Robert D Baller
Biographic Data
| ID | 261047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert D Baller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert D |
| FAMILY NAME | Baller |
| SIGNATURE | BALLER R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 404 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Religiosity and Deviance: An Examination of the Moral Community and Antiasceticism Hypotheses Among U.S. Adults
Several hypotheses regarding the relationship between religiosity and deviance are examined using data from the geocoded General Social Survey. An inverse relationship between religiosity and several forms of deviance was documented; however the moral community hypothesis, which would predict that the interaction between group‐level religiosity and individual‐level religiosity would be inversely related to deviance, was not supported for any of t…
Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence
This article investigates the association between past lynchings (1882 to 1930) and contemporary law enforcement responses to hate crimes in the United States. While prior research indicates a positive correlation between past levels of lynching and current social control practices against minority groups, we posit an inverse relationship for facets of social control that are protective of minorities. Specifically, we hypothesize that contemporar…
The 'Dark Side' of the Strength of Weak Ties: The Diffusion of Suicidal Thoughts
Granovetter's theory on the strength of weak ties motivates hypotheses on the diffusive nature of suicidal thoughts in the friendship networks of adolescents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the effects of friends-of-friends attempting suicide on the suicidal thoughts of respondents are estimated. A focus on friends-of-friends permits a test of the weakties thesis because respondents are indirectly linked to …
The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide
This article assesses the influence of the legacy of lynching on homicide levels within the contemporary South. Drawing upon literature relating to the brutalizing effects of capital punishment and "self-help" in the absence of access to formal law, this study hypothesizes that a measure of the frequency of lynching in the past will exhibit positive effects on contemporary homicide levels for the overall population and for race-specific populatio…
Social Integration, Imitation, and the Geographic Patterning of Suicide
One of sociology's defining debates centers on explanations of the geographic patterning of suicide. This classic debate is revisited using techniques of spatial analysis and data for two geographies: late nineteenth-century French departments, and late twentieth-century U.S. counties. Results of the French analysis contradict Durkheim's claim that "imitation" plays no role in shaping the geographic patterning of suicide. Suicide rates for northe…
Structural Covariates of U.S. County Homicide Rates: Incorporating Spatial Effects
Spatial analysis is statistically and substantively important for macrolevel criminological inquiry. Using county‐level data for the decennial years in the 1960 to 1990 time period, we reexamine the impact of conventional structural covariates on homicide rates and explicitly model spatial effects. Important findings are: (1) homicide is strongly clustered in space; (2) this clustering cannot be completely explained by common measures of the stru…
The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
The boycott of “star wars” by academic scientists: The relative roles of political and technical judgement
Despite scientists' ability to claim special status as experts on policy issues related to their areas of expertise, political activity by scientists as scientists is rarely viewed as being motivated by this expertise. Often, as in weapons systems debates, scientists' participation has been viewed as being motivated out of political interests. Having surveyed faculty signers of the Star Wars Boycott Pledge however, our research found concerns abo…
Structural Covariates of U.S. County Homicide Rates: Incorporating Spatial Effects
Spatial analysis is statistically and substantively important for macrolevel criminological inquiry. Using county‐level data for the decennial years in the 1960 to 1990 time period, we reexamine the impact of conventional structural covariates on homicide rates and explicitly model spatial effects. Important findings are: (1) homicide is strongly clustered in space; (2) this clustering cannot be completely explained by common measures of the stru…
Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence
This article investigates the association between past lynchings (1882 to 1930) and contemporary law enforcement responses to hate crimes in the United States. While prior research indicates a positive correlation between past levels of lynching and current social control practices against minority groups, we posit an inverse relationship for facets of social control that are protective of minorities. Specifically, we hypothesize that contemporar…
The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide
This article assesses the influence of the legacy of lynching on homicide levels within the contemporary South. Drawing upon literature relating to the brutalizing effects of capital punishment and "self-help" in the absence of access to formal law, this study hypothesizes that a measure of the frequency of lynching in the past will exhibit positive effects on contemporary homicide levels for the overall population and for race-specific populatio…
Social Integration, Imitation, and the Geographic Patterning of Suicide
One of sociology's defining debates centers on explanations of the geographic patterning of suicide. This classic debate is revisited using techniques of spatial analysis and data for two geographies: late nineteenth-century French departments, and late twentieth-century U.S. counties. Results of the French analysis contradict Durkheim's claim that "imitation" plays no role in shaping the geographic patterning of suicide. Suicide rates for northe…
The 'Dark Side' of the Strength of Weak Ties: The Diffusion of Suicidal Thoughts
Granovetter's theory on the strength of weak ties motivates hypotheses on the diffusive nature of suicidal thoughts in the friendship networks of adolescents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the effects of friends-of-friends attempting suicide on the suicidal thoughts of respondents are estimated. A focus on friends-of-friends permits a test of the weakties thesis because respondents are indirectly linked to …
Religiosity and Deviance: An Examination of the Moral Community and Antiasceticism Hypotheses Among U.S. Adults
Several hypotheses regarding the relationship between religiosity and deviance are examined using data from the geocoded General Social Survey. An inverse relationship between religiosity and several forms of deviance was documented; however the moral community hypothesis, which would predict that the interaction between group‐level religiosity and individual‐level religiosity would be inversely related to deviance, was not supported for any of t…
The boycott of “star wars” by academic scientists: The relative roles of political and technical judgement
Despite scientists' ability to claim special status as experts on policy issues related to their areas of expertise, political activity by scientists as scientists is rarely viewed as being motivated by this expertise. Often, as in weapons systems debates, scientists' participation has been viewed as being motivated out of political interests. Having surveyed faculty signers of the Star Wars Boycott Pledge however, our research found concerns abo…
The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis
Structural Covariates of U.S. County Homicide Rates: Incorporating Spatial Effects
Spatial analysis is statistically and substantively important for macrolevel criminological inquiry. Using county‐level data for the decennial years in the 1960 to 1990 time period, we reexamine the impact of conventional structural covariates on homicide rates and explicitly model spatial effects. Important findings are: (1) homicide is strongly clustered in space; (2) this clustering cannot be completely explained by common measures of the stru…
Social Integration, Imitation, and the Geographic Patterning of Suicide
One of sociology's defining debates centers on explanations of the geographic patterning of suicide. This classic debate is revisited using techniques of spatial analysis and data for two geographies: late nineteenth-century French departments, and late twentieth-century U.S. counties. Results of the French analysis contradict Durkheim's claim that "imitation" plays no role in shaping the geographic patterning of suicide. Suicide rates for northe…
The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide
This article assesses the influence of the legacy of lynching on homicide levels within the contemporary South. Drawing upon literature relating to the brutalizing effects of capital punishment and "self-help" in the absence of access to formal law, this study hypothesizes that a measure of the frequency of lynching in the past will exhibit positive effects on contemporary homicide levels for the overall population and for race-specific populatio…
Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence
This article investigates the association between past lynchings (1882 to 1930) and contemporary law enforcement responses to hate crimes in the United States. While prior research indicates a positive correlation between past levels of lynching and current social control practices against minority groups, we posit an inverse relationship for facets of social control that are protective of minorities. Specifically, we hypothesize that contemporar…
The 'Dark Side' of the Strength of Weak Ties: The Diffusion of Suicidal Thoughts
Granovetter's theory on the strength of weak ties motivates hypotheses on the diffusive nature of suicidal thoughts in the friendship networks of adolescents. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, the effects of friends-of-friends attempting suicide on the suicidal thoughts of respondents are estimated. A focus on friends-of-friends permits a test of the weakties thesis because respondents are indirectly linked to …
Religiosity and Deviance: An Examination of the Moral Community and Antiasceticism Hypotheses Among U.S. Adults
Several hypotheses regarding the relationship between religiosity and deviance are examined using data from the geocoded General Social Survey. An inverse relationship between religiosity and several forms of deviance was documented; however the moral community hypothesis, which would predict that the interaction between group‐level religiosity and individual‐level religiosity would be inversely related to deviance, was not supported for any of t…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Geography (4 works) · Poison control (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Homicide (3 works)