Dennis W Roncek
Biographic Data
| ID | 3619490 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dennis W Roncek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dennis W |
| FAMILY NAME | Roncek |
| SIGNATURE | RONCEK D W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kansas State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 309 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
For Those Who Like Odds: A Direct Interpretation of the Logit Coefficient for Continuous Variables
Objective. Researchers have suggested a number of different methods for interpreting the coefficients in a logit model. Unfortunately, many of these interpretations suffer from a lack clarity or involve a substantial number of manipulations of the logit coefficient prior to interpretation. In this article, we discuss a straightforward method of interpreting logit coefficients for continuous dependent variables without the need for extensive trans…
"When Will They Ever Learn That First Derivatives Identify the Effects of Continuous Independent Variables or "Officer, You Can't Give Me a Ticket, I Wasn't Speeding for an Entire Hour
The reasons for using the first derivative to identify the effect of continuous independent variables in a logit function are explained with simple examples and more mathematics than in my original article (Roncek 1991). I show how a common practice of examining the difference in a dependent variable for values of X and X+1 to find the effect of a continuous independent variable in an ordinary, linear, additive regression cannot and should not be…
Learning More From Tobit Coefficients: Extending a Comparative Analysis of Political Protest
Tobit analysis is the appropriate strategy for many sociological problems. Unfortunately, clear procedures for interpreting its coefficients are not available. Using Walton and Ragin's (1991) tobit analysis of austerity protests in debtor nations, I show that tobit coefficients can be decomposed into two effects: (1) an effect representing an increase in the severity of protests in countries that have experienced protests, and (2) an effect repre…
Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities
Journal Article Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities Get access Dennis W. Roncek Dennis W. Roncek Kansas State University Direct correspondence to Dennis W. Roncek, Department of Sociology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 70, Issue 2, December 1991, Pages 509–518, https://doi.o…
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes Revisited: "Linking the Theory of Routine Activities to the Empiricism of "Hot Spots
Anticipating recent developments in routine activities theory, Roncek and Bell (1981) found that bars and taverns had detrimental effects on crime on residential city blocks in Cleveland for 1970. We replicate and extend their work by examining the effects of recreational liquor establishments (i.e., taverns and cocktail lounges) on crime from 1979 to 1981 on Cleveland's residential city blocks. The number of such businesses on residential city b…
Recession, Crime and Punishment
Preface - The Lost World of the Sixties - Why Should Recession Cause Crime to Increase? - Does Recession Lead to More Crime? The State and 'Problem Populations' - The Criminal Justice System and 'Problem Populations' - Does Recession Lead to More Imprisonment? - Conclusions and Policy Implications - Bibliography - Index
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
High Schools and Crime: A Replication
Using Cleveland data, we replicate Roncek and LoBosco's study of the effect of proximity to San Diego's high schools on crime in their surroundings. We also examine a major alternative hypothesis whether having other non-residential land uses in the schools' surroundings accounts for crime in these areas. Our findings closely parallel theirs. Proximity to public high schools only increases crime on city blocks which are immediately adjacent to th…
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes
Dangerous Places: Crime and Residential Environment
This research investigates how the characteristics of residential areas in the city affect where crimes occur. Using data for city blocks in Cleveland and San Diego, the analysis tests three major hypotheses relating crime to (1) household composition, (2) features of the residential environment, and (3) the interaction of the social composition and the features of the residential environment. The results support the major hypotheses and show tha…
Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis
Journal Article Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis Get access Dennis W. Roncek, Dennis W. Roncek University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ralph Bell, Ralph Bell University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jeffrey M.A. Francik Jeffrey M.A. Francik University of Illinois at Chicago Circle …
Female-Headed Families: An Ecological Model of Residential Concentration in a Small City
Dennis W. Roncek, Ralph Bell, Harvey M. Choldin, Female-Headed Families: An Ecological Model of Residential Concentration in a Small City, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 157-169
Discrete Discriminant Analysis
Investigating Group Differences: An Explication of the Sociological Potential of Discriminant Analysis
Frequently, sociologists encounter research problems which call for assessing the extent to which two or more categories of people or events can be maximally distinguished from one another with respect to a number of common variable attributes. Unfortunately, predictive models which evidently accomplish just this, in addition to providing rules for the classification of new entities, have been conspicuously absent from the literature. Discriminan…
Density and Crime: A Methodological Critique
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes Revisited: "Linking the Theory of Routine Activities to the Empiricism of "Hot Spots
Anticipating recent developments in routine activities theory, Roncek and Bell (1981) found that bars and taverns had detrimental effects on crime on residential city blocks in Cleveland for 1970. We replicate and extend their work by examining the effects of recreational liquor establishments (i.e., taverns and cocktail lounges) on crime from 1979 to 1981 on Cleveland's residential city blocks. The number of such businesses on residential city b…
Learning More From Tobit Coefficients: Extending a Comparative Analysis of Political Protest
Tobit analysis is the appropriate strategy for many sociological problems. Unfortunately, clear procedures for interpreting its coefficients are not available. Using Walton and Ragin's (1991) tobit analysis of austerity protests in debtor nations, I show that tobit coefficients can be decomposed into two effects: (1) an effect representing an increase in the severity of protests in countries that have experienced protests, and (2) an effect repre…
Dangerous Places: Crime and Residential Environment
This research investigates how the characteristics of residential areas in the city affect where crimes occur. Using data for city blocks in Cleveland and San Diego, the analysis tests three major hypotheses relating crime to (1) household composition, (2) features of the residential environment, and (3) the interaction of the social composition and the features of the residential environment. The results support the major hypotheses and show tha…
High Schools and Crime: A Replication
Using Cleveland data, we replicate Roncek and LoBosco's study of the effect of proximity to San Diego's high schools on crime in their surroundings. We also examine a major alternative hypothesis whether having other non-residential land uses in the schools' surroundings accounts for crime in these areas. Our findings closely parallel theirs. Proximity to public high schools only increases crime on city blocks which are immediately adjacent to th…
Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis
Journal Article Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis Get access Dennis W. Roncek, Dennis W. Roncek University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ralph Bell, Ralph Bell University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jeffrey M.A. Francik Jeffrey M.A. Francik University of Illinois at Chicago Circle …
Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities
Journal Article Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities Get access Dennis W. Roncek Dennis W. Roncek Kansas State University Direct correspondence to Dennis W. Roncek, Department of Sociology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 70, Issue 2, December 1991, Pages 509–518, https://doi.o…
Density and Crime: A Methodological Critique
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
Investigating Group Differences: An Explication of the Sociological Potential of Discriminant Analysis
Frequently, sociologists encounter research problems which call for assessing the extent to which two or more categories of people or events can be maximally distinguished from one another with respect to a number of common variable attributes. Unfortunately, predictive models which evidently accomplish just this, in addition to providing rules for the classification of new entities, have been conspicuously absent from the literature. Discriminan…
For Those Who Like Odds: A Direct Interpretation of the Logit Coefficient for Continuous Variables
Objective. Researchers have suggested a number of different methods for interpreting the coefficients in a logit model. Unfortunately, many of these interpretations suffer from a lack clarity or involve a substantial number of manipulations of the logit coefficient prior to interpretation. In this article, we discuss a straightforward method of interpreting logit coefficients for continuous dependent variables without the need for extensive trans…
"When Will They Ever Learn That First Derivatives Identify the Effects of Continuous Independent Variables or "Officer, You Can't Give Me a Ticket, I Wasn't Speeding for an Entire Hour
The reasons for using the first derivative to identify the effect of continuous independent variables in a logit function are explained with simple examples and more mathematics than in my original article (Roncek 1991). I show how a common practice of examining the difference in a dependent variable for values of X and X+1 to find the effect of a continuous independent variable in an ordinary, linear, additive regression cannot and should not be…
Density and Crime: A Methodological Critique
Investigating Group Differences: An Explication of the Sociological Potential of Discriminant Analysis
Frequently, sociologists encounter research problems which call for assessing the extent to which two or more categories of people or events can be maximally distinguished from one another with respect to a number of common variable attributes. Unfortunately, predictive models which evidently accomplish just this, in addition to providing rules for the classification of new entities, have been conspicuously absent from the literature. Discriminan…
Discrete Discriminant Analysis
Female-Headed Families: An Ecological Model of Residential Concentration in a Small City
Dennis W. Roncek, Ralph Bell, Harvey M. Choldin, Female-Headed Families: An Ecological Model of Residential Concentration in a Small City, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 42, No. 1 (Feb., 1980), pp. 157-169
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes
Dangerous Places: Crime and Residential Environment
This research investigates how the characteristics of residential areas in the city affect where crimes occur. Using data for city blocks in Cleveland and San Diego, the analysis tests three major hypotheses relating crime to (1) household composition, (2) features of the residential environment, and (3) the interaction of the social composition and the features of the residential environment. The results support the major hypotheses and show tha…
Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis
Journal Article Housing Projects and Crime: Testing a Proximity Hypothesis Get access Dennis W. Roncek, Dennis W. Roncek University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Ralph Bell, Ralph Bell University of Chicago Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Jeffrey M.A. Francik Jeffrey M.A. Francik University of Illinois at Chicago Circle …
High Schools and Crime: A Replication
Using Cleveland data, we replicate Roncek and LoBosco's study of the effect of proximity to San Diego's high schools on crime in their surroundings. We also examine a major alternative hypothesis whether having other non-residential land uses in the schools' surroundings accounts for crime in these areas. Our findings closely parallel theirs. Proximity to public high schools only increases crime on city blocks which are immediately adjacent to th…
Industrialization and World Inequality: The Transformation of the Division of Labor in 59 Nations, 1960-1981
Using smallest space analysis we derive levels, paths, and rates of industrialization from the labor force distributions of 59 nations. Two smallest space dimensions are necessary to represent patterns of labor force change. The first reflects the overall level of industrialization; the second reveals a trade-off between the size of the manufacturing versus service sectors for nations at comparable levels of industrialization. After controlling f…
Recession, Crime and Punishment
Preface - The Lost World of the Sixties - Why Should Recession Cause Crime to Increase? - Does Recession Lead to More Crime? The State and 'Problem Populations' - The Criminal Justice System and 'Problem Populations' - Does Recession Lead to More Imprisonment? - Conclusions and Policy Implications - Bibliography - Index
Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities
Journal Article Using Logit Coefficients to Obtain the Effects of Independent Variables on Changes in Probabilities Get access Dennis W. Roncek Dennis W. Roncek Kansas State University Direct correspondence to Dennis W. Roncek, Department of Sociology, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 70, Issue 2, December 1991, Pages 509–518, https://doi.o…
Bars, Blocks, and Crimes Revisited: "Linking the Theory of Routine Activities to the Empiricism of "Hot Spots
Anticipating recent developments in routine activities theory, Roncek and Bell (1981) found that bars and taverns had detrimental effects on crime on residential city blocks in Cleveland for 1970. We replicate and extend their work by examining the effects of recreational liquor establishments (i.e., taverns and cocktail lounges) on crime from 1979 to 1981 on Cleveland's residential city blocks. The number of such businesses on residential city b…
Learning More From Tobit Coefficients: Extending a Comparative Analysis of Political Protest
Tobit analysis is the appropriate strategy for many sociological problems. Unfortunately, clear procedures for interpreting its coefficients are not available. Using Walton and Ragin's (1991) tobit analysis of austerity protests in debtor nations, I show that tobit coefficients can be decomposed into two effects: (1) an effect representing an increase in the severity of protests in countries that have experienced protests, and (2) an effect repre…
"When Will They Ever Learn That First Derivatives Identify the Effects of Continuous Independent Variables or "Officer, You Can't Give Me a Ticket, I Wasn't Speeding for an Entire Hour
The reasons for using the first derivative to identify the effect of continuous independent variables in a logit function are explained with simple examples and more mathematics than in my original article (Roncek 1991). I show how a common practice of examining the difference in a dependent variable for values of X and X+1 to find the effect of a continuous independent variable in an ordinary, linear, additive regression cannot and should not be…
For Those Who Like Odds: A Direct Interpretation of the Logit Coefficient for Continuous Variables
Objective. Researchers have suggested a number of different methods for interpreting the coefficients in a logit model. Unfortunately, many of these interpretations suffer from a lack clarity or involve a substantial number of manipulations of the logit coefficient prior to interpretation. In this article, we discuss a straightforward method of interpreting logit coefficients for continuous dependent variables without the need for extensive trans…
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