DENNIS R LONGMIRE
Biographic Data
| ID | 5721525 |
|---|---|
| NAME | DENNIS R LONGMIRE |
| GIVEN NAMES | DENNIS R |
| FAMILY NAME | LONGMIRE |
| SIGNATURE | LONGMIRE D R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sam Houston State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Systems Thinking, System Justification, and the Death Penalty
This article applies organizational and social psychology theories of systems thinking and system justification to Texas' capital punishment system. Capital punishment legislation proposed by the Texas legislature from 1977-2015 was contrasted with critiques of Texas' capital punishment system to test whether Texas legislators resist policies that challenge the system's status quo. Findings largely confirm that the Texas legislature has resisted …
An empirical assessment of the process of restorative justice
Moral Disengagement and Attitudes about Violence toward Animals
Despite a growing body of evidence linking nonhuman animal cruelty to violence toward humans and increasing knowledge of the pain and suffering that animals experience at the hands of humans, research on violence toward animals is relatively sparse. This study examines public attitudes about violence against animals and the criminal justice response to such acts. The study included, as part of a statewide survey, questions of Texas residents gaug…
College students' views on criminal justice
We surveyed 683 college students to examine their attitudes toward the death penalty, other criminal sanctions, and the war on drugs. College seniors were consistently less likely than freshmen to hold punitive views; this suggests a “liberalizing” effect of the college experience. This liberalizing college effect on attitudes toward criminal justice was not apparent for criminal justice majors, however, particularly when criminal justice seniors…
Combatting the crime of arson
Ethical Dilemmas in the Research Setting
The frequency with which criminological researchers are confronted with various ethical dilemmas is ascertained through a survey of members of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). The results of this survey reveal that approximately 63% of those criminologists who have been active in research since 1975 have experienced one or more of eight types of ethical dilemmas. Further analysis demonstrates that criminologists favor developing a profe…
Moral Disengagement and Attitudes about Violence toward Animals
Despite a growing body of evidence linking nonhuman animal cruelty to violence toward humans and increasing knowledge of the pain and suffering that animals experience at the hands of humans, research on violence toward animals is relatively sparse. This study examines public attitudes about violence against animals and the criminal justice response to such acts. The study included, as part of a statewide survey, questions of Texas residents gaug…
An empirical assessment of the process of restorative justice
Combatting the crime of arson
Combatting the crime of arson
Ethical Dilemmas in the Research Setting
The frequency with which criminological researchers are confronted with various ethical dilemmas is ascertained through a survey of members of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). The results of this survey reveal that approximately 63% of those criminologists who have been active in research since 1975 have experienced one or more of eight types of ethical dilemmas. Further analysis demonstrates that criminologists favor developing a profe…
College students' views on criminal justice
We surveyed 683 college students to examine their attitudes toward the death penalty, other criminal sanctions, and the war on drugs. College seniors were consistently less likely than freshmen to hold punitive views; this suggests a “liberalizing” effect of the college experience. This liberalizing college effect on attitudes toward criminal justice was not apparent for criminal justice majors, however, particularly when criminal justice seniors…
Moral Disengagement and Attitudes about Violence toward Animals
Despite a growing body of evidence linking nonhuman animal cruelty to violence toward humans and increasing knowledge of the pain and suffering that animals experience at the hands of humans, research on violence toward animals is relatively sparse. This study examines public attitudes about violence against animals and the criminal justice response to such acts. The study included, as part of a statewide survey, questions of Texas residents gaug…
An empirical assessment of the process of restorative justice
Systems Thinking, System Justification, and the Death Penalty
This article applies organizational and social psychology theories of systems thinking and system justification to Texas' capital punishment system. Capital punishment legislation proposed by the Texas legislature from 1977-2015 was contrasted with critiques of Texas' capital punishment system to test whether Texas legislators resist policies that challenge the system's status quo. Findings largely confirm that the Texas legislature has resisted …
Criminology (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (3 works) · Sociology (3 works)