Robert Nash Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630330 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Nash Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert Nash |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER R N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Iowa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 310 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Introduction to Room Presidential Symposium
The Link between Theory and Practice: The Conduct of Sociology
Community Readiness for Change and Youth Violence Prevention: A Tale of Two Cities
This case study identifies a situation in which there exists a set of preconditions for the successful application of evidence based practice to bear on the community based problem of youth violence. The concept of readiness to change and its impact on the success or failure of interventions designed to change harmful or dangerous behavior among individuals is well established and understood in intervention research. In recent years this concept …
The Impact of International Travel on the Epidemiology of Enteric Infections, British Columbia, 2008
Availability, Gang Violence, and Alcohol Policy: Gaining Support for Alcohol Regulation via Harm Reduction Strategies
The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between alcohol availability and gang violence. The goal of this study is to examine this relationship and the possibility that alcohol policy can prevent gang violence. Gang crimes and retail outlets were geocoded, and analyzed in conjunction with U.S. census data on race, ethnic diversity, family structure, poverty, and housing composition. A spatially aware pooled cross-sectional and t…
Alcohol and Violence: Connections, Evidence and Possibilities for Prevention
This article reviews a number of theoretical and substantive arguments and models concerning the link between alcohol and violent crime which have appeared in the research literature in the past decade. These arguments and models form a firm foundation for the expectation that alcohol plays a causal role in violent crime, and that interventions designed to reduce or eliminate this link between alcohol and violence have the potential to become eff…
Immigrants and Violence: The Importance of Neighborhood Context
This study examined the relationship between violence and immigration. The importance of neighborhood context, including alcohol availability, was also investigated. Using data from block groups, these relationships were examined in three California communities with significant immigrant populations. Data on socioeconomic characteristics were combined with police data concerning youth and data on alcohol availability. These data were geocoded in …
Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence
A review of the scientific literature on the relationship between alcohol and violence and that between drugs and violence is presented. A review and analysis of three major theoretical approaches to understanding these relationships are also presented. A number of conclusions are reached on the basis of these efforts. First, despite a number of published statements to the contrary, we find no significant evidence suggesting that drug use is asso…
Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions
Epilogue
This book has not been a history; the evidence for significant change in attitudes to pollution is too sparse. If we look forward briefly beyond the fourth century, we still find more evidence for continuity than transformation. One familiar figure does, it is true, seem to disappear, that of the polluted murderer. Little is known at all about the legal and social responses to homicide in this period, but it is probable that, if pollution had bee…
Cross-National Evidence on Homicide and the Age Structure of the Population
Poverty, Subculture of Violence, and Type of Homicide
Research on the causes of homicide has focused on two competing theoretical models, socioeconomic and subcultural. After a review of these two theoretical perspectives and a number of recent empirical studies of homicide derived from these perspectives, several theoretically derived hypotheses relating types of homicides as classified by the victim/offender relationship and these perspectives are presented and discussed. The analysis is designed …
Unemployment, Crime, and Imprisonment: A Panel Approach
Despite the widespreach acceptance of the notion that during periods of economic downturn, higher levels of unemployment lead to higher levels of crime and imprisonment, the research literature reveals very little consistent support for the existence of such a relationship. Studies that do suggest unemployment causes crime and imprisonment have used methodological techniques which, especially in over‐time studies, could lead to the acceptance of …
An Errors‐in‐variable Model of the Effect of Poverty on Urban Homicide Rates
Inconsistent findings on the relationship between poverty and violent crime have led some authors to question the presence of a structural relationship. There is reason, however, to believe that many of the existing estimates are biased because measures of poverty contain errors which are confounded with disturbances in the estimated models. In this paper we specify and estimate a model which accommodates the measurement error and provides an ins…
High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do about Either: Reply to Light
Journal Article High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do About Either: Reply to Light Get access Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Address correspondence to Robert Nash Parker, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. Dwayne Smith M. Dwayne Smith Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: …
Measuring Social Participation
Sewell, William H., Robert M. Hauser and Wendy C. Wolf 1980 Sex, schooling, and occupational status. American Journal of Sociology 86:551-83. Singelmann, Joachim 1978 sectoral transformation of the labor force in seven industrialized countries. American Journal of Sociology 83:1224-34. Smith, Ralph E. 1979 movement of women into the labor force. Pp. 1-29 in Ralph E. Smith (ed.), The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Instit…
Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES
Journal Article Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES Get access Richard T. Campbell, Richard T. Campbell Duke University Address correspondence to Richard Campbell, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Search for other works by this author o…
The Pareto Curve and Its Utility for Open-Ended Income Distributions in Survey Research
Two methods for estimating the midpoint of open-ended categories in income distributions typically found in surveys based on the Pareto Curve are investigated and compared. Results show that the choice of method and the selection of a mean or median estimator for the open-ended category midpoint have substantial effects on analyses in which income is the dependent variable. The accuracy of the two methods is evaluated in simulations using exact i…
Structural Constraints and Individual Career Earnings Patterns
Achievement in the Early Career. New York: Academic Press. Stolzenberg, Ross 1975 Occupations, labor markets and the process of wage attainment. American Sociological Review 40:645-65. Talbert, Joan and Christine E. Bose 1977 Wage-attainment processes: the retail clerk case. American Journal of Sociology 83:403-24. Theil, Henri 1971 Principles of Econometrics. New York: Wiley. Tolbert, Charles M., II, Patrick M. Horan, and E. M. Beck 1980 structu…
Type of Homicide and Variation in Regional Rates
A reanalysis of regional differences in homicide rates is conducted for two types of homicide, derived from the victim-offender relationship. A social — structural as opposed to subcultural, explanation is supported, but is found to have limitations. Social-structural variables, particularly poverty, are shown to be important predictors of differences in primary homicide rates (generally involving family members or friends), but are less importan…
Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States
Journal Article Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society Among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States Get access Alejandro Portes, Alejandro Portes Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar José A. Cobas José A. Cobas Arizona State Univer…
Correlation In Time Series Regression: The Geary Test
Sociologists have recently become more interested in testing dynamic models of social change via time series regression techniques (e.g., Snyder, 1975; Franke and Kaul, 1978; Burstein and Freudenburg, 1978). The existence of serial correlation in the disturbance term, which would constitute a violation of one of the standard regression model assumptions, is usually tested for in such models via the Durbm-Watson (1950, 1951) d test statrstic. Howe…
Equality, Success, and Social Justice in England and the United States: A Commentary and Critique
Deterrence, Poverty, and Type of Homicide
The assumption that homicide is a unidimensional phenomenon has rarely been questioned in empirical research. Using newly available data, this analysis classifies homicide into two types, primary and nonprimary, based on the victim/offender relationship. Two models that have appeared in the literature are replicated, utilizing this classificatory scheme. State primary-homicide rates are found to be related to poverty and to the percentage of the …
Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence
A review of the scientific literature on the relationship between alcohol and violence and that between drugs and violence is presented. A review and analysis of three major theoretical approaches to understanding these relationships are also presented. A number of conclusions are reached on the basis of these efforts. First, despite a number of published statements to the contrary, we find no significant evidence suggesting that drug use is asso…
An Errors‐in‐variable Model of the Effect of Poverty on Urban Homicide Rates
Inconsistent findings on the relationship between poverty and violent crime have led some authors to question the presence of a structural relationship. There is reason, however, to believe that many of the existing estimates are biased because measures of poverty contain errors which are confounded with disturbances in the estimated models. In this paper we specify and estimate a model which accommodates the measurement error and provides an ins…
Unemployment, Crime, and Imprisonment: A Panel Approach
Despite the widespreach acceptance of the notion that during periods of economic downturn, higher levels of unemployment lead to higher levels of crime and imprisonment, the research literature reveals very little consistent support for the existence of such a relationship. Studies that do suggest unemployment causes crime and imprisonment have used methodological techniques which, especially in over‐time studies, could lead to the acceptance of …
Deterrence, Poverty, and Type of Homicide
The assumption that homicide is a unidimensional phenomenon has rarely been questioned in empirical research. Using newly available data, this analysis classifies homicide into two types, primary and nonprimary, based on the victim/offender relationship. Two models that have appeared in the literature are replicated, utilizing this classificatory scheme. State primary-homicide rates are found to be related to poverty and to the percentage of the …
Immigrants and Violence: The Importance of Neighborhood Context
This study examined the relationship between violence and immigration. The importance of neighborhood context, including alcohol availability, was also investigated. Using data from block groups, these relationships were examined in three California communities with significant immigrant populations. Data on socioeconomic characteristics were combined with police data concerning youth and data on alcohol availability. These data were geocoded in …
Poverty, Subculture of Violence, and Type of Homicide
Research on the causes of homicide has focused on two competing theoretical models, socioeconomic and subcultural. After a review of these two theoretical perspectives and a number of recent empirical studies of homicide derived from these perspectives, several theoretically derived hypotheses relating types of homicides as classified by the victim/offender relationship and these perspectives are presented and discussed. The analysis is designed …
The Pareto Curve and Its Utility for Open-Ended Income Distributions in Survey Research
Two methods for estimating the midpoint of open-ended categories in income distributions typically found in surveys based on the Pareto Curve are investigated and compared. Results show that the choice of method and the selection of a mean or median estimator for the open-ended category midpoint have substantial effects on analyses in which income is the dependent variable. The accuracy of the two methods is evaluated in simulations using exact i…
Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States
Journal Article Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society Among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States Get access Alejandro Portes, Alejandro Portes Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar José A. Cobas José A. Cobas Arizona State Univer…
Type of Homicide and Variation in Regional Rates
A reanalysis of regional differences in homicide rates is conducted for two types of homicide, derived from the victim-offender relationship. A social — structural as opposed to subcultural, explanation is supported, but is found to have limitations. Social-structural variables, particularly poverty, are shown to be important predictors of differences in primary homicide rates (generally involving family members or friends), but are less importan…
Cross-National Evidence on Homicide and the Age Structure of the Population
Measuring Social Participation
Sewell, William H., Robert M. Hauser and Wendy C. Wolf 1980 Sex, schooling, and occupational status. American Journal of Sociology 86:551-83. Singelmann, Joachim 1978 sectoral transformation of the labor force in seven industrialized countries. American Journal of Sociology 83:1224-34. Smith, Ralph E. 1979 movement of women into the labor force. Pp. 1-29 in Ralph E. Smith (ed.), The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Instit…
Structural Constraints and Individual Career Earnings Patterns
Achievement in the Early Career. New York: Academic Press. Stolzenberg, Ross 1975 Occupations, labor markets and the process of wage attainment. American Sociological Review 40:645-65. Talbert, Joan and Christine E. Bose 1977 Wage-attainment processes: the retail clerk case. American Journal of Sociology 83:403-24. Theil, Henri 1971 Principles of Econometrics. New York: Wiley. Tolbert, Charles M., II, Patrick M. Horan, and E. M. Beck 1980 structu…
Equality, Success, and Social Justice in England and the United States: A Commentary and Critique
Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES
Journal Article Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES Get access Richard T. Campbell, Richard T. Campbell Duke University Address correspondence to Richard Campbell, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Search for other works by this author o…
The Link between Theory and Practice: The Conduct of Sociology
Community Readiness for Change and Youth Violence Prevention: A Tale of Two Cities
This case study identifies a situation in which there exists a set of preconditions for the successful application of evidence based practice to bear on the community based problem of youth violence. The concept of readiness to change and its impact on the success or failure of interventions designed to change harmful or dangerous behavior among individuals is well established and understood in intervention research. In recent years this concept …
Availability, Gang Violence, and Alcohol Policy: Gaining Support for Alcohol Regulation via Harm Reduction Strategies
The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between alcohol availability and gang violence. The goal of this study is to examine this relationship and the possibility that alcohol policy can prevent gang violence. Gang crimes and retail outlets were geocoded, and analyzed in conjunction with U.S. census data on race, ethnic diversity, family structure, poverty, and housing composition. A spatially aware pooled cross-sectional and t…
High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do about Either: Reply to Light
Journal Article High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do About Either: Reply to Light Get access Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Address correspondence to Robert Nash Parker, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. Dwayne Smith M. Dwayne Smith Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: …
Equality, Success, and Social Justice in England and the United States: A Commentary and Critique
Deterrence, Poverty, and Type of Homicide
The assumption that homicide is a unidimensional phenomenon has rarely been questioned in empirical research. Using newly available data, this analysis classifies homicide into two types, primary and nonprimary, based on the victim/offender relationship. Two models that have appeared in the literature are replicated, utilizing this classificatory scheme. State primary-homicide rates are found to be related to poverty and to the percentage of the …
Type of Homicide and Variation in Regional Rates
A reanalysis of regional differences in homicide rates is conducted for two types of homicide, derived from the victim-offender relationship. A social — structural as opposed to subcultural, explanation is supported, but is found to have limitations. Social-structural variables, particularly poverty, are shown to be important predictors of differences in primary homicide rates (generally involving family members or friends), but are less importan…
Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States
Journal Article Assimilation or Consciousness: Perceptions of U.S. Society Among Recent Latin American Immigrants to the United States Get access Alejandro Portes, Alejandro Portes Duke University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker University of Akron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar José A. Cobas José A. Cobas Arizona State Univer…
Correlation In Time Series Regression: The Geary Test
Sociologists have recently become more interested in testing dynamic models of social change via time series regression techniques (e.g., Snyder, 1975; Franke and Kaul, 1978; Burstein and Freudenburg, 1978). The existence of serial correlation in the disturbance term, which would constitute a violation of one of the standard regression model assumptions, is usually tested for in such models via the Durbm-Watson (1950, 1951) d test statrstic. Howe…
Structural Constraints and Individual Career Earnings Patterns
Achievement in the Early Career. New York: Academic Press. Stolzenberg, Ross 1975 Occupations, labor markets and the process of wage attainment. American Sociological Review 40:645-65. Talbert, Joan and Christine E. Bose 1977 Wage-attainment processes: the retail clerk case. American Journal of Sociology 83:403-24. Theil, Henri 1971 Principles of Econometrics. New York: Wiley. Tolbert, Charles M., II, Patrick M. Horan, and E. M. Beck 1980 structu…
Measuring Social Participation
Sewell, William H., Robert M. Hauser and Wendy C. Wolf 1980 Sex, schooling, and occupational status. American Journal of Sociology 86:551-83. Singelmann, Joachim 1978 sectoral transformation of the labor force in seven industrialized countries. American Journal of Sociology 83:1224-34. Smith, Ralph E. 1979 movement of women into the labor force. Pp. 1-29 in Ralph E. Smith (ed.), The Subtle Revolution: Women at Work. Washington, D.C.: Urban Instit…
Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES
Journal Article Substantive and Statistical Considerations in the Interpretation of Multiple Measures of SES Get access Richard T. Campbell, Richard T. Campbell Duke University Address correspondence to Richard Campbell, Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Robert Nash Parker Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Search for other works by this author o…
The Pareto Curve and Its Utility for Open-Ended Income Distributions in Survey Research
Two methods for estimating the midpoint of open-ended categories in income distributions typically found in surveys based on the Pareto Curve are investigated and compared. Results show that the choice of method and the selection of a mean or median estimator for the open-ended category midpoint have substantial effects on analyses in which income is the dependent variable. The accuracy of the two methods is evaluated in simulations using exact i…
High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do about Either: Reply to Light
Journal Article High Correlations or Multicollinearity, and What to Do About Either: Reply to Light Get access Robert Nash Parker, Robert Nash Parker Rutgers University Address correspondence to Robert Nash Parker, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. Dwayne Smith M. Dwayne Smith Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: …
An Errors‐in‐variable Model of the Effect of Poverty on Urban Homicide Rates
Inconsistent findings on the relationship between poverty and violent crime have led some authors to question the presence of a structural relationship. There is reason, however, to believe that many of the existing estimates are biased because measures of poverty contain errors which are confounded with disturbances in the estimated models. In this paper we specify and estimate a model which accommodates the measurement error and provides an ins…
Unemployment, Crime, and Imprisonment: A Panel Approach
Despite the widespreach acceptance of the notion that during periods of economic downturn, higher levels of unemployment lead to higher levels of crime and imprisonment, the research literature reveals very little consistent support for the existence of such a relationship. Studies that do suggest unemployment causes crime and imprisonment have used methodological techniques which, especially in over‐time studies, could lead to the acceptance of …
Poverty, Subculture of Violence, and Type of Homicide
Research on the causes of homicide has focused on two competing theoretical models, socioeconomic and subcultural. After a review of these two theoretical perspectives and a number of recent empirical studies of homicide derived from these perspectives, several theoretically derived hypotheses relating types of homicides as classified by the victim/offender relationship and these perspectives are presented and discussed. The analysis is designed …
Epilogue
This book has not been a history; the evidence for significant change in attitudes to pollution is too sparse. If we look forward briefly beyond the fourth century, we still find more evidence for continuity than transformation. One familiar figure does, it is true, seem to disappear, that of the polluted murderer. Little is known at all about the legal and social responses to homicide in this period, but it is probable that, if pollution had bee…
Cross-National Evidence on Homicide and the Age Structure of the Population
Alcohol and Homicide: A Deadly Combination of Two American Traditions
Immigrants and Violence: The Importance of Neighborhood Context
This study examined the relationship between violence and immigration. The importance of neighborhood context, including alcohol availability, was also investigated. Using data from block groups, these relationships were examined in three California communities with significant immigrant populations. Data on socioeconomic characteristics were combined with police data concerning youth and data on alcohol availability. These data were geocoded in …
Alcohol, Drugs, and Violence
A review of the scientific literature on the relationship between alcohol and violence and that between drugs and violence is presented. A review and analysis of three major theoretical approaches to understanding these relationships are also presented. A number of conclusions are reached on the basis of these efforts. First, despite a number of published statements to the contrary, we find no significant evidence suggesting that drug use is asso…
Alcohol and Violence: Connections, Evidence and Possibilities for Prevention
This article reviews a number of theoretical and substantive arguments and models concerning the link between alcohol and violent crime which have appeared in the research literature in the past decade. These arguments and models form a firm foundation for the expectation that alcohol plays a causal role in violent crime, and that interventions designed to reduce or eliminate this link between alcohol and violence have the potential to become eff…
Availability, Gang Violence, and Alcohol Policy: Gaining Support for Alcohol Regulation via Harm Reduction Strategies
The purpose of this article is to examine the relationship between alcohol availability and gang violence. The goal of this study is to examine this relationship and the possibility that alcohol policy can prevent gang violence. Gang crimes and retail outlets were geocoded, and analyzed in conjunction with U.S. census data on race, ethnic diversity, family structure, poverty, and housing composition. A spatially aware pooled cross-sectional and t…
The Impact of International Travel on the Epidemiology of Enteric Infections, British Columbia, 2008
Community Readiness for Change and Youth Violence Prevention: A Tale of Two Cities
This case study identifies a situation in which there exists a set of preconditions for the successful application of evidence based practice to bear on the community based problem of youth violence. The concept of readiness to change and its impact on the success or failure of interventions designed to change harmful or dangerous behavior among individuals is well established and understood in intervention research. In recent years this concept …
Introduction to Room Presidential Symposium
The Link between Theory and Practice: The Conduct of Sociology
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