H Laurence Ro
Biographic Data
| ID | 3620166 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Laurence Ro |
| GIVEN NAMES | H Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Ro |
| SIGNATURE | RO H L |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 269 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Housing Code Enforcement as Law in Action
This document presents a description and analysis of housing codes and the enterprise of enforcing them. The origin of cases, the roles of complainants, inspectors, supervisors, and others in their processing, as well as the outcomes, are explored. Housing code enforcement produces law in action which, as with other similar enterprises, is simplified and liberal compared with the formal rules, and which contains a variety of formally arbitrary ou…
Confronting Drunk Driving: Social Policy for Saving Lives
The Law and Drunk Driving
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America.Gary Kleck
Why People Obey the Law. Tom R. Tyler
The New Philadelphia Story: The Effects of Severe Punishment for Drunk Driving
This article documents the experience of a community–New Philadelphia, Ohio–in which a concerned judge attempted to apply severe penalties in order to deter drunk driving. Surveys of drivers on weekend nights were performed in this community and the nearby comparison city of Cambridge in order to determine the extent to which the legal threats were perceived and the extent to which people drank and drove. It was found that the judicial policies w…
On Misfortune: Its Consequences and Their Mitigation
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Administrative License Revocation in New Mexico: An Evaluation
Swiftness of punishment for drivers impaired by alcohol is likely to be increased objectively by administrative license revocation laws. These laws provide that a driver who fails or refuses a breath‐alcohol test has his license confiscated on the spot by police, with formal loss of driving privileges following shortly thereafter. This study of New Mexico law looks for evidence of a deterrent impact of administrative license revocation. Interrupt…
Judicial Disobedience of the Mandate to Imprison Drunk Drivers
We report here the results of two empirical studies of laws mandating a jail term of forty-eight consecutive hours for repeat-offender drunk drivers. In both cases, noncompliance by judges, abetted by other criminal justice system actors, was extensive, and substantial proportions of offenders were not imprisoned as mandated. We explain these findings as evidence of both a disjunction between formal and operative definitions of the behavior in qu…
The Law and the Automobile
Deterrence Of Drinking and Driving in France: An Evaluation of the Law of July 12, 1978
This report describes a study of the effects of a Scandinavian-style law concerning alcohol-impaired driving. The past two decades have seen the adoption throughout most of the developed world of drinking-and-driving laws based on principles originally developed in Norway and Sweden. The French law of July 12, 1978, was a part of this general development. Interrupted time-series analysis of French data on crash-related injuries and fatalities sho…
The Sociology of Law and Order.Lynn McDonald
Complaint as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
When consumers experience problems with purchases the most frequent mechanism for their solution is complaint to the seller. This case study describes and attempts to evaluate the working of the complaint mechanism in handling the problems of purchasers of selected household appliances. The complaint mechanism was found to be commonly used and effective in handling matters defined by consumers as problematic, and consumers often seemed to obtain …
The Neutralization of Severe Penalties: Some Traffic Law Studies
Between the formal law of statute books and appellate courts and the informal law of routine dispositions intervene a variety of actors, exemplified by policemen and insurance adjusters, some of whom have not traditionally been regarded as "legal" actors. However, one of the most important contributions of sociology to the understanding of law has been the demonstration that the attitudes and values of these actors and the pressures embodied in t…
Insurance Claims Complaints: A Private Appeals Procedure
Two of the major insights of the sociology of law are that legal rights in contemporary society are most often determined by bureaucratic actors and that the results differ systematically from those predictable on the basis of formal law alone (Mayhew, 1966; Ross, 1970; Skolnick, 1966; Whitford, 1968). The decision-maker who determines in practice the extent of legal rights and duties is most often a low-level employee of a bureaucracy-a patrolma…
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago: A Judicial Policy that Failed
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
Settled out of Court: The Social Process of Insurance Claims Adjustments
Accident Proneness: Research in the Occurrence, Causation and Prevention of Road Accidents
Little Men, Big Machines
Crimes Against Bureaucracy
Modes of Adjustment of Married Homosexuals
Interviews were obtained with 11 Belgian couples, in each of which one member was homosexual, in order to explore a quantitatively important but greatly obscured social problem. Many of the marriages were based on a failure of both parties at the time of marriage to define the homosexual partner as such. Admitted homosexuals married because of social pressures, as a flight from homosexuality, or on commitment to a home-centered life. Conflict ten…
Politics, Law, and Social Change: Selected Essays of Otto Kirchheimer
Determining the Social Effects of a Legal Reform: The British "Breathalyser" Crackdown of 1967
Programs in Law and Social Science
The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California has received a Ford Foundation grant to support a program of studies of criminal law and social policy. The five-year grant was awarded to the Center and the Earl Warren Legal Center. Activity under the grant will focus on theoretical and empirical studies of “law and order.” Among the participants are Caleb Foote, who is studying the nature and uses of judicial discretio…
The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding: Time-Series Data in Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Social research frequently encounters the task of evaluating change produced in nonrandomly selected groups by events which are beyond the researcher's control. The social scientist must verify that there has in fact been a change, and that the indicated event is its cause. Illustrations are manifold: a state terminates capital punishment, and proponents of this type of punishment predict an increase in the murder rate; a school is integrated, an…
The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding: Time-Series Data in Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Social research frequently encounters the task of evaluating change produced in nonrandomly selected groups by events which are beyond the researcher's control. The social scientist must verify that there has in fact been a change, and that the indicated event is its cause. Illustrations are manifold: a state terminates capital punishment, and proponents of this type of punishment predict an increase in the murder rate; a school is integrated, an…
Traffic Law Violation: A Folk Crime
Determining the Social Effects of a Legal Reform: The British "Breathalyser" Crackdown of 1967
Crimes Against Bureaucracy
Judicial Disobedience of the Mandate to Imprison Drunk Drivers
We report here the results of two empirical studies of laws mandating a jail term of forty-eight consecutive hours for repeat-offender drunk drivers. In both cases, noncompliance by judges, abetted by other criminal justice system actors, was extensive, and substantial proportions of offenders were not imprisoned as mandated. We explain these findings as evidence of both a disjunction between formal and operative definitions of the behavior in qu…
Complaint as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
When consumers experience problems with purchases the most frequent mechanism for their solution is complaint to the seller. This case study describes and attempts to evaluate the working of the complaint mechanism in handling the problems of purchasers of selected household appliances. The complaint mechanism was found to be commonly used and effective in handling matters defined by consumers as problematic, and consumers often seemed to obtain …
Politics, Law, and Social Change: Selected Essays of Otto Kirchheimer
Deterrence Of Drinking and Driving in France: An Evaluation of the Law of July 12, 1978
This report describes a study of the effects of a Scandinavian-style law concerning alcohol-impaired driving. The past two decades have seen the adoption throughout most of the developed world of drinking-and-driving laws based on principles originally developed in Norway and Sweden. The French law of July 12, 1978, was a part of this general development. Interrupted time-series analysis of French data on crash-related injuries and fatalities sho…
Modes of Adjustment of Married Homosexuals
Interviews were obtained with 11 Belgian couples, in each of which one member was homosexual, in order to explore a quantitatively important but greatly obscured social problem. Many of the marriages were based on a failure of both parties at the time of marriage to define the homosexual partner as such. Admitted homosexuals married because of social pressures, as a flight from homosexuality, or on commitment to a home-centered life. Conflict ten…
The Local Community: A Survey Approach
Sociologists in the Chicago tradition looked at the city as a mosaic of social worlds culturally differentiated and socially insulated from one another. These they termed local communities. This paper reports on a search, in a central area of a modern metropolis, for comparable units. The results suggest that residents of a metropolis see their city as composed of named and bounded areas, and that these areas have status-ascriptive functions in u…
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago: A Judicial Policy that Failed
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
The Neutralization of Severe Penalties: Some Traffic Law Studies
Between the formal law of statute books and appellate courts and the informal law of routine dispositions intervene a variety of actors, exemplified by policemen and insurance adjusters, some of whom have not traditionally been regarded as "legal" actors. However, one of the most important contributions of sociology to the understanding of law has been the demonstration that the attitudes and values of these actors and the pressures embodied in t…
The Inaccessible Respondent: A Note on Privacy in City and Country
Journal Article THE INACCESSIBLE RESPONDENT: A NOTE ON PRIVACY IN CITY AND COUNTRY Get access H. LAURENCE ROSS H. LAURENCE ROSS ††H. Laurence Ross is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 2, SUMMER 1963, Pages 269–275, https://doi.org/10.1086/267167 Published: 01 January 1963
The New Philadelphia Story: The Effects of Severe Punishment for Drunk Driving
This article documents the experience of a community–New Philadelphia, Ohio–in which a concerned judge attempted to apply severe penalties in order to deter drunk driving. Surveys of drivers on weekend nights were performed in this community and the nearby comparison city of Cambridge in order to determine the extent to which the legal threats were perceived and the extent to which people drank and drove. It was found that the judicial policies w…
Insurance Claims Complaints: A Private Appeals Procedure
Two of the major insights of the sociology of law are that legal rights in contemporary society are most often determined by bureaucratic actors and that the results differ systematically from those predictable on the basis of formal law alone (Mayhew, 1966; Ross, 1970; Skolnick, 1966; Whitford, 1968). The decision-maker who determines in practice the extent of legal rights and duties is most often a low-level employee of a bureaucracy-a patrolma…
Administrative License Revocation in New Mexico: An Evaluation
Swiftness of punishment for drivers impaired by alcohol is likely to be increased objectively by administrative license revocation laws. These laws provide that a driver who fails or refuses a breath‐alcohol test has his license confiscated on the spot by police, with formal loss of driving privileges following shortly thereafter. This study of New Mexico law looks for evidence of a deterrent impact of administrative license revocation. Interrupt…
Housing Code Enforcement as Law in Action
This document presents a description and analysis of housing codes and the enterprise of enforcing them. The origin of cases, the roles of complainants, inspectors, supervisors, and others in their processing, as well as the outcomes, are explored. Housing code enforcement produces law in action which, as with other similar enterprises, is simplified and liberal compared with the formal rules, and which contains a variety of formally arbitrary ou…
The Law and Drunk Driving
Point Blank: Guns and Violence in America.Gary Kleck
Accident Proneness: Research in the Occurrence, Causation and Prevention of Road Accidents
Legal Stigma
Journal Article Legal Stigma Get access H. Laurence Ross H. Laurence Ross New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 4, Spring 1963, Pages 390–391, https://doi.org/10.2307/799212 Published: 08 August 2014
Traffic Law Violation: A Folk Crime
The Local Community: A Survey Approach
Sociologists in the Chicago tradition looked at the city as a mosaic of social worlds culturally differentiated and socially insulated from one another. These they termed local communities. This paper reports on a search, in a central area of a modern metropolis, for comparable units. The results suggest that residents of a metropolis see their city as composed of named and bounded areas, and that these areas have status-ascriptive functions in u…
Crimes et villes: Étude statistique de la criminalité urbaine et rurale en France et en Belgique ('Crimes and Cities: Statistical Study of Urban and Rural Criminality in France and in Belgium').Denis …
The Inaccessible Respondent: A Note on Privacy in City and Country
Journal Article THE INACCESSIBLE RESPONDENT: A NOTE ON PRIVACY IN CITY AND COUNTRY Get access H. LAURENCE ROSS H. LAURENCE ROSS ††H. Laurence Ross is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 27, Issue 2, SUMMER 1963, Pages 269–275, https://doi.org/10.1086/267167 Published: 01 January 1963
Legal Stigma
Journal Article Legal Stigma Get access H. Laurence Ross H. Laurence Ross New York University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 10, Issue 4, Spring 1963, Pages 390–391, https://doi.org/10.2307/799212 Published: 08 August 2014
Perspectives on the Social Order: Reading in Sociology
Contemporary Sociology: An Introductory Testbook of Readings
Uptown and Downtown: A Study of Middle-Class Residential Areas
Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance
The Connecticut Crackdown on Speeding: Time-Series Data in Quasi-Experimental Analysis
Social research frequently encounters the task of evaluating change produced in nonrandomly selected groups by events which are beyond the researcher's control. The social scientist must verify that there has in fact been a change, and that the indicated event is its cause. Illustrations are manifold: a state terminates capital punishment, and proponents of this type of punishment predict an increase in the murder rate; a school is integrated, an…
Programs in Law and Social Science
The Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California has received a Ford Foundation grant to support a program of studies of criminal law and social policy. The five-year grant was awarded to the Center and the Earl Warren Legal Center. Activity under the grant will focus on theoretical and empirical studies of “law and order.” Among the participants are Caleb Foote, who is studying the nature and uses of judicial discretio…
Politics, Law, and Social Change: Selected Essays of Otto Kirchheimer
Determining the Social Effects of a Legal Reform: The British "Breathalyser" Crackdown of 1967
Crimes Against Bureaucracy
Modes of Adjustment of Married Homosexuals
Interviews were obtained with 11 Belgian couples, in each of which one member was homosexual, in order to explore a quantitatively important but greatly obscured social problem. Many of the marriages were based on a failure of both parties at the time of marriage to define the homosexual partner as such. Admitted homosexuals married because of social pressures, as a flight from homosexuality, or on commitment to a home-centered life. Conflict ten…
Accident Proneness: Research in the Occurrence, Causation and Prevention of Road Accidents
Little Men, Big Machines
Jail Sentences for Driving While Intoxicated in Chicago: A Judicial Policy that Failed
Excessive drinking is involved in over one-half of the motor vehicle associated fatalities in the United States (Department of Transportation, 1968). Various means have been suggested, and some tried, to curb these losses. In only a few cases have countermeasures against driving while intoxicated been subjected to scientifically acceptable evaluation as to effectiveness.In one such study, Barmack and Payne (1964b) used an information program with…
Settled out of Court: The Social Process of Insurance Claims Adjustments
Insurance Claims Complaints: A Private Appeals Procedure
Two of the major insights of the sociology of law are that legal rights in contemporary society are most often determined by bureaucratic actors and that the results differ systematically from those predictable on the basis of formal law alone (Mayhew, 1966; Ross, 1970; Skolnick, 1966; Whitford, 1968). The decision-maker who determines in practice the extent of legal rights and duties is most often a low-level employee of a bureaucracy-a patrolma…
The Neutralization of Severe Penalties: Some Traffic Law Studies
Between the formal law of statute books and appellate courts and the informal law of routine dispositions intervene a variety of actors, exemplified by policemen and insurance adjusters, some of whom have not traditionally been regarded as "legal" actors. However, one of the most important contributions of sociology to the understanding of law has been the demonstration that the attitudes and values of these actors and the pressures embodied in t…
Complaint as a Problem-Solving Mechanism
When consumers experience problems with purchases the most frequent mechanism for their solution is complaint to the seller. This case study describes and attempts to evaluate the working of the complaint mechanism in handling the problems of purchasers of selected household appliances. The complaint mechanism was found to be commonly used and effective in handling matters defined by consumers as problematic, and consumers often seemed to obtain …
The Sociology of Law and Order.Lynn McDonald
Deterrence Of Drinking and Driving in France: An Evaluation of the Law of July 12, 1978
This report describes a study of the effects of a Scandinavian-style law concerning alcohol-impaired driving. The past two decades have seen the adoption throughout most of the developed world of drinking-and-driving laws based on principles originally developed in Norway and Sweden. The French law of July 12, 1978, was a part of this general development. Interrupted time-series analysis of French data on crash-related injuries and fatalities sho…
The Law and the Automobile
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