Neal Shover
Biographic Data
| ID | 3923249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Neal Shover |
| GIVEN NAMES | Neal |
| FAMILY NAME | Shover |
| SIGNATURE | SHOVER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 198 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Great Pretenders: Pursuits and Careers of Persistent Thieves
In this book, the author focuses on the sociological origins, activities, and criminal careers of persistent thieves. He uses a crime-as-choice framework and a life-course perspective to make sense of important decisions and changes in the lives of persistent thieves.
Torrential intellect
Forestalling the next epidemic of white‐collar crime: Linking policy to theory
White‐collar crime and the Great Recession
Studying and Teaching White‐Collar Crime: Populist and Patrician Perspectives
White‐collar crime is both an integral part of undergraduate criminology courses and textbooks and the subject of enduring analytic controversy. Much of the latter can be traced to two conflicting but unrecognized conceptual paradigms employed by investigators and teachers when they examine white‐collar crime: Populist and Patrician. These perspectives differ in definitional approach to the concept, explicit recognition of the criminality of offe…
Choosing White-Collar Crime
For more than three decades, rational-choice theory has reigned as the dominant approach both for interpreting crime and as underpinning for crime-control programs. Although it has been applied to an array of street crimes, white-collar crime and those who commit it have thus far received less attention. Choosing White-Collar Crime is a systematic application of rational-choice theory to problems of explaining and controlling white-collar crime. …
Environmental Crime
Enhanced protection of the physical environment was the focus of legislative and regulatory initiatives in many nations in the closing decades of the twentieth century. The strength of the environmental movement and the attention paid to environmental crime are belied by the paucity of systematic data on its extent and distribution, its perpetrators, and responses to it. Organizational offenders have received by far the greatest attention from in…
Dialing for Dollars: Opportunities, Justifications, and Telemarketing Fraud
Crime on the Line. Telemarketing and the Changing Nature of Professional Crime
Journal Article Crime on the Line. Telemarketing and the Changing Nature of Professional Crime Get access Neal Shover, Neal Shover Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Glenn S. Coffey, Glenn S. Coffey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Dick Hobbs Dick Hobbs Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Criminology, Volume 43…
Crime on the Line. Telemarketing and the Changing Nature of Professional Crime
New opportunities for crimes of acquisition grew significantly in the second half of the twentieth century, but the criminological consequences of this development are poorly charted. We examine offenders who have stepped forward to exploit one category of the new opportunities. Drawing from interviews with 47 criminal telemarketers, we present a picture and interpretation of them, their pursuits and their lifestyles. As vocational predators, the…
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime
Great Pretenders: Pursuits and Careers of Persistent Thieves
Street Crime, Labor Surplus, and Criminal Punishment, 1980-1990
Conventional wisdom holds that variation in state use of criminal punishment is produced principally by variation in the rate of street crime. Neo-Marxist variants of conflict theory predict that use of punishment by capitalist states also varies with economic conditions generally and with the size of the labor surplus in particular. Many investigators have found support for this relationship, but recurring design and analytic shortcomings of the…
The Socially Bounded Decision Making of Persistent Property Offenders
The rapid ascendance of deterrence theory and other rational‐choice interpretations of criminal behaviour in the 1970s was matched until recently by a failure to examine empirically the criminal decision making of serious offenders. This paper reports the results of an ethnographic investigation of criminal decision making by a sample of persistent property offenders. Following brief introductory comments, we describe our research objectives and …
Age, Differential Expectations, and Crime Desistance
We specify an individual‐level model linking crime desistance to estimates of legal risk, differential expectations, degree of past success at legitimate and criminal pursuits, and age. OLS and logistic regression procedures are used to estimate the model using longitudinal data on serious, previously imprisoned offenders. As predicted, age decreases estimates of the likely payoffs from crime and legitimate employment. Contrary to predictions, ag…
Burglary
Burglary is one of the most prevalent street crimes in the United States as well as in other countries. In the United States, the rate of burglary increased dramatically during the 1960s from 508.6 per 100,000 population before declining after 1975 and stabilizing near the 1984 rate of 1,263.7 per 100,000 population. Burglary rates are disproportionately low in the Northeast and high in the West and in cities, particularly those with large minori…
Are Prisons Any Better? Twenty Years of Correctional Reform
The Prison - Clemens Bartollas Disorder Personified Legal Mandates and Changes in Prisons - Dennis L Peck and John O Smykla Changes in Prison Facilities as a Function of Correctional Philosophy - Randall I Atlas and Roger G Dunham Developments in Prison Administration - David England Philosophical Issues Related to Prison Reform - Algis Mickunas The Idea of Community Correctional Reform - Dan A Lewis and Cheryl Darling How Rhetoric and Reality Jo…
The Appeal of Civil Law: A Political-Economic Analysis of Litigation. Wayne V. McIntosh
Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary
Environmental Criminology, Rationality and Crime The Burglary Event The Decision Strategy The Rational and the Opportunistic Burglar Drug and Group Effects on Burglars' Decision-Making Marketing Stolen Property Terminating a Criminal Career Implications for Public Policy Reducing the Individual's Vulnerability to Burglary
Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Designing Bureaucracies
Aging Criminals
Crime and Older Americans
The Social Organization of Burglary
The social organization of systematic burglary is discussed and briefly compared to earlier work on systematic offenders. Salient aspects of both the internal and external social organization of burglary are presented, especially as these are related to the problems of burglary. It is suggested that burglary continues to be more like the social organization of professional theft, as this was presented by Sutherland, than check forgery and armed r…
Age, Differential Expectations, and Crime Desistance
We specify an individual‐level model linking crime desistance to estimates of legal risk, differential expectations, degree of past success at legitimate and criminal pursuits, and age. OLS and logistic regression procedures are used to estimate the model using longitudinal data on serious, previously imprisoned offenders. As predicted, age decreases estimates of the likely payoffs from crime and legitimate employment. Contrary to predictions, ag…
The Later Stages of Ordinary Property Offender Careers
Few sociologists have studied the later stages of careers in deviance and criminality. This paper describes how 36 ordinary property offenders, released from confinement from four months to 28 years earlier, changed their perspectives toward life and criminal behavior as they got older. Changes in criminal behavior resulted from two types of occurrences in the men's lives: temporal and interpersonal. Some of the age-related changes differ little …
Gender Roles and Female Criminality Some Critical Comments
This paper investigates the recent claim that women are becoming increasingly involved in aggressive or serious criminal activities. On the basis of an a priori classification of aggressive crimes, a review of three different types of data reveals no unambiguous pattern of change in women's criminality. Several theoretical problems which hove inhibited the systematic development of the relationships between gender roles and criminality are discus…
Dialing for Dollars: Opportunities, Justifications, and Telemarketing Fraud
Gender Roles and Delinquency
This paper uses path analytic procedures to compare merits of two different theories of the relationships between traditional sex roles and delinquency involvement. A self-report method was used with 1,002 students in grades eight through twelve of the public schools in a large Southeastern city. Two separate measures of delinquency were used, one for aggressive offenses and one for property offenses. Both the theory of opportunity and social con…
The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Journal Article The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy Get access John Lynxwiler, John Lynxwiler University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Neal Shover, Neal Shover University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Donald A. Clelland Donald A. Clelland University of Tennessee Search for other …
Intrafamily Conflict and Delinquency
Using self-report data on delinquency, this article examines two questions. First, is the relationship between family conflict and delinquency stronger for girls than for boys? Second, is conflict in the home directly related to delinquency or is the relationship mediated by one or more of the following variables: (1) parental supervision; (2) identification with parents; (3) beliefs about the law; and (4) social support for delinquency? The effe…
Environmental Crime
Enhanced protection of the physical environment was the focus of legislative and regulatory initiatives in many nations in the closing decades of the twentieth century. The strength of the environmental movement and the attention paid to environmental crime are belied by the paucity of systematic data on its extent and distribution, its perpetrators, and responses to it. Organizational offenders have received by far the greatest attention from in…
Street Crime, Labor Surplus, and Criminal Punishment, 1980-1990
Conventional wisdom holds that variation in state use of criminal punishment is produced principally by variation in the rate of street crime. Neo-Marxist variants of conflict theory predict that use of punishment by capitalist states also varies with economic conditions generally and with the size of the labor surplus in particular. Many investigators have found support for this relationship, but recurring design and analytic shortcomings of the…
Masculinity and Delinquency
A strong positive association between masculinity and delinquency is on important assumption in theories which explain why (1) males are more delinquent than females and (2) females are becoming increasingly delin‐quent. Self‐report measures obtained from 1002 junior and senior high school students from a large Southeastern city constitute the data for an examination of the first of these relationships. Factor analytic procedures were used to ide…
Burglary
Burglary is one of the most prevalent street crimes in the United States as well as in other countries. In the United States, the rate of burglary increased dramatically during the 1960s from 508.6 per 100,000 population before declining after 1975 and stabilizing near the 1984 rate of 1,263.7 per 100,000 population. Burglary rates are disproportionately low in the Northeast and high in the West and in cities, particularly those with large minori…
Sex roles and criminality: Science or conventional wisdom
Gender Role Expectations of Juveniles
This paper discusses the development of two five-item Likert scales that classify juveniles' gender role expectations as highly traditional to nontraditional. One is composed of behavioral expectations that juveniles define as traditionally feminine and the other is composed of expectations they define as traditionally masculine. With a sample of junior and senior high school students, correlational and factor analyses of scale items were conduct…
Forestalling the next epidemic of white‐collar crime: Linking policy to theory
White‐collar crime and the Great Recession
Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Legislation Providing More Severe Threatened Sanctions
In 1971, the Tennessee legislature enacted legislation providing for mandatory jail sentences and driver's license revocations for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. This new law had no demonstrable impact on the highway traffic fatalities rate‐the intended objective. This paper explores the reasons for this apparent lack of impact. Data suggest that, while there was some increase in the severity of sanctions imposed on drunken driver…
Tarnished Goods and Services in the Marketplace
Corporate Crime, Law, and Social Control
The Right to be Different: Deviance and Enforced Therapy
The Civil Justice Process as Societal Reactions
The Social Organization of Burglary
The social organization of systematic burglary is discussed and briefly compared to earlier work on systematic offenders. Salient aspects of both the internal and external social organization of burglary are presented, especially as these are related to the problems of burglary. It is suggested that burglary continues to be more like the social organization of professional theft, as this was presented by Sutherland, than check forgery and armed r…
Abandoning Method
City Police
Tarnished Goods and Services in the Marketplace
On Analyzing Crime
Gender Roles and Female Criminality Some Critical Comments
This paper investigates the recent claim that women are becoming increasingly involved in aggressive or serious criminal activities. On the basis of an a priori classification of aggressive crimes, a review of three different types of data reveals no unambiguous pattern of change in women's criminality. Several theoretical problems which hove inhibited the systematic development of the relationships between gender roles and criminality are discus…
Responses of the Criminal Justice System to Legislation Providing More Severe Threatened Sanctions
In 1971, the Tennessee legislature enacted legislation providing for mandatory jail sentences and driver's license revocations for anyone convicted of driving while intoxicated. This new law had no demonstrable impact on the highway traffic fatalities rate‐the intended objective. This paper explores the reasons for this apparent lack of impact. Data suggest that, while there was some increase in the severity of sanctions imposed on drunken driver…
Sex roles and criminality: Science or conventional wisdom
Gender Role Expectations of Juveniles
This paper discusses the development of two five-item Likert scales that classify juveniles' gender role expectations as highly traditional to nontraditional. One is composed of behavioral expectations that juveniles define as traditionally feminine and the other is composed of expectations they define as traditionally masculine. With a sample of junior and senior high school students, correlational and factor analyses of scale items were conduct…
Intrafamily Conflict and Delinquency
Using self-report data on delinquency, this article examines two questions. First, is the relationship between family conflict and delinquency stronger for girls than for boys? Second, is conflict in the home directly related to delinquency or is the relationship mediated by one or more of the following variables: (1) parental supervision; (2) identification with parents; (3) beliefs about the law; and (4) social support for delinquency? The effe…
Gender Roles and Delinquency
This paper uses path analytic procedures to compare merits of two different theories of the relationships between traditional sex roles and delinquency involvement. A self-report method was used with 1,002 students in grades eight through twelve of the public schools in a large Southeastern city. Two separate measures of delinquency were used, one for aggressive offenses and one for property offenses. Both the theory of opportunity and social con…
Values and Violence in Auschwitz
Masculinity and Delinquency
A strong positive association between masculinity and delinquency is on important assumption in theories which explain why (1) males are more delinquent than females and (2) females are becoming increasingly delin‐quent. Self‐report measures obtained from 1002 junior and senior high school students from a large Southeastern city constitute the data for an examination of the first of these relationships. Factor analytic procedures were used to ide…
Dangerous Men: The Sociology of Parole
The Later Stages of Ordinary Property Offender Careers
Few sociologists have studied the later stages of careers in deviance and criminality. This paper describes how 36 ordinary property offenders, released from confinement from four months to 28 years earlier, changed their perspectives toward life and criminal behavior as they got older. Changes in criminal behavior resulted from two types of occurrences in the men's lives: temporal and interpersonal. Some of the age-related changes differ little …
The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Journal Article The Organization and Impact of Inspector Discretion in a Regulatory Bureaucracy Get access John Lynxwiler, John Lynxwiler University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Neal Shover, Neal Shover University of Tennessee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Donald A. Clelland Donald A. Clelland University of Tennessee Search for other …
In Search of Law
Designing Bureaucracies
Aging Criminals
Crime and Older Americans
Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Enforcement or Negotiation: Constructing a Regulatory Bureaucracy
Burglary
Burglary is one of the most prevalent street crimes in the United States as well as in other countries. In the United States, the rate of burglary increased dramatically during the 1960s from 508.6 per 100,000 population before declining after 1975 and stabilizing near the 1984 rate of 1,263.7 per 100,000 population. Burglary rates are disproportionately low in the Northeast and high in the West and in cities, particularly those with large minori…
Criminology (30 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Political science (25 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (22 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Economics (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses (9 works)