Laurence Armand French
Biographic Data
| ID | 3948594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Armand French |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence Armand |
| FAMILY NAME | French |
| SIGNATURE | FRENCH L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western New Mexico University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 29 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Implementing Evidence‐Informed Practices to Make Schools Safer and More Supportive of Sexual and Gender Minority Youth
Alcohol, perhaps more than any other factor, symbolizes the degree of cultural disintegration experienced by American Indians today. It has been recognized as a symptom of the numerous cultural adjustments forced upon American Indians since white contact. Indeed, alcohol among Indian groups was prohibited for a far longer period than the nationwide Prohibition experience. The General Indian Intercourse Act prohibited alcohol sale and use among Am…
Policing in Taiwan
City of order
Professor Boudreau presents a complex picture of society in the Canadian city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, in the era between the two world wars, 1918–1935. Halifax was going through the throes of adap
Observing the Preservation and Decline of Abilities in Dementias
The Brief Cognitive Rating Scale facilitated observation of the preservation and decline of abilities due to dementias among 73 female and 52 male residents at nursing homes in a northeastern and southwestern state. They ranged in age from 41 to 102 years (M=78, SD = 10.5). Dementia diagnoses included presenile Alzheimers, senile Alzheimers, Vascular Dementia, Dementia secondary to Huntington's Disease, Dementia due to Pick's Disease, and Korsako…
Addictions and Native Americans
Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today. After presenting the social and psychological factors that have contributed to Native American addictions and the patterns of behavior and circumstances associated with this complex and widespread problem, French discusses the treatment, intervention, and prevention issues facing therapists. He also explores the development and consequences…
Marriage Mobility and Perceived Status of U.S. Presidents
The Murray-Blessing historical rankings for the 4 U.S. Presidents who married down in social class did not differ significantly from the 8 who married up in social class. This finding is consistent with previous research indicating that men do not lose status with downward marriage mobility
Suicide and Homicide Rates Among U.S. Indian Health Service Areas
Analysis of data for all 12 U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) areas yielded a significant Spearman's correlation coefficient of .65 between absolute poverty and suicide and a significant Rho of .52 with homicide rates. Nonsignificant correlation coefficients were found for relative poverty and suicide and homicide rates. Implications for the income inequality hypothesis are discussed
Hitler's Psychopathology
Psychohistorians have uncovered a wealth of evidence suggesting that Hitler's psychopathology became projected and rationalized as social policy. Despite this cumulative evidence, no specific diagnosis has been generally accepted. The strengths and weaknesses of psychohistorical research and the ethical responsibilities involved in its use are discussed
Assessing Three Adolescent Groups in New Mexico Using the Problem-Oriented Screening Instrument
Analysis of responses of 289 rural white, Hispanic, and Navajo adolescents to 10 items of the Problem-oriented Screening Instrument showed the 40 Navajo girls scored highest in over-all pathology followed by 40 Navajo, 55 white, and 51 Hispanic boys. Both the Hispanic and white girls (ns = 49 and 54, respectively) scored below the minimum mean score of 38 for pathology
The Winds of Injustice
Nine reprinted essays delineate the fundamental concepts of native American justice and explore some of the most important modern issues concerning justice encountered by native Americans. The topics include mythology and culture, US government policy, reservations, Leonard Peltier and the AIM upri
Status Integration and Suicide Among Native American Women
The present study sought cross-cultural replication of studies reporting positive correlations for the percent of women in the labor force and suicide rates for men, supporting status integration theory. Contrary to expectations, data from the U.S. Indian Health Service areas yielded a significant, positive Pearson correlation coefficient for women but a nonsignificant correlation for men. Implications for cross-cultural research on status integr…
Adaptations of Aboriginal justice in the United States
Taxable Wealth and Alcoholic Beverage Consumption in the United States
Analysis of secondary data of the United States yielded significant but small Pearson correlation coefficients between taxable wealth and per capita consumption of wine ( r = .26), beer ( r = .40), and distilled spirits ( r = .30)
Locus of Control, Depression, and Anger among African-Americans
Subjects, 98 African-American college students, were given a measure of belief in locus of control, a self-report measure of depression, and three scales from the Buss and Durkee Hostility Inventory. Depression and belief in control by powerful others correlated only for subjects with low scores on Assaultive, Verbal, and Indirect Hostility. The findings, using nonwhite subjects, replicate a previous study in which the racial composition was not …
Adapting Projective Tests for Minority Children
Child abuse reporting laws have placed new demands upon law enforcement, human service agencies, and clinicians alike. For the clinician, these demands are compounded when minority children are involved. Few of the standardized measures seem to fit all cultural groups. In our situation the cultural mix involves Hispanic, Mexican, and American Indian children. We found a combination of two projectives, the Draw-A-Person/Draw-A-Family and the Thema…
Suicide and Social Status among Native Americans
An analysis of unpublished secondary data on suicide rates for U.S. Indian Health Service areas did not provide cross-cultural support for the social control hypothesis that high-status categories have higher suicide rates than low-status categories
Myths about Aggression and Attitudes about the Death Penalty
165 college students completed a survey containing a measure of misconceptions about human aggression and attitudinal items on the death penalty from a 1985 Gallup report. Analysis did not provide strong support for the hypothesis that subjects with relatively high numbers of misconceptions about human aggression are more likely than better informed subjects to support the death penalty
A Practitioner's Notes on Treating Sexual Deviance
Considerable controversy exists regarding the treatment of sexual offenders. Often incarceration masks the environmental stimuli, resulting in not only early release but a false clinical prognosis for success. The paper looks at treatment strategies applicable to both the diagnostic and treatment components of sexual deviance. Specifically, what factors contribute to the symptoms associated with intense sexual urges and are there any viable treat…
Victimization of the Mentally Ill
Twenty years ago, legal interventions and dramatic advancements in psychopharmacology provided the impetus for a mass exodus from public mental health institutions to community settings. This well-intended move was predicated on the development of a community mental health center network. An unintended consequence, however, is that many deinstitutionalized mentally ill clients have been forced onto the street with little or no treatment. Moreover…
Forensic Suicides and Attempted Suicides
Forensic suicides and suicide attempts challenge certain premises long held by classical suicidologists. Integration and status or personal loss do not appear to be critical factors when considering forensic suicide behavior. Instead, rage and marginality surface as the paramount factors. Although it is obvious that anomie is a dimension of marginality, it is important to note that marginal members of society fail, for whatever reason, to adequat…
Marginality, Suicides, and Suicide Attempts
Palmer (1960), influenced by the Frustration/Aggression theorem, proposed that suicide is the likely, albeit extreme, form of aggression among overly socialized members of society (middle and upper classes) while homicide is the likely extreme form of aggression among the marginal and/or undersocialized (lower classes). The purpose of this paper is to explicate evidence from a forensic setting at a state hospital which challenges Palmer's hypothe…
Anomie and Violence among Native Americans
Cultural anomie and the marginality that results from it are important considerations when viewing Native American disorganization, both past and present. Indeed, a major consequence of Indian disorganization is intra-group aggression, a phenomenon manifested by high alcoholism and suicide rates (self-aggression) as well as assault and homicide. And while the problem of cultural anomie has long plagued Native Americans, few attempts have been mad…
Blacks and Capital Punishment
A major consideration in interethnic relations is the control factor and how this is maintained in minority/ majority situations especially those occurring within heterogeneous societies. Granted numerous subtle control processes operate at both the primary and secondary levels of interethnic interaction but a critical measure of the effectiveness of minority subjugation is reflected in judicial discrimination. This formal legal control apparatus…
The Minority Perspective on Violence
Minority violence has long been a critical issue in American justice with members of the ‘visible’ minorities (Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans) being overrepresented as both offenders and victims of serious personal altercations. Moreover, these same groups are underrepresented as members of the formal, legal control process (law enforcement, judiciary, corrections, and legislative bodies). In spite of this situation few attempts have been…
The Incarcerated Black Female
Our society has long adhered to a double standard of justice, one for male offenders and yet another for females. And while females have certainly been discriminated against in many social situations, they have traditionally been spared the pains of imprisonment. In fact, female offenders have normally been subjected to a judicial policy of reverse discrimination resulting in fewer women being arrested, convicted or incarcerated. The reason for t…
An Assessment of the Black Female Prisoner in the South
Victimization of the Mentally Ill
Twenty years ago, legal interventions and dramatic advancements in psychopharmacology provided the impetus for a mass exodus from public mental health institutions to community settings. This well-intended move was predicated on the development of a community mental health center network. An unintended consequence, however, is that many deinstitutionalized mentally ill clients have been forced onto the street with little or no treatment. Moreover…
An Analysis of Indian Violence
Addictions and Native Americans
Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today. After presenting the social and psychological factors that have contributed to Native American addictions and the patterns of behavior and circumstances associated with this complex and widespread problem, French discusses the treatment, intervention, and prevention issues facing therapists. He also explores the development and consequences…
The Winds of Injustice
Nine reprinted essays delineate the fundamental concepts of native American justice and explore some of the most important modern issues concerning justice encountered by native Americans. The topics include mythology and culture, US government policy, reservations, Leonard Peltier and the AIM upri
The Minority Perspective on Violence
Minority violence has long been a critical issue in American justice with members of the ‘visible’ minorities (Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans) being overrepresented as both offenders and victims of serious personal altercations. Moreover, these same groups are underrepresented as members of the formal, legal control process (law enforcement, judiciary, corrections, and legislative bodies). In spite of this situation few attempts have been…
Social problems among Cherokee females
A Cultural Perspective Toward Juvenile Delinquency
Many scholars have long contended that delinquency and other forms of deviance are perhaps a consequence of social structural factors in that particular cultural environment. We see the interplay between ambiguous normative expectations and the development of unacceptable behavioral adaptations. Given these anomic conditions then, there is a greater likelihood of psycho-cultural marginality among that particular population. Furthermore, this situ…
An Analysis of Indian Violence
An Assessment of the Black Female Prisoner in the South
The Incarcerated Black Female
Our society has long adhered to a double standard of justice, one for male offenders and yet another for females. And while females have certainly been discriminated against in many social situations, they have traditionally been spared the pains of imprisonment. In fact, female offenders have normally been subjected to a judicial policy of reverse discrimination resulting in fewer women being arrested, convicted or incarcerated. The reason for t…
Blacks and Capital Punishment
A major consideration in interethnic relations is the control factor and how this is maintained in minority/ majority situations especially those occurring within heterogeneous societies. Granted numerous subtle control processes operate at both the primary and secondary levels of interethnic interaction but a critical measure of the effectiveness of minority subjugation is reflected in judicial discrimination. This formal legal control apparatus…
The Minority Perspective on Violence
Minority violence has long been a critical issue in American justice with members of the ‘visible’ minorities (Blacks, Hispanics and Native Americans) being overrepresented as both offenders and victims of serious personal altercations. Moreover, these same groups are underrepresented as members of the formal, legal control process (law enforcement, judiciary, corrections, and legislative bodies). In spite of this situation few attempts have been…
Anomie and Violence among Native Americans
Cultural anomie and the marginality that results from it are important considerations when viewing Native American disorganization, both past and present. Indeed, a major consequence of Indian disorganization is intra-group aggression, a phenomenon manifested by high alcoholism and suicide rates (self-aggression) as well as assault and homicide. And while the problem of cultural anomie has long plagued Native Americans, few attempts have been mad…
Marginality, Suicides, and Suicide Attempts
Palmer (1960), influenced by the Frustration/Aggression theorem, proposed that suicide is the likely, albeit extreme, form of aggression among overly socialized members of society (middle and upper classes) while homicide is the likely extreme form of aggression among the marginal and/or undersocialized (lower classes). The purpose of this paper is to explicate evidence from a forensic setting at a state hospital which challenges Palmer's hypothe…
Forensic Suicides and Attempted Suicides
Forensic suicides and suicide attempts challenge certain premises long held by classical suicidologists. Integration and status or personal loss do not appear to be critical factors when considering forensic suicide behavior. Instead, rage and marginality surface as the paramount factors. Although it is obvious that anomie is a dimension of marginality, it is important to note that marginal members of society fail, for whatever reason, to adequat…
Victimization of the Mentally Ill
Twenty years ago, legal interventions and dramatic advancements in psychopharmacology provided the impetus for a mass exodus from public mental health institutions to community settings. This well-intended move was predicated on the development of a community mental health center network. An unintended consequence, however, is that many deinstitutionalized mentally ill clients have been forced onto the street with little or no treatment. Moreover…
A Practitioner's Notes on Treating Sexual Deviance
Considerable controversy exists regarding the treatment of sexual offenders. Often incarceration masks the environmental stimuli, resulting in not only early release but a false clinical prognosis for success. The paper looks at treatment strategies applicable to both the diagnostic and treatment components of sexual deviance. Specifically, what factors contribute to the symptoms associated with intense sexual urges and are there any viable treat…
Myths about Aggression and Attitudes about the Death Penalty
165 college students completed a survey containing a measure of misconceptions about human aggression and attitudinal items on the death penalty from a 1985 Gallup report. Analysis did not provide strong support for the hypothesis that subjects with relatively high numbers of misconceptions about human aggression are more likely than better informed subjects to support the death penalty
Locus of Control, Depression, and Anger among African-Americans
Subjects, 98 African-American college students, were given a measure of belief in locus of control, a self-report measure of depression, and three scales from the Buss and Durkee Hostility Inventory. Depression and belief in control by powerful others correlated only for subjects with low scores on Assaultive, Verbal, and Indirect Hostility. The findings, using nonwhite subjects, replicate a previous study in which the racial composition was not …
Adapting Projective Tests for Minority Children
Child abuse reporting laws have placed new demands upon law enforcement, human service agencies, and clinicians alike. For the clinician, these demands are compounded when minority children are involved. Few of the standardized measures seem to fit all cultural groups. In our situation the cultural mix involves Hispanic, Mexican, and American Indian children. We found a combination of two projectives, the Draw-A-Person/Draw-A-Family and the Thema…
Suicide and Social Status among Native Americans
An analysis of unpublished secondary data on suicide rates for U.S. Indian Health Service areas did not provide cross-cultural support for the social control hypothesis that high-status categories have higher suicide rates than low-status categories
Taxable Wealth and Alcoholic Beverage Consumption in the United States
Analysis of secondary data of the United States yielded significant but small Pearson correlation coefficients between taxable wealth and per capita consumption of wine ( r = .26), beer ( r = .40), and distilled spirits ( r = .30)
Status Integration and Suicide Among Native American Women
The present study sought cross-cultural replication of studies reporting positive correlations for the percent of women in the labor force and suicide rates for men, supporting status integration theory. Contrary to expectations, data from the U.S. Indian Health Service areas yielded a significant, positive Pearson correlation coefficient for women but a nonsignificant correlation for men. Implications for cross-cultural research on status integr…
Adaptations of Aboriginal justice in the United States
Suicide and Homicide Rates Among U.S. Indian Health Service Areas
Analysis of data for all 12 U.S. Indian Health Service (IHS) areas yielded a significant Spearman's correlation coefficient of .65 between absolute poverty and suicide and a significant Rho of .52 with homicide rates. Nonsignificant correlation coefficients were found for relative poverty and suicide and homicide rates. Implications for the income inequality hypothesis are discussed
Hitler's Psychopathology
Psychohistorians have uncovered a wealth of evidence suggesting that Hitler's psychopathology became projected and rationalized as social policy. Despite this cumulative evidence, no specific diagnosis has been generally accepted. The strengths and weaknesses of psychohistorical research and the ethical responsibilities involved in its use are discussed
Assessing Three Adolescent Groups in New Mexico Using the Problem-Oriented Screening Instrument
Analysis of responses of 289 rural white, Hispanic, and Navajo adolescents to 10 items of the Problem-oriented Screening Instrument showed the 40 Navajo girls scored highest in over-all pathology followed by 40 Navajo, 55 white, and 51 Hispanic boys. Both the Hispanic and white girls (ns = 49 and 54, respectively) scored below the minimum mean score of 38 for pathology
The Winds of Injustice
Nine reprinted essays delineate the fundamental concepts of native American justice and explore some of the most important modern issues concerning justice encountered by native Americans. The topics include mythology and culture, US government policy, reservations, Leonard Peltier and the AIM upri
Marriage Mobility and Perceived Status of U.S. Presidents
The Murray-Blessing historical rankings for the 4 U.S. Presidents who married down in social class did not differ significantly from the 8 who married up in social class. This finding is consistent with previous research indicating that men do not lose status with downward marriage mobility
Addictions and Native Americans
Substance abuse is a major health and social problem plaguing Native Americans both historically and today. After presenting the social and psychological factors that have contributed to Native American addictions and the patterns of behavior and circumstances associated with this complex and widespread problem, French discusses the treatment, intervention, and prevention issues facing therapists. He also explores the development and consequences…
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