R Gregory Dunaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 328782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Gregory Dunaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | R Gregory |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunaway |
| SIGNATURE | DUNAWAY R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mississippi State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 340 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Predicting Adolescent Fear of Crime Through the Lens of General Strain Theory
This study examines the effect of neighborhood disorder and strain on adolescent fear of crime while controlling for demographic and contextual variables that have previously been demonstrated as having an association with fear of crime. Earlier work has suggested that feelings of powerlessness have a significant impact on fear of crime among adolescents; thus strain theory (derivatives of which deal with both perceptions of blocked opportunities…
Traditionalism or Low Self-Control: Explaining the Health-Risk Behaviors of American Indian Youth
Using a sample of American Indian high school students, we test self-control and Native traditionalism as predictors of their health-risk behaviors. Regression analyses found self-control to be a significant influence on all seven health-risk items as well as the health-risk composite. Traditionalism by and large fails to influence these behaviors. However, the traditionalism measure serves a second purpose as a means of controlling for cultural …
Consequences of truth-in-sentencing: The Mississippi case
Like many other states, in the mid-1990s Mississippi responded to growing public fear of crime and mounting dissatisfaction with its criminal justice system by implementing a series of ‘get tough’ measures designed to control crime. Perhaps the primary vehicle for reform has been the enactment of ‘truth-in sentencing’ legislation. Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) does not imply a specific correctional policy, but covers a variety of reforms designed to …
Consequences of Truth-in-Sentencing: The Mississippi Case
Like many other states, in the mid-1990s Mississippi responded to growing public fear of crime and mounting dissatisfaction with its criminal justice system by implementing a series of ‘get tough’ measures designed to control crime. Perhaps the primary vehicle for reform has been the enactment of ‘truth-in sentencing’ legislation. Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) does not imply a specific correctional policy, but covers a variety of reforms designed to …
The Myth of Social Class and Crime Revisited: An Examination of Class and Adult Criminality
Although recent empirical research questions the conclusion that crime is highest in the lower class, this empirical literature is plagued by limited measures of social class or of crime and by a failure to study systematically the effect of social class on crime in the adult general population. The present work was undertaken in an attempt to rectify many of the inadequacies of the class‐crime research. Self‐report data were collected from a gen…
Predictors of Fear of Criminal Victimization at School Among Adolescents
Adolescent crime at school, as well as adolescent fear of crime at school, have increasingly become serious social problems. Although many studies have been conducted examining the predictors of fear of crime among adults in various settings, fear of criminal victimization among adolescents at school has been practically ignored. Using a representative sample of 742 high school students from a southeastern state, this study examined the predictor…
Age, self-control, and adults’ offending behaviors
Gender, Self-Control, and Crime
This article assesses empirically whether Gottfredson and Hirschi's “general theory” can account for the “gender gap” in crime and, when rival theories are included in the analysis, can explain criminal behavior for both males and females. Based on a sample of 555 adults, the results indicate that the relationship of gender to crime becomes nonsignificant when self-control is introduced into the analysis. Further, when males and females are analy…
The Social Consequences of Self‐control: Testing the General Theory of Crime
Gottfredson and Hirschi's recently introduced general theory of crime has received considerable empirical support. Researchers have found that low self‐control, the general theory's core concept, is related to lawbreaking and to deviant behaviors considered by Gottfredson and Hirschi to be “analogous” to crime. In this article, we extend this research by assessing the effects of low self‐control on crime and analogous behaviors and by using two d…
Legalization of crimes against the moral order: Results from the 1995 United States survey of gaming and gambling
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
Religion, social bonds, and delinquency
Although criminologists have generally been indifferent or even hostile to the idea that religion inhibits criminal deviance, evidence of a consistent inverse relationship between religion and deviance—including crime and delinquency—has steadily accumulated over the last three decades. Yet controversy abounds concerning the extent to which this relationship is shaped by offense type, group affiliation, and other religious and social contexts. So…
The impact of parental controls on delinquency
Religion and Crime Reexamined: The Impact of Religion, Secular Controls, and Social Ecology on Adult Criminality
Since Hirschi and Stark's (1969) surprising failure to find religious (“hellfire”) effects on delinquency, subsequent research has generally revealed an inverse relationship between religiosity and various forms of deviance, delinquency, and crime. The complexity of the relationship and conditions under which it holds, however, continue to be debated. Although a few researchers have found that religion's influence is noncontingent, most have foun…
The Correctional Orientation of Bermuda Prison Guards: An Assessment of Attitudes Toward Punishment and Rehabilitation
This study surveys all Bermuda correctional officers in an attempt to determine their attitudes toward a custody or rehabilitative orientation in handling inmates. When employing the Cullen, et al. (1989) correctional orientation measures, we found Bermuda officers more supportive of treatment for inmates than American officers surveyed by Cullen, et al. (1989). In addition, we found that officers' education, income, and rank significantly affect…
The Social Consequences of Self‐control: Testing the General Theory of Crime
Gottfredson and Hirschi's recently introduced general theory of crime has received considerable empirical support. Researchers have found that low self‐control, the general theory's core concept, is related to lawbreaking and to deviant behaviors considered by Gottfredson and Hirschi to be “analogous” to crime. In this article, we extend this research by assessing the effects of low self‐control on crime and analogous behaviors and by using two d…
Religion and Crime Reexamined: The Impact of Religion, Secular Controls, and Social Ecology on Adult Criminality
Since Hirschi and Stark's (1969) surprising failure to find religious (“hellfire”) effects on delinquency, subsequent research has generally revealed an inverse relationship between religiosity and various forms of deviance, delinquency, and crime. The complexity of the relationship and conditions under which it holds, however, continue to be debated. Although a few researchers have found that religion's influence is noncontingent, most have foun…
The Myth of Social Class and Crime Revisited: An Examination of Class and Adult Criminality
Although recent empirical research questions the conclusion that crime is highest in the lower class, this empirical literature is plagued by limited measures of social class or of crime and by a failure to study systematically the effect of social class on crime in the adult general population. The present work was undertaken in an attempt to rectify many of the inadequacies of the class‐crime research. Self‐report data were collected from a gen…
Age, self-control, and adults’ offending behaviors
Predictors of Fear of Criminal Victimization at School Among Adolescents
Adolescent crime at school, as well as adolescent fear of crime at school, have increasingly become serious social problems. Although many studies have been conducted examining the predictors of fear of crime among adults in various settings, fear of criminal victimization among adolescents at school has been practically ignored. Using a representative sample of 742 high school students from a southeastern state, this study examined the predictor…
Religion, social bonds, and delinquency
Although criminologists have generally been indifferent or even hostile to the idea that religion inhibits criminal deviance, evidence of a consistent inverse relationship between religion and deviance—including crime and delinquency—has steadily accumulated over the last three decades. Yet controversy abounds concerning the extent to which this relationship is shaped by offense type, group affiliation, and other religious and social contexts. So…
Legalization of crimes against the moral order: Results from the 1995 United States survey of gaming and gambling
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
The Correctional Orientation of Bermuda Prison Guards: An Assessment of Attitudes Toward Punishment and Rehabilitation
This study surveys all Bermuda correctional officers in an attempt to determine their attitudes toward a custody or rehabilitative orientation in handling inmates. When employing the Cullen, et al. (1989) correctional orientation measures, we found Bermuda officers more supportive of treatment for inmates than American officers surveyed by Cullen, et al. (1989). In addition, we found that officers' education, income, and rank significantly affect…
The impact of parental controls on delinquency
Consequences of Truth-in-Sentencing: The Mississippi Case
Like many other states, in the mid-1990s Mississippi responded to growing public fear of crime and mounting dissatisfaction with its criminal justice system by implementing a series of ‘get tough’ measures designed to control crime. Perhaps the primary vehicle for reform has been the enactment of ‘truth-in sentencing’ legislation. Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) does not imply a specific correctional policy, but covers a variety of reforms designed to …
Traditionalism or Low Self-Control: Explaining the Health-Risk Behaviors of American Indian Youth
Using a sample of American Indian high school students, we test self-control and Native traditionalism as predictors of their health-risk behaviors. Regression analyses found self-control to be a significant influence on all seven health-risk items as well as the health-risk composite. Traditionalism by and large fails to influence these behaviors. However, the traditionalism measure serves a second purpose as a means of controlling for cultural …
Predicting Adolescent Fear of Crime Through the Lens of General Strain Theory
This study examines the effect of neighborhood disorder and strain on adolescent fear of crime while controlling for demographic and contextual variables that have previously been demonstrated as having an association with fear of crime. Earlier work has suggested that feelings of powerlessness have a significant impact on fear of crime among adolescents; thus strain theory (derivatives of which deal with both perceptions of blocked opportunities…
The Correctional Orientation of Bermuda Prison Guards: An Assessment of Attitudes Toward Punishment and Rehabilitation
This study surveys all Bermuda correctional officers in an attempt to determine their attitudes toward a custody or rehabilitative orientation in handling inmates. When employing the Cullen, et al. (1989) correctional orientation measures, we found Bermuda officers more supportive of treatment for inmates than American officers surveyed by Cullen, et al. (1989). In addition, we found that officers' education, income, and rank significantly affect…
The impact of parental controls on delinquency
Religion and Crime Reexamined: The Impact of Religion, Secular Controls, and Social Ecology on Adult Criminality
Since Hirschi and Stark's (1969) surprising failure to find religious (“hellfire”) effects on delinquency, subsequent research has generally revealed an inverse relationship between religiosity and various forms of deviance, delinquency, and crime. The complexity of the relationship and conditions under which it holds, however, continue to be debated. Although a few researchers have found that religion's influence is noncontingent, most have foun…
Legalization of crimes against the moral order: Results from the 1995 United States survey of gaming and gambling
A survey of 1,514 American adults revealed a substantial range of support for legalization of selected substances, sexual activities, and gambling behavior perceived by some as potentially threatening to the moral order. Alcohol use, gambling, and smoking received majority support for legalization, whereas substantial minority support was found for gentlemen's clubs, prostitution, and marijuana use. There was little support for legalization of co…
Religion, social bonds, and delinquency
Although criminologists have generally been indifferent or even hostile to the idea that religion inhibits criminal deviance, evidence of a consistent inverse relationship between religion and deviance—including crime and delinquency—has steadily accumulated over the last three decades. Yet controversy abounds concerning the extent to which this relationship is shaped by offense type, group affiliation, and other religious and social contexts. So…
The Social Consequences of Self‐control: Testing the General Theory of Crime
Gottfredson and Hirschi's recently introduced general theory of crime has received considerable empirical support. Researchers have found that low self‐control, the general theory's core concept, is related to lawbreaking and to deviant behaviors considered by Gottfredson and Hirschi to be “analogous” to crime. In this article, we extend this research by assessing the effects of low self‐control on crime and analogous behaviors and by using two d…
Gender, Self-Control, and Crime
This article assesses empirically whether Gottfredson and Hirschi's “general theory” can account for the “gender gap” in crime and, when rival theories are included in the analysis, can explain criminal behavior for both males and females. Based on a sample of 555 adults, the results indicate that the relationship of gender to crime becomes nonsignificant when self-control is introduced into the analysis. Further, when males and females are analy…
Age, self-control, and adults’ offending behaviors
The Myth of Social Class and Crime Revisited: An Examination of Class and Adult Criminality
Although recent empirical research questions the conclusion that crime is highest in the lower class, this empirical literature is plagued by limited measures of social class or of crime and by a failure to study systematically the effect of social class on crime in the adult general population. The present work was undertaken in an attempt to rectify many of the inadequacies of the class‐crime research. Self‐report data were collected from a gen…
Predictors of Fear of Criminal Victimization at School Among Adolescents
Adolescent crime at school, as well as adolescent fear of crime at school, have increasingly become serious social problems. Although many studies have been conducted examining the predictors of fear of crime among adults in various settings, fear of criminal victimization among adolescents at school has been practically ignored. Using a representative sample of 742 high school students from a southeastern state, this study examined the predictor…
Consequences of truth-in-sentencing: The Mississippi case
Like many other states, in the mid-1990s Mississippi responded to growing public fear of crime and mounting dissatisfaction with its criminal justice system by implementing a series of ‘get tough’ measures designed to control crime. Perhaps the primary vehicle for reform has been the enactment of ‘truth-in sentencing’ legislation. Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) does not imply a specific correctional policy, but covers a variety of reforms designed to …
Consequences of Truth-in-Sentencing: The Mississippi Case
Like many other states, in the mid-1990s Mississippi responded to growing public fear of crime and mounting dissatisfaction with its criminal justice system by implementing a series of ‘get tough’ measures designed to control crime. Perhaps the primary vehicle for reform has been the enactment of ‘truth-in sentencing’ legislation. Truth-in-sentencing (TIS) does not imply a specific correctional policy, but covers a variety of reforms designed to …
Traditionalism or Low Self-Control: Explaining the Health-Risk Behaviors of American Indian Youth
Using a sample of American Indian high school students, we test self-control and Native traditionalism as predictors of their health-risk behaviors. Regression analyses found self-control to be a significant influence on all seven health-risk items as well as the health-risk composite. Traditionalism by and large fails to influence these behaviors. However, the traditionalism measure serves a second purpose as a means of controlling for cultural …
Predicting Adolescent Fear of Crime Through the Lens of General Strain Theory
This study examines the effect of neighborhood disorder and strain on adolescent fear of crime while controlling for demographic and contextual variables that have previously been demonstrated as having an association with fear of crime. Earlier work has suggested that feelings of powerlessness have a significant impact on fear of crime among adolescents; thus strain theory (derivatives of which deal with both perceptions of blocked opportunities…
Psychology (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (10 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Juvenile delinquency (5 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works)