Bryan Byers
Biographic Data
| ID | 4198691 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bryan Byers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bryan |
| FAMILY NAME | Byers |
| SIGNATURE | BYERS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ball State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences Through Evidence-Based Student-Involved Applied Criminal Justice Capstone Research
This paper discusses an educational project that involved students surveying and interviewing police officers to measure occupational stress and resilience. The class worked collaboratively to develop survey and interview instruments. Students worked in pairs to write literature reviews that contained information to be included in the agency reports. Each pair was also responsible for conducting and transcribing two interviews. The class worked t…
Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike's Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick
The relationship between race and just about any social issue has been and continues to be controversial. Within the context of literature on public opinion regarding sports and social movements, this study considers the intersections between race, business, and athlete activism by examining attitudes related to Nike’s controversial advertisement campaign with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Results obtained from a sample of young adults…
Teaching about Cold Cases Experientially
This paper discusses three separate educational projects which involved students working side-by-side with homicide investigators in an effort to conduct cold case investigations. Each project resulted in two different products, one for agency use and the other for public consumption. The cold case investigative reports produced for each case became part of the investigative file and are confidential documents. The video PSAs were for public cons…
The Hardest Hate
This research offers an ethno‐musicological content analysis of country hate music from the 1960s. This analysis explains hate motivation in music by examining lyrics and musical themes in 23 songs. This research considers how white racial extremists use music to advance their goals and movement objectives through lyrics that dehumanize African‐Americans and create imagery of white unity and solidarity. Most of the scholarly literature on "hate m…
The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 on Anti-Islamic Hate Crime
Using existing data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, time series analyses were conducted on hate crime data from 2001 around the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A statistically significant increase in anti-Islamic hate crime occurred after 9/11, and anti-Islamic hate crime leveled off within 8 weeks of the occurrence. News stories reporting anti-Islamic hate crimes, stories reporting fear of such bias crime, and publ…
Attitudes toward hate crime laws
Hate crimes against the Amish
Research on hate crime has largely been limited to official statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and some independent scholarly research of hate crime victims. Few, however, have studied hate crime offenders. Offender narratives of hate crime participation are the focus of this study. Further, few have studied hate crimes against the Amish and their offenders. This study examines hate crime against the Amish with a particul…
Teaching about judgments of crime seriousness in research methods
Instructors in research methods courses in criminal justice are constantly challenged to teach in innovative ways while simultaneously bringing relevant information to the classroom. This article describes a teaching technique that may accomplish this goal. This technique enables the instructor to teach students about judgments of crime seriousness and about the research process
Special section introduction
Measuring Subgroup Variation in Social Judgment Research
Ethical orientations and criminal justice
We identified and compared the self-reported ethical ideological orientations of criminal justice majors and other students from a course selected to represent the general student population at a midwestern public university. We also explored potential differences in ethical orientation as a function of gender. Criminal justice majors report ethical orientations compatible with those of the general student population. Males report significantly h…
Criminal justice and ethical ideology
Teaching about Judgments of Crime Seriousness
The research area of crime seriousness perception has been important to sociology and criminology. This paper provides student generated data and classroom applications within this substantive area. The findings indicate that student judgments (N= 100) are consistent with seriousness judgmentsfound in one national sample using probability sampling. Strengths and limitations of this teaching technique are noted, with additional classroom applicati…
Death Heaping in Vital Statistics
Several authors have maintained that there tends to be a practice in statistical record keeping for an individual's age to be rounded off to the nearest digit ending in zero or five. This practice has been termed “age heaping.” This is a well established tendency in census data. The present study attempts to expand the aforementioned premise of age heaping to the study of death or mortality records. Since it has been established that age heaping …
Birthdate and Mortality
The effect on mortality of socially significant events is examined using birth date as the criterion date for a large sample from official state mortality records for Ohio. The sample consisted of all deaths from natural causes for 1979-1981. "The findings show that there is a greater tendency for persons to die within thirty days after the date of birth than before. More specifically, there was a statistically significant pattern of increased mo…
Hate crimes against the Amish
Research on hate crime has largely been limited to official statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and some independent scholarly research of hate crime victims. Few, however, have studied hate crime offenders. Offender narratives of hate crime participation are the focus of this study. Further, few have studied hate crimes against the Amish and their offenders. This study examines hate crime against the Amish with a particul…
Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike's Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick
The relationship between race and just about any social issue has been and continues to be controversial. Within the context of literature on public opinion regarding sports and social movements, this study considers the intersections between race, business, and athlete activism by examining attitudes related to Nike’s controversial advertisement campaign with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Results obtained from a sample of young adults…
The Hardest Hate
This research offers an ethno‐musicological content analysis of country hate music from the 1960s. This analysis explains hate motivation in music by examining lyrics and musical themes in 23 songs. This research considers how white racial extremists use music to advance their goals and movement objectives through lyrics that dehumanize African‐Americans and create imagery of white unity and solidarity. Most of the scholarly literature on "hate m…
Attitudes toward hate crime laws
Measuring Subgroup Variation in Social Judgment Research
Death Heaping in Vital Statistics
Several authors have maintained that there tends to be a practice in statistical record keeping for an individual's age to be rounded off to the nearest digit ending in zero or five. This practice has been termed “age heaping.” This is a well established tendency in census data. The present study attempts to expand the aforementioned premise of age heaping to the study of death or mortality records. Since it has been established that age heaping …
Birthdate and Mortality
The effect on mortality of socially significant events is examined using birth date as the criterion date for a large sample from official state mortality records for Ohio. The sample consisted of all deaths from natural causes for 1979-1981. "The findings show that there is a greater tendency for persons to die within thirty days after the date of birth than before. More specifically, there was a statistically significant pattern of increased mo…
Teaching about Judgments of Crime Seriousness
The research area of crime seriousness perception has been important to sociology and criminology. This paper provides student generated data and classroom applications within this substantive area. The findings indicate that student judgments (N= 100) are consistent with seriousness judgmentsfound in one national sample using probability sampling. Strengths and limitations of this teaching technique are noted, with additional classroom applicati…
Ethical orientations and criminal justice
We identified and compared the self-reported ethical ideological orientations of criminal justice majors and other students from a course selected to represent the general student population at a midwestern public university. We also explored potential differences in ethical orientation as a function of gender. Criminal justice majors report ethical orientations compatible with those of the general student population. Males report significantly h…
Criminal justice and ethical ideology
Measuring Subgroup Variation in Social Judgment Research
Teaching about judgments of crime seriousness in research methods
Instructors in research methods courses in criminal justice are constantly challenged to teach in innovative ways while simultaneously bringing relevant information to the classroom. This article describes a teaching technique that may accomplish this goal. This technique enables the instructor to teach students about judgments of crime seriousness and about the research process
Special section introduction
Hate crimes against the Amish
Research on hate crime has largely been limited to official statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and some independent scholarly research of hate crime victims. Few, however, have studied hate crime offenders. Offender narratives of hate crime participation are the focus of this study. Further, few have studied hate crimes against the Amish and their offenders. This study examines hate crime against the Amish with a particul…
Attitudes toward hate crime laws
The Impact of the Terrorist Attacks of 9/11 on Anti-Islamic Hate Crime
Using existing data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, time series analyses were conducted on hate crime data from 2001 around the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. A statistically significant increase in anti-Islamic hate crime occurred after 9/11, and anti-Islamic hate crime leveled off within 8 weeks of the occurrence. News stories reporting anti-Islamic hate crimes, stories reporting fear of such bias crime, and publ…
The Hardest Hate
This research offers an ethno‐musicological content analysis of country hate music from the 1960s. This analysis explains hate motivation in music by examining lyrics and musical themes in 23 songs. This research considers how white racial extremists use music to advance their goals and movement objectives through lyrics that dehumanize African‐Americans and create imagery of white unity and solidarity. Most of the scholarly literature on "hate m…
Teaching about Cold Cases Experientially
This paper discusses three separate educational projects which involved students working side-by-side with homicide investigators in an effort to conduct cold case investigations. Each project resulted in two different products, one for agency use and the other for public consumption. The cold case investigative reports produced for each case became part of the investigative file and are confidential documents. The video PSAs were for public cons…
Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike's Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick
The relationship between race and just about any social issue has been and continues to be controversial. Within the context of literature on public opinion regarding sports and social movements, this study considers the intersections between race, business, and athlete activism by examining attitudes related to Nike’s controversial advertisement campaign with former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. Results obtained from a sample of young adults…
Creating Meaningful Learning Experiences Through Evidence-Based Student-Involved Applied Criminal Justice Capstone Research
This paper discusses an educational project that involved students surveying and interviewing police officers to measure occupational stress and resilience. The class worked collaboratively to develop survey and interview instruments. Students worked in pairs to write literature reviews that contained information to be included in the agency reports. Each pair was also responsible for conducting and transcribing two interviews. The class worked t…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Criminology (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Innovative Teaching Methodologies in Social Sciences (4 works)