Marvin D Free
Biographic Data
| ID | 3590965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marvin D Free |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marvin D |
| FAMILY NAME | Free |
| SIGNATURE | FREE M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Whitewater |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Flawed justice
This exploratory study examines 37 wrongfully convicted Black women. The cases were culled from electronic databases located at the Innocence Project, the Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Death Penalty Information Center, the National Registry of Exonerations and from the innocence database at forejustice.org in addition to newspaper and magazine articles. Prosecutorial misconduct and perjury by criminal justice officials constituted the 2 mos…
Wrongful Convictions of Women
Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink reveal the distinctive role that gender dynamics so often play in the miscarriage of justice. Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, the authors explore systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. They also highlight the intersecting roles of gender and race. Demonstrating how women encounter circumstances that are qualitatively different than thos…
Wrongful Convictions
Crime, Justice, and Society
Race and Justice
In this investigation of some 350 wrongful convictions of African American men, Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink critically examine how issues of race undercut the larger goals of our criminal justice system. Free and Ruesink expand the focus of wrongful conviction studies to include not only homicide, but also sexual assault, drug dealing, and nonviolent crime. Their careful analysis reveals that black men accused of crimes against white victims ac…
Tables
Statistics of Sample of Wrongfully Convicted African American Men 29 3.1 Factors in Wrongful Convictions in Murder and Attempted Murder Cases 63 3.2 Victim and Case Characteristics in Murder and Attempted Murder Cases 92 4.1 Factors in Wrongful Convictions in Rape and Sexual Assault Cases 108 4.2 Victim and Case Characteristics in Rape and Sexual Assault Cases 138 5.1 Individuals Involved in the Tulia Sting 156 5.2 Mansfield, Ohio, Drug Bust 164 …
Crime, Justice, and Society
Bail and Pretrial Release Decisions
The racial threat perspective is tested using data from empirical studies of bail and pretrial release. Of the thirty empirical studies investigating race and bail/pretrial release, eighteen identified specific cities and counties, thereby permitting an examination of the effect of racial composition on the race and bail/pretrial release nexus. Results suggest a possible modification of the racial threat perspective as typically conceptualized. O…
Racial Issues in Criminal Justice
Almost a third of all African American men in their twenties in the United States are in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. African Americans, who comprise approximately 13% of the general population, make up about half of the prison population. Between 1980 and 2000, 38 states added more African American men to their prison systems than were added to their respective systems of higher education. However, these statistics fail to tell the…
Racial Bias and the American Criminal Justice System
The Impact of Federal Sentencing Reforms on African Americans
African Americans are disproportionately found in the inmate population of federal penal institutions. Although composing 12.1% of the total United States population (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, p. 17), African Americans constituted 33.8% of all federal inmates in 1993 (Maguire & Pastore, 1994, p. 628). The overrepresentation of African Americans in federal prisons raises an interesting question: What effect have the U.S. sentencing guidelin…
Religiosity, religious conservatism, bonds to school, and juvenile delinquency among three categories of drug users
Research has suggested the existence of qualitative differences among various categories of substance users. Employing three subsamples of college students, the author examined the statistically significant paths in three models of substance use. Religiosity was negatively related to minor delinquency and alcohol use in all three models and negatively related to marijuana and other illicit drug use in the model containing polydrug users. Religiou…
Stages of Drug Use
Three models reflecting stages of substance use (alcohol use/alcohol and marijuana use/polydrug use) were tested using path analysis to examine subsamples of 626 to 850 subjects. Overall, high school bonds contributed little toward an explanation of substance use. Religiosity and religious conservatism accounted for some of the variance in substance use, primarily underage drinking. Results suggest that explanations of substance use can be enhanc…
Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Impulsive and Intentional Deviance
The impact of denomination on the religiosity/deviance relationship is assessed using a sample of undergraduate college students. Also examined is the utility of the intentional deviance/impulsive deviance typology. The strength of the inverse relationship between religiosity and deviance varied by denomination. After controlling for the effects of gender, family structure, attachment to school, and involvement in conventional activities, religio…
Clarifying the relationship between the broken home and juvenile delinquency
This article assesses the state of knowledge about the broken home/delinquency relationship since 1972. Two databases—Sociological Abstracts and the Criminal Justice Periodical Index—were consulted, as were the Social Sciences Index and other recent sources. A total of 68 articles and books written in English were uncovered by the search. An examination of these studies revealed that the broken home was more strongly related to minor offenses tha…
Demographic, organizational and economic determinants of work satisfaction
Using a sample of females employed in nonindustrial settings, a model of work satisfaction was proposed and tested using nonlinear iterative partial least squares (PLS). Included in the final model were three demographic variables (age, hierarchical level, and education); two organizational variables (routinization and size); and two economic variables (objective and perceptual measures of opportunity). Positive relationships were observed betwee…
Religiosity, religious conservatism, bonds to school, and juvenile delinquency among three categories of drug users
Research has suggested the existence of qualitative differences among various categories of substance users. Employing three subsamples of college students, the author examined the statistically significant paths in three models of substance use. Religiosity was negatively related to minor delinquency and alcohol use in all three models and negatively related to marijuana and other illicit drug use in the model containing polydrug users. Religiou…
Clarifying the relationship between the broken home and juvenile delinquency
This article assesses the state of knowledge about the broken home/delinquency relationship since 1972. Two databases—Sociological Abstracts and the Criminal Justice Periodical Index—were consulted, as were the Social Sciences Index and other recent sources. A total of 68 articles and books written in English were uncovered by the search. An examination of these studies revealed that the broken home was more strongly related to minor offenses tha…
Racial Bias and the American Criminal Justice System
Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Impulsive and Intentional Deviance
The impact of denomination on the religiosity/deviance relationship is assessed using a sample of undergraduate college students. Also examined is the utility of the intentional deviance/impulsive deviance typology. The strength of the inverse relationship between religiosity and deviance varied by denomination. After controlling for the effects of gender, family structure, attachment to school, and involvement in conventional activities, religio…
Stages of Drug Use
Three models reflecting stages of substance use (alcohol use/alcohol and marijuana use/polydrug use) were tested using path analysis to examine subsamples of 626 to 850 subjects. Overall, high school bonds contributed little toward an explanation of substance use. Religiosity and religious conservatism accounted for some of the variance in substance use, primarily underage drinking. Results suggest that explanations of substance use can be enhanc…
Demographic, organizational and economic determinants of work satisfaction
Using a sample of females employed in nonindustrial settings, a model of work satisfaction was proposed and tested using nonlinear iterative partial least squares (PLS). Included in the final model were three demographic variables (age, hierarchical level, and education); two organizational variables (routinization and size); and two economic variables (objective and perceptual measures of opportunity). Positive relationships were observed betwee…
Demographic, organizational and economic determinants of work satisfaction
Using a sample of females employed in nonindustrial settings, a model of work satisfaction was proposed and tested using nonlinear iterative partial least squares (PLS). Included in the final model were three demographic variables (age, hierarchical level, and education); two organizational variables (routinization and size); and two economic variables (objective and perceptual measures of opportunity). Positive relationships were observed betwee…
Clarifying the relationship between the broken home and juvenile delinquency
This article assesses the state of knowledge about the broken home/delinquency relationship since 1972. Two databases—Sociological Abstracts and the Criminal Justice Periodical Index—were consulted, as were the Social Sciences Index and other recent sources. A total of 68 articles and books written in English were uncovered by the search. An examination of these studies revealed that the broken home was more strongly related to minor offenses tha…
Religious Affiliation, Religiosity, and Impulsive and Intentional Deviance
The impact of denomination on the religiosity/deviance relationship is assessed using a sample of undergraduate college students. Also examined is the utility of the intentional deviance/impulsive deviance typology. The strength of the inverse relationship between religiosity and deviance varied by denomination. After controlling for the effects of gender, family structure, attachment to school, and involvement in conventional activities, religio…
Stages of Drug Use
Three models reflecting stages of substance use (alcohol use/alcohol and marijuana use/polydrug use) were tested using path analysis to examine subsamples of 626 to 850 subjects. Overall, high school bonds contributed little toward an explanation of substance use. Religiosity and religious conservatism accounted for some of the variance in substance use, primarily underage drinking. Results suggest that explanations of substance use can be enhanc…
Religiosity, religious conservatism, bonds to school, and juvenile delinquency among three categories of drug users
Research has suggested the existence of qualitative differences among various categories of substance users. Employing three subsamples of college students, the author examined the statistically significant paths in three models of substance use. Religiosity was negatively related to minor delinquency and alcohol use in all three models and negatively related to marijuana and other illicit drug use in the model containing polydrug users. Religiou…
The Impact of Federal Sentencing Reforms on African Americans
African Americans are disproportionately found in the inmate population of federal penal institutions. Although composing 12.1% of the total United States population (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992, p. 17), African Americans constituted 33.8% of all federal inmates in 1993 (Maguire & Pastore, 1994, p. 628). The overrepresentation of African Americans in federal prisons raises an interesting question: What effect have the U.S. sentencing guidelin…
Racial Bias and the American Criminal Justice System
Racial Issues in Criminal Justice
Almost a third of all African American men in their twenties in the United States are in jail or prison, or on probation or parole. African Americans, who comprise approximately 13% of the general population, make up about half of the prison population. Between 1980 and 2000, 38 states added more African American men to their prison systems than were added to their respective systems of higher education. However, these statistics fail to tell the…
Bail and Pretrial Release Decisions
The racial threat perspective is tested using data from empirical studies of bail and pretrial release. Of the thirty empirical studies investigating race and bail/pretrial release, eighteen identified specific cities and counties, thereby permitting an examination of the effect of racial composition on the race and bail/pretrial release nexus. Results suggest a possible modification of the racial threat perspective as typically conceptualized. O…
Crime, Justice, and Society
Race and Justice
In this investigation of some 350 wrongful convictions of African American men, Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink critically examine how issues of race undercut the larger goals of our criminal justice system. Free and Ruesink expand the focus of wrongful conviction studies to include not only homicide, but also sexual assault, drug dealing, and nonviolent crime. Their careful analysis reveals that black men accused of crimes against white victims ac…
Tables
Statistics of Sample of Wrongfully Convicted African American Men 29 3.1 Factors in Wrongful Convictions in Murder and Attempted Murder Cases 63 3.2 Victim and Case Characteristics in Murder and Attempted Murder Cases 92 4.1 Factors in Wrongful Convictions in Rape and Sexual Assault Cases 108 4.2 Victim and Case Characteristics in Rape and Sexual Assault Cases 138 5.1 Individuals Involved in the Tulia Sting 156 5.2 Mansfield, Ohio, Drug Bust 164 …
Wrongful Convictions
Crime, Justice, and Society
Wrongful Convictions of Women
Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink reveal the distinctive role that gender dynamics so often play in the miscarriage of justice. Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, the authors explore systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. They also highlight the intersecting roles of gender and race. Demonstrating how women encounter circumstances that are qualitatively different than thos…
Flawed justice
This exploratory study examines 37 wrongfully convicted Black women. The cases were culled from electronic databases located at the Innocence Project, the Center on Wrongful Convictions, the Death Penalty Information Center, the National Registry of Exonerations and from the innocence database at forejustice.org in addition to newspaper and magazine articles. Prosecutorial misconduct and perjury by criminal justice officials constituted the 2 mos…
Political science (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Criminal justice (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works)