Lawrence E Cohen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630341 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lawrence E Cohen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lawrence E |
| FAMILY NAME | Cohen |
| SIGNATURE | COHEN L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2589 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Desisting from Crime: Continuity and Change in Long-term Crime Patterns of Serious Chronic Offenders
This groundbreaking study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. The book addresses questions that have been the focus of criminological debate over the last two decades. Are there are multiple groups of offenders in the population with distinct age-crime patterns? Are between-person differences in criminal offending patterns stable throughout the offender's life? Is there a relationship between offending at one time …
Modeling Multiple Failure Time Data: A Survey of Variance-Corrected Proportional Hazards Models with Empirical Applications to Arrest Data
Proportional hazards models are powerful methods for the analysis of dynamic social processes and are widely used in sociology to estimate the effects of covariates on event timing (e.g., time to arrest, birth, marriage). The proper statistical modeling of failure time data is an important analytical issue in sociology, but to date the field has largely neglected the application of these models to multiple failure time data in which the conventio…
Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend
Journal Article Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend Get access Bill McCarthy, Bill McCarthy University of California at Davis Direct all correspondence to Bill McCarthy, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hagan, John Hagan University of Toronto Search for o…
The Cynic's Guide to Human Nature and Crime Control: Why It Hardly Matters Which Theory You Use as a Basis for Holistic Crime Policy
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Self‐interest, Equity, and Crime Control: A Game‐theoretic Analysis of Criminal Decision Making
Employing the analytic technique of game theory, we attempt to answer questions about how individuals with different proclivities to use crime to accomplish ends, and different beliefs about society's fairness, are likely to respond to different incentives and disincentives that are derived from strain and neoclassical deterrence theories. Our analysis indicates that the crime control policies typically recommended by adherents of both theories a…
The Normalcy of Crime: From Durkheim to Evolutionary Ecology
A troublesome but generally ignored paradox characterizes contemporary sociological explanations of crime causation. Although many sociologists interpret crime as if it were pathological or aberrant and thus "abnormal" behavior, most simultaneously embrace Durkheim's famous dictum of crime as "normal" behavior. A review of Durkheim's theory of crime causation reveals that it is burdened by several serious logical flaws. And ironically, despite hi…
Crime as Strategy: Testing an Evolutionary Ecological Theory of Expropriative Crime
This article presents a refined specification of Cohen and Machalek's general evolutionary ecological theory of expropriative crime and results of tests employing two complementary approaches: (1) the development of a game-theoretic model that mathematically tests the logical adequacy of the theory's fundamental assumptions and (2) the conduct of computer simulation experiments to analyze the model's behavior and test its consistency with novel h…
Violent criminal behavior: Is there a general and continuing influence of the South
The nature of crime: Is cheating necessary for cooperation
Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space
This study demonstrate that the empirical literature on the structural convariates of homicide rates contains inconsistent findings across different time periods and different geographical units. This apparent variance of findings may be due to statistical or methodological artifacts of particular studies, such as different time periods covered, units of analysis, samples, model specification, and problems of statistical analysis and inference. A…
A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach
Ever since Durkheim, many social scientists have subscribed to the premise that deviance and crime anre "normal" properties of naturally functioning social systems. When trying to explain the causes of these behaviors, however, many social scientists typically resort to the idea of "pathological" origins. On the whole, social scientists have yet to explain how and why "normal" individuals operating in unexceptional social environments deviate and…
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
Age Structure and Crime: Symmetry Versus Asymmetry and the Projection of Crime Rates Through the 1990s
This paper asks whether decreases in the proportion of the U.S. population in high crime-prone ages in recent years have produced decreases in crime rates which correspond approximately, but in an inverse direction, to the increases observed when the baby boomers reached the high crime-prone ages in the 1960s and 1970s. We examine age distributions of arrests for murder and motor vehicle theft and then specify and estimate structural-equation mod…
Risk-based crime statistics: A forecasting comparison for burglary and auto theft
Unemployment and the homicide rate: A paradox resolved
Discrepancies Between Crime Reports and Crime Surveys: Urban and Structural Determinants
The absence of strong zero‐order associations between victimization and official crime rates for cities has been a puzzle for social scientists since the data for making such comparisons became available. Using the 26 large central cities for which data on both types of rates are available, we analyze the extent to which discrepancies between the rates can be accounted for by aspects of urban social structure that differ from city to city. After …
Insinuating Informality: A Reply to Breen and Rottman
Legal Aim, Discretion, and Social Control: A Case Study of the Federal Youth Corrections Act
This study attempts to ascertain how the legal a i m of rehabilitation are applied, as well as their social control consequences for a group of offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act (FYCA) of 1950. Discriminant function analyses were conducted on a random sample of 452 persons selected f o r a “special” FYCA rehabilitative disposition and 758 persons accorded a regular punitive disposition, to determine 1) the factors that i…
Theory and Method in the Study of Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms
Quantitative output of the criminal justice system: Case processing indicators for the United States, 1953?1976
Volunteering for Foreign Combat Missions: An Attitudinal Study of U.S. Army Paratroopers
The sociological approach to the study of combat motivation has generally been grounded in the primary-group thesis; that is, it has been the strength or weakness of primary-group bonds that have determined the direction of study. Utilizing data obtained from a sample of U.S. Army paratroopers, we suggest that the primary-group thesis has been a limiting concept and that combat motivation may be the product of many factors. Our multiple regressio…
Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization: An Exposition and Test of a Formal Theory
This study systematically tests a formal theory of how certain dimensions of social stratification--income, race, and age--relate to risk of predatory criminal victimization. An opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five risk factors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves. …
Human ecology and crime: A routine activity approach
Obedience to Orders: Issues of Morality and Legality in Combat among U.S. Army Paratroopers
This study attempts to answer two questions: (1) What are the attitudes of those American soldiers most likely to engage in combat toward selected issues of compliance with immoral and illegal orders in battle? and (2) What factors account for the differences in these attitudes among U.S. soldiers? Three hypotheses were tested from a questionnaire administered to a sample of 672 U.S. Army paratroopers: (1) those soldiers who like and identify mos…
Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms: A Reanalysis of Generational and Occupational Effects
Theoretical Considerations suggest that, among Mexican Americans, generation, a measure of cultural assimilation, is more closely related to exogamy than is exogamy than is occupation, a measure of structural assimilation. The classic study by Mittelbach and Moore (1968), however, argued that occupational effects were greater than generational effects for Mexican Americans in Los Angeles County in 1963. In contrast, our log-linear reanalysis of t…
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space
This study demonstrate that the empirical literature on the structural convariates of homicide rates contains inconsistent findings across different time periods and different geographical units. This apparent variance of findings may be due to statistical or methodological artifacts of particular studies, such as different time periods covered, units of analysis, samples, model specification, and problems of statistical analysis and inference. A…
Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization: An Exposition and Test of a Formal Theory
This study systematically tests a formal theory of how certain dimensions of social stratification--income, race, and age--relate to risk of predatory criminal victimization. An opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five risk factors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves. …
Age Structure and Crime: Symmetry Versus Asymmetry and the Projection of Crime Rates Through the 1990s
This paper asks whether decreases in the proportion of the U.S. population in high crime-prone ages in recent years have produced decreases in crime rates which correspond approximately, but in an inverse direction, to the increases observed when the baby boomers reached the high crime-prone ages in the 1960s and 1970s. We examine age distributions of arrests for murder and motor vehicle theft and then specify and estimate structural-equation mod…
Property Crime Rates in the United States: A Macrodynamic Analysis, 1947-1977; With Ex Ante Forecasts for the Mid-1980s
This paper presents several macrodynamic social indicator models of post-World War II trends in robbery, burglary, and automobile theft rates for the United States. A theory of the ways in wich changes in criminal opportunity affect these Index Crime property crime rates is deveoped. Definitions and postulates are presented from which we derive a main theorem which states that, other things being equal, a decrease in the density of the population…
Determinants of Juvenile Court Dispositions: Ascriptive and Achieved Factors in Two Metropolitan Courts
A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach
Ever since Durkheim, many social scientists have subscribed to the premise that deviance and crime anre "normal" properties of naturally functioning social systems. When trying to explain the causes of these behaviors, however, many social scientists typically resort to the idea of "pathological" origins. On the whole, social scientists have yet to explain how and why "normal" individuals operating in unexceptional social environments deviate and…
Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend
Journal Article Uncertainty, Cooperation, and Crime: Understanding the Decision to Co-offend Get access Bill McCarthy, Bill McCarthy University of California at Davis Direct all correspondence to Bill McCarthy, Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616. E-mail: [email protected]. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John Hagan, John Hagan University of Toronto Search for o…
Discrepancies Between Crime Reports and Crime Surveys: Urban and Structural Determinants
The absence of strong zero‐order associations between victimization and official crime rates for cities has been a puzzle for social scientists since the data for making such comparisons became available. Using the 26 large central cities for which data on both types of rates are available, we analyze the extent to which discrepancies between the rates can be accounted for by aspects of urban social structure that differ from city to city. After …
On estimating the social costs of national economic policy: A critical examination of the Brenner study
Comparing measures of homicide trends: Methodological and substantive differences in the Vital Statistics and Uniform Crime Report time series (1933-1975)
Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms: A Reanalysis of Generational and Occupational Effects
Theoretical Considerations suggest that, among Mexican Americans, generation, a measure of cultural assimilation, is more closely related to exogamy than is exogamy than is occupation, a measure of structural assimilation. The classic study by Mittelbach and Moore (1968), however, argued that occupational effects were greater than generational effects for Mexican Americans in Los Angeles County in 1963. In contrast, our log-linear reanalysis of t…
Self‐interest, Equity, and Crime Control: A Game‐theoretic Analysis of Criminal Decision Making
Employing the analytic technique of game theory, we attempt to answer questions about how individuals with different proclivities to use crime to accomplish ends, and different beliefs about society's fairness, are likely to respond to different incentives and disincentives that are derived from strain and neoclassical deterrence theories. Our analysis indicates that the crime control policies typically recommended by adherents of both theories a…
Violent criminal behavior: Is there a general and continuing influence of the South
Crime as Strategy: Testing an Evolutionary Ecological Theory of Expropriative Crime
This article presents a refined specification of Cohen and Machalek's general evolutionary ecological theory of expropriative crime and results of tests employing two complementary approaches: (1) the development of a game-theoretic model that mathematically tests the logical adequacy of the theory's fundamental assumptions and (2) the conduct of computer simulation experiments to analyze the model's behavior and test its consistency with novel h…
The Normalcy of Crime: From Durkheim to Evolutionary Ecology
A troublesome but generally ignored paradox characterizes contemporary sociological explanations of crime causation. Although many sociologists interpret crime as if it were pathological or aberrant and thus "abnormal" behavior, most simultaneously embrace Durkheim's famous dictum of crime as "normal" behavior. A review of Durkheim's theory of crime causation reveals that it is burdened by several serious logical flaws. And ironically, despite hi…
Modeling Multiple Failure Time Data: A Survey of Variance-Corrected Proportional Hazards Models with Empirical Applications to Arrest Data
Proportional hazards models are powerful methods for the analysis of dynamic social processes and are widely used in sociology to estimate the effects of covariates on event timing (e.g., time to arrest, birth, marriage). The proper statistical modeling of failure time data is an important analytical issue in sociology, but to date the field has largely neglected the application of these models to multiple failure time data in which the conventio…
Risk-based crime statistics: A forecasting comparison for burglary and auto theft
Unemployment and the homicide rate: A paradox resolved
The Detention Decision: A Study of the Impact of Social Characteristics and Legal Factors in Two Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
In this paper we examine the use of social characteristics and legal factors as criteria in making decisions about the detention of juveniles prior to adjudication. This research is based on data from two metropolitan courts (Denver and Memphis) that differ in their orientation to juvenile justice as well as regional location. Exploiting Goodman's method of log linear analysis to uncover relationships among categorical variables we find: (1) the …
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
The nature of crime: Is cheating necessary for cooperation
Legal Aim, Discretion, and Social Control: A Case Study of the Federal Youth Corrections Act
This study attempts to ascertain how the legal a i m of rehabilitation are applied, as well as their social control consequences for a group of offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act (FYCA) of 1950. Discriminant function analyses were conducted on a random sample of 452 persons selected f o r a “special” FYCA rehabilitative disposition and 758 persons accorded a regular punitive disposition, to determine 1) the factors that i…
Volunteering for Foreign Combat Missions: An Attitudinal Study of U.S. Army Paratroopers
The sociological approach to the study of combat motivation has generally been grounded in the primary-group thesis; that is, it has been the strength or weakness of primary-group bonds that have determined the direction of study. Utilizing data obtained from a sample of U.S. Army paratroopers, we suggest that the primary-group thesis has been a limiting concept and that combat motivation may be the product of many factors. Our multiple regressio…
Obedience to Orders: Issues of Morality and Legality in Combat among U.S. Army Paratroopers
This study attempts to answer two questions: (1) What are the attitudes of those American soldiers most likely to engage in combat toward selected issues of compliance with immoral and illegal orders in battle? and (2) What factors account for the differences in these attitudes among U.S. soldiers? Three hypotheses were tested from a questionnaire administered to a sample of 672 U.S. Army paratroopers: (1) those soldiers who like and identify mos…
Delinquency, Crime, and Society. James F. Short, Jr
Determinants of Juvenile Court Dispositions: Ascriptive and Achieved Factors in Two Metropolitan Courts
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach
The Detention Decision: A Study of the Impact of Social Characteristics and Legal Factors in Two Metropolitan Juvenile Courts
In this paper we examine the use of social characteristics and legal factors as criteria in making decisions about the detention of juveniles prior to adjudication. This research is based on data from two metropolitan courts (Denver and Memphis) that differ in their orientation to juvenile justice as well as regional location. Exploiting Goodman's method of log linear analysis to uncover relationships among categorical variables we find: (1) the …
On estimating the social costs of national economic policy: A critical examination of the Brenner study
Human ecology and crime: A routine activity approach
Obedience to Orders: Issues of Morality and Legality in Combat among U.S. Army Paratroopers
This study attempts to answer two questions: (1) What are the attitudes of those American soldiers most likely to engage in combat toward selected issues of compliance with immoral and illegal orders in battle? and (2) What factors account for the differences in these attitudes among U.S. soldiers? Three hypotheses were tested from a questionnaire administered to a sample of 672 U.S. Army paratroopers: (1) those soldiers who like and identify mos…
Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms: A Reanalysis of Generational and Occupational Effects
Theoretical Considerations suggest that, among Mexican Americans, generation, a measure of cultural assimilation, is more closely related to exogamy than is exogamy than is occupation, a measure of structural assimilation. The classic study by Mittelbach and Moore (1968), however, argued that occupational effects were greater than generational effects for Mexican Americans in Los Angeles County in 1963. In contrast, our log-linear reanalysis of t…
Property Crime Rates in the United States: A Macrodynamic Analysis, 1947-1977; With Ex Ante Forecasts for the Mid-1980s
This paper presents several macrodynamic social indicator models of post-World War II trends in robbery, burglary, and automobile theft rates for the United States. A theory of the ways in wich changes in criminal opportunity affect these Index Crime property crime rates is deveoped. Definitions and postulates are presented from which we derive a main theorem which states that, other things being equal, a decrease in the density of the population…
Comparing measures of homicide trends: Methodological and substantive differences in the Vital Statistics and Uniform Crime Report time series (1933-1975)
Quantitative output of the criminal justice system: Case processing indicators for the United States, 1953?1976
Volunteering for Foreign Combat Missions: An Attitudinal Study of U.S. Army Paratroopers
The sociological approach to the study of combat motivation has generally been grounded in the primary-group thesis; that is, it has been the strength or weakness of primary-group bonds that have determined the direction of study. Utilizing data obtained from a sample of U.S. Army paratroopers, we suggest that the primary-group thesis has been a limiting concept and that combat motivation may be the product of many factors. Our multiple regressio…
Social Inequality and Predatory Criminal Victimization: An Exposition and Test of a Formal Theory
This study systematically tests a formal theory of how certain dimensions of social stratification--income, race, and age--relate to risk of predatory criminal victimization. An opportunity theory of criminal victimization is proposed, focusing on the mediating role played by five risk factors: exposure, guardianship, proximity to potential offenders, attractiveness of potential targets, and definitional properties of specific crimes themselves. …
Theory and Method in the Study of Ethnic Endogamy Among Mexican American Grooms
Insinuating Informality: A Reply to Breen and Rottman
Legal Aim, Discretion, and Social Control: A Case Study of the Federal Youth Corrections Act
This study attempts to ascertain how the legal a i m of rehabilitation are applied, as well as their social control consequences for a group of offenders sentenced under the Federal Youth Corrections Act (FYCA) of 1950. Discriminant function analyses were conducted on a random sample of 452 persons selected f o r a “special” FYCA rehabilitative disposition and 758 persons accorded a regular punitive disposition, to determine 1) the factors that i…
Discrepancies Between Crime Reports and Crime Surveys: Urban and Structural Determinants
The absence of strong zero‐order associations between victimization and official crime rates for cities has been a puzzle for social scientists since the data for making such comparisons became available. Using the 26 large central cities for which data on both types of rates are available, we analyze the extent to which discrepancies between the rates can be accounted for by aspects of urban social structure that differ from city to city. After …
Risk-based crime statistics: A forecasting comparison for burglary and auto theft
Unemployment and the homicide rate: A paradox resolved
Throwing Down the Gauntlet: A Challenge to the Relevance of Sociology for the Etiology of Criminal Behavior
Age Structure and Crime: Symmetry Versus Asymmetry and the Projection of Crime Rates Through the 1990s
This paper asks whether decreases in the proportion of the U.S. population in high crime-prone ages in recent years have produced decreases in crime rates which correspond approximately, but in an inverse direction, to the increases observed when the baby boomers reached the high crime-prone ages in the 1960s and 1970s. We examine age distributions of arrests for murder and motor vehicle theft and then specify and estimate structural-equation mod…
A General Theory of Expropriative Crime: An Evolutionary Ecological Approach
Ever since Durkheim, many social scientists have subscribed to the premise that deviance and crime anre "normal" properties of naturally functioning social systems. When trying to explain the causes of these behaviors, however, many social scientists typically resort to the idea of "pathological" origins. On the whole, social scientists have yet to explain how and why "normal" individuals operating in unexceptional social environments deviate and…
Structural Covariates of Homicide Rates: Are There Any Invariances Across Time and Social Space
This study demonstrate that the empirical literature on the structural convariates of homicide rates contains inconsistent findings across different time periods and different geographical units. This apparent variance of findings may be due to statistical or methodological artifacts of particular studies, such as different time periods covered, units of analysis, samples, model specification, and problems of statistical analysis and inference. A…
The nature of crime: Is cheating necessary for cooperation
Violent criminal behavior: Is there a general and continuing influence of the South
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