Roy Lotz
Biographic Data
| ID | 279285 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy Lotz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy |
| FAMILY NAME | Lotz |
| SIGNATURE | LOTZ R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 51 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sociability, School Experience, and Delinquency
Some adolescents are attracted to hedonistic activities because of their active sociability and negative school experiences. This study examines the effects of these two variables in comparison with variables from labeling theory and control theory. Results show that active sociability is a strong predictor of delinquent behavior for African American and White teenagers. Negative school experience predicts delinquency only among Whites. Labeling …
Killer among Us
Introduction: Richard Raymond Valenti Serial Murder: Public Reactions The Common Denominator: Albert Henry DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler) The Coed Killer and Clairvoyant: John Norman Collins The Media and the Murderer: David Richard Berkowitz (The Son of Sam) A House Divided: Wayne Bertram Williams There All the Time: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer The Classic Case: Jack the Ripper Bibliography Index
Crime and the American Press
Crime and the American Press
Foreword Series Foreword Justifying Crime News Crime Over Time Dysfunctions Omissions and Distortions Deviance in the News Columnists on Crime Crimes and Criminals Reporting on the Courts Reporting Life Behind Bars The Critics Selected Bibliography Index
An empirical assessment of the effect of professionalism on cynicism among prison guards
Prison guards have generally escaped social science inquiry. Although the prison guards’ officially prescribed role (custody and security) is straightforward, part of the problem is their isolation from the free society and the danger and uncertainty surrounding their work. One attitude that is potentially emergent in this problematic environment is cynicism. To minimize the effects of cynicism on prison guards, correctional agencies have devised…
Anti-Semitism in America
Journal Article Anti-Semitism in America, by Harold E. Quinley and Charles Y. Glock. New York: Free Press, 1979, xvii + 237 pp. $9.95 Get access Roy Lotz Roy Lotz John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 41, Issue 3, Fall 1980, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710412 Published: 01 October 1980
Public Anxiety about Crime
Is anxiety about crime rational, based on personal experience as a criminal victim? Or is it based on something more remote, such as opposition to social change? In the face of conflicting evidence, Furstenberg proposed dividing anxiety into two components: Fear, which tends to have some “rational” basis; and concern, which does not. The present study reexamines the Furstenberg thesis, using different indicators and a quite different sample
Delinquency and Special Deterrence
The research reported herein is a replication of Cluster's (1967) work. The deference is that we recast the interpretation into a framework of special deterrence. The results are paradoxical: relative to others, training school boys give higher estimates of the likelihood of offenses culminating in arrest and conviction, but they are more likely to say that they would commit such offenses in the future
Police Cynicism and Professionalism
The present study tests for the first time Niederhoffer's assertions that (1) cynicism, a long-standing problem among police, can be reduced by or is incompatible with professionalism and (2) cynicism in early and late stages of one's police career is low, but high in mid-career. Cases in this study are uniformed police personnel in nine Northwest Pacific police departments. The findings lend some support to both propositions but with important q…
Another Look at the Orthodoxy-Anti-Semitism Nexus
The Influence of Legally Irrelevant Factors on Felony Sentencing
Discussions of the link between sentence and legally irrelevant background factors have typically been carried on either without referring to research findings or with reference to only one or two of the legally irrelevant factors, such as race or occupation. The present research incorporates additional factors and places the findings in the context of competing explanatory models
Attitudinal variables as estimates of behavior
Discusses the current status of the controversy about the relationship between individual's attitudes and subsequent behavior. It is suggested that one step toward the resolution of the existing controversy is the construction of a formal theory, specifying and integrating variables other than attitude into the framework. To this end, a model (in propositional form) is advanced focusing on attitude, centrality and salience as determinants of acti…
Patterns in Forcible Rape
Black Mafia
Problems with the Doctrine of Interchangeable Indices
Survey researchers can choose (1) to maximize their accuracy in estimating the relations among a few abstract variables or (2) to maximize the number of variables covered. In the former case, many indicators per variable are required; in the latter case, few or one. Lazarsfeld's “doctrine of interchangeable indices” offers some support for the second approach, but this doctrine is shown to neglect or perpetuate three kinds of measurement problems…
Police Cynicism and Professionalism
The present study tests for the first time Niederhoffer's assertions that (1) cynicism, a long-standing problem among police, can be reduced by or is incompatible with professionalism and (2) cynicism in early and late stages of one's police career is low, but high in mid-career. Cases in this study are uniformed police personnel in nine Northwest Pacific police departments. The findings lend some support to both propositions but with important q…
The Influence of Legally Irrelevant Factors on Felony Sentencing
Discussions of the link between sentence and legally irrelevant background factors have typically been carried on either without referring to research findings or with reference to only one or two of the legally irrelevant factors, such as race or occupation. The present research incorporates additional factors and places the findings in the context of competing explanatory models
Public Anxiety about Crime
Is anxiety about crime rational, based on personal experience as a criminal victim? Or is it based on something more remote, such as opposition to social change? In the face of conflicting evidence, Furstenberg proposed dividing anxiety into two components: Fear, which tends to have some “rational” basis; and concern, which does not. The present study reexamines the Furstenberg thesis, using different indicators and a quite different sample
Sociability, School Experience, and Delinquency
Some adolescents are attracted to hedonistic activities because of their active sociability and negative school experiences. This study examines the effects of these two variables in comparison with variables from labeling theory and control theory. Results show that active sociability is a strong predictor of delinquent behavior for African American and White teenagers. Negative school experience predicts delinquency only among Whites. Labeling …
Delinquency and Special Deterrence
The research reported herein is a replication of Cluster's (1967) work. The deference is that we recast the interpretation into a framework of special deterrence. The results are paradoxical: relative to others, training school boys give higher estimates of the likelihood of offenses culminating in arrest and conviction, but they are more likely to say that they would commit such offenses in the future
An empirical assessment of the effect of professionalism on cynicism among prison guards
Prison guards have generally escaped social science inquiry. Although the prison guards’ officially prescribed role (custody and security) is straightforward, part of the problem is their isolation from the free society and the danger and uncertainty surrounding their work. One attitude that is potentially emergent in this problematic environment is cynicism. To minimize the effects of cynicism on prison guards, correctional agencies have devised…
Patterns in Forcible Rape
Problems with the Doctrine of Interchangeable Indices
Survey researchers can choose (1) to maximize their accuracy in estimating the relations among a few abstract variables or (2) to maximize the number of variables covered. In the former case, many indicators per variable are required; in the latter case, few or one. Lazarsfeld's “doctrine of interchangeable indices” offers some support for the second approach, but this doctrine is shown to neglect or perpetuate three kinds of measurement problems…
Problems with the Doctrine of Interchangeable Indices
Survey researchers can choose (1) to maximize their accuracy in estimating the relations among a few abstract variables or (2) to maximize the number of variables covered. In the former case, many indicators per variable are required; in the latter case, few or one. Lazarsfeld's “doctrine of interchangeable indices” offers some support for the second approach, but this doctrine is shown to neglect or perpetuate three kinds of measurement problems…
Patterns in Forcible Rape
Black Mafia
Attitudinal variables as estimates of behavior
Discusses the current status of the controversy about the relationship between individual's attitudes and subsequent behavior. It is suggested that one step toward the resolution of the existing controversy is the construction of a formal theory, specifying and integrating variables other than attitude into the framework. To this end, a model (in propositional form) is advanced focusing on attitude, centrality and salience as determinants of acti…
Police Cynicism and Professionalism
The present study tests for the first time Niederhoffer's assertions that (1) cynicism, a long-standing problem among police, can be reduced by or is incompatible with professionalism and (2) cynicism in early and late stages of one's police career is low, but high in mid-career. Cases in this study are uniformed police personnel in nine Northwest Pacific police departments. The findings lend some support to both propositions but with important q…
Another Look at the Orthodoxy-Anti-Semitism Nexus
The Influence of Legally Irrelevant Factors on Felony Sentencing
Discussions of the link between sentence and legally irrelevant background factors have typically been carried on either without referring to research findings or with reference to only one or two of the legally irrelevant factors, such as race or occupation. The present research incorporates additional factors and places the findings in the context of competing explanatory models
Delinquency and Special Deterrence
The research reported herein is a replication of Cluster's (1967) work. The deference is that we recast the interpretation into a framework of special deterrence. The results are paradoxical: relative to others, training school boys give higher estimates of the likelihood of offenses culminating in arrest and conviction, but they are more likely to say that they would commit such offenses in the future
Public Anxiety about Crime
Is anxiety about crime rational, based on personal experience as a criminal victim? Or is it based on something more remote, such as opposition to social change? In the face of conflicting evidence, Furstenberg proposed dividing anxiety into two components: Fear, which tends to have some “rational” basis; and concern, which does not. The present study reexamines the Furstenberg thesis, using different indicators and a quite different sample
Anti-Semitism in America
Journal Article Anti-Semitism in America, by Harold E. Quinley and Charles Y. Glock. New York: Free Press, 1979, xvii + 237 pp. $9.95 Get access Roy Lotz Roy Lotz John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 41, Issue 3, Fall 1980, Pages 288–289, https://doi.org/10.2307/3710412 Published: 01 October 1980
An empirical assessment of the effect of professionalism on cynicism among prison guards
Prison guards have generally escaped social science inquiry. Although the prison guards’ officially prescribed role (custody and security) is straightforward, part of the problem is their isolation from the free society and the danger and uncertainty surrounding their work. One attitude that is potentially emergent in this problematic environment is cynicism. To minimize the effects of cynicism on prison guards, correctional agencies have devised…
Crime and the American Press
Foreword Series Foreword Justifying Crime News Crime Over Time Dysfunctions Omissions and Distortions Deviance in the News Columnists on Crime Crimes and Criminals Reporting on the Courts Reporting Life Behind Bars The Critics Selected Bibliography Index
Crime and the American Press
Killer among Us
Introduction: Richard Raymond Valenti Serial Murder: Public Reactions The Common Denominator: Albert Henry DeSalvo (The Boston Strangler) The Coed Killer and Clairvoyant: John Norman Collins The Media and the Murderer: David Richard Berkowitz (The Son of Sam) A House Divided: Wayne Bertram Williams There All the Time: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer The Classic Case: Jack the Ripper Bibliography Index
Sociability, School Experience, and Delinquency
Some adolescents are attracted to hedonistic activities because of their active sociability and negative school experiences. This study examines the effects of these two variables in comparison with variables from labeling theory and control theory. Results show that active sociability is a strong predictor of delinquent behavior for African American and White teenagers. Negative school experience predicts delinquency only among Whites. Labeling …
Political science (12 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works)