Brandon K Applegate
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brandon K Applegate |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brandon K |
| FAMILY NAME | Applegate |
| SIGNATURE | APPLEGATE B K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Central Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1086-8861 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Type of Police Contact and the Race Gap in Citizens’ Perceptions of Injustice: A Research Note
A substantial body of research has examined the public's perceptions of the police, typically showing that Black Americans, and to a lesser extent Hispanic Americans, hold less favorable views than White Americans. This tendency toward a racial gap also extends to estimates of police procedural justice, but the literature has not assessed whether racial differences are more pronounced in some situations than in others. The current study analyzed …
Understanding victimization of people held in U.S. prisons and jails: The generalizability of an opportunity framework
The Future of American Jails: A National Survey of Jail Leaders’ Ideals
Despite their significance in criminal legal processing, American jails have a reputation for physical and operational deficiencies, with few aspirations beyond mere custody. To examine the possibilities for United States (U.S.) jails’ progress, we assess the priorities of U.S. jail leaders, their expectations about achieving reforms, and perceived obstacles regarding change. Our analysis showed that while jail command staff embrace custody, they…
Jail Officers’ Adherence to Traditional Bases of Social Power: Understanding Inmate Control in a Unique Correctional Context
Scholars have investigated the social sources of power that correctional officers embrace as their means of control over people who are incarcerated. However, this work has been conducted with community correctional officers and those working in state prisons, with almost no attention to officers who work in local jails. Jails are distinctive in ways that may be important for the bases of power on which officers may draw, and the current study an…
The sins of the child: Public opinion about parental responsibility for juvenile crime
Previous research indicates that people ascribe less responsibility to juvenile offenders than adult offenders for the crimes they have committed. Although assignment of responsibility to parents varies depending upon the youth’s age, we know little about the role of other factors. The current study used randomized factorial vignettes to examine whether the seriousness of the offense, peer involvement, and the offender's race, age, sex, and prior…
Managing Compliance: Types of Power in Juvenile and Adult Probation and Parole Supervision
Power is a central feature of correctional supervision, but almost no research has examined the types of power employed by probation and parole officers to encourage compliance with the conditions of supervision among people serving a community-based sentence. The current study explores this area using data from a sample of juvenile and adult probation and parole officers. Authors find that officers embrace multiple bases of power as important, t…
Testing Deterrence Theory with Offenders: The Empirical Validity of Stafford and Warr's Model
Stafford and Warr (1993) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which individuals' propensities to engage in crime are based on a combination of personal and vicarious experiences with being punished and avoiding punishment. The current study extends prior tests of this conceptualization of deterrence by expanding the definition of vicarious experience, analyzing extralegal as well as legal consequences, examinin…
Jails and Pretrial Release
Hiring Criminology and Criminal Justice Academics: The Perceived Importance of Job Candidates’ Attributes
Scant research is currently available on the characteristics that criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments believe are important for academic job applicants. The current study uses a nationally representative sample of faculty members to assess the perceived importance of a wide array of applicants’ attributes, to explore the extent of agreement about valued attributes among current criminal justice and criminology faculty members, and …
Academia’s Most Wanted: The Characteristics of Desirable Academic Job Candidates in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Although personal opinions and anecdotal evidence abound, there is a dearth of systematic research into the characteristics that academic criminology and criminal justice departments seek in job candidates. The current study uses a nationally representative sample of faculty members to assess the extent to which a wide array of attributes affects whether an applicant for an assistant professor position would be invited for an on‐campus interview.…
The limits of individual control? Perceived officer power and probationer compliance
Testing the Deterrent Effects of Personal and Vicarious Experience with Punishment and Punishment Avoidance
Stafford and Warr (1993 Stafford , M. C. and M. Warr . 1993. "A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:123–35. [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which people's tendencies to commit crimes are based on a combination of personal experiences and vicarious experiences with being punished and…
Self-destructing prophecies: Long-term forecasting of municipal correctional bed need
Turning the Other Cheek: Reassessing the Impact of Religion on Punitive Ideology
Religion has long been recognized as an underlying aspect of correctional policies. Researchers, however, have only recently begun to move beyond considerations of how fundamentalist Christian affiliations might shape preferences for punitive correctional policies. The present study broadens the extant research by examining multiple aspects of religious beliefs and how they affect support for capital punishment and harsher local courts. Analyses …
Public views toward crime and correctional policies
Forgiveness and Fundamentalism: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Correctional Attitudes and Religion
Although research typically has failed to establish a relationship between religious affiliation and correctional attitudes, recent assessments have revealed that fundamentalist Christians tend to be more punitive than are nonfundamentalists. These studies have advanced our understanding considerably, but their conceptualization of religion and correctional attitudes has been limited. Using a statewide survey, the present study demonstrates that …
Detention and desistance from crime
Forgiveness and Fundamentalism: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Correctional Attitudes and Religion
Although research typically has failed to establish a relationship between religious affiliation and correctional attitudes, recent assessments have revealed that fundamentalist Christians tend to be more punitive than are nonfundamentalists. These studies have advanced our understanding considerably, but their conceptualization of religion and correctional attitudes has been limited. Using a statewide survey, the present study demonstrates that …
Public views toward crime and correctional policies
Testing the Deterrent Effects of Personal and Vicarious Experience with Punishment and Punishment Avoidance
Stafford and Warr (1993 Stafford , M. C. and M. Warr . 1993. "A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:123–35. [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which people's tendencies to commit crimes are based on a combination of personal experiences and vicarious experiences with being punished and…
Testing Deterrence Theory with Offenders: The Empirical Validity of Stafford and Warr's Model
Stafford and Warr (1993) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which individuals' propensities to engage in crime are based on a combination of personal and vicarious experiences with being punished and avoiding punishment. The current study extends prior tests of this conceptualization of deterrence by expanding the definition of vicarious experience, analyzing extralegal as well as legal consequences, examinin…
The limits of individual control? Perceived officer power and probationer compliance
The sins of the child: Public opinion about parental responsibility for juvenile crime
Previous research indicates that people ascribe less responsibility to juvenile offenders than adult offenders for the crimes they have committed. Although assignment of responsibility to parents varies depending upon the youth’s age, we know little about the role of other factors. The current study used randomized factorial vignettes to examine whether the seriousness of the offense, peer involvement, and the offender's race, age, sex, and prior…
Detention and desistance from crime
Detention and desistance from crime
Forgiveness and Fundamentalism: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Correctional Attitudes and Religion
Although research typically has failed to establish a relationship between religious affiliation and correctional attitudes, recent assessments have revealed that fundamentalist Christians tend to be more punitive than are nonfundamentalists. These studies have advanced our understanding considerably, but their conceptualization of religion and correctional attitudes has been limited. Using a statewide survey, the present study demonstrates that …
Public views toward crime and correctional policies
Turning the Other Cheek: Reassessing the Impact of Religion on Punitive Ideology
Religion has long been recognized as an underlying aspect of correctional policies. Researchers, however, have only recently begun to move beyond considerations of how fundamentalist Christian affiliations might shape preferences for punitive correctional policies. The present study broadens the extant research by examining multiple aspects of religious beliefs and how they affect support for capital punishment and harsher local courts. Analyses …
Self-destructing prophecies: Long-term forecasting of municipal correctional bed need
Testing the Deterrent Effects of Personal and Vicarious Experience with Punishment and Punishment Avoidance
Stafford and Warr (1993 Stafford , M. C. and M. Warr . 1993. "A Reconceptualization of General and Specific Deterrence." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30:123–35. [CSA] [Crossref], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which people's tendencies to commit crimes are based on a combination of personal experiences and vicarious experiences with being punished and…
Academia’s Most Wanted: The Characteristics of Desirable Academic Job Candidates in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Although personal opinions and anecdotal evidence abound, there is a dearth of systematic research into the characteristics that academic criminology and criminal justice departments seek in job candidates. The current study uses a nationally representative sample of faculty members to assess the extent to which a wide array of attributes affects whether an applicant for an assistant professor position would be invited for an on‐campus interview.…
The limits of individual control? Perceived officer power and probationer compliance
Jails and Pretrial Release
Hiring Criminology and Criminal Justice Academics: The Perceived Importance of Job Candidates’ Attributes
Scant research is currently available on the characteristics that criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) departments believe are important for academic job applicants. The current study uses a nationally representative sample of faculty members to assess the perceived importance of a wide array of applicants’ attributes, to explore the extent of agreement about valued attributes among current criminal justice and criminology faculty members, and …
Testing Deterrence Theory with Offenders: The Empirical Validity of Stafford and Warr's Model
Stafford and Warr (1993) reconceptualized general and specific deterrence into a single theory in which individuals' propensities to engage in crime are based on a combination of personal and vicarious experiences with being punished and avoiding punishment. The current study extends prior tests of this conceptualization of deterrence by expanding the definition of vicarious experience, analyzing extralegal as well as legal consequences, examinin…
Managing Compliance: Types of Power in Juvenile and Adult Probation and Parole Supervision
Power is a central feature of correctional supervision, but almost no research has examined the types of power employed by probation and parole officers to encourage compliance with the conditions of supervision among people serving a community-based sentence. The current study explores this area using data from a sample of juvenile and adult probation and parole officers. Authors find that officers embrace multiple bases of power as important, t…
The sins of the child: Public opinion about parental responsibility for juvenile crime
Previous research indicates that people ascribe less responsibility to juvenile offenders than adult offenders for the crimes they have committed. Although assignment of responsibility to parents varies depending upon the youth’s age, we know little about the role of other factors. The current study used randomized factorial vignettes to examine whether the seriousness of the offense, peer involvement, and the offender's race, age, sex, and prior…
Jail Officers’ Adherence to Traditional Bases of Social Power: Understanding Inmate Control in a Unique Correctional Context
Scholars have investigated the social sources of power that correctional officers embrace as their means of control over people who are incarcerated. However, this work has been conducted with community correctional officers and those working in state prisons, with almost no attention to officers who work in local jails. Jails are distinctive in ways that may be important for the bases of power on which officers may draw, and the current study an…
The Future of American Jails: A National Survey of Jail Leaders’ Ideals
Despite their significance in criminal legal processing, American jails have a reputation for physical and operational deficiencies, with few aspirations beyond mere custody. To examine the possibilities for United States (U.S.) jails’ progress, we assess the priorities of U.S. jail leaders, their expectations about achieving reforms, and perceived obstacles regarding change. Our analysis showed that while jail command staff embrace custody, they…
Understanding victimization of people held in U.S. prisons and jails: The generalizability of an opportunity framework
Type of Police Contact and the Race Gap in Citizens’ Perceptions of Injustice: A Research Note
A substantial body of research has examined the public's perceptions of the police, typically showing that Black Americans, and to a lesser extent Hispanic Americans, hold less favorable views than White Americans. This tendency toward a racial gap also extends to estimates of police procedural justice, but the literature has not assessed whether racial differences are more pronounced in some situations than in others. The current study analyzed …
Psychology (15 works) · Criminology (13 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)