John T Whitehead

Biographic Data

ID4581165
NAMEJohn T Whitehead
GIVEN NAMESJohn T
FAMILY NAMEWhitehead
SIGNATUREWHITEHEAD J T
AFFILIATIONSEast Tennessee State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS83
AUTHOR COUNT16
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX5

  • Juvenile Justice: An Introduction

    John T Whitehead, STEVEN P LABBOOKDigital Commons - East Tennessee…2022

    Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Tenth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. Whitehead and Lab offer evidence-based suggestions for successful interventions and treatment and examine the prospects for rebalancing the model of juvenile court. This new edition includes insightful analysis and the latest available statistics on …

  • The Ambivalent Reality

    Sam S Souryal, John T WhiteheadCHAPTER2019

  • Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth

    Sam S Souryal, John T WhiteheadBOOKEthics in Criminal Justice2019

    Introducing the fundamentals of ethical theory, Ethics in Criminal Justice: In Search of the Truth, Seventh Edition, exposes the reader to the ways and means of making moral judgments by exploring the teachings of the great philosophers, sources of criminal justice ethics, and ethical issues in the criminal justice system. It is presented from two perspectives: a thematic perspective that addresses ethical principles common to all components of t…

  • Juvenile Justice: An Introduction

    John T Whitehead, STEVEN P LABBOOKJuvenile Justice2018

    Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, Ninth Edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and the ways juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. Whitehead and Lab offer evidence-based suggestions for successful interventions and treatment and examine the prospects for rebalancing the model of juvenile court. This new edition includes insightful analysis and the latest available statistics on …

  • Crime

    Open AccessJohn T WhiteheadOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2017

    Criminologists differ on how they define crime. One definition is a legal definition: crime is a violation of the criminal law. Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey (1960) call this the conventional definition of crime because it is the commonly used definition. They add that it is typical to distinguish a crime from a tort: a crime is a violation against the state whereas a tort is a violation against an individual and the civil law. Hence in cri…

  • Juvenile Justice: An Introduction

    John T Whitehead, STEVEN P LABBOOKJuvenile Justice2015

    Juvenile Justice: An Introduction, 8th edition, presents a comprehensive picture of juvenile offending, delinquency theories, and how juvenile justice actors and agencies react to delinquency. It covers the history and development of the juvenile justice system and the unique issues related to juveniles, offering evidence-based suggestions for successful interventions and treatment and examining the new balance model of juvenile court. This new e…

  • Crime

    Open AccessJohn T WhiteheadOTHERThe Blackwell Encyclopedia of…2007

    Criminologists differ on how they define crime. One definition is a legal definition: crime is a violation of the criminal law. Criminologists Edwin Sutherland and Donald Cressey call this the conventional definition of crime because it is the commonly used definition. They add that it is typical to distinguish a crime from a tort. A crime is a violation against the state whereas a tort is a violation against an individual and the civil law. Henc…

  • Heading for higher ground: Factors affecting real and hypothetical hurricane evacuation behavior1

    Open AccessJ Whitehead, John T Whitehead et al.ARTICLEGlobal Environmental Change Part…2000

  • Elite versus citizen attitudes on capital punishment

    Open AccessJohn T Whitehead, Michael B Blankenship et al.ARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1999Cited by: 4References: 10

  • Determinants of probation and parole officer professional orientation

    Open AccessJohn T Whitehead, Charles A LindquistARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1992Cited by: 5References: 19

  • From “Nothing Works” to “The Appropriate Works”: The Latest Stop on the Search for the Secular Grail

    Open AccessSTEVEN P LAB, John T WhiteheadARTICLECriminology1990Cited by: 8References: 18

  • Juvenile delinquency: Historical, cultural, legal perspectives

    Open AccessJohn T WhiteheadARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1989

  • Probation officer job burnout: A test of two theories

    Open AccessJohn T WhiteheadARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1987Cited by: 5References: 4

  • Guards released from prison: A natural experiment in job enlargement

    Open AccessCharles A Lindquist, John T WhiteheadARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1986Cited by: 1References: 12

  • Job burnout and job satisfaction among probation managers

    Open AccessJohn T WhiteheadARTICLEJournal of Criminal Justice1986Cited by: 6References: 3

  • Liberalism and Fear as Explanations of Punitiveness

    Open AccessRobert H Langworthy, John T WhiteheadARTICLECriminology1986Cited by: 54References: 5

    This paper explores the relationship between liberalism, victimization experience (both direct and vicarious), fear of victimization, and attitudes towards purposes of incarceration. The study makes use of a national public opinion poll conducted for ABC News in 1982. The major findings are that both fear and liberalism contribute to punitiveness but, more importantly, individual demographic characteristics are ambiguously related to punitiveness…