A Walsh
Biographic Data
| ID | 50893 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Walsh |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Walsh |
| SIGNATURE | WALSH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boise State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4901-429X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 116 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1923 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Impact and process evaluation of a primary-school Food Education and Sustainability Training (Feast) program in 10-12-year-old children in Australia
This is the first cluster non-randomized controlled trial designed to independently evaluate FEAST in the primary-school setting. No evidence was found for improved F&V intakes in children, nor secondary outcomes. However, the positive process evaluation results suggest that further trials of the program are warranted. If implemented as originally designed (pre-pandemic), with increased duration and complemented by supporting school policies, suc…
Correctional Assessment, Casework, and Counseling
Evolutionary Theory and Criminology
Evolutionary criminology is part of a broader biosocial approach to criminology. The evolutionary perspective can help organize the hodgepodge of extant, and often contradictory, criminological theories in a coherent way, thus providing a more robust explanation of criminality. This chapter demonstrates the relevance of evolutionary theory to criminology, discusses the evolutionary origins of both prosocial and antisocial traits, and shows that e…
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology
This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought…
Examining the race, poverty, and crime nexus adding Asian Americans and biosocial processes
Evoked Culture and Evoked Nature
The traditional sociological view of culture has been almost exclusively that of transmitted culture decoupled from biology. The concept of evoked culture brings biology “back in” since it identifies ecological challenges that evoked certain practices based on evolutionary imperatives. The practices are then passed on to subsequent generations as normative, and individuals best suited to these normative practices will enjoy greater fitness benefi…
Parental confidence and preferences for communicating with their child about sexuality
Parents play an essential role in the development of children's sexuality, yet often feel uncomfortable and anxious about how best to communicate with their children about sexual matters. This study had three main aims: (1) to examine parental views and confidence in relation to communicating with their child about sexuality; (2) to explore predictors of parental self-efficacy in communicating with their child about sexuality; and (3) to assess p…
Using Digitally Distributed Vulgar Comedy to Reach Young Men with Information about Healthy Sexual Development
Focus groups show that young men do not have available to them the same resources to learn about healthy sexual development as do young women. A collaborative project led by a leading provider of sexuality education aimed to reach young men with information about healthy sexual development by using a genre that focus groups showed they favoured - vulgar comedy. This project raised two important issues. First, comedy is ambivalent - it is by defin…
Schizophrenia
ADHD and criminality
Race and Criminology in the Age of Genomic Science
Objective To survey the contemporary literature in the social and biological sciences relevant to race that examines both the reality and the usefulness of the concept. Race is considered a major correlate of criminal behavior, and thus a fresh look at the concept is of obvious importance to criminologists and sociologists. Method Social, genetic, medical, and criminology databases were keyword searched for articles on race that either addressed …
Christians Are Hate Filled Hypocrites--And Other Lies You've Been Told
The review copy of this book arrived in my mailbox on a day when the Rev. Terry Jones was squeezing every possible drop of global publicity out of his threat to burn a Quran on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks and as lawyers for the Westboro Community Baptist Church were preparing to defend before the U.S. Supreme Court their free speech rights to conduct antigay protests at the funerals of service members killed in the war in Ir…
Is Criminology Moving Toward a Paradigm Shift? Evidence from a Survey of the American Society of Criminology
Ideology forms and colors our attitudes and values in ways that lead to a tendency to accept or reject data according to how well or how poorly they cohere with that ideology. Previous research has suggested that the ideological divide in criminology is between criminologists who focus on strictly environmentalist theories that give short shrift to individual differences, and those who focus on individual differences and are favorably disposed to…
A gene-based evolutionary explanation for the association between criminal involvement and number of sex partners
Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors. Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., impulsiveness, shortsightedness, and aggressiveness) that are related to a large number of sex partners are also related to criminal involvement However, there is also reason to believe that the covaria…
Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory
Criminology is in need of conceptual revival, and behavior genetics can provide the concepts and research design to accomplish this. Behavior genetics is a biologically‐friendly environmental discipline that often tells us more about environmental effects on individual traits than about genetic effects. Anomie/strain theory is used to illustrate the usefulness of behavior genetics to criminological theories. Behavior genetics examines the individ…
Religion and Hypertension
A number of researchers have found that religious commitment has a salutary effect on blood pressure levels. Levin and Vanderpool's review of several of these studies led them to offer some methodological, epistemological, and conceptual criticisms of this body of literature, and they advanced various hypotheses offering possible alternative explanations for the putative salutary effect of religion on blood pressure. In this article, the effect o…
The Neurobiology of Nurturance, Evolutionary Expectations, and Crime Control
Bryan Vila has written an excellent analysis and rationale for the implementation of nurturant policies as part of a balanced approach to crime control. We support these humanistic recommendations, and are pleased to note that they are made by a street-hardened ex-cop whose tenure as a police chief presumably provided him with a firm grasp of the politics and economics of public policy. Vila's concern with demonstrating the feasibility of his pol…
Gene‐based Evolutionary Theories in Criminology
In the past 20 years, several theories of criminal (and antisocial) behavior have been proposed from an evolutionary perspective, some of which specifically stipulate that people vary in their genetic dispositions toward criminality. It is these theories, herein called gene‐based evolutionary theories, that are the focus of this article. Two categories of gene‐based evolutionary theories are described. One category is crime specific, pertaining t…
Biosociology
Preface The Case of Biosociology Genetics and Human Behavior The Brain and Its Environment Emotion and the Autonomic and Endocrine Systems Intelligence and Society Sexual Dimorphism and Sex-Role Behavior Human Sexuality and Evolution The Nature and Nurture of Criminality Love, Marriage, and the Family References Index
Parental attachment, drug use, and facultative sexual strategies
It is often asserted that sexual promiscuity and drug abuse appears to share a common etiology in poor parental attachment. This study explores this claim empirically among 480 college students. Other variables--religiosity, masculinity/femininity, sex, age, and physical appearance--that may enhance or reduce the incidence of promiscuity and drug use were included in multivariate analyses. Parental attachment was significantly related to both var…
Foundations for Understanding Human Conflict
review of SOCIOBIOLOGY AND CONFLICT: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON COMPETITION, COOPERATION, VIOLENCE AND WARFARE, edited by J. van der Dennen, and V. Falger
Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Genetic and environmental explanations of juvenile violence in advantaged and disadvantaged environments
This study tests the proposition derived from behavioral genetic theory that genetics and environmental variables have different effects across different environments. I examine the effects of intellectual imbalance [performance IQ (P) significantly greater than verbal IQ (V)] a variable assumed to be heritable to some extent, and love deprivation, a composite variable consisting of various indices of parental abuse and neglect, on violent delinq…
The Science of Love
Self-esteem and sexual behavior
The Sexual Stratification Hypothesis and Sexual Assault in Light of the Changing Conceptions of Race
Recent research examining race‐based sentencing has reported anomalous results. It has been argued by Heck (1981) and Peterson and Hagan (1984) that these anomalies would not be perceived as such given a greater sensitivity to the “changing conceptions of race” in American society. This study performs a limited test of the sexual stratification hypothesis which asserts that various degrees of opprobrium are attached to sexual assaults depending o…
Gene‐based Evolutionary Theories in Criminology
In the past 20 years, several theories of criminal (and antisocial) behavior have been proposed from an evolutionary perspective, some of which specifically stipulate that people vary in their genetic dispositions toward criminality. It is these theories, herein called gene‐based evolutionary theories, that are the focus of this article. Two categories of gene‐based evolutionary theories are described. One category is crime specific, pertaining t…
Behavior Genetics and Anomie/Strain Theory
Criminology is in need of conceptual revival, and behavior genetics can provide the concepts and research design to accomplish this. Behavior genetics is a biologically‐friendly environmental discipline that often tells us more about environmental effects on individual traits than about genetic effects. Anomie/strain theory is used to illustrate the usefulness of behavior genetics to criminological theories. Behavior genetics examines the individ…
Self-esteem and sexual behavior
Love, self-esteem, and multiple sclerosis
Teaching Understanding and Interpretation of Logit Regression
The teaching of logit regression analysis is much neglected in statistics courses within sociology. This is unfortunate since it is well-suited to so many data analysis situations within the discipline. We often run into cases in the real world when the dependent variable is dichotomous. Researchers often deal with such situations by using discriminant analysis, weighted least squares regression, or ordinary least squares regression. These method…
Locked down apps versus the social media ecology
This article reports on focus groups exploring the best way to reach young men with vulgar comedy videos that provide sexual health information. Young people reported that they found the means by which the material was presented – as a locked down app – to be problematic, and that it would better be delivered through social media platforms such as YouTube. This would make it more ‘spreadable’. By contrast, adult sex education stakeholders thought…
Gender‐Based Differences
One of the most pressing concerns of women's rights groups is the reform of sexist attitudes and practices within the criminal justice system. One method of redressing the problem would be a major increase in the number of women in positions of power within the criminal justice system. This study casts doubt on the effectiveness of this strategy to meliorate the sexist attitudes and practices. Not only were the attitudes of female probation offic…
ADHD and criminality
Race and Criminology in the Age of Genomic Science
Objective To survey the contemporary literature in the social and biological sciences relevant to race that examines both the reality and the usefulness of the concept. Race is considered a major correlate of criminal behavior, and thus a fresh look at the concept is of obvious importance to criminologists and sociologists. Method Social, genetic, medical, and criminology databases were keyword searched for articles on race that either addressed …
A gene-based evolutionary explanation for the association between criminal involvement and number of sex partners
Empirical research has revealed a positive relationship between number of sex partners and involvement in antisocial behaviors. Most attempts to explain this association have taken an evolutionary perspective and argued that the same traits (e.g., impulsiveness, shortsightedness, and aggressiveness) that are related to a large number of sex partners are also related to criminal involvement However, there is also reason to believe that the covaria…
Twice Labeled
This study explores the effects of a psychiatric referral on the sentencing of sex offenders. Data come from an examination of all felony sexual assault cases in a metropolitan Ohio county between 1978 and 1984 (N = 431). All sex offenders who were referred for psychiatric evaluation were given a label indicative of some sort of pathology. After adjusting for the effects of crime seriousness and prior record, referred/labeled offenders were just …
Becoming an American and Liking It as Functions of Social Distance and Severity of Initiation
This paper examines the effects of social distance among a sample of immigrants in the process of becoming United States citizens. Using the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, a positive relationship was found between the degree of social distance and the likelihood of becoming a citizen. Social distance also serves as an important indicator of severity of initiation; the findings suggest that severity of initiation had a positive influence on repor…
Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels
Anthony Walsh, Patricia Ann Walsh, Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels, The International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Special Issue: Migration and Health (Autumn, 1987), pp. 577-591
Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels
This study explores the role of social support on blood pressure levels among a sample of immigrants. The measure of blood pressure used is biological effective blood pressure, a mathematically transformed single measure derived from systolic and diastolic readings. The twin processes of immigration and assimilation are highly stressful. Stress is a major precursor of elevated blood pressure. It is assumed here that assimilation is differentially…
Extralegal Factors in Felony Sentencing
The radical-conflict perspective of criminology stresses that legal sanctions are applied more against classes of people than classes of behavior. To test this proposition we took a class of behaviors-sex offenses-and a class of people-designated 'normal primitives'-in an attempt to determine which of the groups accounted for more of the variance in sentence severity. We found that although sex offenders enjoyed considerably higher social status …
Examining the race, poverty, and crime nexus adding Asian Americans and biosocial processes
Evoked Culture and Evoked Nature
The traditional sociological view of culture has been almost exclusively that of transmitted culture decoupled from biology. The concept of evoked culture brings biology “back in” since it identifies ecological challenges that evoked certain practices based on evolutionary imperatives. The practices are then passed on to subsequent generations as normative, and individuals best suited to these normative practices will enjoy greater fitness benefi…
Using Digitally Distributed Vulgar Comedy to Reach Young Men with Information about Healthy Sexual Development
Focus groups show that young men do not have available to them the same resources to learn about healthy sexual development as do young women. A collaborative project led by a leading provider of sexuality education aimed to reach young men with information about healthy sexual development by using a genre that focus groups showed they favoured - vulgar comedy. This project raised two important issues. First, comedy is ambivalent - it is by defin…
Logistic Regression and Model Fit
Recent trends in mortality due to testicular cancer in Ireland
In the period 1961-84, the number of deaths in Ireland due to the testis cancer rose by 64%. This was due both to significant male population expansion (25.3%) and to an increased mortality rate. In the 25-34 years age group, one of the groups at highest risk, the mortality rate rose by 123%. In contrast, in England and Wales, although the male population has risen by 8.5% since 1961, the number of deaths has decreased by 17%. This is due to fall…
Scandinavian Relations with Ireland during the Viking Period
The Maori Population of New Zealand, 1769-1971
Matthew Flinders Lecture, May 1980 - The Application of Atomic Absorption Spectrometry to Chemical Analysis
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
The prophylactic effect of religion on blood pressure levels among a sample of immigrants
Gender‐Based Differences
One of the most pressing concerns of women's rights groups is the reform of sexist attitudes and practices within the criminal justice system. One method of redressing the problem would be a major increase in the number of women in positions of power within the criminal justice system. This study casts doubt on the effectiveness of this strategy to meliorate the sexist attitudes and practices. Not only were the attitudes of female probation offic…
Extralegal Factors in Felony Sentencing
The radical-conflict perspective of criminology stresses that legal sanctions are applied more against classes of people than classes of behavior. To test this proposition we took a class of behaviors-sex offenses-and a class of people-designated 'normal primitives'-in an attempt to determine which of the groups accounted for more of the variance in sentence severity. We found that although sex offenders enjoyed considerably higher social status …
Recent trends in mortality due to testicular cancer in Ireland
In the period 1961-84, the number of deaths in Ireland due to the testis cancer rose by 64%. This was due both to significant male population expansion (25.3%) and to an increased mortality rate. In the 25-34 years age group, one of the groups at highest risk, the mortality rate rose by 123%. In contrast, in England and Wales, although the male population has risen by 8.5% since 1961, the number of deaths has decreased by 17%. This is due to fall…
Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels
This study explores the role of social support on blood pressure levels among a sample of immigrants. The measure of blood pressure used is biological effective blood pressure, a mathematically transformed single measure derived from systolic and diastolic readings. The twin processes of immigration and assimilation are highly stressful. Stress is a major precursor of elevated blood pressure. It is assumed here that assimilation is differentially…
Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels
Anthony Walsh, Patricia Ann Walsh, Social Support, Assimilation, and Biological Effective Blood Pressure Levels, The International Migration Review, Vol. 21, No. 3, Special Issue: Migration and Health (Autumn, 1987), pp. 577-591
Teaching Understanding and Interpretation of Logit Regression
The teaching of logit regression analysis is much neglected in statistics courses within sociology. This is unfortunate since it is well-suited to so many data analysis situations within the discipline. We often run into cases in the real world when the dependent variable is dichotomous. Researchers often deal with such situations by using discriminant analysis, weighted least squares regression, or ordinary least squares regression. These method…
The Sexual Stratification Hypothesis and Sexual Assault in Light of the Changing Conceptions of Race
Recent research examining race‐based sentencing has reported anomalous results. It has been argued by Heck (1981) and Peterson and Hagan (1984) that these anomalies would not be perceived as such given a greater sensitivity to the “changing conceptions of race” in American society. This study performs a limited test of the sexual stratification hypothesis which asserts that various degrees of opprobrium are attached to sexual assaults depending o…
The U. S. Supreme Court and Value Legitimacy
This study was designed to test the designed to test the legitimacy‐conferring hypotheses as it relates to the United States Supreme Court. Conventional wisdom has long asscrted that the Court, in its role as interpreter of the Constitution, is a major force influencing the values and attitudes of Americans. However, little empirical research has been conducted on the issue, and that which has been conducted has been ambiguous. Using a split‐ball…
Logistic Regression and Model Fit
Love, self-esteem, and multiple sclerosis
Twice Labeled
This study explores the effects of a psychiatric referral on the sentencing of sex offenders. Data come from an examination of all felony sexual assault cases in a metropolitan Ohio county between 1978 and 1984 (N = 431). All sex offenders who were referred for psychiatric evaluation were given a label indicative of some sort of pathology. After adjusting for the effects of crime seriousness and prior record, referred/labeled offenders were just …
Becoming an American and Liking It as Functions of Social Distance and Severity of Initiation
This paper examines the effects of social distance among a sample of immigrants in the process of becoming United States citizens. Using the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, a positive relationship was found between the degree of social distance and the likelihood of becoming a citizen. Social distance also serves as an important indicator of severity of initiation; the findings suggest that severity of initiation had a positive influence on repor…
Self-esteem and sexual behavior
Foundations for Understanding Human Conflict
review of SOCIOBIOLOGY AND CONFLICT: EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES ON COMPETITION, COOPERATION, VIOLENCE AND WARFARE, edited by J. van der Dennen, and V. Falger
Albert Lloyd George Rees 1916-1989
Historical Records of Australian Science publishes peer-reviewed articles and book reviews on the history of science and scientists in Australia and the southwest Pacific, biographical memoirs of deceased Fellows of the Academy, and an annual bibliography of the history of Australian science
Genetic and environmental explanations of juvenile violence in advantaged and disadvantaged environments
This study tests the proposition derived from behavioral genetic theory that genetics and environmental variables have different effects across different environments. I examine the effects of intellectual imbalance [performance IQ (P) significantly greater than verbal IQ (V)] a variable assumed to be heritable to some extent, and love deprivation, a composite variable consisting of various indices of parental abuse and neglect, on violent delinq…
The Science of Love
Parental attachment, drug use, and facultative sexual strategies
It is often asserted that sexual promiscuity and drug abuse appears to share a common etiology in poor parental attachment. This study explores this claim empirically among 480 college students. Other variables--religiosity, masculinity/femininity, sex, age, and physical appearance--that may enhance or reduce the incidence of promiscuity and drug use were included in multivariate analyses. Parental attachment was significantly related to both var…
Biosociology
Preface The Case of Biosociology Genetics and Human Behavior The Brain and Its Environment Emotion and the Autonomic and Endocrine Systems Intelligence and Society Sexual Dimorphism and Sex-Role Behavior Human Sexuality and Evolution The Nature and Nurture of Criminality Love, Marriage, and the Family References Index
The Neurobiology of Nurturance, Evolutionary Expectations, and Crime Control
Bryan Vila has written an excellent analysis and rationale for the implementation of nurturant policies as part of a balanced approach to crime control. We support these humanistic recommendations, and are pleased to note that they are made by a street-hardened ex-cop whose tenure as a police chief presumably provided him with a firm grasp of the politics and economics of public policy. Vila's concern with demonstrating the feasibility of his pol…
Gene‐based Evolutionary Theories in Criminology
In the past 20 years, several theories of criminal (and antisocial) behavior have been proposed from an evolutionary perspective, some of which specifically stipulate that people vary in their genetic dispositions toward criminality. It is these theories, herein called gene‐based evolutionary theories, that are the focus of this article. Two categories of gene‐based evolutionary theories are described. One category is crime specific, pertaining t…
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