Mike Males
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mike Males |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mike |
| FAMILY NAME | Males |
| SIGNATURE | MALES M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Major Gun Death Declines in New York, California, and Texas
Lessons From Markey et al. (2015) and Bushman et al. (2015): Sensationalism and Integrity in Media Research
This article presents a response to the comment by B. J. Bushman, D. Romer, and P. E. Jamieson (2015). This reply addresses 2 issues raised by the commenters. First, they claim they and others have not made sensationalistic statements linking violent media to horrific acts of real-world violence. In response, we supply numerous examples of sensationalistic statements made by them and others. Second, they claim they did not expect violence in film…
Age, Poverty, Homicide, and Gun Homicide: Is Young Age or Poverty Level the Key Issue
Traditional theories of “adolescent risk taking” have not been validated against recent research indicating that youthful traffic crash, violent crime, felony crime, and firearms mortality rates reflect young people’s low-socio-economic status (SES) compared with older adults’, not young age. Aside from a small number of recent, conflicting studies, the literature gap on this key issue remains. The present study examines the 54,094 homicide death…
Teenagers’ High Arrest Rates: Features of Young Age or Youth Poverty
The association of more crime with youthful age is widely accepted in social science. However, a literature search revealed no studies of the age-crime relationship that controlled for young ages’ economic disadvantage. This research gap is addressed using the California Criminal Justice Statistics Center’s arrest detail and Census poverty statistics for 2010. When poverty rates were controlled, younger and older ages’ violence disparities largel…
Authors’ Rejoinder to Respondents (Shulman, Steinberg, & Piquero, 2013)
Respondents, in “A Mistaken Account of the Age-Crime Curve: Response to Males and Brown,” dispute our finding that virtually all of the discrepancy in violent crime rates between adolescents/emerging adults versus older adults is explained not by young age per se but by higher poverty levels among the young. Our rejoinder argues that Respondents misunderstand our method, raise “ecological fallacy” objections that do not apply to our population-le…
Is Jumping off the Roof Always a Bad Idea? A Rejoinder on Risk Taking and the Adolescent Brain
Three respondents provide cogent commentary on the author’s first article, “Does the Adolescent Brain Make Risk Taking Inevitable? A Skeptical Appraisal.” Two respondent papers argue that the author mischaracterized valid and useful developmental and biological arguments affirming adolescents’ singular risk propensities; the third response raises innovative biological perspectives suggesting unique adolescent brain abilities that strongly challen…
Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City – By Steve Macek
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
A Failure of Good Intentions: An Analysis of Juvenile Justice Reform in San Francisco during the 1990s
This study examines the impact of juvenile justice on San Francisco's youth detention population during the 1990s. Because successful juvenile justice reform is measured by reductions in both detention populations and the disproportionate impact on minority youth, this study attempts to evaluate two closely related issues: (1) Did San Francisco juvenile justice reform lead to reductions in juvenile detention bookings? (2) Did San Francisco juveni…
California trends reveal teenage violence myths
California trends reveal teenage violence myths. M MalesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1123 Published Online: October 07, 2011
"Adultpartners and Adult Contexts of "Teenage Sex
The ages of fathers in California adolescent births, 1993
Officals, media coverage and prevention programs have assumed that fathers of infants born to US school-age (10-18 years old) mothers are school-age peers. This study analyzes fathers' ages in 46 500 California births to school-age mothers in 1993, for which 85% of the fathers' ages were stated and whose distribution is similar to that of less complete national samples. Adult, postschool men father two thirds of the infants born to school-age mot…
Adult liaison in the “epidemic” of “teenage” birth, pregnancy, and venereal disease
The “epidemics” of “teenage” pregnancy and venereal disease, in professional literature and popular media, are typically ascribed to irresponsible behavior on the part of American teenagers. Yet, analysis of births, pregnancies, and STD cases among teenage girls by age of male partner indicates that 70% of the male partners are over the age of 20, and 15% are over age 25. Further, the pattern of teenage childbearing remains a constant factor of a…
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
Teenagers’ High Arrest Rates: Features of Young Age or Youth Poverty
The association of more crime with youthful age is widely accepted in social science. However, a literature search revealed no studies of the age-crime relationship that controlled for young ages’ economic disadvantage. This research gap is addressed using the California Criminal Justice Statistics Center’s arrest detail and Census poverty statistics for 2010. When poverty rates were controlled, younger and older ages’ violence disparities largel…
The ages of fathers in California adolescent births, 1993
Officals, media coverage and prevention programs have assumed that fathers of infants born to US school-age (10-18 years old) mothers are school-age peers. This study analyzes fathers' ages in 46 500 California births to school-age mothers in 1993, for which 85% of the fathers' ages were stated and whose distribution is similar to that of less complete national samples. Adult, postschool men father two thirds of the infants born to school-age mot…
Adult liaison in the “epidemic” of “teenage” birth, pregnancy, and venereal disease
The “epidemics” of “teenage” pregnancy and venereal disease, in professional literature and popular media, are typically ascribed to irresponsible behavior on the part of American teenagers. Yet, analysis of births, pregnancies, and STD cases among teenage girls by age of male partner indicates that 70% of the male partners are over the age of 20, and 15% are over age 25. Further, the pattern of teenage childbearing remains a constant factor of a…
Is Jumping off the Roof Always a Bad Idea? A Rejoinder on Risk Taking and the Adolescent Brain
Three respondents provide cogent commentary on the author’s first article, “Does the Adolescent Brain Make Risk Taking Inevitable? A Skeptical Appraisal.” Two respondent papers argue that the author mischaracterized valid and useful developmental and biological arguments affirming adolescents’ singular risk propensities; the third response raises innovative biological perspectives suggesting unique adolescent brain abilities that strongly challen…
A Failure of Good Intentions: An Analysis of Juvenile Justice Reform in San Francisco during the 1990s
This study examines the impact of juvenile justice on San Francisco's youth detention population during the 1990s. Because successful juvenile justice reform is measured by reductions in both detention populations and the disproportionate impact on minority youth, this study attempts to evaluate two closely related issues: (1) Did San Francisco juvenile justice reform lead to reductions in juvenile detention bookings? (2) Did San Francisco juveni…
"Adultpartners and Adult Contexts of "Teenage Sex
Adult liaison in the “epidemic” of “teenage” birth, pregnancy, and venereal disease
The “epidemics” of “teenage” pregnancy and venereal disease, in professional literature and popular media, are typically ascribed to irresponsible behavior on the part of American teenagers. Yet, analysis of births, pregnancies, and STD cases among teenage girls by age of male partner indicates that 70% of the male partners are over the age of 20, and 15% are over age 25. Further, the pattern of teenage childbearing remains a constant factor of a…
The ages of fathers in California adolescent births, 1993
Officals, media coverage and prevention programs have assumed that fathers of infants born to US school-age (10-18 years old) mothers are school-age peers. This study analyzes fathers' ages in 46 500 California births to school-age mothers in 1993, for which 85% of the fathers' ages were stated and whose distribution is similar to that of less complete national samples. Adult, postschool men father two thirds of the infants born to school-age mot…
California trends reveal teenage violence myths
California trends reveal teenage violence myths. M MalesCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.88.7.1123 Published Online: October 07, 2011
"Adultpartners and Adult Contexts of "Teenage Sex
A Failure of Good Intentions: An Analysis of Juvenile Justice Reform in San Francisco during the 1990s
This study examines the impact of juvenile justice on San Francisco's youth detention population during the 1990s. Because successful juvenile justice reform is measured by reductions in both detention populations and the disproportionate impact on minority youth, this study attempts to evaluate two closely related issues: (1) Did San Francisco juvenile justice reform lead to reductions in juvenile detention bookings? (2) Did San Francisco juveni…
Urban Nightmares: The Media, the Right, and the Moral Panic over the City – By Steve Macek
Fast Cars, Cool Rides: The Accelerating World of Youth and Their Cars
Is Jumping off the Roof Always a Bad Idea? A Rejoinder on Risk Taking and the Adolescent Brain
Three respondents provide cogent commentary on the author’s first article, “Does the Adolescent Brain Make Risk Taking Inevitable? A Skeptical Appraisal.” Two respondent papers argue that the author mischaracterized valid and useful developmental and biological arguments affirming adolescents’ singular risk propensities; the third response raises innovative biological perspectives suggesting unique adolescent brain abilities that strongly challen…
Teenagers’ High Arrest Rates: Features of Young Age or Youth Poverty
The association of more crime with youthful age is widely accepted in social science. However, a literature search revealed no studies of the age-crime relationship that controlled for young ages’ economic disadvantage. This research gap is addressed using the California Criminal Justice Statistics Center’s arrest detail and Census poverty statistics for 2010. When poverty rates were controlled, younger and older ages’ violence disparities largel…
Authors’ Rejoinder to Respondents (Shulman, Steinberg, & Piquero, 2013)
Respondents, in “A Mistaken Account of the Age-Crime Curve: Response to Males and Brown,” dispute our finding that virtually all of the discrepancy in violent crime rates between adolescents/emerging adults versus older adults is explained not by young age per se but by higher poverty levels among the young. Our rejoinder argues that Respondents misunderstand our method, raise “ecological fallacy” objections that do not apply to our population-le…
Lessons From Markey et al. (2015) and Bushman et al. (2015): Sensationalism and Integrity in Media Research
This article presents a response to the comment by B. J. Bushman, D. Romer, and P. E. Jamieson (2015). This reply addresses 2 issues raised by the commenters. First, they claim they and others have not made sensationalistic statements linking violent media to horrific acts of real-world violence. In response, we supply numerous examples of sensationalistic statements made by them and others. Second, they claim they did not expect violence in film…
Age, Poverty, Homicide, and Gun Homicide: Is Young Age or Poverty Level the Key Issue
Traditional theories of “adolescent risk taking” have not been validated against recent research indicating that youthful traffic crash, violent crime, felony crime, and firearms mortality rates reflect young people’s low-socio-economic status (SES) compared with older adults’, not young age. Aside from a small number of recent, conflicting studies, the literature gap on this key issue remains. The present study examines the 54,094 homicide death…
Major Gun Death Declines in New York, California, and Texas
Sociology (12 works) · Demography (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Political science (7 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Environmental health (4 works) · Injury prevention (4 works)