Roland Chilton
Biographic Data
| ID | 3630843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Chilton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Chilton |
| SIGNATURE | CHILTON R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 27 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Class and Crime
There is a longstanding controversy over the importance of social class in the production of criminal conduct. Some argue that there is a strong relationship between social class and crime, while others say there is little or no relationship. This controversy is often an argument over the the definition and measurement of crime, and the meaning of class
Crime and Class
Measuring Crime
All crime measures begin as attempts to count either incidents considered criminal or the people involved in such incidents. These basic counts may be combined, summarized, or modified in complex ways, but they are at the heart of all attempts to measure crime. Such counts can be generated by police departments or other public agencies or they can be created by anyone willing to design and use a questionnaire or interview schedule. Police measure…
Race and Crime
The importance of race in the production of criminal conduct has been an issue in American criminology for decades. The fact that minority groups, particularly African Americans, are disproportionately involved as offenders in the criminal justice system in the US is not in dispute. However, there is little agreement among criminologists on what this means. Some argue that the relationship between race and crime is largely the result of the condu…
Viable Policy
Crime and Inequality
Crime in the Making
Last One over the Wall
(print) xxi, 279 p. ; 23 cm
Gender, Race, and Crime
Unpublished counts of larceny arrests and census data for five of the largest cities in the United States are used to examine the contribution of white and nonwhite men and women in specific age groups to increases in larceny arrests from 1960 to 1980. The results suggest that nonwhite women and white men now have similar larceny arrest rates and that 77 percent of the total increase in the arrest of women for larceny from 1960 to 1980 was the re…
Urban Structure and Victimization
Analyzing Urban Crime Data
Police reports of Index crimes, arrests, and population estimates for 1960 through 1977 for 49 U.S. cities are used to compare trends in arrest rates, crime rates, and the arrests per crime (A/C) ratio‐a measure sometimes correlated with crime rates to assess the deterrent effect of arrest. Since the correlation of the A/C ratio with the crime rate can produce tautological results in a trend analysis. comparisons of trends for crime rates and arr…
Twenty-three Years of Addict Reporting
Roots of Delinquency
Working with data from a longitudinal sudy of children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in 1946, Michael Wadsworth finds that most forms of official delinquency are associated with early disruption in parent-child relationships, family size, and birth order. These and other conclusions presented are exceptional because they are based on the analysis of data collected over a thirty-year period for a relatively large birth cohort. Initial data …
Neutralizing Inmate Violence
Juvenile Victimization
Deviant Behavior and Social Control Strategies
Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research
To assess the substantive importance of methodological issues identified in a series of critiques of delinquency area studies, a carefully focused reanalysis was undertaken using data analyzed in an earlier study. The modification of factor analytic procedures to avoid mistakes identified in these critiques produced a clearer picture of the factors reflected in the variables used to describe 100 Indianapolis census tracts but also necessitated al…
An Entropy Maximising Approach to the Recovery of Detailed Migration Patterns from Aggregate Census Data
The paper illustrates the possibilities of using entropy maximising techniques to expand an abbreviated data source. The British Census publishes migration statistics only for flows exceeding a certain threshold and the first exercise performed in this paper attempts to discover these thresholded flows. This complete migration matrix is then used as an input into a second exercise designed to disaggregate the flow pattern according to the type of…
Family Disruption, Delinquent Conduct and the Effect of Subclassification
Employing seriousness of offense as a measure of delinquency, we re-examine the relationship between delinquency referral and family disruption. Information from the Juvenile and County Courts of Florida for the first four months of 1969 provided us with uniform delinquency data for 8,944 children. We compare the family situations of 5,376 of these children with the situations of children in the U.S. population in 1968. The analysis suggests (1) …
Is Delinquency Increasing? Age Structure and the Crime Rate
An age-specific analysis of juvenile court referrals in Florida illustrates the crucial role of changing age structure in the interpretation of crime and delinquency statistics. Although the number of acts which resulted in referrals to Florida's juvenile courts rose sharply from 1958 to 1967, an examination of data submitted by the courts and the public school districts of the state for the period suggests that most of this increase could be pre…
Causes of Delinquency
Basic Research Methods in Social Science
Social Control Through Welfare Legislation
Unlike other federally assisted public welfare programs, the Aid to Dependent Children program has periodically been subjected to sharp political and journalistic attack. The themes of these attacks center around assertions that the program has encouraged illegitimacy and contributed to an increasing number of female-centered families. Bound up in such criticism is the suggestion that the parents of many, if not most, of the children receiving pu…
A Review and Comparison of Simple Statistical Tests for Scalogram Analysis
Wager, L. Wesley and Ernest G. Palola. 1964 The miniature replica model and its use in laboratory experiments of complex organizations. Social Forces, 42 (May, 1964) :418-429. Warriner, Charles K. 1956 Groups are real: a reaffirmation. American Sociological Review 21 (October, 1956):549-554. Weick, Karl E. 1965 Laboratory experimentation with organizations. Pp. 194-260 in James G. March (ed.), Handbook of Organizations. Chicago: Rand McNally. 196…
Prison. The Penal Institutions of Britain
Continuity in Delinquency Area Research
In an attempt to reconcile the findings of two earlier delinquency area studies, rates of delinquency for Indianapolis census tracts are analyzed in relation to 18 indices of social, economic, and demographic characteristics. Results of a re-examination of studies reported by Lander (Baltimore) and Bordua (Detroit) are presented in addition to results obtained in the Indianapolis investigation. Data were taken from (1) the records of the Marion C…
Family Disruption, Delinquent Conduct and the Effect of Subclassification
Employing seriousness of offense as a measure of delinquency, we re-examine the relationship between delinquency referral and family disruption. Information from the Juvenile and County Courts of Florida for the first four months of 1969 provided us with uniform delinquency data for 8,944 children. We compare the family situations of 5,376 of these children with the situations of children in the U.S. population in 1968. The analysis suggests (1) …
An Entropy Maximising Approach to the Recovery of Detailed Migration Patterns from Aggregate Census Data
The paper illustrates the possibilities of using entropy maximising techniques to expand an abbreviated data source. The British Census publishes migration statistics only for flows exceeding a certain threshold and the first exercise performed in this paper attempts to discover these thresholded flows. This complete migration matrix is then used as an input into a second exercise designed to disaggregate the flow pattern according to the type of…
Gender, Race, and Crime
Unpublished counts of larceny arrests and census data for five of the largest cities in the United States are used to examine the contribution of white and nonwhite men and women in specific age groups to increases in larceny arrests from 1960 to 1980. The results suggest that nonwhite women and white men now have similar larceny arrest rates and that 77 percent of the total increase in the arrest of women for larceny from 1960 to 1980 was the re…
Basic Research Methods in Social Science
Analyzing Urban Crime Data
Police reports of Index crimes, arrests, and population estimates for 1960 through 1977 for 49 U.S. cities are used to compare trends in arrest rates, crime rates, and the arrests per crime (A/C) ratio‐a measure sometimes correlated with crime rates to assess the deterrent effect of arrest. Since the correlation of the A/C ratio with the crime rate can produce tautological results in a trend analysis. comparisons of trends for crime rates and arr…
Viable Policy
Computer Generated Data and the Statistical Significance of Scalogram
Is Delinquency Increasing? Age Structure and the Crime Rate
An age-specific analysis of juvenile court referrals in Florida illustrates the crucial role of changing age structure in the interpretation of crime and delinquency statistics. Although the number of acts which resulted in referrals to Florida's juvenile courts rose sharply from 1958 to 1967, an examination of data submitted by the courts and the public school districts of the state for the period suggests that most of this increase could be pre…
Social Control Through Welfare Legislation
Unlike other federally assisted public welfare programs, the Aid to Dependent Children program has periodically been subjected to sharp political and journalistic attack. The themes of these attacks center around assertions that the program has encouraged illegitimacy and contributed to an increasing number of female-centered families. Bound up in such criticism is the suggestion that the parents of many, if not most, of the children receiving pu…
Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research
To assess the substantive importance of methodological issues identified in a series of critiques of delinquency area studies, a carefully focused reanalysis was undertaken using data analyzed in an earlier study. The modification of factor analytic procedures to avoid mistakes identified in these critiques produced a clearer picture of the factors reflected in the variables used to describe 100 Indianapolis census tracts but also necessitated al…
Continuity in Delinquency Area Research
In an attempt to reconcile the findings of two earlier delinquency area studies, rates of delinquency for Indianapolis census tracts are analyzed in relation to 18 indices of social, economic, and demographic characteristics. Results of a re-examination of studies reported by Lander (Baltimore) and Bordua (Detroit) are presented in addition to results obtained in the Indianapolis investigation. Data were taken from (1) the records of the Marion C…
Computer Generated Data and the Statistical Significance of Scalogram
Prison. The Penal Institutions of Britain
A Review and Comparison of Simple Statistical Tests for Scalogram Analysis
Wager, L. Wesley and Ernest G. Palola. 1964 The miniature replica model and its use in laboratory experiments of complex organizations. Social Forces, 42 (May, 1964) :418-429. Warriner, Charles K. 1956 Groups are real: a reaffirmation. American Sociological Review 21 (October, 1956):549-554. Weick, Karl E. 1965 Laboratory experimentation with organizations. Pp. 194-260 in James G. March (ed.), Handbook of Organizations. Chicago: Rand McNally. 196…
Basic Research Methods in Social Science
Social Control Through Welfare Legislation
Unlike other federally assisted public welfare programs, the Aid to Dependent Children program has periodically been subjected to sharp political and journalistic attack. The themes of these attacks center around assertions that the program has encouraged illegitimacy and contributed to an increasing number of female-centered families. Bound up in such criticism is the suggestion that the parents of many, if not most, of the children receiving pu…
Is Delinquency Increasing? Age Structure and the Crime Rate
An age-specific analysis of juvenile court referrals in Florida illustrates the crucial role of changing age structure in the interpretation of crime and delinquency statistics. Although the number of acts which resulted in referrals to Florida's juvenile courts rose sharply from 1958 to 1967, an examination of data submitted by the courts and the public school districts of the state for the period suggests that most of this increase could be pre…
Causes of Delinquency
Family Disruption, Delinquent Conduct and the Effect of Subclassification
Employing seriousness of offense as a measure of delinquency, we re-examine the relationship between delinquency referral and family disruption. Information from the Juvenile and County Courts of Florida for the first four months of 1969 provided us with uniform delinquency data for 8,944 children. We compare the family situations of 5,376 of these children with the situations of children in the U.S. population in 1968. The analysis suggests (1) …
An Entropy Maximising Approach to the Recovery of Detailed Migration Patterns from Aggregate Census Data
The paper illustrates the possibilities of using entropy maximising techniques to expand an abbreviated data source. The British Census publishes migration statistics only for flows exceeding a certain threshold and the first exercise performed in this paper attempts to discover these thresholded flows. This complete migration matrix is then used as an input into a second exercise designed to disaggregate the flow pattern according to the type of…
Methodological Issues in Delinquency Research
To assess the substantive importance of methodological issues identified in a series of critiques of delinquency area studies, a carefully focused reanalysis was undertaken using data analyzed in an earlier study. The modification of factor analytic procedures to avoid mistakes identified in these critiques produced a clearer picture of the factors reflected in the variables used to describe 100 Indianapolis census tracts but also necessitated al…
Deviant Behavior and Social Control Strategies
Juvenile Victimization
Neutralizing Inmate Violence
Twenty-three Years of Addict Reporting
Roots of Delinquency
Working with data from a longitudinal sudy of children born in England, Scotland, and Wales in 1946, Michael Wadsworth finds that most forms of official delinquency are associated with early disruption in parent-child relationships, family size, and birth order. These and other conclusions presented are exceptional because they are based on the analysis of data collected over a thirty-year period for a relatively large birth cohort. Initial data …
Analyzing Urban Crime Data
Police reports of Index crimes, arrests, and population estimates for 1960 through 1977 for 49 U.S. cities are used to compare trends in arrest rates, crime rates, and the arrests per crime (A/C) ratio‐a measure sometimes correlated with crime rates to assess the deterrent effect of arrest. Since the correlation of the A/C ratio with the crime rate can produce tautological results in a trend analysis. comparisons of trends for crime rates and arr…
Urban Structure and Victimization
Gender, Race, and Crime
Unpublished counts of larceny arrests and census data for five of the largest cities in the United States are used to examine the contribution of white and nonwhite men and women in specific age groups to increases in larceny arrests from 1960 to 1980. The results suggest that nonwhite women and white men now have similar larceny arrest rates and that 77 percent of the total increase in the arrest of women for larceny from 1960 to 1980 was the re…
Last One over the Wall
(print) xxi, 279 p. ; 23 cm
Crime in the Making
Crime and Inequality
Viable Policy
Measuring Crime
All crime measures begin as attempts to count either incidents considered criminal or the people involved in such incidents. These basic counts may be combined, summarized, or modified in complex ways, but they are at the heart of all attempts to measure crime. Such counts can be generated by police departments or other public agencies or they can be created by anyone willing to design and use a questionnaire or interview schedule. Police measure…
Race and Crime
The importance of race in the production of criminal conduct has been an issue in American criminology for decades. The fact that minority groups, particularly African Americans, are disproportionately involved as offenders in the criminal justice system in the US is not in dispute. However, there is little agreement among criminologists on what this means. Some argue that the relationship between race and crime is largely the result of the condu…
Criminology (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Political science (10 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Juvenile delinquency (7 works) · Law (7 works)