Michael G Maxfield
Biographic Data
| ID | 4401072 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael G Maxfield |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael G |
| FAMILY NAME | Maxfield |
| SIGNATURE | MAXFIELD M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Jay College of Criminal Justice |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining the Links Between Procedural Justice, Bounded Authority, and Legitimacy in Video-Recorded Police Encounters
We examine how individual perceptions of procedural justice and bounded authority are related to evaluations of video-recorded police encounters. We also assess whether pre-existing perceptions of police legitimacy are related to these evaluations. A sample of 830 adults, recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, evaluated a staged routine traffic stop. People who perceived higher procedural justice and bounded authority in the officer’s behavior w…
Co-Production of Research Methods Knowledge in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Co-production is the involvement of citizens in the production of public services. In education, this involves students working with instructors to jointly produce the knowledge that stems from the education process. This paper describes our approach to co-production of knowledge through a semester’s undergraduate courses on research methods in criminology/criminal justice. Our co-production efforts involved: (a) Instructors provided initial inst…
Cognitive Effects of Inattentive Responding in an MTurk Sample
Objective Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has become an increasingly valuable sampling tool for social scientists. At the same time, concern has emerged about the quality of responses obtained from MTurk workers. This article demonstrates several screening practices for identifying problematic or inattentive MTurk participants. The study also examines how inattentive responding affects psychometric properties of measures and relationships between substan…
Outsmarting Terrorists in Turkey
Examining paradigmatic development in criminology and criminal justice: A content analysis of research methods syllabi in doctoral programs
Kuhn (1996) describes a paradigm as a model for a field of scientific inquiry. He notes the importance of shared scientific research methods in the paradigm. This study examines the teaching of research methods in doctoral programs to identify elements of a paradigm. Research methods syllabi were obtained from schools that have a doctoral program in criminology and criminal justice. Content analysis was conducted to identify themes in courses and…
The Cycle of Violence: Revisited 6 Years Later
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term effects of child abuse and neglect on delinquency, adult criminality, and violent criminal behavior. DESIGN: Prospective cohorts design that matched cases of abuse and neglect with those of controls. Follow-up data collection at 22 to 26 years following abuse or neglect. SETTING: A metropolitan area in the Midwest. PARTICIPANTS: Substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect identified from court records that wer…
Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 1. Crime, Criminal Justice, and Scientific Inquiry. 2. Theory and Criminal Justice Research. 3. Causation and Validity. PART TWO: STRUCTURING CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 4. General Issues in Research Design. 5. Concepts , Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Measuring Crime. 7. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs. 8. Ethics and Criminal Justice Research. PART THREE: MODES OF OBSERVAT…
Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
This book combines accessibility and a conversational writing-style with expertise in criminology and criminal justice. Chapters focus on criminal justice examples of methodology in the field, ethics, causation, validity, and research design, especially in the discussion of field research
Circumstances in Supplementary Homicide Reports: Variety and Validity
This paper presents a critical examination of homicide circumstances as reported in supplementary homicide reports (SHR). Different types of homicides can be distinguished by the circumstance codes and victim/offender relationship recorded on the SHR. Delineating murder by type invites analysis of this offense from a victimization perspective–homicides have much in common with nonlethal offenses. Different types of homicide present different poli…
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
How is a social scientist to cope with the cornucopia of already existing studies in his or her area? How to draw useable conclusions from a body of work that might run to 5000 items? Traditional narrative integration fails to usefully portray such accumulated knowledge. Meta-analysis is an approach that systematically analyzes and synthesizes research. This book is its first full explanation. Meta-analysis treats a field of research as a complex…
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
Service Time, Dispatch Time, and Demand for Police Services: Helping More by Serving Less
The management of police patrol operations is a complex endeavor. On the one hand police are the principal public agency responsible for implementing crime control policy, while on the other hand they respond to the multitude of other problems which befall urban residents. Police are trained in the use of deadly force and other instruments of violence, but they are most commonly confronted with mundane, non-threatening problems. One of the dilemm…
Fear in the Neighborhoods: An Investigation of the Impact of Crime
Residents in four Chicago neighborhoods were surveyed to determine the rela tionship between fear of crime and official crime rates. Several anomalies were found. Citizens' perceptions of dangerous areas in their neighborhoods match, for the most part, official records of crimes committed there. However, assessments of neighborhoods' specific crime problems and personal risks do not consistently cor respond with official statistics. The authors a…
Circumstances in Supplementary Homicide Reports: Variety and Validity
This paper presents a critical examination of homicide circumstances as reported in supplementary homicide reports (SHR). Different types of homicides can be distinguished by the circumstance codes and victim/offender relationship recorded on the SHR. Delineating murder by type invites analysis of this offense from a victimization perspective–homicides have much in common with nonlethal offenses. Different types of homicide present different poli…
Cognitive Effects of Inattentive Responding in an MTurk Sample
Objective Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has become an increasingly valuable sampling tool for social scientists. At the same time, concern has emerged about the quality of responses obtained from MTurk workers. This article demonstrates several screening practices for identifying problematic or inattentive MTurk participants. The study also examines how inattentive responding affects psychometric properties of measures and relationships between substan…
Outsmarting Terrorists in Turkey
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
How is a social scientist to cope with the cornucopia of already existing studies in his or her area? How to draw useable conclusions from a body of work that might run to 5000 items? Traditional narrative integration fails to usefully portray such accumulated knowledge. Meta-analysis is an approach that systematically analyzes and synthesizes research. This book is its first full explanation. Meta-analysis treats a field of research as a complex…
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
Fear in the Neighborhoods: An Investigation of the Impact of Crime
Residents in four Chicago neighborhoods were surveyed to determine the rela tionship between fear of crime and official crime rates. Several anomalies were found. Citizens' perceptions of dangerous areas in their neighborhoods match, for the most part, official records of crimes committed there. However, assessments of neighborhoods' specific crime problems and personal risks do not consistently cor respond with official statistics. The authors a…
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
How is a social scientist to cope with the cornucopia of already existing studies in his or her area? How to draw useable conclusions from a body of work that might run to 5000 items? Traditional narrative integration fails to usefully portray such accumulated knowledge. Meta-analysis is an approach that systematically analyzes and synthesizes research. This book is its first full explanation. Meta-analysis treats a field of research as a complex…
Coping with Crime: Individual and Neighborhood Reactions
Service Time, Dispatch Time, and Demand for Police Services: Helping More by Serving Less
The management of police patrol operations is a complex endeavor. On the one hand police are the principal public agency responsible for implementing crime control policy, while on the other hand they respond to the multitude of other problems which befall urban residents. Police are trained in the use of deadly force and other instruments of violence, but they are most commonly confronted with mundane, non-threatening problems. One of the dilemm…
Circumstances in Supplementary Homicide Reports: Variety and Validity
This paper presents a critical examination of homicide circumstances as reported in supplementary homicide reports (SHR). Different types of homicides can be distinguished by the circumstance codes and victim/offender relationship recorded on the SHR. Delineating murder by type invites analysis of this offense from a victimization perspective–homicides have much in common with nonlethal offenses. Different types of homicide present different poli…
Basics of Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
This book combines accessibility and a conversational writing-style with expertise in criminology and criminal justice. Chapters focus on criminal justice examples of methodology in the field, ethics, causation, validity, and research design, especially in the discussion of field research
Research Methods for Criminal Justice and Criminology
PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 1. Crime, Criminal Justice, and Scientific Inquiry. 2. Theory and Criminal Justice Research. 3. Causation and Validity. PART TWO: STRUCTURING CRIMINAL JUSTICE INQUIRY. 4. General Issues in Research Design. 5. Concepts , Operationalization, and Measurement. 6. Measuring Crime. 7. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs. 8. Ethics and Criminal Justice Research. PART THREE: MODES OF OBSERVAT…
The Cycle of Violence: Revisited 6 Years Later
OBJECTIVE: To assess the long-term effects of child abuse and neglect on delinquency, adult criminality, and violent criminal behavior. DESIGN: Prospective cohorts design that matched cases of abuse and neglect with those of controls. Follow-up data collection at 22 to 26 years following abuse or neglect. SETTING: A metropolitan area in the Midwest. PARTICIPANTS: Substantiated cases of child abuse or neglect identified from court records that wer…
Examining paradigmatic development in criminology and criminal justice: A content analysis of research methods syllabi in doctoral programs
Kuhn (1996) describes a paradigm as a model for a field of scientific inquiry. He notes the importance of shared scientific research methods in the paradigm. This study examines the teaching of research methods in doctoral programs to identify elements of a paradigm. Research methods syllabi were obtained from schools that have a doctoral program in criminology and criminal justice. Content analysis was conducted to identify themes in courses and…
Outsmarting Terrorists in Turkey
Cognitive Effects of Inattentive Responding in an MTurk Sample
Objective Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has become an increasingly valuable sampling tool for social scientists. At the same time, concern has emerged about the quality of responses obtained from MTurk workers. This article demonstrates several screening practices for identifying problematic or inattentive MTurk participants. The study also examines how inattentive responding affects psychometric properties of measures and relationships between substan…
Co-Production of Research Methods Knowledge in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Co-production is the involvement of citizens in the production of public services. In education, this involves students working with instructors to jointly produce the knowledge that stems from the education process. This paper describes our approach to co-production of knowledge through a semester’s undergraduate courses on research methods in criminology/criminal justice. Our co-production efforts involved: (a) Instructors provided initial inst…
Examining the Links Between Procedural Justice, Bounded Authority, and Legitimacy in Video-Recorded Police Encounters
We examine how individual perceptions of procedural justice and bounded authority are related to evaluations of video-recorded police encounters. We also assess whether pre-existing perceptions of police legitimacy are related to these evaluations. A sample of 830 adults, recruited via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, evaluated a staged routine traffic stop. People who perceived higher procedural justice and bounded authority in the officer’s behavior w…
Psychology (11 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Economic Justice (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Poison control (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer security (4 works)