Sheldon Ekland-Olson
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 185936 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sheldon Ekland-Olson |
| PRENOMES | Sheldon |
| SOBRENOME | Ekland-Olson |
| ASSINATURA | EKLAND-OLSON S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 625 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1980 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Science and Sociology
Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come from demographic analyses, survey research, or ethnographic studies. Above all else, this book is an attempt to promote and advance scientific socio…
Moral Boundaries and Dilemmas
We ask a single question: How do we, through our customs, laws, religion, and common practice, go about justifying the violation of these deeply important, perhaps universal, moral imperatives, all the while holding tightly to their importance? The short answer is this: With empathy and logic we draw boundaries and through political debate we set priorities to resolve dilemmas. An infusing theme running throughout is the life-defining importance …
The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle
Preface * Chapter 1. From Lynchings to Electrocutions * Chapter 2. The Initial Harvest of Death: 1924-1972 * Chapter 3. Rape, Race, and a Peculiar Chivalry * Chapter 4. Capital Murder and Midnight Appeals * Chapter 5. Spared the Chair and Sentenced to Life * Chapter 6. Adoption of Lethal Injection and Contemporary Death Rituals * Chapter 7. Stages of Sentencing and Future Dangerousness of Convicts * Chapter 8. Some Closing Thoughts * Appendix A. …
Recidivism Among Paroled Property Offenders Released During a Period of Prison Reform
Data from four successive yearly cohorts and one special early release cohort of parolees are used to explore the question of whether rapid statewide changes in the administration of criminal justice affected the patterns of recidivism among persons on parole for property offenses. Given the earlier broadly constructed research reported by Ekland–Olson et al. (1993), and their conclusion that variation in shifting policies would have different ef…
Justice Under Pressure
Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year rates among parolees released between 1984 and 1987. Setting out to identify differences in recidivism and the crime rate as a result of the changes instituted in Texas, the authors report the findings of …
Justice Under Pressure
Universities and the common understanding in an uncommon time
The Response of the Criminal Justice System to Prison Overcrowding
Over the past decade crowded prison conditions became the subject for lawsuits across the country, resulting in restrictions on the “capacity” of prison systems in a number of states. These restrictions produced pressures throughout the criminal justice system, from arrest to release on parole. The question addressed in this research is whether these restrictions and pressures affected the probability and pattern of return to prison among parolee…
Legitimacy, Control and Prison Riots
Gazing into the Crystal Ball
The Texas post-Furman death penalty statute restricts capital punishment to a limited category of murders. If the defendant is found guilty of one of these crimes, the jury must address two and sometimes three questions in the punishment phase of the trial. Affirmative answers to the questions by all jurors result in an automatic death sentence. A "no" answer to any question results in an automatic life sentence. One of the three questions is whe…
Texas Prisons
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Texas Prisons
Texas Prisons
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
The Challenge of Social Control
Crowding, Social Control, and Prison Violence
In this paper, I examine two explanatory models for prison violence. In the first, the crowding model, violence is said to arise from the cognitive confusion and tension induced by crowded conditions. In the second, the social control model, violence is seen as one among several important control mechanisms deeply rooted in the social order of prison life. While these models are clearly not mutually exclusive, they have taken researchers along qu…
The Paradoxical Impact of Criminal Sanctions
Field data from a longitudinal study of drug dealing reveal the importance of interpersonal networks in determining the impact of criminal sanctions. The level of perceived sanction severity was in large measure dependent on the degree of disruption created in interpersonal relations and on the resilience of these relations in adapting to the sanctioning process. Perceived certainty of sanctions was likewise dependent on characteristics of interp…
Social Problems Course Materials
Postrelease Depression and the Importance of Familial Support
Depression is a widely noted reaction among persons confronted with dramatic life changes. Those released from total institutions (mental patients, prisoners of war, hostages, ex‐convicts) are especially susceptible to these symptoms. A model, based on extensive field experience and a broad review of literature, is first presented. Data from a cohort of persons released from prison, gathered at three points in time during the first year following…
Further Thoughts on Social Networks and Movement Recruitment
WALLIS and Bruce (1982) have recently questioned the adequacy of our analysis of the relationship between social networks and the movement recruitment process (Snow et al. 1980). Our aim in that paper was to further empirical and theoretical understanding of the spread and growth of social movements by examining the role of such micro-structural factors as social networks in relation to differential recruitment (e.g., Why are some people rather t…
Repeat Players” in a Criminal Court the Fate of Their Clients
That judges, defense attorneys, and prosecutors are part of a courthouse community that responds to organizational pressures is no longer questioned. What remains puzzling is exactly what impact organizational factors have on case outcomes. In this research, one aspect of this general question is investigated‐whether the clients of “repeat‐players” enjoy special benefits or bear special burdens when punishments are distributed. Previous research …
On Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
Social Networks and Social Movements
Past examinations of differential recruitment to and the differential growth of social movements have typically sought explanation at a social psychological/motivational level of analysis. That focus has recently been called into question by scholars concerned with the process through which movement organizations expand their ranks and mobilize support for their causes. Yet, as Useem (1975) and Zald and McCarthy (1979) have noted, there has been …
Social Networks and Social Movements
Past examinations of differential recruitment to and the differential growth of social movements have typically sought explanation at a social psychological/motivational level of analysis. That focus has recently been called into question by scholars concerned with the process through which movement organizations expand their ranks and mobilize support for their causes. Yet, as Useem (1975) and Zald and McCarthy (1979) have noted, there has been …
The Challenge of Social Control
The Paradoxical Impact of Criminal Sanctions
Field data from a longitudinal study of drug dealing reveal the importance of interpersonal networks in determining the impact of criminal sanctions. The level of perceived sanction severity was in large measure dependent on the degree of disruption created in interpersonal relations and on the resilience of these relations in adapting to the sanctioning process. Perceived certainty of sanctions was likewise dependent on characteristics of interp…
Postrelease Depression and the Importance of Familial Support
Depression is a widely noted reaction among persons confronted with dramatic life changes. Those released from total institutions (mental patients, prisoners of war, hostages, ex‐convicts) are especially susceptible to these symptoms. A model, based on extensive field experience and a broad review of literature, is first presented. Data from a cohort of persons released from prison, gathered at three points in time during the first year following…
Crowding, Social Control, and Prison Violence
In this paper, I examine two explanatory models for prison violence. In the first, the crowding model, violence is said to arise from the cognitive confusion and tension induced by crowded conditions. In the second, the social control model, violence is seen as one among several important control mechanisms deeply rooted in the social order of prison life. While these models are clearly not mutually exclusive, they have taken researchers along qu…
On Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
Gazing into the Crystal Ball
The Texas post-Furman death penalty statute restricts capital punishment to a limited category of murders. If the defendant is found guilty of one of these crimes, the jury must address two and sometimes three questions in the punishment phase of the trial. Affirmative answers to the questions by all jurors result in an automatic death sentence. A "no" answer to any question results in an automatic life sentence. One of the three questions is whe…
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
Recidivism Among Paroled Property Offenders Released During a Period of Prison Reform
Data from four successive yearly cohorts and one special early release cohort of parolees are used to explore the question of whether rapid statewide changes in the administration of criminal justice affected the patterns of recidivism among persons on parole for property offenses. Given the earlier broadly constructed research reported by Ekland–Olson et al. (1993), and their conclusion that variation in shifting policies would have different ef…
The Response of the Criminal Justice System to Prison Overcrowding
Over the past decade crowded prison conditions became the subject for lawsuits across the country, resulting in restrictions on the “capacity” of prison systems in a number of states. These restrictions produced pressures throughout the criminal justice system, from arrest to release on parole. The question addressed in this research is whether these restrictions and pressures affected the probability and pattern of return to prison among parolee…
Further Thoughts on Social Networks and Movement Recruitment
WALLIS and Bruce (1982) have recently questioned the adequacy of our analysis of the relationship between social networks and the movement recruitment process (Snow et al. 1980). Our aim in that paper was to further empirical and theoretical understanding of the spread and growth of social movements by examining the role of such micro-structural factors as social networks in relation to differential recruitment (e.g., Why are some people rather t…
Repeat Players” in a Criminal Court the Fate of Their Clients
That judges, defense attorneys, and prosecutors are part of a courthouse community that responds to organizational pressures is no longer questioned. What remains puzzling is exactly what impact organizational factors have on case outcomes. In this research, one aspect of this general question is investigated‐whether the clients of “repeat‐players” enjoy special benefits or bear special burdens when punishments are distributed. Previous research …
Social Networks and Social Movements
Past examinations of differential recruitment to and the differential growth of social movements have typically sought explanation at a social psychological/motivational level of analysis. That focus has recently been called into question by scholars concerned with the process through which movement organizations expand their ranks and mobilize support for their causes. Yet, as Useem (1975) and Zald and McCarthy (1979) have noted, there has been …
Repeat Players” in a Criminal Court the Fate of Their Clients
That judges, defense attorneys, and prosecutors are part of a courthouse community that responds to organizational pressures is no longer questioned. What remains puzzling is exactly what impact organizational factors have on case outcomes. In this research, one aspect of this general question is investigated‐whether the clients of “repeat‐players” enjoy special benefits or bear special burdens when punishments are distributed. Previous research …
On Social Learning and Deviant Behavior
Social Problems Course Materials
Postrelease Depression and the Importance of Familial Support
Depression is a widely noted reaction among persons confronted with dramatic life changes. Those released from total institutions (mental patients, prisoners of war, hostages, ex‐convicts) are especially susceptible to these symptoms. A model, based on extensive field experience and a broad review of literature, is first presented. Data from a cohort of persons released from prison, gathered at three points in time during the first year following…
Further Thoughts on Social Networks and Movement Recruitment
WALLIS and Bruce (1982) have recently questioned the adequacy of our analysis of the relationship between social networks and the movement recruitment process (Snow et al. 1980). Our aim in that paper was to further empirical and theoretical understanding of the spread and growth of social movements by examining the role of such micro-structural factors as social networks in relation to differential recruitment (e.g., Why are some people rather t…
The Paradoxical Impact of Criminal Sanctions
Field data from a longitudinal study of drug dealing reveal the importance of interpersonal networks in determining the impact of criminal sanctions. The level of perceived sanction severity was in large measure dependent on the degree of disruption created in interpersonal relations and on the resilience of these relations in adapting to the sanctioning process. Perceived certainty of sanctions was likewise dependent on characteristics of interp…
Crowding, Social Control, and Prison Violence
In this paper, I examine two explanatory models for prison violence. In the first, the crowding model, violence is said to arise from the cognitive confusion and tension induced by crowded conditions. In the second, the social control model, violence is seen as one among several important control mechanisms deeply rooted in the social order of prison life. While these models are clearly not mutually exclusive, they have taken researchers along qu…
The Challenge of Social Control
Texas Prisons
Organizational Compliance with Court-Ordered Reform
We present a detailed case study of administrative responses to litigated reform efforts directed at the Texas Department of Corrections over a two-decade period. We found that administrators attempted to maintain their organizational boundaries by: (1) controlling information; (2) using political connections in the broader community; (3) launching a judicial counterattack; and (4) exercising administrative prerogatives. Defiance of demands from …
Gazing into the Crystal Ball
The Texas post-Furman death penalty statute restricts capital punishment to a limited category of murders. If the defendant is found guilty of one of these crimes, the jury must address two and sometimes three questions in the punishment phase of the trial. Affirmative answers to the questions by all jurors result in an automatic death sentence. A "no" answer to any question results in an automatic life sentence. One of the three questions is whe…
Texas Prisons
Journal Article Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down Get access Texas Prisons: The Walls Came Tumbling Down. By Martin Steve J. Ekland-Olson Sheldon. (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. xxix + 289 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, indexes. $21.95.) Nicole Hahn Rafter Nicole Hahn Rafter Northeastern University, Boston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 20, Issue 1, Febr…
Texas Prisons
Legitimacy, Control and Prison Riots
Universities and the common understanding in an uncommon time
The Response of the Criminal Justice System to Prison Overcrowding
Over the past decade crowded prison conditions became the subject for lawsuits across the country, resulting in restrictions on the “capacity” of prison systems in a number of states. These restrictions produced pressures throughout the criminal justice system, from arrest to release on parole. The question addressed in this research is whether these restrictions and pressures affected the probability and pattern of return to prison among parolee…
Justice Under Pressure
Justice Under Pressure analyzes the effects of prison crowding on the justice system. The authors focus on dramatic changes in the administration of criminal justice in Texas during the 1980s and the influence of those changes on the three-year rates among parolees released between 1984 and 1987. Setting out to identify differences in recidivism and the crime rate as a result of the changes instituted in Texas, the authors report the findings of …
Justice Under Pressure
The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle
Preface * Chapter 1. From Lynchings to Electrocutions * Chapter 2. The Initial Harvest of Death: 1924-1972 * Chapter 3. Rape, Race, and a Peculiar Chivalry * Chapter 4. Capital Murder and Midnight Appeals * Chapter 5. Spared the Chair and Sentenced to Life * Chapter 6. Adoption of Lethal Injection and Contemporary Death Rituals * Chapter 7. Stages of Sentencing and Future Dangerousness of Convicts * Chapter 8. Some Closing Thoughts * Appendix A. …
Recidivism Among Paroled Property Offenders Released During a Period of Prison Reform
Data from four successive yearly cohorts and one special early release cohort of parolees are used to explore the question of whether rapid statewide changes in the administration of criminal justice affected the patterns of recidivism among persons on parole for property offenses. Given the earlier broadly constructed research reported by Ekland–Olson et al. (1993), and their conclusion that variation in shifting policies would have different ef…
Moral Boundaries and Dilemmas
We ask a single question: How do we, through our customs, laws, religion, and common practice, go about justifying the violation of these deeply important, perhaps universal, moral imperatives, all the while holding tightly to their importance? The short answer is this: With empathy and logic we draw boundaries and through political debate we set priorities to resolve dilemmas. An infusing theme running throughout is the life-defining importance …
Science and Sociology
Science and Sociology is from beginning to end an exploration of what this implies for the social sciences, and sociology in particular. The authors argue that over the last several decades, sociology has become less a science and more a quest for isolated assessments of situations, whether they come from demographic analyses, survey research, or ethnographic studies. Above all else, this book is an attempt to promote and advance scientific socio…
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