Roy L Austin
Biographic Data
| ID | 212995 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy L Austin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy L |
| FAMILY NAME | Austin |
| SIGNATURE | AUSTIN R L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Simple theory, hard reality
Recent trends in official male and female crime rates
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Despair, Distrust and Dissatisfaction Among Blacks and Women, 1973-1987
Discontent among American blacks and women is examined with indicators of the anomia of despair and distrust, and of job and financial dissatisfaction. Nine years of General Social Survey data covering 1973 through 1987 show that blacks' discontent exceeds whites' in most instances examined; and black women more frequently show significantly higher discontent than other race/gender groups. Also, blacks' discontent more often exceeds whites' among…
Family Environment, Educational Aspiration and Performance in St. Vincent
Father-absence occurs with unusual frequency among people of African descent in the Caribbean. Yet concern over possibly harmful effects of this condition to children and society which is most obvious in the United States is not informed by scientific findings from this region. The present study yielded no evidence that father-absence retards the aspiration or performance of secondary school students in St. Vincent, West Indies, although twelve d…
Sociology
Race, Class, and Opportunity
Michael Hout provided empirical validation of the part of William J. Wilson's controversial 1978 claim concerning the increased influence of class on social mobility but not of his claim that the influence of race became less important than that of class. Anomia/despair as an indication of Americans' perceptions of life chances in 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 is used in this article. The findings show no agreement between perception and reality (tha…
Progress toward racial equality and reduction of black criminal violence
Juvenile justice policy
Sociology
Sociology
The colonial model, subcultural theory, and intragroup violence
United States
Sociology
Women's Liberation and Increases in Minor, Major, and Occupational Offenses
Previous studies have been unable to determine a satisfatory starting point for female emancipation in order to examine the proposition that this variable caused an increase in female criminality. This study uses arithmetic coordinate charts and polynomial regression to set 1967 and 1968 as years when changes in female emancipation, as measured by female labor force participation and divorce rates, should be followed by noticeable effects. The sa…
Liberation and Female Criminality in England and Wales
Journal Article LIBERATION AND FEMALE CRIMINALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES Get access ROY L. AUSTIN ROY L. AUSTIN Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1981, Pages 371–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047257 Published: 01 October 1981
Adolescent Subcultures of Violence
Wolfgang and Ferracuti's Subculture of Violence thesis and Matza's theory of “drift” may be regarded as competing subcultural explanations of violence. Comments are offered on studies examining propositions derived from both subcultural theses, and another body of evidence is analyzed. Ball-Rokeach's recent rejection of Wolfgang and Ferracuti's thesis is contradicted by a reinterpretation of her data and by the new data; for as both theses conten…
"Reply to Richardson's Comments on "Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
Race, Father‐absence, and Female Delinquency
Discussions of the influence of father‐absence on delinquency often show special concern/or the relatively high rate of father‐absence among black Americans. However, for the four delinquent offenses studied. father‐absence had detrimental effects only on whites. especially girls. The only significant effect among black girls was favorable lo the father‐absent girls. Further, contrary to Dates on and Scarpitti (1975). parental control has similar…
Juvenile Victimization
Social Learning and Social Control
Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
Understanding Calypso Content
(1976). Understanding Calypso Content: A Critique and an Alternative Explanation. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 22, Essays on Slavery, pp. 74-83
On Bias in Drug Arrest Records
Race, Father‐absence, and Female Delinquency
Discussions of the influence of father‐absence on delinquency often show special concern/or the relatively high rate of father‐absence among black Americans. However, for the four delinquent offenses studied. father‐absence had detrimental effects only on whites. especially girls. The only significant effect among black girls was favorable lo the father‐absent girls. Further, contrary to Dates on and Scarpitti (1975). parental control has similar…
Women's Liberation and Increases in Minor, Major, and Occupational Offenses
Previous studies have been unable to determine a satisfatory starting point for female emancipation in order to examine the proposition that this variable caused an increase in female criminality. This study uses arithmetic coordinate charts and polynomial regression to set 1967 and 1968 as years when changes in female emancipation, as measured by female labor force participation and divorce rates, should be followed by noticeable effects. The sa…
Adolescent Subcultures of Violence
Wolfgang and Ferracuti's Subculture of Violence thesis and Matza's theory of “drift” may be regarded as competing subcultural explanations of violence. Comments are offered on studies examining propositions derived from both subcultural theses, and another body of evidence is analyzed. Ball-Rokeach's recent rejection of Wolfgang and Ferracuti's thesis is contradicted by a reinterpretation of her data and by the new data; for as both theses conten…
The colonial model, subcultural theory, and intragroup violence
Race, Class, and Opportunity
Michael Hout provided empirical validation of the part of William J. Wilson's controversial 1978 claim concerning the increased influence of class on social mobility but not of his claim that the influence of race became less important than that of class. Anomia/despair as an indication of Americans' perceptions of life chances in 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 is used in this article. The findings show no agreement between perception and reality (tha…
Understanding Calypso Content
(1976). Understanding Calypso Content: A Critique and an Alternative Explanation. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 22, Essays on Slavery, pp. 74-83
Despair, Distrust and Dissatisfaction Among Blacks and Women, 1973-1987
Discontent among American blacks and women is examined with indicators of the anomia of despair and distrust, and of job and financial dissatisfaction. Nine years of General Social Survey data covering 1973 through 1987 show that blacks' discontent exceeds whites' in most instances examined; and black women more frequently show significantly higher discontent than other race/gender groups. Also, blacks' discontent more often exceeds whites' among…
On Bias in Drug Arrest Records
Recent trends in official male and female crime rates
Family Environment, Educational Aspiration and Performance in St. Vincent
Father-absence occurs with unusual frequency among people of African descent in the Caribbean. Yet concern over possibly harmful effects of this condition to children and society which is most obvious in the United States is not informed by scientific findings from this region. The present study yielded no evidence that father-absence retards the aspiration or performance of secondary school students in St. Vincent, West Indies, although twelve d…
Progress toward racial equality and reduction of black criminal violence
Liberation and Female Criminality in England and Wales
Journal Article LIBERATION AND FEMALE CRIMINALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES Get access ROY L. AUSTIN ROY L. AUSTIN Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1981, Pages 371–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047257 Published: 01 October 1981
Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Understanding Calypso Content
(1976). Understanding Calypso Content: A Critique and an Alternative Explanation. Caribbean Quarterly: Vol. 22, Essays on Slavery, pp. 74-83
On Bias in Drug Arrest Records
Juvenile Victimization
Social Learning and Social Control
Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
"Reply to Richardson's Comments on "Empirical Adequacy of Lofland's Conversion Model
Race, Father‐absence, and Female Delinquency
Discussions of the influence of father‐absence on delinquency often show special concern/or the relatively high rate of father‐absence among black Americans. However, for the four delinquent offenses studied. father‐absence had detrimental effects only on whites. especially girls. The only significant effect among black girls was favorable lo the father‐absent girls. Further, contrary to Dates on and Scarpitti (1975). parental control has similar…
Adolescent Subcultures of Violence
Wolfgang and Ferracuti's Subculture of Violence thesis and Matza's theory of “drift” may be regarded as competing subcultural explanations of violence. Comments are offered on studies examining propositions derived from both subcultural theses, and another body of evidence is analyzed. Ball-Rokeach's recent rejection of Wolfgang and Ferracuti's thesis is contradicted by a reinterpretation of her data and by the new data; for as both theses conten…
Liberation and Female Criminality in England and Wales
Journal Article LIBERATION AND FEMALE CRIMINALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES Get access ROY L. AUSTIN ROY L. AUSTIN Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 21, Issue 4, October 1981, Pages 371–374, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a047257 Published: 01 October 1981
Sociology
Women's Liberation and Increases in Minor, Major, and Occupational Offenses
Previous studies have been unable to determine a satisfatory starting point for female emancipation in order to examine the proposition that this variable caused an increase in female criminality. This study uses arithmetic coordinate charts and polynomial regression to set 1967 and 1968 as years when changes in female emancipation, as measured by female labor force participation and divorce rates, should be followed by noticeable effects. The sa…
The colonial model, subcultural theory, and intragroup violence
United States
Sociology
Sociology
Progress toward racial equality and reduction of black criminal violence
Juvenile justice policy
Sociology
Race, Class, and Opportunity
Michael Hout provided empirical validation of the part of William J. Wilson's controversial 1978 claim concerning the increased influence of class on social mobility but not of his claim that the influence of race became less important than that of class. Anomia/despair as an indication of Americans' perceptions of life chances in 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 is used in this article. The findings show no agreement between perception and reality (tha…
Family Environment, Educational Aspiration and Performance in St. Vincent
Father-absence occurs with unusual frequency among people of African descent in the Caribbean. Yet concern over possibly harmful effects of this condition to children and society which is most obvious in the United States is not informed by scientific findings from this region. The present study yielded no evidence that father-absence retards the aspiration or performance of secondary school students in St. Vincent, West Indies, although twelve d…
Family Disruption, Violent Victimization and Protest Masculinity
Americans show great concern over the likely harmful effects of father-absent families on children, especially when families are black. Little or no concern is shown over step-families although these are expected to be the predominant family form by the year 2000. Our study finds the emphasis on female-based black households to be misplaced when violent victimization is the harm of interest. Data for 1973, 1976, 1980 and 1984 from national sample…
Despair, Distrust and Dissatisfaction Among Blacks and Women, 1973-1987
Discontent among American blacks and women is examined with indicators of the anomia of despair and distrust, and of job and financial dissatisfaction. Nine years of General Social Survey data covering 1973 through 1987 show that blacks' discontent exceeds whites' in most instances examined; and black women more frequently show significantly higher discontent than other race/gender groups. Also, blacks' discontent more often exceeds whites' among…
Recent trends in official male and female crime rates
Simple theory, hard reality
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