Glenn L Pierce

Biographic Data

ID1493391
NAMEGlenn L Pierce
GIVEN NAMESGlenn L
FAMILY NAMEPierce
SIGNATUREPIERCE G L
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS180
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX4

  • The opportunity costs of the politics of division and disinformation in the context of the twenty-first century security deficit

    Open AccessGlenn Pierce, Glenn L Pierce et al.ARTICLESN Social Sciences2022

    In the context of increasingly dynamic global threats to security, which exceed current institutional capabilities to address them, this paper examines the influence of actors with insular interests who seek to leverage anxieties, grievances and disinformation for their own advantage at the expense of the public. Such actors have a common interest in political dysfunction as a means of reducing institutional controls and oversite and use combinat…

  • Interpreting the Empirical Evidence on Illegal Gun Market Dynamics

    Open AccessAnthony A Braga, Garen J Wintemute et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2012Cited by: 25References: 1

  • Reexamining Social Disorganization Theory Using Calls to the Police as a Measure of Crime

    Open AccessBarbara D Warner, Glenn Pierce et al.ARTICLECriminology1993Cited by: 96References: 32

    This study examines social disorganization theory using calls to the police during 1980 in 60 Boston neighborhoods. These data, based on complainant reports of crime rather than official police reports, allow further investigation of differences in findings based on victimization data and official crime data. The rates of assault, robbery, and burglary are regressed on poverty, mobility, racial heterogeneity, family disruption, and structural den…

  • Legal Intervention in Civil Commitment: The Impact of Broadened Commitment Criteria

    Open AccessMary Durham, MARY L DURHAM et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1986Cited by: 1References: 7

    Recent legal changes in Washington State have broadened the grave-disability criterion for civil commitment of the mentally ill. Analysis of data from state mental hospitals and from records of commitment authorities in Washington's two largest counties revealed that, while there was an increase in the number of involuntary hospitalizations immediately before and after the changes in law, there was a virtual disappearance of voluntary patients in…

  • Legal Homicide: Death as Punishment in America, 1964-1982

    Charles R Tittle, William J Bowers et al.ARTICLEContemporary Sociology A Journal…1985

  • Race and Prosecutorial Discretion in Homicide Cases

    Open AccessMichael L Radelet, Glenn Pierce et al.ARTICLELaw & Society Review1985Cited by: 46References: 5

    This paper examines the cases of 1017 homicide defendants in Florida. Two main data sources are used: the police department's classification of the case, as found in the FBI's Supplemental Homicide Reports, and the prosecutor's classification, as determined by court records. Each data set characterizes the homicide as involving felonious circumstances, possible felonious circumstances, or nonfelonious circumstances. Attention is focused on cases …

  • The Bartley-Fox Gun Law's Short-Term Impact on Crime in Boston

    Open AccessGlenn Pierce, Glenn L Pierce et al.ARTICLEThe Annals of the American…1981Cited by: 12References: 1

    By making the illicit carrying of a firearm punishable with a one-year "mandatory" prison term, the Massachusetts (Bartley-Fox) gun law intervenes at what ap pears to be a critical juncture—from the standpoint of deterrent effectiveness and political feasibility—in the chain of decision that leads from the acquisition of a gun to its use in a crime. Drawing on FBI crime data, we employed interrupted time series techniques and multiple control gro…