Robert F Meier
Biographic Data
| ID | 110459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert F Meier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert F |
| FAMILY NAME | Meier |
| SIGNATURE | MEIER R F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 325 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis
Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative analysis, criminology has had few significant advances in theory. Advances in Criminological Theory is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory…
Deviance, Positivist Theories of
Sociologists define deviance as the violation of a norm that, if discovered, typically results in punishment, scorn, or stigmatization of the offender. Normative violations can include acts, beliefs, and traits or characteristics. This definition opens two radically different though complementary missions or lines of inquiry: those that attempt to explain the causes and consequences of normative violations, and those that explore the dynamics und…
Deviance, Normative Definitions of
Sociologists tend to define deviance in one of two ways: by the negative reactions an act, the expression of a belief, or a physical characteristic generates, or by the violation of the norms or the rules that prevail in a given society or group. Reactivist definitions come in two varieties: the “hard” or strict reactivist definition, which defines deviance as acts, beliefs, or conditions that have already attracted a negative reaction from one o…
Part 1 Crimes
Part I crimes is a series of eight crimes – murder and non‐negligent homicide, rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny‐theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson – about which police agencies report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They have been an important source of information about crime for more than three quarters of a century. They are also an important part of a larger crime reporting program called the Uniform Crime…
Deviance
The concept of deviance is critical to understanding human conduct. Deviance is defined as behavior that violates a norm beyond the tolerance of a group such that a sanction could be applied to the violator. While there are some scholars who define deviance in terms of societal reaction to behavior, it is possible that the normative and reactivist definitions are essentially different aspects of the same understanding. Deviance appears to stem fr…
Index Crime
Index crimes are a series of eight crimes – murder and nonnegligent homicide, forcible rape, aggravated assault, robbery, burglary, larceny‐theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson – about which police agencies report to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). They have been an important source of information about crime for more then three‐quarters of a century. They are also an important part of a larger crime reporting program called the Unifo…
Deviance, Positivist Theories of
Sociologists define deviance as the violation of a norm that, if discovered, typically results in punishment, scorn, or stigmatization of the offender. The normative violation can include acts, beliefs, and traits or characteristics. This definition opens two radically different though complementary missions or lines of inquiry: those that attempt to explain the causes and consequences of normative violations, and those that explore the dynamics …
Deviance, Normative Definitions of
Sociologists tend to define deviance in one of two ways: by the negative reactions an act, the expression of a belief, or a physical characteristic generates, or by the violation of the norms or the rules that prevail in a given society or group. Reactivist definitions come in two varieties: the “hard” or strict reactivist definition, which defines deviance as acts, beliefs, or conditions that have already attracted a negative reaction from one o…
Gender Differences in Rape Reporting
Victimless Crime? Prostitution, Drugs, Homosexuality, Abortion
Sociology of Deviant Behavior
Crime and Its Social Context: Toward an Integrated Theory of Offenders, Victims, and Situations
Crime and its Social Context: Toward an Integrated Theory of Offenders, Victims, and Situations
The Generality of Deviance
Understanding Theories of Criminal Victimization
Current theories of victimization have generated a sizable body of empirical research, mostly within the last two decades. The two most widely known perspectives, lifestyle-exposure and routine activities theories, have been the object of much current thinking and empirical testing, but their maturation has been hampered by many of the same problems impeding theories of criminality. These include inadequate attention to variation by type of crime…
Opportunity, Choice, and Criminal Victimization: A Test of a Theoretical Model
The present article examines the key concepts underlying victimization theories (i.e., exposure, proximity, target attractiveness, guardianship). Measures of each concept are developed and evaluated in terms of their ability to explain individuals' risks of residential burglary, personal theft, and personal violence. Using data from 5,271 respondents in the British Crime Survey, mixed empirical support is found for the structural-choice model und…
Punishment: Rhetoric, Rule, and Practice
Crime and Society
Specifying the Ses/Delinquency Relationship
Theoretical and empirical work concerning socioeconomic status (SES) and delinquency has mainly been devoted, throughout the past decade, to specifying the conditions under which SES and delinquency are likely to be highly related. Three broad categories of conditions, with 12 particular subconditions, have been hypothesized as specifiers of the SES/delinquency relationship. Here, we review the recent empirical literature as it bears on these pot…
Crimewarps: The Future of Crime in America.Georgette Bennett
Discovering Delinquency
Major Forms of Crime
Crime and criminal typologies have not lived up to their 'promises' because criminologists have been unable to agree on the 'best' typology. Meier believes that the time is right to take stock. He has collated articles by ten leading social scientists, who show the great diversity of current criminality. The result is a valuable reference book covering subjects like victimization, criminal careers, theories of criminality, social and legal reacti…
Theoretical methods in criminology
Rethinking what? A comment on Williams's “deterrence and social control: Rethinking the relationship”
Introduction to Criminology
Deterrence as Social Control: The Legal and Extralegal Production of Conformity
Previous work dealing with the deterrent effects of legal sanctions has lacked an appropriate sociological context. This paper adopts a theoretical perspective which views legal threats as only one mechanism which may produce conformity. Our framework, which is consistent with both the social control and social influence literature, emphasizes the possible importance of extralegal factors in the production of conformity. We illustrate the methodo…
Specifying the Ses/Delinquency Relationship
Theoretical and empirical work concerning socioeconomic status (SES) and delinquency has mainly been devoted, throughout the past decade, to specifying the conditions under which SES and delinquency are likely to be highly related. Three broad categories of conditions, with 12 particular subconditions, have been hypothesized as specifiers of the SES/delinquency relationship. Here, we review the recent empirical literature as it bears on these pot…
Gender Differences in Rape Reporting
Constructing a Social Problem: The Press and the Environment
The U. S. daily press might seem to be in a strategic position to function as a claims-maker in the early construction of a social problem. But in the case of the manufacture of environmentalism as a social reality in the 1960's and 70's, the press was fairly slow to adopt a holistic environmental lexicon. Its reporting of environmental news even now only partially reflects concepts promoted by positive environmental claims-makers, such as planet…
Perspectives on the Concept of Social Control
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Understanding Theories of Criminal Victimization
Current theories of victimization have generated a sizable body of empirical research, mostly within the last two decades. The two most widely known perspectives, lifestyle-exposure and routine activities theories, have been the object of much current thinking and empirical testing, but their maturation has been hampered by many of the same problems impeding theories of criminality. These include inadequate attention to variation by type of crime…
Sanctions, Peers, and Deviance: Preliminary Models Of A Social Control Process
Research on sanction threat-behavior relationships has suffered because investigators, using cross-sectional data, have failed to meet methodological requirements concerning the causal order of variables and the statistical control of other relevant variables. We estimate several models of a social-control process that meet these requirements, using longitudinal panel data from a sample of 265 adolescents. Our models consider the relationships am…
Norms, Theories of Punishment, and Publicly Preferred Penalties for Crimes
Despite growing interest in publicly preferred punishments for criminal offenses, investigators have paid relatively little attention to the criteria used by the public to determine appropriate punishments for different offenses. Classical theories of punishment and sociological conceptions of norms suggest two possible criteria: the perceived frequency and seriousness of offenses. Data from four independent sample surveys of the adult residents …
Level of Occupational Aspiration: An Empirical Analysis
Data from 34,118 American high school students were used to determine patterns of responses (factor structures, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations) to an indicator of level of occupational aspiration (LOA). Comparable analyses were performed on the total group and sixteen mutually exclusive and exhaustive subsamples cross-classified by sex, lower and higher socioeconomic status (SES), and grade in high school (9-12). LOA appears to be …
Norms and the study of deviance: A proposed research strategy
The study of deviance seems to have low prestige within sociology and does so at least in part because students of deviance have not shown how the study of deviance bears on wider social processes and conditions. Much of this might possibly be avoided by concentrating on the concepts that are of central concern to the study of deviance, for example, norm. Although norms constitute the central boundary separating normativist and reactivist concept…
Crime as Hazard: Perceptions of Risk and Seriousness
The study of crime suffers from an inattention to the social consequences of criminal acts. Conceiving crimes within the larger context of “hazard,” data are reported on the relative seriousness of conventional and white‐collar crimes, as well as other hazards, using a sample of Washington state respondents. The results indicate that there is an inverse relationship between the perceived likelihood of a hazard and its seriousness. Generally, the …
The Generality of Deviance
Correlates of deterrence: Problems of theory and method
Looking Backward and Forward Criminologists on Criminology as a Career
Rethinking what? A comment on Williams's “deterrence and social control: Rethinking the relationship”
Crime in the Suites
Different Criminologies: A Survey of Recent Introductory Criminology Textbooks
The new criminology: For a social theory of deviance
Level of Occupational Aspiration: An Empirical Analysis
Data from 34,118 American high school students were used to determine patterns of responses (factor structures, reliabilities, means, and standard deviations) to an indicator of level of occupational aspiration (LOA). Comparable analyses were performed on the total group and sixteen mutually exclusive and exhaustive subsamples cross-classified by sex, lower and higher socioeconomic status (SES), and grade in high school (9-12). LOA appears to be …
Victimology: A new focus
Is Criminology a Policy Science
The question posed in the title is discussed in view of selected evidence from the criminological literature. Criminology's status as a policy science, based largely on the ability of the discipline to present coherent, empirically-based recommendations for the reduction of crime, is evaluated. The review leads to disappointing conclusions with respect to the usefulness to policymakers of the present knowledge base in criminology
Deterrence as Social Control: The Legal and Extralegal Production of Conformity
Previous work dealing with the deterrent effects of legal sanctions has lacked an appropriate sociological context. This paper adopts a theoretical perspective which views legal threats as only one mechanism which may produce conformity. Our framework, which is consistent with both the social control and social influence literature, emphasizes the possible importance of extralegal factors in the production of conformity. We illustrate the methodo…
Looking Backward and Forward Criminologists on Criminology as a Career
Historical Approaches to Crime: Research Strategies and Issues
Correlates of deterrence: Problems of theory and method
Constructing a Social Problem: The Press and the Environment
The U. S. daily press might seem to be in a strategic position to function as a claims-maker in the early construction of a social problem. But in the case of the manufacture of environmentalism as a social reality in the 1960's and 70's, the press was fairly slow to adopt a holistic environmental lexicon. Its reporting of environmental news even now only partially reflects concepts promoted by positive environmental claims-makers, such as planet…
Crime in the Suites
Different Criminologies: A Survey of Recent Introductory Criminology Textbooks
The Arrested Development of Criminological Theory
A Measure of Justice: An Empirical Study of Changes in the California Penal Code, 1955-1971
Social Sources of Delinquency: An Appraisal of Analytic Models.Ruth Rosner Kornhauser
Criminology and the Study of Deviance
Concepts, conceptions, and critics
The author responds to the various reactions to his original article on the concept of deviant behavior (see p. 1). Some points of the original (empirical) proposal are clarified; the necessity for a clear concept of norm is observed
Norms and the study of deviance: A proposed research strategy
The study of deviance seems to have low prestige within sociology and does so at least in part because students of deviance have not shown how the study of deviance bears on wider social processes and conditions. Much of this might possibly be avoided by concentrating on the concepts that are of central concern to the study of deviance, for example, norm. Although norms constitute the central boundary separating normativist and reactivist concept…
Perspectives on the Concept of Social Control
The rapid growth of the platform economy has provoked scholarly discussion of its consequences for the nature of work and employment. We identify four major themes in the literature on platform work and the underlying metaphors associated with each. ...Read More
Norms, Theories of Punishment, and Publicly Preferred Penalties for Crimes
Despite growing interest in publicly preferred punishments for criminal offenses, investigators have paid relatively little attention to the criteria used by the public to determine appropriate punishments for different offenses. Classical theories of punishment and sociological conceptions of norms suggest two possible criteria: the perceived frequency and seriousness of offenses. Data from four independent sample surveys of the adult residents …
Sanctions Peers, and Deviance: Preliminary Models Of A Social Control Process
Sanctions, Peers, and Deviance: Preliminary Models Of A Social Control Process
Research on sanction threat-behavior relationships has suffered because investigators, using cross-sectional data, have failed to meet methodological requirements concerning the causal order of variables and the statistical control of other relevant variables. We estimate several models of a social-control process that meet these requirements, using longitudinal panel data from a sample of 265 adolescents. Our models consider the relationships am…
Theoretical methods in criminology
Rethinking what? A comment on Williams's “deterrence and social control: Rethinking the relationship”
Introduction to Criminology
Abolition of the Insanity Plea in Idaho: A Case Study
The abolition of the insanity defense in Idaho in 1982 was the first time in recent years that an American jurisdiction had eliminated that traditional, common-law defense. Drawing upon questionnaire responses from legislators, prosecuting attorneys, and psychiatrists, we examine the circumstances surrounding this precedent-setting legislation. We conclude that the conservative ethic stressing personal responsibility for conduct, legal and illega…
Criminology (35 works) · Sociology (35 works) · Psychology (33 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (30 works) · Political science (23 works) · Social Psychology (20 works) · Computer Science (18 works) · Law (14 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works)