Margaret Farnworth
Biographic Data
| ID | 297125 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margaret Farnworth |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margaret |
| FAMILY NAME | Farnworth |
| SIGNATURE | FARNWORTH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 283 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The effects of occupation and education on punitive orientations among juvenile justice personnel
Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police
Past studies of juveniles' attitudes toward the police suggest a single-cause model that implicates personal interactions with the police. We propose that attitudes toward authority and agents of social control develop in a larger, sociocultural context. Specifically we hypothesize that juveniles' attitudes develop as a function of socialization in their communities' social environment, of their deviant subcultural “preferences,” and of the prior…
College students' views on criminal justice
We surveyed 683 college students to examine their attitudes toward the death penalty, other criminal sanctions, and the war on drugs. College seniors were consistently less likely than freshmen to hold punitive views; this suggests a “liberalizing” effect of the college experience. This liberalizing college effect on attitudes toward criminal justice was not apparent for criminal justice majors, however, particularly when criminal justice seniors…
Gender Differences in Felony Court Processing
Interactive analyses examined three related hypotheses of disparity. The typicality hypothesis proposes that women are treated with chivalry in criminal processing, but only when their charges are consistent with stereotypes of female offenders. Selective chivalry predicts that decision makers extend chivalry disproportionately to white females. Differential discretion suggests that disparity is most likely in informal decisions such as charge re…
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior
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…
Bridging the Gender Gap in Criminology
This study explores the empirical grounds for bridging the gender gap between liberation theories of female crime by integrating selected concepts from strain and liberation theses to explain female delinquency and gender differences in delinquency. Additive and interactive analyses were conducted with a sample of 1,613 adolescents. The findings provide little support for combining liberation and strain, primarily because of the inadequacy of lib…
Testing Interactional Theory
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…
Felony court processing in an urban county
Strain Theory Revisited
Merton's theory of strain and crime has withstood half a century of theoretical controversy, but recent disillusionment with its empirical verification has led many to reject it as a viable explanation for delinquency. We question that the theory has been falsified by evidence to this date, on the grounds that conceptual reinterpretations have differed from Merton's original statement. We examine the empirical and theoretical implications of the …
Orientations to juvenile justice
Preschool Intervention, School Success and Delinquency in a High-Risk Sample of Youth
A prominent thesis in criminology hypothesizes that “academic competence is linked to delinquency by way of success in and attachment to the school” ( Hirschi, 1969 , p. 115). The implications of this thesis are examined for a sample of low-income blacks, and a corollary to Hirschi’s thesis is proposed: Intervention prior to school entry that improves academic potential and school performance for a sample at high risk for school failure will redu…
Family structure, family attributes, and delinquency in a sample of low-income, minority males and females
Social Correlates of Criminal Involvement
Recent studies have suggested that the relationship between social status and criminality is weak to nonexistent. They have also suggested that if status effects are present, they are observable only when crime is measured officially and not when it is measured through self-report techniques. In this paper we examine the adequacy of past measures of both status and criminality and reassess the relationship between these concepts when each is meas…
Separate justice
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior
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…
Social Correlates of Criminal Involvement
Recent studies have suggested that the relationship between social status and criminality is weak to nonexistent. They have also suggested that if status effects are present, they are observable only when crime is measured officially and not when it is measured through self-report techniques. In this paper we examine the adequacy of past measures of both status and criminality and reassess the relationship between these concepts when each is meas…
Strain Theory Revisited
Merton's theory of strain and crime has withstood half a century of theoretical controversy, but recent disillusionment with its empirical verification has led many to reject it as a viable explanation for delinquency. We question that the theory has been falsified by evidence to this date, on the grounds that conceptual reinterpretations have differed from Merton's original statement. We examine the empirical and theoretical implications of the …
Separate justice
Family structure, family attributes, and delinquency in a sample of low-income, minority males and females
Bridging the Gender Gap in Criminology
This study explores the empirical grounds for bridging the gender gap between liberation theories of female crime by integrating selected concepts from strain and liberation theses to explain female delinquency and gender differences in delinquency. Additive and interactive analyses were conducted with a sample of 1,613 adolescents. The findings provide little support for combining liberation and strain, primarily because of the inadequacy of lib…
Orientations to juvenile justice
The effects of occupation and education on punitive orientations among juvenile justice personnel
Felony court processing in an urban county
Preschool Intervention, School Success and Delinquency in a High-Risk Sample of Youth
A prominent thesis in criminology hypothesizes that “academic competence is linked to delinquency by way of success in and attachment to the school” ( Hirschi, 1969 , p. 115). The implications of this thesis are examined for a sample of low-income blacks, and a corollary to Hirschi’s thesis is proposed: Intervention prior to school entry that improves academic potential and school performance for a sample at high risk for school failure will redu…
Separate justice
Social Correlates of Criminal Involvement
Recent studies have suggested that the relationship between social status and criminality is weak to nonexistent. They have also suggested that if status effects are present, they are observable only when crime is measured officially and not when it is measured through self-report techniques. In this paper we examine the adequacy of past measures of both status and criminality and reassess the relationship between these concepts when each is meas…
Family structure, family attributes, and delinquency in a sample of low-income, minority males and females
Preschool Intervention, School Success and Delinquency in a High-Risk Sample of Youth
A prominent thesis in criminology hypothesizes that “academic competence is linked to delinquency by way of success in and attachment to the school” ( Hirschi, 1969 , p. 115). The implications of this thesis are examined for a sample of low-income blacks, and a corollary to Hirschi’s thesis is proposed: Intervention prior to school entry that improves academic potential and school performance for a sample at high risk for school failure will redu…
Orientations to juvenile justice
Strain Theory Revisited
Merton's theory of strain and crime has withstood half a century of theoretical controversy, but recent disillusionment with its empirical verification has led many to reject it as a viable explanation for delinquency. We question that the theory has been falsified by evidence to this date, on the grounds that conceptual reinterpretations have differed from Merton's original statement. We examine the empirical and theoretical implications of the …
Testing Interactional Theory
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…
Felony court processing in an urban county
Delinquent Peers, Beliefs, and Delinquent Behavior
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…
Bridging the Gender Gap in Criminology
This study explores the empirical grounds for bridging the gender gap between liberation theories of female crime by integrating selected concepts from strain and liberation theses to explain female delinquency and gender differences in delinquency. Additive and interactive analyses were conducted with a sample of 1,613 adolescents. The findings provide little support for combining liberation and strain, primarily because of the inadequacy of lib…
Gender Differences in Felony Court Processing
Interactive analyses examined three related hypotheses of disparity. The typicality hypothesis proposes that women are treated with chivalry in criminal processing, but only when their charges are consistent with stereotypes of female offenders. Selective chivalry predicts that decision makers extend chivalry disproportionately to white females. Differential discretion suggests that disparity is most likely in informal decisions such as charge re…
Explaining juveniles' attitudes toward the police
Past studies of juveniles' attitudes toward the police suggest a single-cause model that implicates personal interactions with the police. We propose that attitudes toward authority and agents of social control develop in a larger, sociocultural context. Specifically we hypothesize that juveniles' attitudes develop as a function of socialization in their communities' social environment, of their deviant subcultural “preferences,” and of the prior…
College students' views on criminal justice
We surveyed 683 college students to examine their attitudes toward the death penalty, other criminal sanctions, and the war on drugs. College seniors were consistently less likely than freshmen to hold punitive views; this suggests a “liberalizing” effect of the college experience. This liberalizing college effect on attitudes toward criminal justice was not apparent for criminal justice majors, however, particularly when criminal justice seniors…
The effects of occupation and education on punitive orientations among juvenile justice personnel
Psychology (14 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (11 works) · Criminology (11 works) · Juvenile delinquency (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works)