Nicholas Lovrich

Biographic Data

ID4127804
NAMENicholas Lovrich
GIVEN NAMESNicholas
FAMILY NAMELovrich
SIGNATURELOVRICH N
AFFILIATIONSWashington State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS59
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX4

  • The Effect of Marijuana Legalization on Jail Populations in Washington State

    Open AccessDuane L Stanton, Duane Stanton et al.ARTICLEThe Prison Journal2020

    In 2012, Washington State legalized the production, sale, and possession of marijuana through Initiative 502. Advocates of legalization argued that it would decrease the jail population and reduce the disproportionate incarceration of minorities, reasoning that the police would refocus their resources on other matters. In order to evaluate this assumption, we examined jail booking data using a set of interrupted time-series regression models. Our…

  • Portrait of justice

    Open AccessYu Zhang, Nicholas P Lovrich et al.ARTICLEGlobal Media and China2016

    Some scholars doubt whether China has much of a legal tradition, and others have opined that China lacks legal subjectivity from a Western legal perspective. However, various dramas have delineated a legal culture and form of legal subjectivity in China present since ancient times. Unfortunately, relatively less research has been conducted on legal themes in Chinese drama, and even less scholarship has explored Chinese legal tradition through an …

  • The New Case for Bureaucracy

    Nicholas P Lovrich, Nicholas LovrichARTICLEPublic Integrity2015References: 1

    Over the course of three decades and more, hundreds of college and university professors and tens of thousands of undergraduate and M.P.A. students have benefited from reading The Case for Bureaucr

  • The importance of context in understanding biased policing

    Clayton Mosher, J Mitch Pickerill et al.ARTICLEPolice Practice and Research2008

    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…

  • Cultural sources of variations in US urban sustainability attributes

    Open AccessWilliam Budd, William W Budd et al.ARTICLECities2008Cited by: 9References: 26

  • The effect of local political culture on policing behaviors in the 1990s

    Open AccessJihong Zhao, Ni He et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2006Cited by: 3References: 13

  • Linking confidence in the police with the performance of the police

    Open AccessLing Ren, Liqun Cao et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2005Cited by: 27References: 32

  • Predicting the employment of minority officers in U.S. cities

    Open AccessJihong Zhao, Ni He et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice2005Cited by: 3References: 17

  • Race, Ethnicity and the Female Cop

    Jihong Zhao, Leigh Herbst et al.ARTICLEJournal of Urban Affairs2001Cited by: 9

    This article examines factors hypothesized to be associated with the employment of female police officers in US municipal law enforcement agencies. Female officer representation is investigated within three primary racial or ethnic groups—Caucasians, African Americans, and Hispanics. This study utilizes data collected from a representative sample of police departments serving populations over 25,000 residents across the US during the period of 19…

  • Determinants of minority employment in american municipal police agencies

    Open AccessJihong Zhao, Nicholas P Lovrich et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1998Cited by: 8References: 17