David Giacopassi
Biographic Data
| ID | 177125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Giacopassi |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Giacopassi |
| SIGNATURE | GIACOPASSI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Memphis |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Slavery's Enduring Legacy: Executions in Modern America
Using data on post-Greggexecutions and death sentences, we explore the previously observed, but not well understood, relationship between slavery and the death penalty. We classify modern states into categories focused on their jurisdictional law and practice of slavery circa 1860. Our analyses reveal that the relationship between slavery and modern executions is stronger even than previously recognized, with 90.6% of post-Greggexecutions occurri…
Motives and Methods of Under-Age Casino Gamblers
Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts
The authors reviewed 18 criminal justice and 13 policing texts published since 2000 to explore the amount of coverage these texts give to the relationship between slavery, slave patrols, and the early American criminal justice system. To provide a basis for comparison, 14 introductory texts published in the 1970s were also reviewed. We found coverage of topics related to slavery to be nearly nonexistent in the 1970s texts and to be perfunctory in…
Changes in Suicide and Divorce in New Casino Jurisdictions
The Tennessee Slave Code: A Legal Antecedent to Inequities in Modern Capital Cases
Numerous studies have found evidence of racial discrimination in the imposition of the death penalty, particularly in the South. In this article, the authors posit that the legal antecedents of modern discrimination in capital cases are found in the codified rules that governed slavery. Using the capital punishment provisions of the 1858 Slave Code of Tennessee, the biases inherent in the laws of the Old South are documented. The discriminatory p…
I Hope Someone Murders Your Mother: An Exploration of Extreme Support for the Death Penalty
Although general support for the death penalty is decreasing, a segment of the pro-death penalty population continues to support capital punishment with great vehemence. Extreme support for the death penalty is expressed through angry, confrontational, and sometimes threatening verbal attacks against condemned prisoners and opponents of capital punishment. Expressions of this support are especially strong around the time of highly publicized exec…
Community Assessment of the Effects of Casinos on Quality of Life
Perceptions of the Extent of Problem Gambling Within New Casino Communities
A minor concern? underage casino gambling and the law
This article compared rates of underage casino gambling by students in two different regions of the country. Questionnaires were completed by 420 students at the University of Memphis and 415 students at the University of Nevada, Reno. Although Reno has long had casinos, Memphis residents have had access to casinos only since 1992 with the legalization of casino gambling in nearby Mississippi. The results indicate that 24.2% of underage Memphis r…
Broken windows, crumpled fenders, and crime
Attitudes of Community Leaders in New Casino Jurisdictions Regarding Casino Gambling's Effects on Crime and Quality of Life
Rates of Traffic Fatalities and Homicides
Using data for 50 states (1980–1996), regression analyses with control for population size showed homicide rates predicted traffic fatality rates and traffic fatalities predicted homicide rates. Population size was inversely correlated with traffic fatality rates and directly with homicide rates, supporting prior work of Lester and of Spivak and suggesting further work on incivilities is desirable
An Analysis of the Relationship of Alcohol to Casino Gambling Among College Students
College Student Perceptions of Crime and Casino Gambling: A Preliminary Investigation
One million and counting: Students' estimates of the annual number of homicides in the U.S
We administered questionaires to 323 introductory students and 45 seniors majoring in criminal justice to determine how well students grasp the magnitude of the crime problem relative to other mortality conditions. Almost 50 percent of the introductory students estimated that 250,000 or more murders were committed each year in the United States; 15 percent estimated that one million or more murders occurred annually. Senior criminal justice major…
The effects of emergency medical care on the homicide rate: Some additional evidence
Per Capita Alcohol Consumption and Crime: An Unexamined Relationship
On a global basis, alcohol has been recognized to be associated with all forms of human problems. A thorough review of the literature on crime and alcohol-related problems reveals a paucity of empirical studies of the relationship of alcohol consumption to crime rates. This study examines that relationship and suggests what might be additional analytical refinements which should be made to further specify the relationship of alcohol consumption t…
Limitations of assessing attitudinal change among students of criminal justice
Establishing causal relationships is an elusive process for criminal justice researchers. Elimination of rival causal factors tends to be the most problematic area. This practice note first describes the methodology of a recent study conducted by the authors and then elaborates on the methodological problems inherent in the search to establish a causal relationship between course work and attitudinal change among students enrolled in introductory…
Gender and racial differences in the acceptance of rape myths within a college population
A Comparison of Racial Attitudes: Right of Police To Strike
A number of studies have focused on public perceptions of police and have concluded that black citizens have lower evaluations of police than their white counterparts. A review of the recent literature reveals that few studies have compared black and white respondents on attitudes toward strike activity among police despite the growing militancy of public employees. In this paper, the significant relationship uncovered between race and attitudes …
Medical and social work students' perceptions of deviant conditions and sick role incumbency
Gender and racial differences in the acceptance of rape myths within a college population
Community Assessment of the Effects of Casinos on Quality of Life
Broken windows, crumpled fenders, and crime
I Hope Someone Murders Your Mother: An Exploration of Extreme Support for the Death Penalty
Although general support for the death penalty is decreasing, a segment of the pro-death penalty population continues to support capital punishment with great vehemence. Extreme support for the death penalty is expressed through angry, confrontational, and sometimes threatening verbal attacks against condemned prisoners and opponents of capital punishment. Expressions of this support are especially strong around the time of highly publicized exec…
The effects of emergency medical care on the homicide rate: Some additional evidence
Medical and social work students' perceptions of deviant conditions and sick role incumbency
Medical and social work students' perceptions of deviant conditions and sick role incumbency
A Comparison of Racial Attitudes: Right of Police To Strike
A number of studies have focused on public perceptions of police and have concluded that black citizens have lower evaluations of police than their white counterparts. A review of the recent literature reveals that few studies have compared black and white respondents on attitudes toward strike activity among police despite the growing militancy of public employees. In this paper, the significant relationship uncovered between race and attitudes …
Gender and racial differences in the acceptance of rape myths within a college population
Limitations of assessing attitudinal change among students of criminal justice
Establishing causal relationships is an elusive process for criminal justice researchers. Elimination of rival causal factors tends to be the most problematic area. This practice note first describes the methodology of a recent study conducted by the authors and then elaborates on the methodological problems inherent in the search to establish a causal relationship between course work and attitudinal change among students enrolled in introductory…
Per Capita Alcohol Consumption and Crime: An Unexamined Relationship
On a global basis, alcohol has been recognized to be associated with all forms of human problems. A thorough review of the literature on crime and alcohol-related problems reveals a paucity of empirical studies of the relationship of alcohol consumption to crime rates. This study examines that relationship and suggests what might be additional analytical refinements which should be made to further specify the relationship of alcohol consumption t…
The effects of emergency medical care on the homicide rate: Some additional evidence
College Student Perceptions of Crime and Casino Gambling: A Preliminary Investigation
One million and counting: Students' estimates of the annual number of homicides in the U.S
We administered questionaires to 323 introductory students and 45 seniors majoring in criminal justice to determine how well students grasp the magnitude of the crime problem relative to other mortality conditions. Almost 50 percent of the introductory students estimated that 250,000 or more murders were committed each year in the United States; 15 percent estimated that one million or more murders occurred annually. Senior criminal justice major…
An Analysis of the Relationship of Alcohol to Casino Gambling Among College Students
Attitudes of Community Leaders in New Casino Jurisdictions Regarding Casino Gambling's Effects on Crime and Quality of Life
Rates of Traffic Fatalities and Homicides
Using data for 50 states (1980–1996), regression analyses with control for population size showed homicide rates predicted traffic fatality rates and traffic fatalities predicted homicide rates. Population size was inversely correlated with traffic fatality rates and directly with homicide rates, supporting prior work of Lester and of Spivak and suggesting further work on incivilities is desirable
Perceptions of the Extent of Problem Gambling Within New Casino Communities
A minor concern? underage casino gambling and the law
This article compared rates of underage casino gambling by students in two different regions of the country. Questionnaires were completed by 420 students at the University of Memphis and 415 students at the University of Nevada, Reno. Although Reno has long had casinos, Memphis residents have had access to casinos only since 1992 with the legalization of casino gambling in nearby Mississippi. The results indicate that 24.2% of underage Memphis r…
Broken windows, crumpled fenders, and crime
I Hope Someone Murders Your Mother: An Exploration of Extreme Support for the Death Penalty
Although general support for the death penalty is decreasing, a segment of the pro-death penalty population continues to support capital punishment with great vehemence. Extreme support for the death penalty is expressed through angry, confrontational, and sometimes threatening verbal attacks against condemned prisoners and opponents of capital punishment. Expressions of this support are especially strong around the time of highly publicized exec…
Community Assessment of the Effects of Casinos on Quality of Life
The Tennessee Slave Code: A Legal Antecedent to Inequities in Modern Capital Cases
Numerous studies have found evidence of racial discrimination in the imposition of the death penalty, particularly in the South. In this article, the authors posit that the legal antecedents of modern discrimination in capital cases are found in the codified rules that governed slavery. Using the capital punishment provisions of the 1858 Slave Code of Tennessee, the biases inherent in the laws of the Old South are documented. The discriminatory p…
Changes in Suicide and Divorce in New Casino Jurisdictions
Motives and Methods of Under-Age Casino Gamblers
Ignoring the Past: Coverage of Slavery and Slave Patrols in Criminal Justice Texts
The authors reviewed 18 criminal justice and 13 policing texts published since 2000 to explore the amount of coverage these texts give to the relationship between slavery, slave patrols, and the early American criminal justice system. To provide a basis for comparison, 14 introductory texts published in the 1970s were also reviewed. We found coverage of topics related to slavery to be nearly nonexistent in the 1970s texts and to be perfunctory in…
Slavery's Enduring Legacy: Executions in Modern America
Using data on post-Greggexecutions and death sentences, we explore the previously observed, but not well understood, relationship between slavery and the death penalty. We classify modern states into categories focused on their jurisdictional law and practice of slavery circa 1860. Our analyses reveal that the relationship between slavery and modern executions is stronger even than previously recognized, with 90.6% of post-Greggexecutions occurri…
Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Demography (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Gambling Behavior and Treatments (7 works)