Carolyn Needleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 251982 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn Needleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Needleman |
| SIGNATURE | NEEDLEMAN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York, Buffalo, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1969 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania
OBJECTIVE. The study goal was to assess the extent of workplace-related disease and injury among Social Security Disability Insurance applicants. METHODS. A convenience sample of 240 consecutive applicants to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Disability Determination was studied to assess the prevalence of work-related disorders. An applicant had a work-related condition if there was a clear statement of a workplace illness or injury associated with the…
New Risks: Issues and Management
Discrepant Assumptions in Empirical Research: The Case of Juvenile Court Screening
Much of the sociological literature on discretionary decision making in juvenile court screening makes certain assumptions: 1) that being sent to court is a harsher sanction than being diverted from court; 2) that screening decisions necessarily involve judgments about the individual juvenile offender; and 3) that official records are a useful data source for studying the processing of cases. These background assumptions may seem plausible, but m…
Books in review
Organizational Crime: Two Models of Criminogenesis
Sociological interest in the "criminogenic" features of organizational structure has tended to focus on crime-coercive corporate systems that compel their members to commit illegal acts as the price of successful system membership. Our purpose is to alert researchers to another variety of organizational criminogenesis, not equally likely to be noticed and studied: the crime-facilitative system. In this second model of criminogenesis, system membe…
Guerrillas in the Bureaucracy: The Community Planning Experiment in the United States
For which audiences would the book be useful? First, it is aimed at the recruit ... for action sociology. Second, it is for hybrids-i.e., professors who are also off-campus sociologists. Third, it is a challenge to educated people who regard sociology as professional scientism (theoretical and methodological sophistry) . . . Included in this third audience are those who exert pressure on graduate students and young academics to stay closer to hom…
Community Action and the Poor: Influence vs Social Control in a New York City Community
Marx and the Problem of Causation
THE NUMEROUS controversial theoretical issues Karl Marx1 left behind to vex students and disciples, perhaps the most hotly contested question concerns the nature of historical causation. Is the transition of a society from capitalism to socialism inevitable, determined by inexorable and predictable economic processes that shape politics and all other aspects of social organization? Or does this transition depend on the political efforts of indivi…
Who Rules Mexico? A Critique of Some Current Views on the Mexican Political Process
Organizational Crime: Two Models of Criminogenesis
Sociological interest in the "criminogenic" features of organizational structure has tended to focus on crime-coercive corporate systems that compel their members to commit illegal acts as the price of successful system membership. Our purpose is to alert researchers to another variety of organizational criminogenesis, not equally likely to be noticed and studied: the crime-facilitative system. In this second model of criminogenesis, system membe…
Who Rules Mexico? A Critique of Some Current Views on the Mexican Political Process
Discrepant Assumptions in Empirical Research: The Case of Juvenile Court Screening
Much of the sociological literature on discretionary decision making in juvenile court screening makes certain assumptions: 1) that being sent to court is a harsher sanction than being diverted from court; 2) that screening decisions necessarily involve judgments about the individual juvenile offender; and 3) that official records are a useful data source for studying the processing of cases. These background assumptions may seem plausible, but m…
Marx and the Problem of Causation
THE NUMEROUS controversial theoretical issues Karl Marx1 left behind to vex students and disciples, perhaps the most hotly contested question concerns the nature of historical causation. Is the transition of a society from capitalism to socialism inevitable, determined by inexorable and predictable economic processes that shape politics and all other aspects of social organization? Or does this transition depend on the political efforts of indivi…
Who Rules Mexico? A Critique of Some Current Views on the Mexican Political Process
Community Action and the Poor: Influence vs Social Control in a New York City Community
Guerrillas in the Bureaucracy: The Community Planning Experiment in the United States
For which audiences would the book be useful? First, it is aimed at the recruit ... for action sociology. Second, it is for hybrids-i.e., professors who are also off-campus sociologists. Third, it is a challenge to educated people who regard sociology as professional scientism (theoretical and methodological sophistry) . . . Included in this third audience are those who exert pressure on graduate students and young academics to stay closer to hom…
Organizational Crime: Two Models of Criminogenesis
Sociological interest in the "criminogenic" features of organizational structure has tended to focus on crime-coercive corporate systems that compel their members to commit illegal acts as the price of successful system membership. Our purpose is to alert researchers to another variety of organizational criminogenesis, not equally likely to be noticed and studied: the crime-facilitative system. In this second model of criminogenesis, system membe…
Books in review
Discrepant Assumptions in Empirical Research: The Case of Juvenile Court Screening
Much of the sociological literature on discretionary decision making in juvenile court screening makes certain assumptions: 1) that being sent to court is a harsher sanction than being diverted from court; 2) that screening decisions necessarily involve judgments about the individual juvenile offender; and 3) that official records are a useful data source for studying the processing of cases. These background assumptions may seem plausible, but m…
New Risks: Issues and Management
Occupational impairment and disability among applicants for Social Security disability benefits in Pennsylvania
OBJECTIVE. The study goal was to assess the extent of workplace-related disease and injury among Social Security Disability Insurance applicants. METHODS. A convenience sample of 240 consecutive applicants to the Pennsylvania Bureau of Disability Determination was studied to assess the prevalence of work-related disorders. An applicant had a work-related condition if there was a clear statement of a workplace illness or injury associated with the…
Political science (8 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Gerontology (2 works)