James D Jones

Biographic Data

ID343482
NAMEJames D Jones
GIVEN NAMESJames D
FAMILY NAMEJones
SIGNATUREJONES J D
AFFILIATIONSTexas State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS98
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX5

  • Public Support for Attacking the "Root Causes" of Crime: The Impact of Egalitarian and Racial Beliefs

    J D Unnever, Francis T Cullen et al.ARTICLESociological Focus2008Cited by: 27References: 30

    Based on a sample drawn from the 2000 American National Election Survey, we explore the sources of public support for policies aimed at punishing individual offenders as opposed to attacking the social structural sources of crime. The analysis revealed that support for attacking "root causes" was less pronounced among those who perceived crime rates to be rising and who were less educated, Southern, authoritarian, and unfavorable to welfare recip…

  • Individual and Organizational Predictors of High School Track Placement

    James D Jones, Beth E Vanfossen et al.ARTICLESociology of Education1995Cited by: 16

    Les AA. examinent a partir de donnees collectees aux Etats-Unis entre 1980 et 1982 les caracteristiques individuelles et un certain nombre de mesures concernant les dimensions organisationnelles des etablissements de l'enseignement du secondaire. Ils montrent l'importance de ces caracteristiques individuelles pour ce qui est des orientations des eleves ainsi que celles des etablissements. Ils mettent en evidence le lien entre, d'une part les poss…

  • Behavioral Impacts of the Fear of Aids: A Sociological Model

    Raghu N Singh, N Prabha Unnithan et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sociology & Social…1988

    The paper demonstrates the conceptual meaning and utility of a sociological model for identifying correlates of the fear of AIDS and its consequent changes on peoples' behaviors. A sociological notion of levels of analysis is employed for classifying correlates of AIDS' fears under structural and individual categories. A tentative list of these correlates and their projected relationship with peoples' fears is suggested to illustrate the model

  • Curriculum Tracking and Status Maintenance

    Beth E Vanfossen, James D Jones et al.ARTICLESociology of Education1987Cited by: 39

    Prior studies of the role of curriculum tracking in status maintenance have offered contradictory results, suggesting either that (1) tracking sorts children from different backgrounds into different curricular programs where they receive differential educational treatments; (2) tracking sorts children on the basis of ability rather than class background, thus facilitating social mobility; or (3) while tracking may sort children, it has little ef…

  • A profile of the rural community mental health center

    Open AccessJames D Jones, Morton O Wagenfeld et al.ARTICLECommunity Mental Health Journal1976Cited by: 6References: 3

  • Structural and Professional Correlates of Ideologies of Community Mental Health Workers

    Morton O Wagenfeld, Stanley S Robin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Health and Social…1974Cited by: 2

    Morton O. Wagenfeld, Stanley S. Robin, James D. Jones, Structural and Professional Correlates of Ideologies of Community Mental Health Workers, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 15, No. 3 (Sep., 1974), pp. 199-210

  • Increasing the Gap between Whites and Blacks: Tracking as a Contributory Source

    Open AccessJames D Jones, Edsel L Erickson et al.ARTICLEEducation and Urban Society1972Cited by: 8References: 1