Theodore N Ferdinand
Biographic Data
| ID | 3633985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Theodore N Ferdinand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Theodore N |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferdinand |
| SIGNATURE | FERDINAND T N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1964 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Aging and the Fear of Crime: Recent Results from East and West Germany
Fear of crime and the escalating official crime rate have become in the last decade notable themes in criminology and victimology: This is especially true since the reunification of Germany brought with it an opportunity to survey east German citizens regarding their inner security in a closed society with strong formal and informal controls. The results of several surveys by the authors and others will be discussed with special attention to the …
The Victim's Experience and Fear of Crime
With the rapid development of sophisticated victim surveys, the fear of crime has emerged as a fundamental concept in theoretical and practical discourse. Since publication of the Report of the President's Commission The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1967), the fear of offenders has become a major public concern in the United States alongside the mounting problem of crime itself. The flourishing of national crime surveys in the United Sta…
Juvenile Delinquency or Juvenile Justice: Which Came First
Stanley Cohen (1985) maintains that the methods of control, whether exclusionary or inclusionary, are linked with the emergence of a bifurcated population of hard‐core, intensely antisocial offenders and mildly deviant but more prosocial offenders. The latter basically is a quasi‐normal population that was handled informally before the emergence of a formal criminal justice system and inclusionary programs. It tends to include dissipative, self‐i…
Ruth Shonle Cavan: An Intellectual Portrait
The Methods of Delinquency Theory
Delinquency theory must come to terms with experimental studies of causation and with existential studies of delinquents in situ The three are closely related. Existential studies provide insight into both the forms of delinquency and its causal matrix, and causal studies suggest both the relevant context and lawful regularities in the nature of delinquency. Moreover, using the concepts of domain and generality, one sees that strain “theory” is n…
Juvenile Justice in America
Juvenile Delinquency: Little Brother Grows Up
Violence in Sardinia
Politics, the Police, and Arresting Policies in Salem, Massachusetts since the Civil War
This paper attempts to explain the wide-spread declines in arrest-levels reported by police departments in the Northeast after the 1870's, using Dahl's thesis that this was the period when businessmen began to dominate politics in many American cities and Wilson's thesis that intense political conflict tends to draw the police into politics and to undermine their effectiveness. The data of this research were drawn from Salem, Massachusetts, and t…
The Military Prison: Theory, Research, and Practice
Research and Methodology
Journal Article RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY: DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS AND CRIMINALITY: AN INQUIRY Get access THEODORE N. FERDINAND THEODORE N. FERDINAND * Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern UniversityMass Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 10, Issue 2-3, April 1970, Pages 169–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046236 Published: 01 April 1970
Inner-City Youth, the Police, the Juvenile Court, and Justice
In spite of the fact that black first-offender deliquents present less intensive antisocial attitudes and behavior patterns than white delinquents, they receive more severe dispositions from the police of Easton than white delinquents accused of the same offense. As the anti-social characteristics of black and white delinquents intensify, the differences in disposition between the races tend to disappear. The Juvenile Court, however, displays lit…
Personality and Career Aspirations Among Young Technologists
Sex Behavior and the American Class Structure: A Mosaic
Close parallels in ancient Rome and present-day America suggest that the sexual revolutions in both societies were significantly influenced by the existential conditions that they confronted at the height of their powers. At the same time, each was constrained in its sociocultural responses by the nature of its social-class structure. In America we must examine the ethos of each of six broad strata to comprehend in detail the nature of the Americ…
Studies in Homicide
Typologies of Delinquency
Typologies of Delinquency: A Critical Analysis
The Criminal Patterns of Boston Since 1849
This study is based upon the annual arrest reports of the Boston police from 1849 to 1951 for seven major crimes: murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and larceny. When the rates of these crimes are examined collectively, they show a distinct downward tendency. Murder, larceny, and assault have shown a clear decline in the last one hundred years, while burglary and robbery have shown a downward tendency, although speci…
The Academic Malaise: A Diagnosis
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTheodore N. FerdinandTheodore N. Ferdinand is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University
Psychological Femininity and Political Liberalism
Inner-City Youth, the Police, the Juvenile Court, and Justice
In spite of the fact that black first-offender deliquents present less intensive antisocial attitudes and behavior patterns than white delinquents, they receive more severe dispositions from the police of Easton than white delinquents accused of the same offense. As the anti-social characteristics of black and white delinquents intensify, the differences in disposition between the races tend to disappear. The Juvenile Court, however, displays lit…
The Victim's Experience and Fear of Crime
With the rapid development of sophisticated victim surveys, the fear of crime has emerged as a fundamental concept in theoretical and practical discourse. Since publication of the Report of the President's Commission The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1967), the fear of offenders has become a major public concern in the United States alongside the mounting problem of crime itself. The flourishing of national crime surveys in the United Sta…
The Criminal Patterns of Boston Since 1849
This study is based upon the annual arrest reports of the Boston police from 1849 to 1951 for seven major crimes: murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and larceny. When the rates of these crimes are examined collectively, they show a distinct downward tendency. Murder, larceny, and assault have shown a clear decline in the last one hundred years, while burglary and robbery have shown a downward tendency, although speci…
Typologies of Delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency or Juvenile Justice: Which Came First
Stanley Cohen (1985) maintains that the methods of control, whether exclusionary or inclusionary, are linked with the emergence of a bifurcated population of hard‐core, intensely antisocial offenders and mildly deviant but more prosocial offenders. The latter basically is a quasi‐normal population that was handled informally before the emergence of a formal criminal justice system and inclusionary programs. It tends to include dissipative, self‐i…
Politics, the Police, and Arresting Policies in Salem, Massachusetts since the Civil War
This paper attempts to explain the wide-spread declines in arrest-levels reported by police departments in the Northeast after the 1870's, using Dahl's thesis that this was the period when businessmen began to dominate politics in many American cities and Wilson's thesis that intense political conflict tends to draw the police into politics and to undermine their effectiveness. The data of this research were drawn from Salem, Massachusetts, and t…
Aging and the Fear of Crime: Recent Results from East and West Germany
Fear of crime and the escalating official crime rate have become in the last decade notable themes in criminology and victimology: This is especially true since the reunification of Germany brought with it an opportunity to survey east German citizens regarding their inner security in a closed society with strong formal and informal controls. The results of several surveys by the authors and others will be discussed with special attention to the …
Psychological Femininity and Political Liberalism
Psychological Femininity and Political Liberalism
The Academic Malaise: A Diagnosis
Additional informationNotes on contributorsTheodore N. FerdinandTheodore N. Ferdinand is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Northeastern University
Typologies of Delinquency
Typologies of Delinquency: A Critical Analysis
The Criminal Patterns of Boston Since 1849
This study is based upon the annual arrest reports of the Boston police from 1849 to 1951 for seven major crimes: murder, manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, assault, burglary, and larceny. When the rates of these crimes are examined collectively, they show a distinct downward tendency. Murder, larceny, and assault have shown a clear decline in the last one hundred years, while burglary and robbery have shown a downward tendency, although speci…
Sex Behavior and the American Class Structure: A Mosaic
Close parallels in ancient Rome and present-day America suggest that the sexual revolutions in both societies were significantly influenced by the existential conditions that they confronted at the height of their powers. At the same time, each was constrained in its sociocultural responses by the nature of its social-class structure. In America we must examine the ethos of each of six broad strata to comprehend in detail the nature of the Americ…
Studies in Homicide
Personality and Career Aspirations Among Young Technologists
Research and Methodology
Journal Article RESEARCH AND METHODOLOGY: DEMOGRAPHIC SHIFTS AND CRIMINALITY: AN INQUIRY Get access THEODORE N. FERDINAND THEODORE N. FERDINAND * Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern UniversityMass Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 10, Issue 2-3, April 1970, Pages 169–175, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a046236 Published: 01 April 1970
Inner-City Youth, the Police, the Juvenile Court, and Justice
In spite of the fact that black first-offender deliquents present less intensive antisocial attitudes and behavior patterns than white delinquents, they receive more severe dispositions from the police of Easton than white delinquents accused of the same offense. As the anti-social characteristics of black and white delinquents intensify, the differences in disposition between the races tend to disappear. The Juvenile Court, however, displays lit…
The Military Prison: Theory, Research, and Practice
Violence in Sardinia
Politics, the Police, and Arresting Policies in Salem, Massachusetts since the Civil War
This paper attempts to explain the wide-spread declines in arrest-levels reported by police departments in the Northeast after the 1870's, using Dahl's thesis that this was the period when businessmen began to dominate politics in many American cities and Wilson's thesis that intense political conflict tends to draw the police into politics and to undermine their effectiveness. The data of this research were drawn from Salem, Massachusetts, and t…
Juvenile Justice in America
Juvenile Delinquency: Little Brother Grows Up
The Methods of Delinquency Theory
Delinquency theory must come to terms with experimental studies of causation and with existential studies of delinquents in situ The three are closely related. Existential studies provide insight into both the forms of delinquency and its causal matrix, and causal studies suggest both the relevant context and lawful regularities in the nature of delinquency. Moreover, using the concepts of domain and generality, one sees that strain “theory” is n…
Ruth Shonle Cavan: An Intellectual Portrait
Juvenile Delinquency or Juvenile Justice: Which Came First
Stanley Cohen (1985) maintains that the methods of control, whether exclusionary or inclusionary, are linked with the emergence of a bifurcated population of hard‐core, intensely antisocial offenders and mildly deviant but more prosocial offenders. The latter basically is a quasi‐normal population that was handled informally before the emergence of a formal criminal justice system and inclusionary programs. It tends to include dissipative, self‐i…
The Victim's Experience and Fear of Crime
With the rapid development of sophisticated victim surveys, the fear of crime has emerged as a fundamental concept in theoretical and practical discourse. Since publication of the Report of the President's Commission The Challenge of Crime in a Free Society (1967), the fear of offenders has become a major public concern in the United States alongside the mounting problem of crime itself. The flourishing of national crime surveys in the United Sta…
Aging and the Fear of Crime: Recent Results from East and West Germany
Fear of crime and the escalating official crime rate have become in the last decade notable themes in criminology and victimology: This is especially true since the reunification of Germany brought with it an opportunity to survey east German citizens regarding their inner security in a closed society with strong formal and informal controls. The results of several surveys by the authors and others will be discussed with special attention to the …
Psychology (15 works) · Criminology (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Juvenile delinquency (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)