Walter B Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3610439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Walter B Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Walter B |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER W B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 442 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
People and Folks: Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City. John M. Hagedorn
Street Gangs and Street Workers. Malcolm W. Klein
The molls
Subculture, Social Reform and the 'Culture of Poverty
This essay addresses a set of issues involved in applying the concept of subculture to social problems in general and to the problems of low-status populations in particular. The approach embodied in the
White gangs
Violent Crimes in City Gangs
The urban street gang plays a central role in the imagery of violence currently being disseminated by the mass media. Testing the reality of this image requires careful empirical studies of actual gangs. A study involving 150 gangs in "Midcity," a slum district of an eastern metropolis, and focusing on seven gangs subject to intensive field observation, reveals marked differences between the public imagery and research-derived findings. While mem…
The corner gang boys get married
The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project
Journal Article The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project Get access Walter B. Miller Walter B. Miller Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 2, Autumn 1962, Pages 168–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/799049 Published: 08 August 2014
Implications of Urban Lower-Class Culture for Social Work
Preventive Work With Street-Corner Groups: Boston Delinquency Project
The corner-group method of attempting to pre vent "gang" delinquency is in fairly wide use, but little sub stantial evidence as to its effectiveness is available. Research on the impact of the Boston Delinquency Project on law- violating behavior of adolescent corner groups utilized four major indexes to behavior change to "test" effectiveness. Pre liminary findings indicate that worker activity resulted in a demonstrable impact on law-violating …
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Inter-Institutional Conflict as a Major Impediment to Delinquency Prevention
Juvenile delinquency is a major area of concern in the United States today. Although there is evidence of some increase in the actual incidence of juvenile crime, it is equally evident that the intensity of public concern over this issue has increased far more rapidly than the demonstrated statistical increase. This paper will focus, not on juvenile crime as such, but on the larger adult community, and, in particular, on that segment of the commu…
The Impact of a Community Group Work Program on Delinquent Corner Groups
Health, Culture and Community: Case Studies of Public Reactions to Health Programs
Two Concepts of Authority1
Suggestions for a More Systematic Method of Comparing Political Units
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Two Concepts of Authority1
Health, Culture and Community: Case Studies of Public Reactions to Health Programs
The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project
Journal Article The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project Get access Walter B. Miller Walter B. Miller Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 2, Autumn 1962, Pages 168–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/799049 Published: 08 August 2014
Violent Crimes in City Gangs
The urban street gang plays a central role in the imagery of violence currently being disseminated by the mass media. Testing the reality of this image requires careful empirical studies of actual gangs. A study involving 150 gangs in "Midcity," a slum district of an eastern metropolis, and focusing on seven gangs subject to intensive field observation, reveals marked differences between the public imagery and research-derived findings. While mem…
Implications of Urban Lower-Class Culture for Social Work
The molls
Inter-Institutional Conflict as a Major Impediment to Delinquency Prevention
Juvenile delinquency is a major area of concern in the United States today. Although there is evidence of some increase in the actual incidence of juvenile crime, it is equally evident that the intensity of public concern over this issue has increased far more rapidly than the demonstrated statistical increase. This paper will focus, not on juvenile crime as such, but on the larger adult community, and, in particular, on that segment of the commu…
The Impact of a Community Group Work Program on Delinquent Corner Groups
Subculture, Social Reform and the 'Culture of Poverty
This essay addresses a set of issues involved in applying the concept of subculture to social problems in general and to the problems of low-status populations in particular. The approach embodied in the
Suggestions for a More Systematic Method of Comparing Political Units
White gangs
Preventive Work With Street-Corner Groups: Boston Delinquency Project
The corner-group method of attempting to pre vent "gang" delinquency is in fairly wide use, but little sub stantial evidence as to its effectiveness is available. Research on the impact of the Boston Delinquency Project on law- violating behavior of adolescent corner groups utilized four major indexes to behavior change to "test" effectiveness. Pre liminary findings indicate that worker activity resulted in a demonstrable impact on law-violating …
Two Concepts of Authority1
Suggestions for a More Systematic Method of Comparing Political Units
Health, Culture and Community: Case Studies of Public Reactions to Health Programs
The Impact of a Community Group Work Program on Delinquent Corner Groups
Lower Class Culture as a Generating Milieu of Gang Delinquency
Inter-Institutional Conflict as a Major Impediment to Delinquency Prevention
Juvenile delinquency is a major area of concern in the United States today. Although there is evidence of some increase in the actual incidence of juvenile crime, it is equally evident that the intensity of public concern over this issue has increased far more rapidly than the demonstrated statistical increase. This paper will focus, not on juvenile crime as such, but on the larger adult community, and, in particular, on that segment of the commu…
Implications of Urban Lower-Class Culture for Social Work
Preventive Work With Street-Corner Groups: Boston Delinquency Project
The corner-group method of attempting to pre vent "gang" delinquency is in fairly wide use, but little sub stantial evidence as to its effectiveness is available. Research on the impact of the Boston Delinquency Project on law- violating behavior of adolescent corner groups utilized four major indexes to behavior change to "test" effectiveness. Pre liminary findings indicate that worker activity resulted in a demonstrable impact on law-violating …
The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project
Journal Article The Impact of a 'Total-Community' Delinquency Control Project Get access Walter B. Miller Walter B. Miller Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 2, Autumn 1962, Pages 168–191, https://doi.org/10.2307/799049 Published: 08 August 2014
The corner gang boys get married
Violent Crimes in City Gangs
The urban street gang plays a central role in the imagery of violence currently being disseminated by the mass media. Testing the reality of this image requires careful empirical studies of actual gangs. A study involving 150 gangs in "Midcity," a slum district of an eastern metropolis, and focusing on seven gangs subject to intensive field observation, reveals marked differences between the public imagery and research-derived findings. While mem…
White gangs
Subculture, Social Reform and the 'Culture of Poverty
This essay addresses a set of issues involved in applying the concept of subculture to social problems in general and to the problems of low-status populations in particular. The approach embodied in the
Street Gangs and Street Workers. Malcolm W. Klein
The molls
People and Folks: Gangs, Crime and the Underclass in a Rustbelt City. John M. Hagedorn
Sociology (12 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Miller (8 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works) · Library science (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (4 works) · Juvenile delinquency (4 works)