Hans Toch
Biographic Data
| ID | 75666 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Toch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans |
| FAMILY NAME | Toch |
| SIGNATURE | TOCH H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 55 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Living on death row: The psychology of waiting to die.
Prisoners on death row now spend 22 or more hours a day alone in cramped, barren cells. They have little to do except wait to die--without knowing if it will happen in days or decades. This extreme isolation combined with the omnipresent fear of death takes a severe psychological toll that is unnecessary, inhumane, and--in the eyes of many--unconstitutional. In this book, Hans Toch, James R. Acker, and Vincent Martin Bonaventre present wide-rangi…
Violent men: An inquiry into the psychology of violence (25th anniversary ed.).
Police officers as change agents in police reform
The organization of police departments along hierarchical, classic management lines makes it difficult for departmental leadership to tackle commonly-experienced internal problems, so as to improve performance and enhance morale. The main reason for this fact is that top-down reform invites resistances from rank-and-file officers who feel that their views have been disregarded. By contrast, interventions can gain considerable credibility if offic…
Epilogue: Where do we go from here
Police as Problem Solvers: How Frontline Workers Can Promote Organizational and Community Change
Faced with the problems associated with grinding poverty and a no-win drug war, police departments are adapting and changing. Foot patrol officers again walk the streets and talk to citizens, and neighborhood crime watches are valued as the eyes and ears of enforcers. Most seminal is the quiet that has been called problem-oriented policing. This revolution makes police officers pioneering professionals who systematically study and address social …
Crime and Punishment: Inside Views
Hypermasculinity and Prison Violence
Good violence and bad violence: Through self-presentations of aggressors accounts and war stories.
The contribution of psychology to criminal justice education
Some Go Backward, Some Go Forward: Police Work in Comparative Perspective
Mosaic of despair: Human breakdowns in prison (rev. ed.)
Violent men: An inquiry into the psychology of violence (rev. ed.)
Living in prison: The ecology of survival (rev. ed.)
The Disturbed Violent Offender
The Disturbed Violent Offender
Falling in love with a book
(1990). Falling in love with a book. Journal of Criminal Justice Education: Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 245-254
Books in review
Coping: Maladaptation in Prisons
Survival of the Sanest: Order and Disorder in a Pre-trial Psychiatric Clinic
Sociology
Books in review
Being tough versus being fair
The Imperfect World of Prison Medicine
Book reviewed in this article: Prison Health Care. By Richard Smith. London: British Medical Association, 1984
Warehouses for People
The impact of congested prisons is not primarily a problem of population density, but of corollaries of crowding such as social instability, lack of programming, and the ascendance of custody goals. Congestion affects staff as well as inmates, and different inmates are differently affected. Some have antisocial tendencies exacerbated; others suffer from mental health problems. Staff subserve custody goals, but subserve them less effectively becau…
Reforming Human Services: Change Through Participation
Part 1: The Problem Definition of the Problem Alienation and Burnout Shape of the Work Problem Cynicism: The Human Equation Part 2: The Prospect The Notion of Enrichment: From Chores to Challenges Job Enrichment in the Human Services The Notion of Quality of Work Life: Humanizing the Assembly Line Humanizing Client Assembly Lines Part 3: The Prescription The Notion of Participation Participation and Change Receptivity to Change Research, Action a…
The social psychology of social movements.
Violent Men: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence
Warehouses for People
The impact of congested prisons is not primarily a problem of population density, but of corollaries of crowding such as social instability, lack of programming, and the ascendance of custody goals. Congestion affects staff as well as inmates, and different inmates are differently affected. Some have antisocial tendencies exacerbated; others suffer from mental health problems. Staff subserve custody goals, but subserve them less effectively becau…
Police officers as change agents in police reform
The organization of police departments along hierarchical, classic management lines makes it difficult for departmental leadership to tackle commonly-experienced internal problems, so as to improve performance and enhance morale. The main reason for this fact is that top-down reform invites resistances from rank-and-file officers who feel that their views have been disregarded. By contrast, interventions can gain considerable credibility if offic…
Mobilizing Police Expertise
Violence against police is a problem that calls for organizational solutions. Among dangers to be avoided are crisis-induced panic and the minimization of the problem, as well as strategic planning by police leadership without rank-and-file participation. Even the most serious violence problems afford opportunities for learning if such problems are addressed by cross sections of a police department's membership. Police unions can be involved as p…
The Perception of Future Events: Case Studies in Social Prediction
By comparing the 1942 predictions of a group of professional and public people with the actual state of the world in 1952, the author attempts to determine the elements of successful prognostication. He points to some of the factors which tend to defeat accurate predictions, and describes the approach which minimizes these handicaps
Attitudes of the "Fifty Plus" Age Group: Preliminary Considerations Toward a Longitudinal Survey
Journal Article Attitudes of the “Fifty Plus” Age Group: Preliminary Considerations Toward a Longitudinal Survey Get access HANS Toch HANS Toch Office of Public Opinion Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 3, Fall 1953, Pages 391–394, https://doi.org/10.1086/266471 Published: 01 January 1953
Some Go Backward, Some Go Forward: Police Work in Comparative Perspective
Cast the First Stone: Ethics as a Weapon
Notorious scientific scandals leave the impression that a line between ethical and unethical research can be drawn, but routine examples show that an ethical penumbra exists. Breaches of ethics in science rarely surface. Most collegial charges of unethical conduct can be dismissed as being partisan; outsiders’ethical questions are more threatening, because they imply that violations are widespread. Such implications can be neutralized by “self‐re…
The study of manThe convict as researcher
Factors Entering Into Ethnic Identifications: An Experimental Study
Crisis Situations and Ideological Revaluation
Students of social change and practitioners attempting to predict human behavior have long been interested in changes in systems of belief. In this article the author describes the kinds of situations which have produced ideological changes as well as the mechanisms involved in these revaluations. Hans Toch is on the staff of the Office of Public Opinion Research at Princeton University
Attitudes of the "Fifty Plus" Age Group: Preliminary Considerations Toward a Longitudinal Survey
Journal Article Attitudes of the “Fifty Plus” Age Group: Preliminary Considerations Toward a Longitudinal Survey Get access HANS Toch HANS Toch Office of Public Opinion Research Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 17, Issue 3, Fall 1953, Pages 391–394, https://doi.org/10.1086/266471 Published: 01 January 1953
Crisis Situations and Ideological Revaluation
Students of social change and practitioners attempting to predict human behavior have long been interested in changes in systems of belief. In this article the author describes the kinds of situations which have produced ideological changes as well as the mechanisms involved in these revaluations. Hans Toch is on the staff of the Office of Public Opinion Research at Princeton University
The Role of Past Experience in Apparent Movement: A Revaluation
An attempt is made to provide a theoretical framework within which data concerning effect of stimulus connotations on perceived movement might be evaluated. Jones's & Bruner's (1954) results, and those of our own study, have been examined in this context. In both cases, it was possible to demonstrate that loading through meaning, to be effective, had to be compatible with generalized past experiences with movement, or (from a structuralist viewpo…
Psychological Research and Effective Persuasion
Journal Article Psychological Research and Effective Persuasion Get access Hans H. Toch Hans H. Toch 1Assistant Professor of Psychology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 8, Issue 4, December 1958, Pages 190–198, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1958.tb01153.x Published: 07 February 2006
The Perception of Future Events: Case Studies in Social Prediction
By comparing the 1942 predictions of a group of professional and public people with the actual state of the world in 1952, the author attempts to determine the elements of successful prognostication. He points to some of the factors which tend to defeat accurate predictions, and describes the approach which minimizes these handicaps
Readiness to Perceive Violence as a Result of Police Training
A group of men who had undergone a three‐year course in law enforcement were tachistoscopically presented with a ‘violent’ picture to one eye, and a matched ‘neutral’ picture to the other. The results were compared with those obtained from novices in the training programme, and from psychology students. The trained subjects were found to see ‘violent’ scenes fully as often as they saw ‘neutral’ ones, whereas the control subjects reported comparat…
The Public Image of Cancer Etiology
Journal Article LIVING RESEARCH: THE PUBLIC IMAGE OF CANCER ETIOLOGY Get access HANS TOCH, HANS TOCH Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar TERRENCE ALLEN, TERRENCE ALLEN Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar WILLIAM LAZER WILLIAM LAZER *The authors are all on the faculty of Michigan State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public…
Factors Entering Into Ethnic Identifications: An Experimental Study
The social psychology of social movements.
The study of manThe convict as researcher
Violent Men: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Violence
Violence and the Struggle for Existence. D. N. Daniels , M. F. Gilula , F. M. Ochberg Men, Stress and Vietnam. Peter G. Bourne
‘I Shot an Arrow in the Air…’ the Performing Arts as Weapons of Social Change
Application of the performing arts as social change agents is illustrated and discussed. Motivations and effectiveness of various groups are exposed and challenged. A review of communication goals and results of the “problem-solving theater” is drawn from recent studies sponsored by the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Based upon this review, the author poses some characteristics of those enterprises with the greatest promise of effecti…
Who Left the Bomb in Mistress Murphy's Chowder: A Comment on Violent Youth
Justifying violence: Attitudes of American men
Men in Crisis: Human Breakdowns in Prisons
Agents of Change: A Study in Police Reform
Training researchers
Alienation as a vehicle of change
Psychology of crime and criminal justice
Mobilizing Police Expertise
Violence against police is a problem that calls for organizational solutions. Among dangers to be avoided are crisis-induced panic and the minimization of the problem, as well as strategic planning by police leadership without rank-and-file participation. Even the most serious violence problems afford opportunities for learning if such problems are addressed by cross sections of a police department's membership. Police unions can be involved as p…
"Evolving a "Science of Violence: A Propaedeutic Comment
Cast the First Stone: Ethics as a Weapon
Notorious scientific scandals leave the impression that a line between ethical and unethical research can be drawn, but routine examples show that an ethical penumbra exists. Breaches of ethics in science rarely surface. Most collegial charges of unethical conduct can be dismissed as being partisan; outsiders’ethical questions are more threatening, because they imply that violations are widespread. Such implications can be neutralized by “self‐re…
Reforming human services: Change Through Participation
Sed qui dicit, non qui negat
Psychology (42 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Criminology (23 works) · Political science (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works)