Vincent F Sacco
Biographic Data
| ID | 245366 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent F Sacco |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacco |
| SIGNATURE | SACCO V F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen's University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis
Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative analysis, criminology has had few significant advances in theory. Advances in Criminological Theory is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory…
Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory (review)
Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
Black Hand Outrage: A Constructionist Analysis of an Urban Crime Wave
The existing literature on the sociology of crime waves has tended to focus attention on either the objective or subjective character of these phenomena. In the former sense, it is argued that crime waves occur when there are objectively measurable shifts in the frequency or seriousness of crime. By contrast, subjective interpretations emphasize the extent to which crime waves are rooted in the perceptions of journalists, police, and members of t…
Jack the Ripper and the London Press
News that Counts: Newspaper Images of Crime and Victimization Statistics
The study of media images of crime and victimization has tended to focus on the reporting of criminal events. However, the reporting of crime and victimization statistics is an important, if unaddressed theme in crime news coverage. Such statistics, as Joel Best and other social constructionists have argued, perform as important rhetorical devices in the social processes by which crime and (other social) problems are constructed and maintained. S…
Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis
Crime Counts: A Criminal Event Analysis
Media Constructions of Crime
The news media are a vital part of the process by which individuals' private troubles with crime—as victims or offenders—are transformed into public issues. The social construction of crime problems may be understood as reflecting the types of relationships that link news agencies to their sources, and the organizational constraints that structure the news-gathering process. The ways in which the news media collect, sort, and contextualize crime …
Perception of Legal Inequality in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case of Israel
When commentators discuss the Israeli political system, they invariably single it out as the exception in a region otherwise lacking in democratic and representative regimes. Although political philosophers and theorists remind us that the test of de mocracy hinges on, among other things, the way a society treats its minorities and guarantees them civil and political rights in the face of majority opposition, the de bate over what constitutes jus…
Violent Crime in Canada and the United States: A Theoretical Assessment
Introduction The present paper reviews and critically assesses dominant accounts of Canadian-American differences in interpersonal criminal violence. Two major types of accounts are identified. The most popular type of account locates the source of these differentials in cultural distinctions that are thought to separate Canadians from Americans. A second form of explana- tion deemphasizes the importance of culture and focuses attention instead o…
Urban-Rural Residence and Criminal Victimization
This study employs data from a national survey in order to assess the empirical importance of lifestyle/exposure or routine activity variables in explaining the relationship between urban-rural residence and criminal victimization. The hypotheses which guide this analysis are derived from determinist and compositional accounts of the differences between urban and rural life. The data provide little support for the compositional interpretation as …
Crime and Victimization of the Elderly
Gender, fear, and victimization: A preliminary application of power-control theory
The accumulated body of research on public fear of victimization has consistently demonstrated that gender is the most useful predictor of tearfulness. However, theoretical attempts to link variations in fear of crime to gender differences have been found wanting. In particular, these theoretical accounts have failed to provide an integrated framework within which it is possible to reconcile findings relevant to gender differences in both fear‐ar…
Public definitions of crime problems and functionalist processes: A reassessment
La théorie fonctionnaliste permet deux interprétations de ľimpact de la criminalité sur ľordre social. Cet article tentera de les réconcilier. La première interprétation, basée sur les travaux de Durkheim et de Mead, prête un caractère fonctionnel à cet impact. Des travaux plus récents, par contre, mettent ľaccent sur la désunion qui résulte de la criminalité. J'utilise ici les données du Vancouver Urban Survey pour analyser pour quels publics so…
Public definitions of crime problems and functionalist processes: A reassessment
La théorie fonctionnaliste permet deux interprétations de ľimpact de la criminalité sur ľordre social. Cet article tentera de les réconcilier. La première interprétation, basée sur les travaux de Durkheim et de Mead, prête un caractère fonctionnel à cet impact. Des travaux plus récents, par contre, mettent ľaccent sur la désunion qui résulte de la criminalité. J'utilise ici les données du Vancouver Urban Survey pour analyser pour quels publics so…
City Size and Perceptions of Crime
Crime prevention through mass media: Prospects and problems
The Effects of Mass Media on Perceptions of Crime: A Reanalysis of the Issues
The argument that mass media exert a direct causal influence upon perceptions of crime is critically examined. Employing data collected in the province of Alberta in 1979, an attempt is made to detect relationships involving respondents' patterns of newspaper and television consumption and their views on crime. Consistent with earlier research findings, the analysis of the Alberta data reveals no evidence of a significant media effect. Some of th…
Media Constructions of Crime
The news media are a vital part of the process by which individuals' private troubles with crime—as victims or offenders—are transformed into public issues. The social construction of crime problems may be understood as reflecting the types of relationships that link news agencies to their sources, and the organizational constraints that structure the news-gathering process. The ways in which the news media collect, sort, and contextualize crime …
Gender, fear, and victimization: A preliminary application of power-control theory
The accumulated body of research on public fear of victimization has consistently demonstrated that gender is the most useful predictor of tearfulness. However, theoretical attempts to link variations in fear of crime to gender differences have been found wanting. In particular, these theoretical accounts have failed to provide an integrated framework within which it is possible to reconcile findings relevant to gender differences in both fear‐ar…
Black Hand Outrage: A Constructionist Analysis of an Urban Crime Wave
The existing literature on the sociology of crime waves has tended to focus attention on either the objective or subjective character of these phenomena. In the former sense, it is argued that crime waves occur when there are objectively measurable shifts in the frequency or seriousness of crime. By contrast, subjective interpretations emphasize the extent to which crime waves are rooted in the perceptions of journalists, police, and members of t…
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
Perception of Legal Inequality in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case of Israel
When commentators discuss the Israeli political system, they invariably single it out as the exception in a region otherwise lacking in democratic and representative regimes. Although political philosophers and theorists remind us that the test of de mocracy hinges on, among other things, the way a society treats its minorities and guarantees them civil and political rights in the face of majority opposition, the de bate over what constitutes jus…
The Effects of Mass Media on Perceptions of Crime: A Reanalysis of the Issues
The argument that mass media exert a direct causal influence upon perceptions of crime is critically examined. Employing data collected in the province of Alberta in 1979, an attempt is made to detect relationships involving respondents' patterns of newspaper and television consumption and their views on crime. Consistent with earlier research findings, the analysis of the Alberta data reveals no evidence of a significant media effect. Some of th…
News that Counts: Newspaper Images of Crime and Victimization Statistics
The study of media images of crime and victimization has tended to focus on the reporting of criminal events. However, the reporting of crime and victimization statistics is an important, if unaddressed theme in crime news coverage. Such statistics, as Joel Best and other social constructionists have argued, perform as important rhetorical devices in the social processes by which crime and (other social) problems are constructed and maintained. S…
Urban-Rural Residence and Criminal Victimization
This study employs data from a national survey in order to assess the empirical importance of lifestyle/exposure or routine activity variables in explaining the relationship between urban-rural residence and criminal victimization. The hypotheses which guide this analysis are derived from determinist and compositional accounts of the differences between urban and rural life. The data provide little support for the compositional interpretation as …
City Size and Perceptions of Crime
Crime prevention through mass media: Prospects and problems
Crime prevention through mass media: Prospects and problems
The Effects of Mass Media on Perceptions of Crime: A Reanalysis of the Issues
The argument that mass media exert a direct causal influence upon perceptions of crime is critically examined. Employing data collected in the province of Alberta in 1979, an attempt is made to detect relationships involving respondents' patterns of newspaper and television consumption and their views on crime. Consistent with earlier research findings, the analysis of the Alberta data reveals no evidence of a significant media effect. Some of th…
City Size and Perceptions of Crime
Public definitions of crime problems and functionalist processes: A reassessment
La théorie fonctionnaliste permet deux interprétations de ľimpact de la criminalité sur ľordre social. Cet article tentera de les réconcilier. La première interprétation, basée sur les travaux de Durkheim et de Mead, prête un caractère fonctionnel à cet impact. Des travaux plus récents, par contre, mettent ľaccent sur la désunion qui résulte de la criminalité. J'utilise ici les données du Vancouver Urban Survey pour analyser pour quels publics so…
Public definitions of crime problems and functionalist processes: A reassessment
La théorie fonctionnaliste permet deux interprétations de ľimpact de la criminalité sur ľordre social. Cet article tentera de les réconcilier. La première interprétation, basée sur les travaux de Durkheim et de Mead, prête un caractère fonctionnel à cet impact. Des travaux plus récents, par contre, mettent ľaccent sur la désunion qui résulte de la criminalité. J'utilise ici les données du Vancouver Urban Survey pour analyser pour quels publics so…
Crime and Victimization of the Elderly
Gender, fear, and victimization: A preliminary application of power-control theory
The accumulated body of research on public fear of victimization has consistently demonstrated that gender is the most useful predictor of tearfulness. However, theoretical attempts to link variations in fear of crime to gender differences have been found wanting. In particular, these theoretical accounts have failed to provide an integrated framework within which it is possible to reconcile findings relevant to gender differences in both fear‐ar…
Perception of Legal Inequality in Deeply Divided Societies: The Case of Israel
When commentators discuss the Israeli political system, they invariably single it out as the exception in a region otherwise lacking in democratic and representative regimes. Although political philosophers and theorists remind us that the test of de mocracy hinges on, among other things, the way a society treats its minorities and guarantees them civil and political rights in the face of majority opposition, the de bate over what constitutes jus…
Violent Crime in Canada and the United States: A Theoretical Assessment
Introduction The present paper reviews and critically assesses dominant accounts of Canadian-American differences in interpersonal criminal violence. Two major types of accounts are identified. The most popular type of account locates the source of these differentials in cultural distinctions that are thought to separate Canadians from Americans. A second form of explana- tion deemphasizes the importance of culture and focuses attention instead o…
Urban-Rural Residence and Criminal Victimization
This study employs data from a national survey in order to assess the empirical importance of lifestyle/exposure or routine activity variables in explaining the relationship between urban-rural residence and criminal victimization. The hypotheses which guide this analysis are derived from determinist and compositional accounts of the differences between urban and rural life. The data provide little support for the compositional interpretation as …
Media Constructions of Crime
The news media are a vital part of the process by which individuals' private troubles with crime—as victims or offenders—are transformed into public issues. The social construction of crime problems may be understood as reflecting the types of relationships that link news agencies to their sources, and the organizational constraints that structure the news-gathering process. The ways in which the news media collect, sort, and contextualize crime …
Crime Counts: A Criminal Event Analysis
Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis
Jack the Ripper and the London Press
News that Counts: Newspaper Images of Crime and Victimization Statistics
The study of media images of crime and victimization has tended to focus on the reporting of criminal events. However, the reporting of crime and victimization statistics is an important, if unaddressed theme in crime news coverage. Such statistics, as Joel Best and other social constructionists have argued, perform as important rhetorical devices in the social processes by which crime and (other social) problems are constructed and maintained. S…
Black Hand Outrage: A Constructionist Analysis of an Urban Crime Wave
The existing literature on the sociology of crime waves has tended to focus attention on either the objective or subjective character of these phenomena. In the former sense, it is argued that crime waves occur when there are objectively measurable shifts in the frequency or seriousness of crime. By contrast, subjective interpretations emphasize the extent to which crime waves are rooted in the perceptions of journalists, police, and members of t…
Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory (review)
Criminal Circumstance: A Dynamic Multicontextual Criminal Opportunity Theory
Fame and Strain: The Contributions of Mertonian Deviance Theory to an Understanding of the Relationship Between Celebrity and Deviant Behavior
This paper argues that Merton's original means/goals gap theory can be used to understand the emerging relationship between deviant behavior and the acquisition of celebrity status. The intent is to illuminate how forms of deviant behavior have become adaptive responses to the structurally anomic conditions that have resulted from popular culture's incessant emphasis on the desirability of fame and celebrity status, and the structurally limited m…
The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis
Criminology has developed strong methodological tools over the past decades, establishing itself as a competitive, sophisticated, and independent social science. Perhaps because of its emphasis on matters of design, methodology, and quantitative analysis, criminology has had few significant advances in theory. Advances in Criminological Theory is the first series exclusively dedicated to the dissemination of original work on criminological theory…
Sociology (16 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works)