cross-City, Longitudinal Analysis
After tracking one another closely for decades, the U.S. robbery rate increased and the burglary rate declined in the late 1980s. The authors investigate the impact of crack on this divergence using a two-stage hierarchical linear model that decomposes between-and within-city variation in crime rates for 142 cities. Given its prominence in discussions of crack and criminal violence, homicide offending is also examined. Net of other influences, ci…
Explaining the Decline in Intimate Partner Homicide: The Effects of Changing Domesticity, Women's Status, and Domestic Violence Resources
This article explains the two-decades-long decline in the intimate partner homicide rate in the United States in terms of three factors that reduce exposure to violent relationships: shifts in marriage, divorce, and other factors associated with declining domesticity; the improved economic status of women; and increases in the availability of domestic violence services. The authors' explanation is based on a theory of exposure reduction that help…
Locked in the Poorhouse: Cities, Race, and Poverty in the United States
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Kerner Report Thirty Years Later Chapter 3 Urban Poverty, Welfare Reform, and Child Development Chapter 4 Poverty as a Public Health Issue: Since the Kerner Report of 1968 Chapter 5 The New Urban Poverty: Consequences of the Economic and Social Decline of Inner-City Neighborhoods Chapter 6 Urban Poverty, Race, and the Inner City: The Bitter Fruit of Thirty Years of Neglect Chapter 7 Race, Violence, and Justice…
Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America
American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns. The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It
Journal Article American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns. The Suppressed History of Our Nations Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report It. By Richard N. Rosenfeld. (New York: St. Martin's, 1997. xvi, 988 pp. Cloth, $39.95, ISBN 0-312-15052-0. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-312-19437-4.) Get access Charles E. Clark Charles E. Clark University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …
Crime and the American dream
Symposium
Social Capital and Homicide
Despite recent theoretical attention to and its impact on a range of public problems, including crime, few studies have evaluated the relationship between crime rates and levels of social capital across populations. That research gap is due, in part, to the absence of macro-level empirical indicators of social capital. In this article, we measure social capital as a latent construct with aggregated voting and organizational membership data, and s…
Does Immigration Increase Homicide? Negative Evidence From Three Border Cities
Understanding the complex relationship between immigration and crime was once a core concern of American sociology. Yet the extensive post-1965 wave of immigration to the United States has done little to rekindle scholarly interest in this topic, even as politicians and other public figures advocate public policies to restrict immigration as a means of preventing crime. Although both popular accounts and sociological theory predict that immigrati…
Snitching and the Code of the Street
Journal Article Snitching and the Code of the Street Get access Richard Rosenfeld, Richard Rosenfeld Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bruce A. Jacobs, Bruce A. Jacobs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Richard Wright Richard Wright **University of Missouri‐St. Louis. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminol…
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis
This research examines the effects of social context on support for the death penalty using individual-level data from the 1974–98 Gen-eral Social Survey (GSS), which have been linked with aggregate-level data on homicide rates and sociodemographic, political, and economic characteristics. Consistent with instrumental, social threat, and constructionist perspectives, this study finds that residents of areas with higher homicide rates, a larger pr…
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