John J Sloan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John J Sloan |
| GIVEN NAMES | John J |
| FAMILY NAME | Sloan |
| SIGNATURE | SLOAN J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1434-2162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 119 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Integrating Ethics Education into Criminology and Criminal Justice Departments and Programs: A Modest Proposal
Getting in, but getting through? A 20-year national examination of the representation and success of women in the police academy
Perceptions of Publication Pressures and Burnout Among Students in U.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice PhD Programs
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula
Research Summary Using secondary data from a census of 421 police academies nationwide continuously operating between 2002 and 2018, we assessed continuity and change in core areas of basic law enforcement training (BLET) of new police hires. Despite decades of concerns expressed by national‐level commissions, scholars, and practitioners about the substance of police academy basic training, ours is the first study since the 1980s that examines th…
Women in the Police Academy: A National-Level Exploration of the Gendered Nature of Non-Completion
The underrepresentation of women in policing is well documented as are efforts to understand the disparity. Some of these efforts have examined the first point newly hired women experience occupational socialization: basic law enforcement training at police academies nationwide. Largely absent from this line of research are studies of why women recruits—compared to men—fail to successfully complete basic training. To fill this empirical void, the…
Where Are We Now? The Current State of Justice-Related Education
The ACJS Directory of Justice-Related Degree Programs is a database containing over 100 pieces of information on 29 justice-related degree programs at the associate through doctoral level (N = 2,350) offered at U.S. Title IV eligible two- and four-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions (N = 1,673) during academic year 2021–2022. Using a subsample of the five most common programs (n = 1,740) from the Directory, this article presents an em…
A National Comparison of Police Academies Operated by Academic Institutions and by Law Enforcement Agencies: Different Strokes for Different Folks
Well known is the fact new hires of police agencies must complete a program of basic law enforcement training (BLET) before they can become sworn officers and this training usually occurs at police academies. Less well known is these academies can be grouped into two types: law enforcement agency academies (LEAAs) and academic institution academies (AIAs). Using national-level police academy data (N = 591), this study compared the two groups on (…
The State of Criminal Justice Educational Programs in the United States: Bachelors’ Degrees, Curriculum Standards, and the Ongoing Quest for Quality
While definitions for, and assessments of, the quality of degree programs in higher education are varied, in criminal justice the field has determined a quality program is one that meets certain standards involving such areas as program mission, curriculum, faculty credentials, and resources determined through "academic certification" by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).The problem is few programs have pursued certification and alm…
Comparing Bachelor’s Degree Curricula at Three Groups of Colleges and Universities: Flexibility or Idiosyncrasy
Despite baccalaureates in criminal justice (BCJ) being among the most awarded degrees in this country, little published research has appeared in recent years on these programs or their curricula. Using 2015–2016 data collected from the population of BCJ-granting institutions (N = 670) in the U.S., we partially replicated Southerland's 2002 Criminal justice curricula in the United States: A decade of Change and extended Sloan and Buchwalter's 2016…
The State of Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Degree Programs in the United States: A Descriptive Profile of Programs Housed in For-Profit Institutions
While for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) have long existed in the U.S., most were small, closely held companies (CHCs). Beginning in the 1990s, a new FPCU emerged that was owned by publicly traded companies (PTCs). While FPCUs owned by CHCs and PTCs offer baccalaureates in criminal justice (BCJ), little is known about the characteristics of these programs. To address this gap, the current study analyzed the population (N = 79) of FPCUs …
The State of Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Degree Programs in the United States: Institutional, Departmental, and Curricula Features
Bachelor's degrees in criminal justice (BCJ) now constitute one of the ten most awarded undergraduate degrees in this country, yet little attention has been paid recently to the institutional, departmental, or curricular aspects of these programs. This study used primary and secondary data collected from the population (N = 670) of US colleges and universities offering BCJ degrees during the 2015–2016 academic year to describe and assess the stat…
H -Index and m -Quotient Benchmarks of Scholarly Impact in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Preliminary Note
Because Scopus and metrics like the h-index and m-quotient have become increasingly popular for assessing the impact of social science scholarship, criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments may be tempted to use those metrics when making important decisions like tenure and promotion. However, since no discipline-wide standards based on those metrics yet exist, CCJ departments have no comparative basis for interpreting the results of cita…
Campus crime: Legal, Social, and Policy Perspectives
Media Construction of White-Collar Violence Revisited: An Examination of Two Nightclub Tragedies
Wright, Cullen, and Blankenship (Citation1995) examined print media constructions of a chicken-processing plant fire that killed scores of workers. They found that newspaper coverage of the fire was reluctant to describe the event as corporate violence. We examine the generalizability of Wright et al.'s study by conducting a content analysis of newspaper coverage of two events at nightclubs in Chicago, Illinois, and Warwick, Rhode Island, that le…
Unraveling the fear of victimization among college women: Is the “shadow of sexual assault hypothesis” supported?
Using data on victimization from a national sample of college students, we replicated, refined, and extended Ferraro's models to test the “shadow of sexual assault” thesis and to explore factors that heightened women's age-specific fear of rape. We took into account temporal dimensions of crime-specific fear (during the day and at night) and used a domain-specific model. Overall, fear of rape among college women “shadowed” their fear of other per…
Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide Promoting Effects of “Three Strikes” in U.S. Cities (1980–1999)
Research Summary: Using panel data from 188 large cities during 1980–1999, we examined the possible homicide promoting effects of “three‐strikes” laws. Results indicated that cities in states with three‐strikes laws experienced short‐term increases in homicide rates of 13% to 14% and long‐term increases of 16% to 24% compared with cities in states without the laws. Policy Implications: Our results emphasize the fact that rarely are the possible u…
Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice
Police levels and crime rates revisited
Crime in the Ivory Tower: The Level and Sources of Student Victimization
Contrary to the image of college campuses as “ivory towers,” the victimization of college students recently has been portrayed as a serious problem deserving policy intervention. Based on interviews designed after the National Crime Victimization Survey, which were conducted with 3,472 randomly selected students across 12 institutions, we examined both the level and sources of students'victimization. More than one‐third of the sample reported bei…
A study of criminal justice discretion
The correlates of campus crime: An analysis of reported crimes on college and university campuses
Women, policing, and male violence: International perspectives
Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates
Journal Article Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates Get access John M. Stahura, John M. Stahura Purdue University Address correspondence to John M. Stahura, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Sloan, III John J. Sloan, III Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Crime in the Ivory Tower: The Level and Sources of Student Victimization
Contrary to the image of college campuses as “ivory towers,” the victimization of college students recently has been portrayed as a serious problem deserving policy intervention. Based on interviews designed after the National Crime Victimization Survey, which were conducted with 3,472 randomly selected students across 12 institutions, we examined both the level and sources of students'victimization. More than one‐third of the sample reported bei…
Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide Promoting Effects of “Three Strikes” in U.S. Cities (1980–1999)
Research Summary: Using panel data from 188 large cities during 1980–1999, we examined the possible homicide promoting effects of “three‐strikes” laws. Results indicated that cities in states with three‐strikes laws experienced short‐term increases in homicide rates of 13% to 14% and long‐term increases of 16% to 24% compared with cities in states without the laws. Policy Implications: Our results emphasize the fact that rarely are the possible u…
The correlates of campus crime: An analysis of reported crimes on college and university campuses
Police levels and crime rates revisited
Media Construction of White-Collar Violence Revisited: An Examination of Two Nightclub Tragedies
Wright, Cullen, and Blankenship (Citation1995) examined print media constructions of a chicken-processing plant fire that killed scores of workers. They found that newspaper coverage of the fire was reluctant to describe the event as corporate violence. We examine the generalizability of Wright et al.'s study by conducting a content analysis of newspaper coverage of two events at nightclubs in Chicago, Illinois, and Warwick, Rhode Island, that le…
Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates
Journal Article Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates Get access John M. Stahura, John M. Stahura Purdue University Address correspondence to John M. Stahura, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Sloan, III John J. Sloan, III Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
A study of criminal justice discretion
Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates
Journal Article Urban Stratification of Places, Routine Activities and Suburban Crime Rates Get access John M. Stahura, John M. Stahura Purdue University Address correspondence to John M. Stahura, Department of Sociology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John J. Sloan, III John J. Sloan, III Purdue University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Women, policing, and male violence: International perspectives
A study of criminal justice discretion
The correlates of campus crime: An analysis of reported crimes on college and university campuses
Crime in the Ivory Tower: The Level and Sources of Student Victimization
Contrary to the image of college campuses as “ivory towers,” the victimization of college students recently has been portrayed as a serious problem deserving policy intervention. Based on interviews designed after the National Crime Victimization Survey, which were conducted with 3,472 randomly selected students across 12 institutions, we examined both the level and sources of students'victimization. More than one‐third of the sample reported bei…
Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide Promoting Effects of “Three Strikes” in U.S. Cities (1980–1999)
Research Summary: Using panel data from 188 large cities during 1980–1999, we examined the possible homicide promoting effects of “three‐strikes” laws. Results indicated that cities in states with three‐strikes laws experienced short‐term increases in homicide rates of 13% to 14% and long‐term increases of 16% to 24% compared with cities in states without the laws. Policy Implications: Our results emphasize the fact that rarely are the possible u…
Bearing Witness to Crime and Social Justice
Police levels and crime rates revisited
Unraveling the fear of victimization among college women: Is the “shadow of sexual assault hypothesis” supported?
Using data on victimization from a national sample of college students, we replicated, refined, and extended Ferraro's models to test the “shadow of sexual assault” thesis and to explore factors that heightened women's age-specific fear of rape. We took into account temporal dimensions of crime-specific fear (during the day and at night) and used a domain-specific model. Overall, fear of rape among college women “shadowed” their fear of other per…
Media Construction of White-Collar Violence Revisited: An Examination of Two Nightclub Tragedies
Wright, Cullen, and Blankenship (Citation1995) examined print media constructions of a chicken-processing plant fire that killed scores of workers. They found that newspaper coverage of the fire was reluctant to describe the event as corporate violence. We examine the generalizability of Wright et al.'s study by conducting a content analysis of newspaper coverage of two events at nightclubs in Chicago, Illinois, and Warwick, Rhode Island, that le…
Campus crime: Legal, Social, and Policy Perspectives
H -Index and m -Quotient Benchmarks of Scholarly Impact in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Preliminary Note
Because Scopus and metrics like the h-index and m-quotient have become increasingly popular for assessing the impact of social science scholarship, criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments may be tempted to use those metrics when making important decisions like tenure and promotion. However, since no discipline-wide standards based on those metrics yet exist, CCJ departments have no comparative basis for interpreting the results of cita…
The State of Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Degree Programs in the United States: Institutional, Departmental, and Curricula Features
Bachelor's degrees in criminal justice (BCJ) now constitute one of the ten most awarded undergraduate degrees in this country, yet little attention has been paid recently to the institutional, departmental, or curricular aspects of these programs. This study used primary and secondary data collected from the population (N = 670) of US colleges and universities offering BCJ degrees during the 2015–2016 academic year to describe and assess the stat…
Comparing Bachelor’s Degree Curricula at Three Groups of Colleges and Universities: Flexibility or Idiosyncrasy
Despite baccalaureates in criminal justice (BCJ) being among the most awarded degrees in this country, little published research has appeared in recent years on these programs or their curricula. Using 2015–2016 data collected from the population of BCJ-granting institutions (N = 670) in the U.S., we partially replicated Southerland's 2002 Criminal justice curricula in the United States: A decade of Change and extended Sloan and Buchwalter's 2016…
The State of Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Degree Programs in the United States: A Descriptive Profile of Programs Housed in For-Profit Institutions
While for-profit colleges and universities (FPCUs) have long existed in the U.S., most were small, closely held companies (CHCs). Beginning in the 1990s, a new FPCU emerged that was owned by publicly traded companies (PTCs). While FPCUs owned by CHCs and PTCs offer baccalaureates in criminal justice (BCJ), little is known about the characteristics of these programs. To address this gap, the current study analyzed the population (N = 79) of FPCUs …
The State of Criminal Justice Educational Programs in the United States: Bachelors’ Degrees, Curriculum Standards, and the Ongoing Quest for Quality
While definitions for, and assessments of, the quality of degree programs in higher education are varied, in criminal justice the field has determined a quality program is one that meets certain standards involving such areas as program mission, curriculum, faculty credentials, and resources determined through "academic certification" by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS).The problem is few programs have pursued certification and alm…
A National Comparison of Police Academies Operated by Academic Institutions and by Law Enforcement Agencies: Different Strokes for Different Folks
Well known is the fact new hires of police agencies must complete a program of basic law enforcement training (BLET) before they can become sworn officers and this training usually occurs at police academies. Less well known is these academies can be grouped into two types: law enforcement agency academies (LEAAs) and academic institution academies (AIAs). Using national-level police academy data (N = 591), this study compared the two groups on (…
Women in the Police Academy: A National-Level Exploration of the Gendered Nature of Non-Completion
The underrepresentation of women in policing is well documented as are efforts to understand the disparity. Some of these efforts have examined the first point newly hired women experience occupational socialization: basic law enforcement training at police academies nationwide. Largely absent from this line of research are studies of why women recruits—compared to men—fail to successfully complete basic training. To fill this empirical void, the…
Where Are We Now? The Current State of Justice-Related Education
The ACJS Directory of Justice-Related Degree Programs is a database containing over 100 pieces of information on 29 justice-related degree programs at the associate through doctoral level (N = 2,350) offered at U.S. Title IV eligible two- and four-year degree-granting postsecondary institutions (N = 1,673) during academic year 2021–2022. Using a subsample of the five most common programs (n = 1,740) from the Directory, this article presents an em…
Perceptions of Publication Pressures and Burnout Among Students in U.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice PhD Programs
The more things change, the more they stay the same: A multi‐wave national assessment of police academy training curricula
Research Summary Using secondary data from a census of 421 police academies nationwide continuously operating between 2002 and 2018, we assessed continuity and change in core areas of basic law enforcement training (BLET) of new police hires. Despite decades of concerns expressed by national‐level commissions, scholars, and practitioners about the substance of police academy basic training, ours is the first study since the 1980s that examines th…
Integrating Ethics Education into Criminology and Criminal Justice Departments and Programs: A Modest Proposal
Getting in, but getting through? A 20-year national examination of the representation and success of women in the police academy
Criminology (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Criminal justice (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works)