BRION SEVER
Biographic Data
| ID | 5721436 |
|---|---|
| NAME | BRION SEVER |
| GIVEN NAMES | BRION |
| FAMILY NAME | SEVER |
| SIGNATURE | SEVER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monmouth University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-2175-8933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Faculty demographics in criminology and criminal justice
Large-scale analyses of the demographics of postsecondary students and faculty in the United States have found that the student population has become quite diverse while faculty have not made the same strides. Unfortunately, knowledge about the demographic diversity of faculty that are specific to criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) has been based on surveys of CCJ organizations with general memberships and/or the faculty in a small sample of …
Law Enforcement and the Depiction of Minorities and Women on Social Media
There is a growing area of research today focusing on how the demographics of law enforcement officers and criminals are depicted. This research has concentrated on portrayals by the media, popular culture, criminal justice textbooks, training manuals, and other literature surrounding criminal justice. There is little known, however, about the way the race and gender of police and criminals are represented on social media. This study attempts to …
Punishment and Crime
This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and…
Do Our Books Reinforce Criminal Justice Stereotypes? An Analysis of the Images in Introductory Criminal Justice Textbooks
Over the past 30 years, there has been much attention placed on the content within introductory textbooks in fields, such as education, sociology, economics, psychology, and criminal justice. Within the field of criminal justice, a surplus of information has been gathered through analysis of the text found within introductory textbooks. There has been much less emphasis, however, on the potential for stereotypical images found within the pictures…
Municipal police departments’ attention to crime analysis
Technologically advanced strategies such as crime analysis have great potential for impacting a department’s efficiency, crime reduction, and professionalism. Yet, to what extent are they being used or perceived as necessary by police departments. This study examines the use of such strategies in New Jersey police departments in cities with a population of 15,000 and above. Specifically, we surveyed 90 police departments in New Jersey in an effor…
Ranking multiple authors in criminal justice scholarship
The rapid increases in technology and communication over the past 20 years are undoubtedly providing scholars greater opportunity to collaborate on research. But collaboration brings with it a number of concerns for individuals embarking on such endeavors, as well as entire fields within academia. Of particular concern to this study is the perceived fairness of authorship ranking in multiple‐authored scholarship. In order to examine the extent to…
The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research
Research on the deterrent effects of punishment falls into two categories: macro-level studies of the impact of aggregate punishment levels on crime rates, and individual-level studies of the impact of perceived punishment levels on self-reported criminal behavior. For policy purposes, however, the missing link—ignored in previous research—is that between aggregate punishment levels and individual perceptions of punishment. This paper addresses w…
Research methods for criminal justice graduate students
Research methods are perhaps the most difficult subject matter to teach in the graduate criminal justice curricula. This is in part due to the mix of practitioners and aspiring researchers in most criminal justice graduate departments, leading many instructors to question whether their own coverage is in line with the needs of their graduate students as well as the coverage of other instructors. Also complicating matters is that research methods …
The coverage of ethics in research methods textbooks
Ethics is one of the most important topics in criminal justice and criminological research, yet it is also one of the most neglected. Indeed, it is common for professors to merely gloss over ethical issues at the end of their research methods classes, or to exclude them completely. The present study attempts to determine if such disregard for ethics carries over into the coverage found in criminal justice research methods textbooks. Eleven resear…
The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research
Research on the deterrent effects of punishment falls into two categories: macro-level studies of the impact of aggregate punishment levels on crime rates, and individual-level studies of the impact of perceived punishment levels on self-reported criminal behavior. For policy purposes, however, the missing link—ignored in previous research—is that between aggregate punishment levels and individual perceptions of punishment. This paper addresses w…
The coverage of ethics in research methods textbooks
Ethics is one of the most important topics in criminal justice and criminological research, yet it is also one of the most neglected. Indeed, it is common for professors to merely gloss over ethical issues at the end of their research methods classes, or to exclude them completely. The present study attempts to determine if such disregard for ethics carries over into the coverage found in criminal justice research methods textbooks. Eleven resear…
Research methods for criminal justice graduate students
Research methods are perhaps the most difficult subject matter to teach in the graduate criminal justice curricula. This is in part due to the mix of practitioners and aspiring researchers in most criminal justice graduate departments, leading many instructors to question whether their own coverage is in line with the needs of their graduate students as well as the coverage of other instructors. Also complicating matters is that research methods …
Ranking multiple authors in criminal justice scholarship
The rapid increases in technology and communication over the past 20 years are undoubtedly providing scholars greater opportunity to collaborate on research. But collaboration brings with it a number of concerns for individuals embarking on such endeavors, as well as entire fields within academia. Of particular concern to this study is the perceived fairness of authorship ranking in multiple‐authored scholarship. In order to examine the extent to…
The Missing Link in General Deterrence Research
Research on the deterrent effects of punishment falls into two categories: macro-level studies of the impact of aggregate punishment levels on crime rates, and individual-level studies of the impact of perceived punishment levels on self-reported criminal behavior. For policy purposes, however, the missing link—ignored in previous research—is that between aggregate punishment levels and individual perceptions of punishment. This paper addresses w…
Municipal police departments’ attention to crime analysis
Technologically advanced strategies such as crime analysis have great potential for impacting a department’s efficiency, crime reduction, and professionalism. Yet, to what extent are they being used or perceived as necessary by police departments. This study examines the use of such strategies in New Jersey police departments in cities with a population of 15,000 and above. Specifically, we surveyed 90 police departments in New Jersey in an effor…
Do Our Books Reinforce Criminal Justice Stereotypes? An Analysis of the Images in Introductory Criminal Justice Textbooks
Over the past 30 years, there has been much attention placed on the content within introductory textbooks in fields, such as education, sociology, economics, psychology, and criminal justice. Within the field of criminal justice, a surplus of information has been gathered through analysis of the text found within introductory textbooks. There has been much less emphasis, however, on the potential for stereotypical images found within the pictures…
Punishment and Crime
This book summarizes and synthesizes a vast body of research on the effects of legal punishment and criminal behavior. Covering studies conducted between 1967 and 2015, Punishment and Crime evaluates the assertion that legal punishment reduces crime by investigating the impacts, both positive and negative, of legal punishment on criminal behavior, with emphasis on the effects of punitive crime control policies via the mechanisms of deterrence and…
Law Enforcement and the Depiction of Minorities and Women on Social Media
There is a growing area of research today focusing on how the demographics of law enforcement officers and criminals are depicted. This research has concentrated on portrayals by the media, popular culture, criminal justice textbooks, training manuals, and other literature surrounding criminal justice. There is little known, however, about the way the race and gender of police and criminals are represented on social media. This study attempts to …
Faculty demographics in criminology and criminal justice
Large-scale analyses of the demographics of postsecondary students and faculty in the United States have found that the student population has become quite diverse while faculty have not made the same strides. Unfortunately, knowledge about the demographic diversity of faculty that are specific to criminology and criminal justice (CCJ) has been based on surveys of CCJ organizations with general memberships and/or the faculty in a small sample of …
Criminology (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Criminal justice (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Economic Justice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works)