Amie L Nielsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 91502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amie L Nielsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amie L |
| FAMILY NAME | Nielsen |
| SIGNATURE | NIELSEN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 153 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Cognitive and Apathetic Racism in Patterns of Gun Ownership and Gun Control Attitudes
Our objective is to expand upon the emerging literature that examines the role of multiple forms of racism in gun ownership and gun control attitudes among non-Latino whites. While some of these studies, using standard measures of racial resentment, speculate about the color-coded nature of crime and whether this partially motivates gun ownership, here we specifically consider whether cognitive and apathetic types of racism along with explicit ra…
Speaking the Same Language? English Language Fluency and Violent Crime at the Neighborhood Level
In this article, we seek to extend knowledge of the relationship between immigration and crime. We synthesize existing theories and literatures and argue that one largely overlooked aspect of immigration—language use—may play critical roles in how and why immigration is related to macro-level violence rates. Specifically, there are theoretical reasons to expect that levels of lack of English fluency and of bilinguals in neighborhoods will be asso…
"Color Coding" and Support for Social Policy Spending: Assessing the Parameters among Whites
This study uses data from the 1996 through 2002 General Social Survey to examine whether one variant of modern racial prejudice-"color coding"-explains support for several ostensibly nonracial government spending policies regarding crime, urban problems, and drug addiction (welfare and race spending are used as baseline measures). Findings indicate that color coding does not extend appreciably beyond its established focus of welfare and race and …
Racial/ethnic composition, social disorganization, and offsite alcohol availability in San Diego County, California
Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos
Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction Spending, 1975-2004
In this article we examine the relationships between media exposure (television and newspaper) and drug addiction spending attitudes. Theory and research suggest the critical role of media for shaping views and influencing public opinion. However, no studies have considered media's impact for individual-level drug-related attitudes. We examine this using General Social Survey and other data from 1975 to 2004. Results from logistic regression anal…
Integrating Race, Place and Motive in Social Disorganization Theory: Lessons From a Comparison of Black and Latino Homicide Types in Two Immigrant Destination Cities
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of social disorganization, including recent immigration, and other predictors on community counts of black and Latino motive-specific homicides in Miami and San Diego. Homicides for 1985 to 1995 are disaggregated into escalation, intimate, robbery and drug-related motives. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation demonstrate that there are similarities and di…
Alcohol, Ethnicity, and Violence: The Role of Alcohol Availability for Latino and Black Aggravated Assaults and Robberies
This article is one of the first to assess the impact of alcohol availability, an important but understudied neighborhood element, and other social disorganization measures for Latino and black aggravated assault and robbery victimizations. Using data from Miami, Florida, for 1996 and 1997, we find that although most predictors have similar effects on the outcomes for both groups, higher alcohol availability rates are associated with more Latino …
Segmented Assimilation, Local Context and Determinants of Drug Violence in Miami and San Diego: Does Ethnicity and Immigration Matter
Does the ethnic and immigrant composition of a community and existence of immigrant enclaves or barrios influence community level drug violence? This study explores the relationship between these and other factors in Miami and San Diego census tracts. We employ data about the distribution of Cubans, Central Americans, Haitians, Mexicans and Southeast Asians, controlling for social and economic influences of drug versus non-drug violence. We also …
Reconsidering the Marielito Legacy: Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Homicide Motives
Objective. This article investigates how race/ethnicity is associated with specific types of violent crime such as killings between intimates, robbery homicide, or drug‐related killings. We extend the study of the role of race and ethnicity for violence by examining five ethnic/immigrant groups, including the Mariel Cubans—a group singled out by many as particularly drug‐crime‐prone. Methods. Using 1980 through 1990 homicide data for the City of …
Revisiting the Scarface Legacy: The Victim/Offender Relationship and Mariel Homicides in Miami
By incorporating the direct impact of ethnicity and immigration on crime, this article isthe first to use multivariate methods to compare and contrast Mariel to Afro-Caribbean, African American, and non-Mariel Latino homicides in a predominately immigrant city. In the current study, Mariels were overinvolved in acquaintance homicides, but little evidence surfaced that they were disproportionately involved in stranger homicides or were unusually v…
Testing Sampson and Laub's life course theory: Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Drunkenness
This study examines racial/ethnic differences in drunkenness in early to middle adulthood, a period during which the literature suggests that heavy drinking patterns diverge markedly for Whites, African Americans,and Hispanics. Using the 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse,a nationally representative sample of the household population in the United States, differences in past-year times drunk for 18- to 39-year-old Whites, African Americ…
Argot use in a therapeutic community
Argot, or the language of subcultures, is derived from the larger society but reflects those elements most relevant to the cultures of the subgroups, including values, roles, and issues integral to the group. Prison argot, for example, reflects inmate perceptions and adaptations to the institution and its programs, with considerable variation existing between custodial and treatment‐oriented institutions. It is believed that argot may facilitate …
Integrating Race, Place and Motive in Social Disorganization Theory: Lessons From a Comparison of Black and Latino Homicide Types in Two Immigrant Destination Cities
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of social disorganization, including recent immigration, and other predictors on community counts of black and Latino motive-specific homicides in Miami and San Diego. Homicides for 1985 to 1995 are disaggregated into escalation, intimate, robbery and drug-related motives. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation demonstrate that there are similarities and di…
Segmented Assimilation, Local Context and Determinants of Drug Violence in Miami and San Diego: Does Ethnicity and Immigration Matter
Does the ethnic and immigrant composition of a community and existence of immigrant enclaves or barrios influence community level drug violence? This study explores the relationship between these and other factors in Miami and San Diego census tracts. We employ data about the distribution of Cubans, Central Americans, Haitians, Mexicans and Southeast Asians, controlling for social and economic influences of drug versus non-drug violence. We also …
Testing Sampson and Laub's life course theory: Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Drunkenness
This study examines racial/ethnic differences in drunkenness in early to middle adulthood, a period during which the literature suggests that heavy drinking patterns diverge markedly for Whites, African Americans,and Hispanics. Using the 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse,a nationally representative sample of the household population in the United States, differences in past-year times drunk for 18- to 39-year-old Whites, African Americ…
Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction Spending, 1975-2004
In this article we examine the relationships between media exposure (television and newspaper) and drug addiction spending attitudes. Theory and research suggest the critical role of media for shaping views and influencing public opinion. However, no studies have considered media's impact for individual-level drug-related attitudes. We examine this using General Social Survey and other data from 1975 to 2004. Results from logistic regression anal…
Alcohol, Ethnicity, and Violence: The Role of Alcohol Availability for Latino and Black Aggravated Assaults and Robberies
This article is one of the first to assess the impact of alcohol availability, an important but understudied neighborhood element, and other social disorganization measures for Latino and black aggravated assault and robbery victimizations. Using data from Miami, Florida, for 1996 and 1997, we find that although most predictors have similar effects on the outcomes for both groups, higher alcohol availability rates are associated with more Latino …
"Color Coding" and Support for Social Policy Spending: Assessing the Parameters among Whites
This study uses data from the 1996 through 2002 General Social Survey to examine whether one variant of modern racial prejudice-"color coding"-explains support for several ostensibly nonracial government spending policies regarding crime, urban problems, and drug addiction (welfare and race spending are used as baseline measures). Findings indicate that color coding does not extend appreciably beyond its established focus of welfare and race and …
Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos
Racial/ethnic composition, social disorganization, and offsite alcohol availability in San Diego County, California
Reconsidering the Marielito Legacy: Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Homicide Motives
Objective. This article investigates how race/ethnicity is associated with specific types of violent crime such as killings between intimates, robbery homicide, or drug‐related killings. We extend the study of the role of race and ethnicity for violence by examining five ethnic/immigrant groups, including the Mariel Cubans—a group singled out by many as particularly drug‐crime‐prone. Methods. Using 1980 through 1990 homicide data for the City of …
Speaking the Same Language? English Language Fluency and Violent Crime at the Neighborhood Level
In this article, we seek to extend knowledge of the relationship between immigration and crime. We synthesize existing theories and literatures and argue that one largely overlooked aspect of immigration—language use—may play critical roles in how and why immigration is related to macro-level violence rates. Specifically, there are theoretical reasons to expect that levels of lack of English fluency and of bilinguals in neighborhoods will be asso…
Revisiting the Scarface Legacy: The Victim/Offender Relationship and Mariel Homicides in Miami
By incorporating the direct impact of ethnicity and immigration on crime, this article isthe first to use multivariate methods to compare and contrast Mariel to Afro-Caribbean, African American, and non-Mariel Latino homicides in a predominately immigrant city. In the current study, Mariels were overinvolved in acquaintance homicides, but little evidence surfaced that they were disproportionately involved in stranger homicides or were unusually v…
Argot use in a therapeutic community
Argot, or the language of subcultures, is derived from the larger society but reflects those elements most relevant to the cultures of the subgroups, including values, roles, and issues integral to the group. Prison argot, for example, reflects inmate perceptions and adaptations to the institution and its programs, with considerable variation existing between custodial and treatment‐oriented institutions. It is believed that argot may facilitate …
Testing Sampson and Laub's life course theory: Age, Race/Ethnicity, and Drunkenness
This study examines racial/ethnic differences in drunkenness in early to middle adulthood, a period during which the literature suggests that heavy drinking patterns diverge markedly for Whites, African Americans,and Hispanics. Using the 1991 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse,a nationally representative sample of the household population in the United States, differences in past-year times drunk for 18- to 39-year-old Whites, African Americ…
Revisiting the Scarface Legacy: The Victim/Offender Relationship and Mariel Homicides in Miami
By incorporating the direct impact of ethnicity and immigration on crime, this article isthe first to use multivariate methods to compare and contrast Mariel to Afro-Caribbean, African American, and non-Mariel Latino homicides in a predominately immigrant city. In the current study, Mariels were overinvolved in acquaintance homicides, but little evidence surfaced that they were disproportionately involved in stranger homicides or were unusually v…
Reconsidering the Marielito Legacy: Race/Ethnicity, Nativity, and Homicide Motives
Objective. This article investigates how race/ethnicity is associated with specific types of violent crime such as killings between intimates, robbery homicide, or drug‐related killings. We extend the study of the role of race and ethnicity for violence by examining five ethnic/immigrant groups, including the Mariel Cubans—a group singled out by many as particularly drug‐crime‐prone. Methods. Using 1980 through 1990 homicide data for the City of …
Segmented Assimilation, Local Context and Determinants of Drug Violence in Miami and San Diego: Does Ethnicity and Immigration Matter
Does the ethnic and immigrant composition of a community and existence of immigrant enclaves or barrios influence community level drug violence? This study explores the relationship between these and other factors in Miami and San Diego census tracts. We employ data about the distribution of Cubans, Central Americans, Haitians, Mexicans and Southeast Asians, controlling for social and economic influences of drug versus non-drug violence. We also …
Integrating Race, Place and Motive in Social Disorganization Theory: Lessons From a Comparison of Black and Latino Homicide Types in Two Immigrant Destination Cities
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of social disorganization, including recent immigration, and other predictors on community counts of black and Latino motive-specific homicides in Miami and San Diego. Homicides for 1985 to 1995 are disaggregated into escalation, intimate, robbery and drug-related motives. Negative binomial regression models with corrections for spatial autocorrelation demonstrate that there are similarities and di…
Alcohol, Ethnicity, and Violence: The Role of Alcohol Availability for Latino and Black Aggravated Assaults and Robberies
This article is one of the first to assess the impact of alcohol availability, an important but understudied neighborhood element, and other social disorganization measures for Latino and black aggravated assault and robbery victimizations. Using data from Miami, Florida, for 1996 and 1997, we find that although most predictors have similar effects on the outcomes for both groups, higher alcohol availability rates are associated with more Latino …
Media Exposure and Attitudes Toward Drug Addiction Spending, 1975-2004
In this article we examine the relationships between media exposure (television and newspaper) and drug addiction spending attitudes. Theory and research suggest the critical role of media for shaping views and influencing public opinion. However, no studies have considered media's impact for individual-level drug-related attitudes. We examine this using General Social Survey and other data from 1975 to 2004. Results from logistic regression anal…
Racial/ethnic composition, social disorganization, and offsite alcohol availability in San Diego County, California
Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos
"Color Coding" and Support for Social Policy Spending: Assessing the Parameters among Whites
This study uses data from the 1996 through 2002 General Social Survey to examine whether one variant of modern racial prejudice-"color coding"-explains support for several ostensibly nonracial government spending policies regarding crime, urban problems, and drug addiction (welfare and race spending are used as baseline measures). Findings indicate that color coding does not extend appreciably beyond its established focus of welfare and race and …
Speaking the Same Language? English Language Fluency and Violent Crime at the Neighborhood Level
In this article, we seek to extend knowledge of the relationship between immigration and crime. We synthesize existing theories and literatures and argue that one largely overlooked aspect of immigration—language use—may play critical roles in how and why immigration is related to macro-level violence rates. Specifically, there are theoretical reasons to expect that levels of lack of English fluency and of bilinguals in neighborhoods will be asso…
Cognitive and Apathetic Racism in Patterns of Gun Ownership and Gun Control Attitudes
Our objective is to expand upon the emerging literature that examines the role of multiple forms of racism in gun ownership and gun control attitudes among non-Latino whites. While some of these studies, using standard measures of racial resentment, speculate about the color-coded nature of crime and whether this partially motivates gun ownership, here we specifically consider whether cognitive and apathetic types of racism along with explicit ra…
Sociology (12 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (6 works)