Clayton Mosher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3924216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Clayton Mosher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Clayton |
| FAMILY NAME | Mosher |
| SIGNATURE | MOSHER C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Washington State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 80 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
County-Level Differences in Support for Recreational Cannabis on the Ballot
Cannabis is traversing an extraordinary journey from an illicit substance to a legal one, due in part to an unprecedented wave of bottom-up law reform through successful citizen ballot initiatives. Yet, even in states that have legalized recreational cannabis, there is substantial geographic variability in support of cannabis legalization. Geographic variability in voter support for cannabis legalization is impactful (e.g., county moratoriums/ban…
In the Weeds: Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of US Marijuana Policy
Reviewer: Michelle Newhart, University of La Verne In the Weeds: Demonization, Legalization and the Evolution of US Marijuana Policy offers a helpful and timely primer on the policies and polemics that have shaped the cannabis legal landscape in the United States (and, to a limited extent, other parts of the world). The book opens with a discussion of multiple attempts to reschedule cannabis from its federal classification in the most restrictive…
Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level: Changes in the Social Consequences of the U.S. War on Drugs
Fifteen years ago, Jensen, Gerber, and Mosher drew attention to the societal costs of the U.S. war on drugs. They argued that while criminologists had focused on the impact of this war on the U.S. criminal justice system, other impacts had been under-researched. Whereas some research along these lines has been done that we review here briefly, some of the “objective” conditions of the war on drugs have changed in the intervening years. The primar…
Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Crime
Examining the Relationship of Substance Use and Sexual Orientation
In this article we examine the effects of self-reported sexual orientation on substance abuse. Using data on a random sample of 6,713 individuals in Washington State, this study examines causes and correlates of substance use by sexual minorities, an at-risk and treatment underserved population. Logistic regression results indicate homosexual orientation is a significant positive predictor of past year marijuana use, past year hard drug use, past…
Prisons, jobs and privatization: The impact of prisons on employment growth in rural US counties, 1997-2004
Convergence or Divergence? Recent Developments in Drug Policies in Canada and the United States
In a recent publication in the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States occasional paper series, Paul Gecelovsky (2007) wrote about marijuana as an “irritant” in Canada–US relations, s
The Mismeasure of Crime
'The Mismeasure of Crime' addresses the measurement of crime both historically and cross-nationally. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of each data source, the fundamental issues surrounding their accuracy, and the applications of these data in theoretical and policy research
Racial Profiling/Biased Policing
Media and legal attention to the issue of racial profiling in the United States intensified in the 1990s, with numerous studies from a wide range of jurisdictions revealing evidence of biased policing. This article briefly examines the history of biased policing in the United States, discusses the results of some of the more recent studies as well as studies of biased policing in other countries, and also devotes considerable attention to importa…
Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth: Education, Incarceration, and County-Level Employment, 1976â 2004
Objectives. It is widely believed that prison construction offers significant economic benefits to local areas. We review the popular and scholarly literature and provide a quantitative analysis of claims. Methods. We analyze data on all existing and new prisons in the United States since 1960 to assess the impact of these prisons on the pace of public, private, and total employment growth in U.S. counties from 1976 to 2004. Results. Our results …
Search and Seizure, Racial Profiling, and Traffic Stops: A Disparate Impact Framework
In response to nationwide attention to the issue of racial profiling, numerous law enforcement agencies have reexamined their policies and collected data on the racial demographics of motorists stopped and searched by police. This article advocates a “disparate impact” framework for understanding the relationship between race and searches and seizures. Using data on the Washington State Patrol, analysis indicates that disparities in the proportio…
The importance of context in understanding biased policing: State patrol traffic citations in Washington State
Several studies have provided evidence that racial profiling on the part of law enforcement agencies in the USA is a widespread problem. In contrast to most extant analyses of biased policing, our multivariate analyses of approximately 1.6 million traffic stops by the Washington State Patrol disaggregate the data from the state level to smaller jurisdictions and examine differences in rates of citation for several minority groups. The analyses re…
The Effect of Acculturation on Patterns of Hispanic Substance Use in Washington State
A growing body of research on Hispanic substance use in the United States has found acculturation to result in increased drug use. This study contributes to this research by analyzing the effect of acculturation on Hispanic substance use in Washington State, a state with a rural and dispersed Hispanic population. Findings reveal acculturation to have a strong positive effect on levels of illicit drug use, hard drug use, binge drinking and bender …
Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A Review
Drug treatment courts (DTCs), an alternative to traditional criminal courts, provide an innovative way to legally process some drug offenders. The origin and recent growth of the drug court system in the USA can be explained as an unintended consequence of a failing ‘war on drugs’. In this article, we discuss the spread of adult DTCs throughout the USA, the main components of drug courts, controversies surrounding DTCs, and some criticisms of dru…
Outrages Against Personal Dignity: Rationalizing Abuse and Torture in the War on Terror
The outrage over revelations of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has faded from public discourse, but a number of questions remain unanswered. This paper criticizes official rationalizations offered for the abuse. We make the case that these abuses are systemic, resulting from dehumanization of the enemy and the long reliance on and refinement of torture by the United States national security agencies. We also consider the spread of torture…
The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties, 1969–1994
Objectives. Despite the interest that social scientists have displayed in the rising rate of incarceration, little attention has been devoted to understanding its consequences for local areas. This is an important omission because prison construction has become a component of state and local economic development schemes. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that prison construction provides significant economic benefits to local areas. Methods. W…
Fallen Women: Female Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada
Discrimination and Denial: Systemic Racism in Ontario's Legal and Criminal Justice Systems, 1892-1961
Champion sprinter Donovan Bailey said it, and this book confirms it. While racism may not be as blatant in Canada as in the United States, it does exist. Members of visible minority groups are discriminated against in employment, housing, and access to public services. The increasing visibility of hate groups and calls to restrict immigration mark the growing tension. Racist attitudes against Asians and Blacks, in particular, have seeped into the…
Educating Women: Gender Inequalities among Canadian University Graduates
Dans le présent article, les auteurs proposent une analyse comparative des revenus et du chomage dliommes et de femmes diplômés universitaires entre 1978 et 1988. Les résultats montrent que le sexe continue d'exercer une influence importante sur ces données; le rapport global hommes‐femmes est en effet passé de 84% a 91%. Seule une petite partie de l'écart des revenus peut s'expliquer par des différences entre les hommes et les femmes au regard d…
Constituting Class and Crime in Upper Canada: The Sentencing of Narcotics Offenders, circa 1908-1953
This study combines quantitative and qualitative data in an examination of historical patterns in the sentencing of narcotics offenders in five Upper Canadian cities for the years 1908 to 1953. The analysis reveals that while an emerging emphasis on crime control, primarily reflected in distinctions between narcotics trafficking and possession offenses, changed patterns of judicial decision making over this period, a sensitivity to issues of soci…
The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties, 1969–1994
Objectives. Despite the interest that social scientists have displayed in the rising rate of incarceration, little attention has been devoted to understanding its consequences for local areas. This is an important omission because prison construction has become a component of state and local economic development schemes. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that prison construction provides significant economic benefits to local areas. Methods. W…
Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth: Education, Incarceration, and County-Level Employment, 1976â 2004
Objectives. It is widely believed that prison construction offers significant economic benefits to local areas. We review the popular and scholarly literature and provide a quantitative analysis of claims. Methods. We analyze data on all existing and new prisons in the United States since 1960 to assess the impact of these prisons on the pace of public, private, and total employment growth in U.S. counties from 1976 to 2004. Results. Our results …
Search and Seizure, Racial Profiling, and Traffic Stops: A Disparate Impact Framework
In response to nationwide attention to the issue of racial profiling, numerous law enforcement agencies have reexamined their policies and collected data on the racial demographics of motorists stopped and searched by police. This article advocates a “disparate impact” framework for understanding the relationship between race and searches and seizures. Using data on the Washington State Patrol, analysis indicates that disparities in the proportio…
Outrages Against Personal Dignity: Rationalizing Abuse and Torture in the War on Terror
The outrage over revelations of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has faded from public discourse, but a number of questions remain unanswered. This paper criticizes official rationalizations offered for the abuse. We make the case that these abuses are systemic, resulting from dehumanization of the enemy and the long reliance on and refinement of torture by the United States national security agencies. We also consider the spread of torture…
The Effect of Acculturation on Patterns of Hispanic Substance Use in Washington State
A growing body of research on Hispanic substance use in the United States has found acculturation to result in increased drug use. This study contributes to this research by analyzing the effect of acculturation on Hispanic substance use in Washington State, a state with a rural and dispersed Hispanic population. Findings reveal acculturation to have a strong positive effect on levels of illicit drug use, hard drug use, binge drinking and bender …
Prisons, jobs and privatization: The impact of prisons on employment growth in rural US counties, 1997-2004
Educating Women: Gender Inequalities among Canadian University Graduates
Dans le présent article, les auteurs proposent une analyse comparative des revenus et du chomage dliommes et de femmes diplômés universitaires entre 1978 et 1988. Les résultats montrent que le sexe continue d'exercer une influence importante sur ces données; le rapport global hommes‐femmes est en effet passé de 84% a 91%. Seule une petite partie de l'écart des revenus peut s'expliquer par des différences entre les hommes et les femmes au regard d…
Fallen Women: Female Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada
County-Level Differences in Support for Recreational Cannabis on the Ballot
Cannabis is traversing an extraordinary journey from an illicit substance to a legal one, due in part to an unprecedented wave of bottom-up law reform through successful citizen ballot initiatives. Yet, even in states that have legalized recreational cannabis, there is substantial geographic variability in support of cannabis legalization. Geographic variability in voter support for cannabis legalization is impactful (e.g., county moratoriums/ban…
Examining the Relationship of Substance Use and Sexual Orientation
In this article we examine the effects of self-reported sexual orientation on substance abuse. Using data on a random sample of 6,713 individuals in Washington State, this study examines causes and correlates of substance use by sexual minorities, an at-risk and treatment underserved population. Logistic regression results indicate homosexual orientation is a significant positive predictor of past year marijuana use, past year hard drug use, past…
Racial Profiling/Biased Policing
Media and legal attention to the issue of racial profiling in the United States intensified in the 1990s, with numerous studies from a wide range of jurisdictions revealing evidence of biased policing. This article briefly examines the history of biased policing in the United States, discusses the results of some of the more recent studies as well as studies of biased policing in other countries, and also devotes considerable attention to importa…
Constituting Class and Crime in Upper Canada: The Sentencing of Narcotics Offenders, circa 1908-1953
This study combines quantitative and qualitative data in an examination of historical patterns in the sentencing of narcotics offenders in five Upper Canadian cities for the years 1908 to 1953. The analysis reveals that while an emerging emphasis on crime control, primarily reflected in distinctions between narcotics trafficking and possession offenses, changed patterns of judicial decision making over this period, a sensitivity to issues of soci…
Constituting Class and Crime in Upper Canada: The Sentencing of Narcotics Offenders, circa 1908-1953
This study combines quantitative and qualitative data in an examination of historical patterns in the sentencing of narcotics offenders in five Upper Canadian cities for the years 1908 to 1953. The analysis reveals that while an emerging emphasis on crime control, primarily reflected in distinctions between narcotics trafficking and possession offenses, changed patterns of judicial decision making over this period, a sensitivity to issues of soci…
Educating Women: Gender Inequalities among Canadian University Graduates
Dans le présent article, les auteurs proposent une analyse comparative des revenus et du chomage dliommes et de femmes diplômés universitaires entre 1978 et 1988. Les résultats montrent que le sexe continue d'exercer une influence importante sur ces données; le rapport global hommes‐femmes est en effet passé de 84% a 91%. Seule une petite partie de l'écart des revenus peut s'expliquer par des différences entre les hommes et les femmes au regard d…
Fallen Women: Female Crime and Criminal Justice in Canada
Discrimination and Denial: Systemic Racism in Ontario's Legal and Criminal Justice Systems, 1892-1961
Champion sprinter Donovan Bailey said it, and this book confirms it. While racism may not be as blatant in Canada as in the United States, it does exist. Members of visible minority groups are discriminated against in employment, housing, and access to public services. The increasing visibility of hate groups and calls to restrict immigration mark the growing tension. Racist attitudes against Asians and Blacks, in particular, have seeped into the…
The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties, 1969–1994
Objectives. Despite the interest that social scientists have displayed in the rising rate of incarceration, little attention has been devoted to understanding its consequences for local areas. This is an important omission because prison construction has become a component of state and local economic development schemes. Indeed, there is a widespread belief that prison construction provides significant economic benefits to local areas. Methods. W…
Outrages Against Personal Dignity: Rationalizing Abuse and Torture in the War on Terror
The outrage over revelations of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison has faded from public discourse, but a number of questions remain unanswered. This paper criticizes official rationalizations offered for the abuse. We make the case that these abuses are systemic, resulting from dehumanization of the enemy and the long reliance on and refinement of torture by the United States national security agencies. We also consider the spread of torture…
Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A Review
Drug treatment courts (DTCs), an alternative to traditional criminal courts, provide an innovative way to legally process some drug offenders. The origin and recent growth of the drug court system in the USA can be explained as an unintended consequence of a failing ‘war on drugs’. In this article, we discuss the spread of adult DTCs throughout the USA, the main components of drug courts, controversies surrounding DTCs, and some criticisms of dru…
The importance of context in understanding biased policing: State patrol traffic citations in Washington State
Several studies have provided evidence that racial profiling on the part of law enforcement agencies in the USA is a widespread problem. In contrast to most extant analyses of biased policing, our multivariate analyses of approximately 1.6 million traffic stops by the Washington State Patrol disaggregate the data from the state level to smaller jurisdictions and examine differences in rates of citation for several minority groups. The analyses re…
The Effect of Acculturation on Patterns of Hispanic Substance Use in Washington State
A growing body of research on Hispanic substance use in the United States has found acculturation to result in increased drug use. This study contributes to this research by analyzing the effect of acculturation on Hispanic substance use in Washington State, a state with a rural and dispersed Hispanic population. Findings reveal acculturation to have a strong positive effect on levels of illicit drug use, hard drug use, binge drinking and bender …
Search and Seizure, Racial Profiling, and Traffic Stops: A Disparate Impact Framework
In response to nationwide attention to the issue of racial profiling, numerous law enforcement agencies have reexamined their policies and collected data on the racial demographics of motorists stopped and searched by police. This article advocates a “disparate impact” framework for understanding the relationship between race and searches and seizures. Using data on the Washington State Patrol, analysis indicates that disparities in the proportio…
Revisiting the Impact of Prison Building on Job Growth: Education, Incarceration, and County-Level Employment, 1976â 2004
Objectives. It is widely believed that prison construction offers significant economic benefits to local areas. We review the popular and scholarly literature and provide a quantitative analysis of claims. Methods. We analyze data on all existing and new prisons in the United States since 1960 to assess the impact of these prisons on the pace of public, private, and total employment growth in U.S. counties from 1976 to 2004. Results. Our results …
Convergence or Divergence? Recent Developments in Drug Policies in Canada and the United States
In a recent publication in the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States occasional paper series, Paul Gecelovsky (2007) wrote about marijuana as an “irritant” in Canada–US relations, s
The Mismeasure of Crime
'The Mismeasure of Crime' addresses the measurement of crime both historically and cross-nationally. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of each data source, the fundamental issues surrounding their accuracy, and the applications of these data in theoretical and policy research
Racial Profiling/Biased Policing
Media and legal attention to the issue of racial profiling in the United States intensified in the 1990s, with numerous studies from a wide range of jurisdictions revealing evidence of biased policing. This article briefly examines the history of biased policing in the United States, discusses the results of some of the more recent studies as well as studies of biased policing in other countries, and also devotes considerable attention to importa…
Examining the Relationship of Substance Use and Sexual Orientation
In this article we examine the effects of self-reported sexual orientation on substance abuse. Using data on a random sample of 6,713 individuals in Washington State, this study examines causes and correlates of substance use by sexual minorities, an at-risk and treatment underserved population. Logistic regression results indicate homosexual orientation is a significant positive predictor of past year marijuana use, past year hard drug use, past…
Prisons, jobs and privatization: The impact of prisons on employment growth in rural US counties, 1997-2004
Data Bases and Statistical Systems: Crime
Progress at the State Level Versus Recent Regress at the Federal Level: Changes in the Social Consequences of the U.S. War on Drugs
Fifteen years ago, Jensen, Gerber, and Mosher drew attention to the societal costs of the U.S. war on drugs. They argued that while criminologists had focused on the impact of this war on the U.S. criminal justice system, other impacts had been under-researched. Whereas some research along these lines has been done that we review here briefly, some of the “objective” conditions of the war on drugs have changed in the intervening years. The primar…
County-Level Differences in Support for Recreational Cannabis on the Ballot
Cannabis is traversing an extraordinary journey from an illicit substance to a legal one, due in part to an unprecedented wave of bottom-up law reform through successful citizen ballot initiatives. Yet, even in states that have legalized recreational cannabis, there is substantial geographic variability in support of cannabis legalization. Geographic variability in voter support for cannabis legalization is impactful (e.g., county moratoriums/ban…
In the Weeds: Demonization, Legalization, and the Evolution of US Marijuana Policy
Reviewer: Michelle Newhart, University of La Verne In the Weeds: Demonization, Legalization and the Evolution of US Marijuana Policy offers a helpful and timely primer on the policies and polemics that have shaped the cannabis legal landscape in the United States (and, to a limited extent, other parts of the world). The book opens with a discussion of multiple attempts to reschedule cannabis from its federal classification in the most restrictive…
Political science (18 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Criminology (16 works) · Law (14 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Economics (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (5 works) · Economic growth (5 works)