A R Gillis
Biographic Data
| ID | 20256 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A R Gillis |
| GIVEN NAMES | A R |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillis |
| SIGNATURE | GILLIS A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Western Ontario |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 386 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Institutional Dynamics and Dangerous Classes: Reading, Writing, and Arrest in Nineteenth-Century France
This research shows that the rise of public education in nineteenth-century France was associated with a declining rate of serious crime in the general population. The study finds that although a moral curriculum and the discipline of the classroom were intended to produce conformity, it was actually literacy that was consistently associated with declining rates of both serious crime crimes of violence and property offenses. In the case of violen…
So Long as They Both Shall Live: Marital Dissolution and the Decline of Domestic Homicide in France, 1852-1909
This article suggests that the growth of European states, the decline of familism, and the rise of individualism generated the institutionalization of judicial separation and divorce. Time-series analyses of France (1852-1908) reveal a persistent negative association between separation/divorce and domestic homicide, especially among males. Neither indicators of economic change nor trends in the wider pattern of violent crime account for the relat…
Literacy and the civilization of violence in 19th-century France
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
Structural Criminology
Clarifying and Extending Power-Control Theory
This article responds to Jensen and Thompson's analysis of power control theory by placing the analysis within the context of Jensen's previous work and offering new findings from a wealthy Canadian community. This new analysis further contextualizes the theory by operationalizing, patriarchy in terms of a direct and parsimonious measure of marital power. Jensen and Thompson's analysis notwithstanding, the core of the power-control model performs…
Deterrence and Amplification of Juvenile Delinquency by Police Contact
This research examines the relationship between deviance and control. Deterrence theory suggests that the relationship is negative, but societal reaction arguments view it as positive, since control may amplify rather than deter deviance. We suggest that both viewpoints are credible. Females may be more susceptible to deterrence because of a tendency to be risk aversive, while amplification effects are more likely with males, because they are mor…
Crime and State Surveillance in Nineteenth-Century France
Historians and other social scientists argue that cultural change and increasing civility generated a five-century decline in rates of violent crime. This study presents a structural perspective that indicates that, as emerging nation-states consolidated power, they also extended surveillance, and this deterred cirme. The proposition is tested in France, between 1865 and 1913, where rates of major crimes declined and minor offenses increased as s…
Feminist Scholarship, Relational and Instrumental Control, and a Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper incorporates an emphasis placed on relational processes in contemporary feminist scholarship, and in so doing extends the development of a power-control theory of gender and delinquency. Feminist scholarship emphasizes that relational processes involving shared intimacy, mutual understanding, caring and other kinds of interpersonal atTect are more characteristic of women than men. However, there is debate among feminist scholars, such …
Crime, punishment, and historical perspectives
Hill, P. 1972 Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977 Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982 Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausaland (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Huber, J. 1986 Trends in gender stratification, 1970-1985. Sociological Forum 1:476-495. Kline, M. 1980 Mathematics: Loss of Cert…
Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper extends a power-control theory of common delinquent behavior developed by Hagan, Gillis, and Simpson in 1985. It does so by bringing the class analysis of delinquency into the household, using a new model of class relations based on the relative positions of husbands and wives in the workplace. In patriarchal families, wives have little power relative to husbands, daughters have little freedom relative to sons, and daughters are less d…
The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior
Though seldom considered together, class and gender are among the most frequently analyzed correlates of delinquency today. This paper formulates and test a neo-Marxian, class-based, power control theory of gender and delinquency. Using this theory and a prediction made by Bonger more than a half-century ago, the article demonstrates that the relationship between gender and common forms of delinquency declines with each step down the class struct…
Strangers Next Door: An Analysis of Density, Diversity, and Scale in Public Housing Projects
This research examines the elements of Wirth's model of the urban environment (large population size, density, and social heterogeneity) and their effects on malaise (general discon- tent, psychological strain, anomie). Interviews with 442 residents of public housing projects in Edmonton and Calgary produced the data. Regression, with dummy representing inter- action terms, is used in this analysis. Results show that when residents perceive thems…
Bystander Apathy and the Territorial Imperative
This research focuses on the relationship between persons, places, and social control. Specifically, the study examines territoriality and social distance as factors affecting individuals' thoughts concerning the prevention of crime. The data show that both territoriality and social distance are significant predictors of respondents' willingness to prevent criminal behaviors. Consistent with theory in urban sociology and psychology, people report…
Density, Delinquency, and Design Formal and Informal Control and the Built Environment
This study reviews the literature concerning the general impact of the physical environment on social disorganization, crime, and juvenile delinquency, with a specific focus on the relationship between household density, building density‐design, and juvenile delinquency. Two perspectives on control are shown to have developed in an environmental context. One emphasizes the capacity of the built environment to impair informal social control, and t…
The Sexual Stratification of Social Control: A Gender-Based Perspective on Crime and Delinquency
This paper outlines an historically situated, gender-based perspective on crime and delinquency. The perspective is stated in prc)positional form and tested with data on juvenile delinquency. The fundamental propositions assert that there is a sexually stratified inverse relationship between structurally differentiated processes of social control, such that women are more frequently the instruments and objects of informal social controls, while m…
Coping with Crowding: Television, Patterns of Activity, and Adaptation to High Density Environments
This research shows that life style interacts with population density in predicting psychological strain. Persons who are inclined to engage in outdoor leisure activities are more likely to experience strain in conjunction with building density. This is consistent with an environmental opportunity-constraint model. The study supports also the perspective that some styles of life insulate actors from then environments. Individuals with an inclinat…
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Explaining Official Delinquency: A Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control
The correlation between social class and official delinquency is one of the more stable findings of sociological research. Consensus, conflict and organizational explanations of this correlation are examined with a coordinated set of survey, interview, and official data gathered in the central area of a middle-sized Canadian city. These data make possible the consideration of behavior and official rate-producing processes in a model that lends su…
Crowding and Behavior
High-Rise Housing and Psychological Strain
The kinetics of the deposition of polycrystalline silicon from silane were studied at 25–125 Pa and 863–963 K using a continuous flow perfectly mixed reactor equipped with a microbalance and a quadrupole mass spectrometer for in situ deposition rate measurements and on-line gas-phase analysis. It was possible to obtain rate coefficients that are intrinsic, i.e., only determined by chemical phenomena. A four-step elementary gas-phase reaction netw…
The City: Canada's Prospects, Canada's Problems
Population density and social pathology: The case of building type, social allowance and juvenile delinquency
The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior
Though seldom considered together, class and gender are among the most frequently analyzed correlates of delinquency today. This paper formulates and test a neo-Marxian, class-based, power control theory of gender and delinquency. Using this theory and a prediction made by Bonger more than a half-century ago, the article demonstrates that the relationship between gender and common forms of delinquency declines with each step down the class struct…
Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper extends a power-control theory of common delinquent behavior developed by Hagan, Gillis, and Simpson in 1985. It does so by bringing the class analysis of delinquency into the household, using a new model of class relations based on the relative positions of husbands and wives in the workplace. In patriarchal families, wives have little power relative to husbands, daughters have little freedom relative to sons, and daughters are less d…
The Sexual Stratification of Social Control: A Gender-Based Perspective on Crime and Delinquency
This paper outlines an historically situated, gender-based perspective on crime and delinquency. The perspective is stated in prc)positional form and tested with data on juvenile delinquency. The fundamental propositions assert that there is a sexually stratified inverse relationship between structurally differentiated processes of social control, such that women are more frequently the instruments and objects of informal social controls, while m…
Feminist Scholarship, Relational and Instrumental Control, and a Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper incorporates an emphasis placed on relational processes in contemporary feminist scholarship, and in so doing extends the development of a power-control theory of gender and delinquency. Feminist scholarship emphasizes that relational processes involving shared intimacy, mutual understanding, caring and other kinds of interpersonal atTect are more characteristic of women than men. However, there is debate among feminist scholars, such …
Clarifying and Extending Power-Control Theory
This article responds to Jensen and Thompson's analysis of power control theory by placing the analysis within the context of Jensen's previous work and offering new findings from a wealthy Canadian community. This new analysis further contextualizes the theory by operationalizing, patriarchy in terms of a direct and parsimonious measure of marital power. Jensen and Thompson's analysis notwithstanding, the core of the power-control model performs…
High-Rise Housing and Psychological Strain
The kinetics of the deposition of polycrystalline silicon from silane were studied at 25–125 Pa and 863–963 K using a continuous flow perfectly mixed reactor equipped with a microbalance and a quadrupole mass spectrometer for in situ deposition rate measurements and on-line gas-phase analysis. It was possible to obtain rate coefficients that are intrinsic, i.e., only determined by chemical phenomena. A four-step elementary gas-phase reaction netw…
Population density and social pathology: The case of building type, social allowance and juvenile delinquency
Crime and State Surveillance in Nineteenth-Century France
Historians and other social scientists argue that cultural change and increasing civility generated a five-century decline in rates of violent crime. This study presents a structural perspective that indicates that, as emerging nation-states consolidated power, they also extended surveillance, and this deterred cirme. The proposition is tested in France, between 1865 and 1913, where rates of major crimes declined and minor offenses increased as s…
Deterrence and Amplification of Juvenile Delinquency by Police Contact
This research examines the relationship between deviance and control. Deterrence theory suggests that the relationship is negative, but societal reaction arguments view it as positive, since control may amplify rather than deter deviance. We suggest that both viewpoints are credible. Females may be more susceptible to deterrence because of a tendency to be risk aversive, while amplification effects are more likely with males, because they are mor…
So Long as They Both Shall Live: Marital Dissolution and the Decline of Domestic Homicide in France, 1852-1909
This article suggests that the growth of European states, the decline of familism, and the rise of individualism generated the institutionalization of judicial separation and divorce. Time-series analyses of France (1852-1908) reveal a persistent negative association between separation/divorce and domestic homicide, especially among males. Neither indicators of economic change nor trends in the wider pattern of violent crime account for the relat…
Density, Delinquency, and Design Formal and Informal Control and the Built Environment
This study reviews the literature concerning the general impact of the physical environment on social disorganization, crime, and juvenile delinquency, with a specific focus on the relationship between household density, building density‐design, and juvenile delinquency. Two perspectives on control are shown to have developed in an environmental context. One emphasizes the capacity of the built environment to impair informal social control, and t…
Explaining Official Delinquency: A Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control
The correlation between social class and official delinquency is one of the more stable findings of sociological research. Consensus, conflict and organizational explanations of this correlation are examined with a coordinated set of survey, interview, and official data gathered in the central area of a middle-sized Canadian city. These data make possible the consideration of behavior and official rate-producing processes in a model that lends su…
Institutional Dynamics and Dangerous Classes: Reading, Writing, and Arrest in Nineteenth-Century France
This research shows that the rise of public education in nineteenth-century France was associated with a declining rate of serious crime in the general population. The study finds that although a moral curriculum and the discipline of the classroom were intended to produce conformity, it was actually literacy that was consistently associated with declining rates of both serious crime crimes of violence and property offenses. In the case of violen…
Literacy and the civilization of violence in 19th-century France
Strangers Next Door: An Analysis of Density, Diversity, and Scale in Public Housing Projects
This research examines the elements of Wirth's model of the urban environment (large population size, density, and social heterogeneity) and their effects on malaise (general discon- tent, psychological strain, anomie). Interviews with 442 residents of public housing projects in Edmonton and Calgary produced the data. Regression, with dummy representing inter- action terms, is used in this analysis. Results show that when residents perceive thems…
Coping with Crowding: Television, Patterns of Activity, and Adaptation to High Density Environments
This research shows that life style interacts with population density in predicting psychological strain. Persons who are inclined to engage in outdoor leisure activities are more likely to experience strain in conjunction with building density. This is consistent with an environmental opportunity-constraint model. The study supports also the perspective that some styles of life insulate actors from then environments. Individuals with an inclinat…
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
Structural Criminology
Bystander Apathy and the Territorial Imperative
This research focuses on the relationship between persons, places, and social control. Specifically, the study examines territoriality and social distance as factors affecting individuals' thoughts concerning the prevention of crime. The data show that both territoriality and social distance are significant predictors of respondents' willingness to prevent criminal behaviors. Consistent with theory in urban sociology and psychology, people report…
Population density and social pathology: The case of building type, social allowance and juvenile delinquency
The City: Canada's Prospects, Canada's Problems
Crowding and Behavior
High-Rise Housing and Psychological Strain
The kinetics of the deposition of polycrystalline silicon from silane were studied at 25–125 Pa and 863–963 K using a continuous flow perfectly mixed reactor equipped with a microbalance and a quadrupole mass spectrometer for in situ deposition rate measurements and on-line gas-phase analysis. It was possible to obtain rate coefficients that are intrinsic, i.e., only determined by chemical phenomena. A four-step elementary gas-phase reaction netw…
Reply to Kviz
Explaining Official Delinquency: A Spatial Study of Class, Conflict and Control
The correlation between social class and official delinquency is one of the more stable findings of sociological research. Consensus, conflict and organizational explanations of this correlation are examined with a coordinated set of survey, interview, and official data gathered in the central area of a middle-sized Canadian city. These data make possible the consideration of behavior and official rate-producing processes in a model that lends su…
The Sexual Stratification of Social Control: A Gender-Based Perspective on Crime and Delinquency
This paper outlines an historically situated, gender-based perspective on crime and delinquency. The perspective is stated in prc)positional form and tested with data on juvenile delinquency. The fundamental propositions assert that there is a sexually stratified inverse relationship between structurally differentiated processes of social control, such that women are more frequently the instruments and objects of informal social controls, while m…
Coping with Crowding: Television, Patterns of Activity, and Adaptation to High Density Environments
This research shows that life style interacts with population density in predicting psychological strain. Persons who are inclined to engage in outdoor leisure activities are more likely to experience strain in conjunction with building density. This is consistent with an environmental opportunity-constraint model. The study supports also the perspective that some styles of life insulate actors from then environments. Individuals with an inclinat…
Density, Delinquency, and Design Formal and Informal Control and the Built Environment
This study reviews the literature concerning the general impact of the physical environment on social disorganization, crime, and juvenile delinquency, with a specific focus on the relationship between household density, building density‐design, and juvenile delinquency. Two perspectives on control are shown to have developed in an environmental context. One emphasizes the capacity of the built environment to impair informal social control, and t…
Strangers Next Door: An Analysis of Density, Diversity, and Scale in Public Housing Projects
This research examines the elements of Wirth's model of the urban environment (large population size, density, and social heterogeneity) and their effects on malaise (general discon- tent, psychological strain, anomie). Interviews with 442 residents of public housing projects in Edmonton and Calgary produced the data. Regression, with dummy representing inter- action terms, is used in this analysis. Results show that when residents perceive thems…
Bystander Apathy and the Territorial Imperative
This research focuses on the relationship between persons, places, and social control. Specifically, the study examines territoriality and social distance as factors affecting individuals' thoughts concerning the prevention of crime. The data show that both territoriality and social distance are significant predictors of respondents' willingness to prevent criminal behaviors. Consistent with theory in urban sociology and psychology, people report…
The Class Structure of Gender and Delinquency: Toward a Power-Control Theory of Common Delinquent Behavior
Though seldom considered together, class and gender are among the most frequently analyzed correlates of delinquency today. This paper formulates and test a neo-Marxian, class-based, power control theory of gender and delinquency. Using this theory and a prediction made by Bonger more than a half-century ago, the article demonstrates that the relationship between gender and common forms of delinquency declines with each step down the class struct…
Crime, punishment, and historical perspectives
Hill, P. 1972 Rural Hausa: A Village and a Setting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1977 Population, Prosperity and Poverty: Rural Kano 1900 and 1970. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982 Dry Grain Farming Families: Hausaland (Nigeria) and Karnataka (India) Compared. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Huber, J. 1986 Trends in gender stratification, 1970-1985. Sociological Forum 1:476-495. Kline, M. 1980 Mathematics: Loss of Cert…
Class in the Household: A Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper extends a power-control theory of common delinquent behavior developed by Hagan, Gillis, and Simpson in 1985. It does so by bringing the class analysis of delinquency into the household, using a new model of class relations based on the relative positions of husbands and wives in the workplace. In patriarchal families, wives have little power relative to husbands, daughters have little freedom relative to sons, and daughters are less d…
Feminist Scholarship, Relational and Instrumental Control, and a Power-Control Theory of Gender and Delinquency
This paper incorporates an emphasis placed on relational processes in contemporary feminist scholarship, and in so doing extends the development of a power-control theory of gender and delinquency. Feminist scholarship emphasizes that relational processes involving shared intimacy, mutual understanding, caring and other kinds of interpersonal atTect are more characteristic of women than men. However, there is debate among feminist scholars, such …
Deterrence and Amplification of Juvenile Delinquency by Police Contact
This research examines the relationship between deviance and control. Deterrence theory suggests that the relationship is negative, but societal reaction arguments view it as positive, since control may amplify rather than deter deviance. We suggest that both viewpoints are credible. Females may be more susceptible to deterrence because of a tendency to be risk aversive, while amplification effects are more likely with males, because they are mor…
Crime and State Surveillance in Nineteenth-Century France
Historians and other social scientists argue that cultural change and increasing civility generated a five-century decline in rates of violent crime. This study presents a structural perspective that indicates that, as emerging nation-states consolidated power, they also extended surveillance, and this deterred cirme. The proposition is tested in France, between 1865 and 1913, where rates of major crimes declined and minor offenses increased as s…
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology
Structural Criminology
Clarifying and Extending Power-Control Theory
This article responds to Jensen and Thompson's analysis of power control theory by placing the analysis within the context of Jensen's previous work and offering new findings from a wealthy Canadian community. This new analysis further contextualizes the theory by operationalizing, patriarchy in terms of a direct and parsimonious measure of marital power. Jensen and Thompson's analysis notwithstanding, the core of the power-control model performs…
Literacy and the civilization of violence in 19th-century France
So Long as They Both Shall Live: Marital Dissolution and the Decline of Domestic Homicide in France, 1852-1909
This article suggests that the growth of European states, the decline of familism, and the rise of individualism generated the institutionalization of judicial separation and divorce. Time-series analyses of France (1852-1908) reveal a persistent negative association between separation/divorce and domestic homicide, especially among males. Neither indicators of economic change nor trends in the wider pattern of violent crime account for the relat…
Institutional Dynamics and Dangerous Classes: Reading, Writing, and Arrest in Nineteenth-Century France
This research shows that the rise of public education in nineteenth-century France was associated with a declining rate of serious crime in the general population. The study finds that although a moral curriculum and the discipline of the classroom were intended to produce conformity, it was actually literacy that was consistently associated with declining rates of both serious crime crimes of violence and property offenses. In the case of violen…
Sociology (19 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Juvenile delinquency (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (6 works)