Alan J Lizotte
Biographic Data
| ID | 234369 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan J Lizotte |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan J |
| FAMILY NAME | Lizotte |
| SIGNATURE | LIZOTTE A J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 641 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Handbook on Crime and Deviance
Does Household Gun Access Increase the Risk of Attempted Suicide: Evidence From a National Sample of Adolescents
The aim of this research is to assess if home firearm access increases the risk of nonfatal suicidal attempts among adolescents. Such a gun focus has largely been limited to case-control studies on completed suicides. This line of research has found that household gun access increases the risk of suicide due to features of available firearms (e.g., provide little time for rescue). We extend this 'risk factor' perspective to the study of nonfatal …
Labeling and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Formal Police Intervention on Life Chances and Crime During Emerging Adulthood
Research in labeling theory has been revived recently, particularly in relation to the effect of labeling on critical noncriminal outcomes that potentially exacerbate involvement in crime. This study partakes in that revitalization by examining direct and indirect effects of police intervention in the lives of adolescents who were followed into their 30s. The authors find that early police intervention is indirectly related to drug use at the age…
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course: Gang Effects Across the Life-Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
Handbook on Crime and Deviance
Family Transitions and Later Delinquency and Drug Use
Developmental Outcomes for Children of Young Mothers
This study tested the association between mother's early age at first birth and various life outcomes for her children in later adolescence and early adulthood. Data were analyzed from the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing panel study of adolescents enrolled in seventh or eighth grade in Rochester Public Schools in 1988 (N =729). Boys born to mothers who began childbearing before age 19 had elevated risks of drug use, gang membership,…
Linked Lives: The Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior
The Delinquency of Children Born to Young Mothers: Results From the Rochester Youth Development Study
This paper examines the relationship between a mother's age at first childbirth and the delinquent behavior of her children. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS), an ongoing longitudinal study of adolescent development, we found that children born to mothers who began childbearing at a young age were more prone to general delinquency, violence, and arrest than were children born to mothers who began childbearing when they …
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective
Gang membership has long been understood to have a disruptive influence on adolescent development and to contribute disproportionately to the rate of delinquent crime. The nature of the impact, and the long-term effects on individuals, have not been well understood. This book uses longitudinal data to examine the developmental consequences of gang membership, and its longer term influence on the life course. This longitudinal approach is made pos…
Factors Influencing Gun Carrying Among Young Urban Males Over the Adolescent‐young Adult Life Course
This paper uses data from an ongoing panel study of urban youth to examine the causes and correlates of hidden gun carrying among young urban males. The analysis assesses the changing impact of gang membership, drug sales, and peer gun ownership for protection on gun carrying at nine separate points over the early adolescent to young adult life course. In early adolescence, gang membership is a strong motivation for gun carrying. At somewhat olde…
The Interrelationship Between Substance Use and Precocious Transitions to Adult Statuses
This study focuses on the interrelationship between premature or precocious transitions to adult statuses and roles and the use of alcohol and drugs. Panel data from early adolescence to young adulthood for a sample for a sample of youth who were at high risk for serious delinquent behavior is used. The results indicate that use of alcohol and drugs in early adolescence increases the risk of dropping out of school, becoming pregnant or impregnati…
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior: A Longitudinal Test of Interactional Theory
Three theoretical models of the interrelations among associations with delinquent peers, delinquent beliefs, and delinquent behavior are examined. The socialization model views delinquent peers and beliefs as causally prior to delinquent behavior, whereas the selection model hypothesizes that associations with delinquent peers and delinquent beliefs are a result of delinquent behavior. The interactional model combines aspects of both the socializ…
The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior
This study examines alternative explanations for why gang members are more likely to have higher rates of serious and violent crime than nongang members. Specifically, three models are posited: (a) a selection or “kind of person” model; (b) a social facilitation or “kind of group” model; and (c) an enhancement model that combines aspects of the selection and social facilitation models. Each model has different implications for the rate of delinqu…
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
Testing Interactional Theory: An Examination of Reciprocal Causal Relationships among Family, School, and Delinquency
Attachment to parents and commitment to school are important buffers against delinquency. Adolescents who are emotionally bonded to their parents and who succeed at school are unlikely candidates for serious delinquency. These relationships have strong empirical support. In addition, however, it is possible that frequent involvement in delinquency can cause a substantial deterioration in the emotional bond between parent and child and in the adol…
General Deterrence Through Civilian Gun Ownership: An Evaluation of the Quasi‐experimental Evidence
It has often been argued that civilian firearm ownership acts as a deterrent to crime. Much of the support for this claim is based on incidents that have called attention to the prevalence of privately owned guns. We examined several such incidents and failed to and persuasive evidence of a deterrent effect
Ideology and crime control policy positions in a state legislature
The Burden of Proof: Southern Subculture-of-Violence Explanations of Gun Ownership and Homicide
Gun Ownership and the 'Southern Subculture of Violence
Recent investigations have explained regional differentials in homicide by reference to a reformulated subculture-of-violence thesis, which posits a southern subculture of violence. These studies heavily emphasize the role of firearms in violent subcultures. This paper develops a model that specifies the relationship between regions and subcultures of violence while determining the relationship of both to gun ownership. Analysis of patterns of gu…
The Uniqueness of Rape: Reporting Assaultive Violence to the Police
Is rape unique in terms of the factors that determine whether or not women will report it to the police? Or, is rape similar to other forms of assaultive violence? This research answers these questions by employing the National Crime Survey to develop models for the reporting of rape and assaults on women and men to the police. Logistic equations predicting reports to the police are developed for each type of offense. The analysis shows that uniq…
The Timing of Court Processing: Towards Linking Theory and Method
The time required for a case to traverse the criminal justice system is of central importance to participants. Time translates into issues of efficiency and is likely to be closely related to the cost of a case. The role of time has, however, largely been ignored in studies of court processing, though it has a history in the sociology of law. This research uses event‐history data from California to model the effects of offense, offender, and proc…
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Not So Divergent Models
Reports replacements for the results of logistic equations that were in the article Firearms ownership for sport and protection (doi: 10.2307/2095123). The authors state that the republication was necessary because analysis in their original report was based on only 200 cases, not the 714 cases reported earlier
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Divergent Models
A rationale for investigating subcultures of firearms ownership is developed. Two gun-owning populations are investigated by using survey data for the State of Illinois, those who own guns for sport and those who own guns for protection. Models of individual level gun ownership for sport and for protection are constructed and tested. Sporting gun ownership appears to be subcultural. Sporting gun ownership can be predicted by using family socializ…
Patterns of Legal Firearms Ownership: A Cultural and Situational Analysis of Illinois Counties
Using county level data for the state of Illinois, we constructed a path analytic model predicting legal gun ownership for men. women, and minors. We consider the interplay between situational and cultural variables in determining legal ownership. Two patterns of firearms ownership are identified: (1) gun ownership among women as a response to high rales of violent crime and (2) a sporting culture. Neither pattern has strong relations to urban‐ru…
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior: A Longitudinal Test of Interactional Theory
Three theoretical models of the interrelations among associations with delinquent peers, delinquent beliefs, and delinquent behavior are examined. The socialization model views delinquent peers and beliefs as causally prior to delinquent behavior, whereas the selection model hypothesizes that associations with delinquent peers and delinquent beliefs are a result of delinquent behavior. The interactional model combines aspects of both the socializ…
Extra-Legal Factors in Chicago's Criminal Courts: Testing the Conflict Model of Criminal Justice
Recently several researchers using empirical evidence have tested the conflict model of criminal sanctioning. In this paper we develop a theoretical model which embodies propositions derived from the conflict perspective. The model defines three types of discrimination in the criminal sentencing process. They are: (1) labelling processes which define as more serious crimes committed by lower SES persons and blacks; (2) economic discrimination thr…
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Divergent Models
A rationale for investigating subcultures of firearms ownership is developed. Two gun-owning populations are investigated by using survey data for the State of Illinois, those who own guns for sport and those who own guns for protection. Models of individual level gun ownership for sport and for protection are constructed and tested. Sporting gun ownership appears to be subcultural. Sporting gun ownership can be predicted by using family socializ…
Gun Ownership and the 'Southern Subculture of Violence
Recent investigations have explained regional differentials in homicide by reference to a reformulated subculture-of-violence thesis, which posits a southern subculture of violence. These studies heavily emphasize the role of firearms in violent subcultures. This paper develops a model that specifies the relationship between regions and subcultures of violence while determining the relationship of both to gun ownership. Analysis of patterns of gu…
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Not So Divergent Models
Reports replacements for the results of logistic equations that were in the article Firearms ownership for sport and protection (doi: 10.2307/2095123). The authors state that the republication was necessary because analysis in their original report was based on only 200 cases, not the 714 cases reported earlier
The Interrelationship Between Substance Use and Precocious Transitions to Adult Statuses
This study focuses on the interrelationship between premature or precocious transitions to adult statuses and roles and the use of alcohol and drugs. Panel data from early adolescence to young adulthood for a sample for a sample of youth who were at high risk for serious delinquent behavior is used. The results indicate that use of alcohol and drugs in early adolescence increases the risk of dropping out of school, becoming pregnant or impregnati…
The 'Southern Subculture of Violence' Thesis and Patterns of Gun Ownership
Several researchers (Reed, 1972; Gastil, 1971; Hackney, 1969) have suggested that rates of interpersonal violence, particularly homicide, are relatively high in the South because the subculture predisposes Southerners to use violence more frequently than others. This thesis has been questioned by Loftin and Hill (1974) and Erlanger (1975) who show that situational and structural factors could account for regional differences in interpersonal viol…
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course: Gang Effects Across the Life-Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
Factors Influencing Gun Carrying Among Young Urban Males Over the Adolescent‐young Adult Life Course
This paper uses data from an ongoing panel study of urban youth to examine the causes and correlates of hidden gun carrying among young urban males. The analysis assesses the changing impact of gang membership, drug sales, and peer gun ownership for protection on gun carrying at nine separate points over the early adolescent to young adult life course. In early adolescence, gang membership is a strong motivation for gun carrying. At somewhat olde…
Patterns of Legal Firearms Ownership: A Cultural and Situational Analysis of Illinois Counties
Using county level data for the state of Illinois, we constructed a path analytic model predicting legal gun ownership for men. women, and minors. We consider the interplay between situational and cultural variables in determining legal ownership. Two patterns of firearms ownership are identified: (1) gun ownership among women as a response to high rales of violent crime and (2) a sporting culture. Neither pattern has strong relations to urban‐ru…
Developmental Outcomes for Children of Young Mothers
This study tested the association between mother's early age at first birth and various life outcomes for her children in later adolescence and early adulthood. Data were analyzed from the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing panel study of adolescents enrolled in seventh or eighth grade in Rochester Public Schools in 1988 (N =729). Boys born to mothers who began childbearing before age 19 had elevated risks of drug use, gang membership,…
Family Transitions and Later Delinquency and Drug Use
The Delinquency of Children Born to Young Mothers: Results From the Rochester Youth Development Study
This paper examines the relationship between a mother's age at first childbirth and the delinquent behavior of her children. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS), an ongoing longitudinal study of adolescent development, we found that children born to mothers who began childbearing at a young age were more prone to general delinquency, violence, and arrest than were children born to mothers who began childbearing when they …
General Deterrence Through Civilian Gun Ownership: An Evaluation of the Quasi‐experimental Evidence
It has often been argued that civilian firearm ownership acts as a deterrent to crime. Much of the support for this claim is based on incidents that have called attention to the prevalence of privately owned guns. We examined several such incidents and failed to and persuasive evidence of a deterrent effect
Ideology and crime control policy positions in a state legislature
The Burden of Proof: Southern Subculture-of-Violence Explanations of Gun Ownership and Homicide
Does Household Gun Access Increase the Risk of Attempted Suicide: Evidence From a National Sample of Adolescents
The aim of this research is to assess if home firearm access increases the risk of nonfatal suicidal attempts among adolescents. Such a gun focus has largely been limited to case-control studies on completed suicides. This line of research has found that household gun access increases the risk of suicide due to features of available firearms (e.g., provide little time for rescue). We extend this 'risk factor' perspective to the study of nonfatal …
The Timing of Court Processing: Towards Linking Theory and Method
The time required for a case to traverse the criminal justice system is of central importance to participants. Time translates into issues of efficiency and is likely to be closely related to the cost of a case. The role of time has, however, largely been ignored in studies of court processing, though it has a history in the sociology of law. This research uses event‐history data from California to model the effects of offense, offender, and proc…
Extra-Legal Factors in Chicago's Criminal Courts: Testing the Conflict Model of Criminal Justice
Recently several researchers using empirical evidence have tested the conflict model of criminal sanctioning. In this paper we develop a theoretical model which embodies propositions derived from the conflict perspective. The model defines three types of discrimination in the criminal sentencing process. They are: (1) labelling processes which define as more serious crimes committed by lower SES persons and blacks; (2) economic discrimination thr…
The 'Southern Subculture of Violence' Thesis and Patterns of Gun Ownership
Several researchers (Reed, 1972; Gastil, 1971; Hackney, 1969) have suggested that rates of interpersonal violence, particularly homicide, are relatively high in the South because the subculture predisposes Southerners to use violence more frequently than others. This thesis has been questioned by Loftin and Hill (1974) and Erlanger (1975) who show that situational and structural factors could account for regional differences in interpersonal viol…
Patterns of Legal Firearms Ownership: A Cultural and Situational Analysis of Illinois Counties
Using county level data for the state of Illinois, we constructed a path analytic model predicting legal gun ownership for men. women, and minors. We consider the interplay between situational and cultural variables in determining legal ownership. Two patterns of firearms ownership are identified: (1) gun ownership among women as a response to high rales of violent crime and (2) a sporting culture. Neither pattern has strong relations to urban‐ru…
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Divergent Models
A rationale for investigating subcultures of firearms ownership is developed. Two gun-owning populations are investigated by using survey data for the State of Illinois, those who own guns for sport and those who own guns for protection. Models of individual level gun ownership for sport and for protection are constructed and tested. Sporting gun ownership appears to be subcultural. Sporting gun ownership can be predicted by using family socializ…
Firearms Ownership for Sport and Protection: Two Not So Divergent Models
Reports replacements for the results of logistic equations that were in the article Firearms ownership for sport and protection (doi: 10.2307/2095123). The authors state that the republication was necessary because analysis in their original report was based on only 200 cases, not the 714 cases reported earlier
The Uniqueness of Rape: Reporting Assaultive Violence to the Police
Is rape unique in terms of the factors that determine whether or not women will report it to the police? Or, is rape similar to other forms of assaultive violence? This research answers these questions by employing the National Crime Survey to develop models for the reporting of rape and assaults on women and men to the police. Logistic equations predicting reports to the police are developed for each type of offense. The analysis shows that uniq…
The Timing of Court Processing: Towards Linking Theory and Method
The time required for a case to traverse the criminal justice system is of central importance to participants. Time translates into issues of efficiency and is likely to be closely related to the cost of a case. The role of time has, however, largely been ignored in studies of court processing, though it has a history in the sociology of law. This research uses event‐history data from California to model the effects of offense, offender, and proc…
Gun Ownership and the 'Southern Subculture of Violence
Recent investigations have explained regional differentials in homicide by reference to a reformulated subculture-of-violence thesis, which posits a southern subculture of violence. These studies heavily emphasize the role of firearms in violent subcultures. This paper develops a model that specifies the relationship between regions and subcultures of violence while determining the relationship of both to gun ownership. Analysis of patterns of gu…
Ideology and crime control policy positions in a state legislature
The Burden of Proof: Southern Subculture-of-Violence Explanations of Gun Ownership and Homicide
Testing Interactional Theory: An Examination of Reciprocal Causal Relationships among Family, School, and Delinquency
Attachment to parents and commitment to school are important buffers against delinquency. Adolescents who are emotionally bonded to their parents and who succeed at school are unlikely candidates for serious delinquency. These relationships have strong empirical support. In addition, however, it is possible that frequent involvement in delinquency can cause a substantial deterioration in the emotional bond between parent and child and in the adol…
General Deterrence Through Civilian Gun Ownership: An Evaluation of the Quasi‐experimental Evidence
It has often been argued that civilian firearm ownership acts as a deterrent to crime. Much of the support for this claim is based on incidents that have called attention to the prevalence of privately owned guns. We examined several such incidents and failed to and persuasive evidence of a deterrent effect
The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior
This study examines alternative explanations for why gang members are more likely to have higher rates of serious and violent crime than nongang members. Specifically, three models are posited: (a) a selection or “kind of person” model; (b) a social facilitation or “kind of group” model; and (c) an enhancement model that combines aspects of the selection and social facilitation models. Each model has different implications for the rate of delinqu…
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior: A Longitudinal Test of Interactional Theory
Three theoretical models of the interrelations among associations with delinquent peers, delinquent beliefs, and delinquent behavior are examined. The socialization model views delinquent peers and beliefs as causally prior to delinquent behavior, whereas the selection model hypothesizes that associations with delinquent peers and delinquent beliefs are a result of delinquent behavior. The interactional model combines aspects of both the socializ…
The Interrelationship Between Substance Use and Precocious Transitions to Adult Statuses
This study focuses on the interrelationship between premature or precocious transitions to adult statuses and roles and the use of alcohol and drugs. Panel data from early adolescence to young adulthood for a sample for a sample of youth who were at high risk for serious delinquent behavior is used. The results indicate that use of alcohol and drugs in early adolescence increases the risk of dropping out of school, becoming pregnant or impregnati…
Factors Influencing Gun Carrying Among Young Urban Males Over the Adolescent‐young Adult Life Course
This paper uses data from an ongoing panel study of urban youth to examine the causes and correlates of hidden gun carrying among young urban males. The analysis assesses the changing impact of gang membership, drug sales, and peer gun ownership for protection on gun carrying at nine separate points over the early adolescent to young adult life course. In early adolescence, gang membership is a strong motivation for gun carrying. At somewhat olde…
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective
Gang membership has long been understood to have a disruptive influence on adolescent development and to contribute disproportionately to the rate of delinquent crime. The nature of the impact, and the long-term effects on individuals, have not been well understood. This book uses longitudinal data to examine the developmental consequences of gang membership, and its longer term influence on the life course. This longitudinal approach is made pos…
Linked Lives: The Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior
The Delinquency of Children Born to Young Mothers: Results From the Rochester Youth Development Study
This paper examines the relationship between a mother's age at first childbirth and the delinquent behavior of her children. Using data from the Rochester Youth Development Study (RYDS), an ongoing longitudinal study of adolescent development, we found that children born to mothers who began childbearing at a young age were more prone to general delinquency, violence, and arrest than were children born to mothers who began childbearing when they …
Developmental Outcomes for Children of Young Mothers
This study tested the association between mother's early age at first birth and various life outcomes for her children in later adolescence and early adulthood. Data were analyzed from the Rochester Youth Development Study, an ongoing panel study of adolescents enrolled in seventh or eighth grade in Rochester Public Schools in 1988 (N =729). Boys born to mothers who began childbearing before age 19 had elevated risks of drug use, gang membership,…
Handbook on Crime and Deviance
Family Transitions and Later Delinquency and Drug Use
The Cascading Effects of Adolescent Gang Involvement Across the Life Course: Gang Effects Across the Life-Course
The short-run deleterious effects of gang involvement during adolescence have been well researched. However, surprisingly little empirical attention has been devoted to understanding how gang involvement in adolescence influences life chances and criminal behavior in adulthood. Drawing on the life-course perspective, this study argues that gang involvement will lead to precocious transitions that, in turn, will have adverse consequences on the fu…
Labeling and Cumulative Disadvantage: The Impact of Formal Police Intervention on Life Chances and Crime During Emerging Adulthood
Research in labeling theory has been revived recently, particularly in relation to the effect of labeling on critical noncriminal outcomes that potentially exacerbate involvement in crime. This study partakes in that revitalization by examining direct and indirect effects of police intervention in the lives of adolescents who were followed into their 30s. The authors find that early police intervention is indirectly related to drug use at the age…
Psychology (25 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (19 works) · Criminology (18 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (11 works) · Gun Ownership and Violence Research (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Juvenile delinquency (7 works)