John Worrall
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 440251 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Worrall |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Worrall |
| ASSINATURA | WORRALL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Leeds |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5229-5152 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 280 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Know Thy Enemy? Generating, negotiating and codifying knowledge of insurgencies into U.S. Counterinsurgency doctrine, 2004–2006
Decriminalization and police productivity
Proponents of cannabis policy reform argue that decriminalization enhances productivity and resource allocation for police departments. This study explores the effect of the 2018 Farm Bill, a form of cannabis decriminalization, on one measure of police productivity: cannabis case processing times. Using monthly data from the Dallas Police Department’s Record Management System, spanning the years 2014–2021, we estimated single group interrupted ti…
Civil Wars ISA Roundtable 2025 Civil War and Intrastate Conflict
Dissenting from the Inevitable? Understanding Omani Approaches to Israel and the Abraham Accords
More than just visitors? Distinguishing the criminogenic effects of casinos from general tourism
Is Open Access Criminology Influential
Open access is a hot topic throughout the sciences, including in criminology and criminal justice (CCJ), with increasing calls for accessibility of high-quality research for the public and policymakers. Yet, the question remains: How influential are open access publications? We use Altmetric data from 95 CCJ journals to examine whether the presence and level of open access corresponds with variations in three influence indicators: Altmetric Atten…
Understanding Civil Wars
Civil Wars at 25
Reaching a milestone, such as a quarter of a century, offers the chance to pause and reflect on what has been achieved, but also to celebrate those achievements.It seemed to us that one of the best ways to do that was to produce a Special Issue which examined the evolution of the field of study and Civil Wars' place in that field.The journal was founded at the University of Leeds in 1998, very much at the start of the first real wave of identifia…
Effects on calls for service of police ‘scarecrow’ cars
Stationary patrol vehicles, also known as ‘scarecrow cars,’ have been linked with reductions in speeding, but little is known about their effects on crime and related measures. In response to this limitation, we examined the effect on daily dispatched calls for service of a 32-day scarecrow car deployment in a large retail parking lot in Mesquite, Texas. Estimated with 180 days of pre and post data, interrupted time series and Poisson regression …
Is Criminology & Public Policy “influential?” Answers from altmetrics
Research Summary We use an altmetric aggregator, the Altmetric Attention Score (AAS), to rank the influence of articles published in Criminology & Public Policy from the journal's inception through July 31, 2022. We also rank articles based on specific AAS components, namely, Twitter, news, and policy document mentions. Last, we regress AASs on article‐level predictors, including research category, funding, open access type, and time since public…
'Your Own Space and Time'
The regional international organisations of the Middle East clearly work to different traditions than Western International Organisations (IOs) and are comprised of states which are known for their secrecy and hostility to critique. This is methodological challenge enough without taking into account the influences of temporal and spatial practices upon the functioning of these organisations. Using anthropological approaches to time and space an a…
“Switzerland of Arabia”
In recent years, Oman has been recognised as a key mediator in the Gulf and the wider Middle East. The successful completion of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, in particular, firmly cemented its reputation as a peacemaker. To fully understand Omani mediation practices in the region, Muscat’s mediation must be placed within the context of the Sultanate’s wider foreign policy, and all known mediations must be assembled in one place in order to develop …
Use of vascular neck restraints in law enforcement
The high-profile deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd have led to legislative actions banning the use of neck restraints by law enforcement officers. The debates behind these policy changes are important, but they are also entirely lacking in any data on the actual use of neck restraints. We write neither to defend nor condemn the use of neck restraints by law enforcement; rather, we seek to provide information to assist with data-driven decisi…
Methods in the madness? Exploring the logics of torture in Syrian counterinsurgency practices
While the administrations of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad employed torture regularly as a tool of authoritarian governance, this usage changed dramatically in nature as the revolution moved from protests to insurgency, which posed an increasingly significant threat to the regime’s survival. In the counterinsurgency literature, torture’s function is generally tied to intelligence gathering. In the context of Syria’s post-2011 Counterinsurgency (COIN)…
Spinning Multiple Plates Under Fire
Order informs an actor’s context, studying order and accounting for the rules and relationships underpinning that order can tell us a great deal about how power and authority is constructed, renegotiated and contested. Order represents a promising prism and field of study for understanding civil wars. This article begins by assessing the ‘order turn’ in the literature over the past decade. From this basis we identify four key areas that represent…
Persian Pride and Prejudice
Given the ongoing tensions between Iran and the Gulf States, it is odd that Persian speakers, and Iranians in particular, living in the Gulf’s Arab States have received so little scholarly attention. Based on extensive fieldwork in both the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iran, this article examines conceptualizations of identity and interests within Iranian communities in the UAE. In building an understanding of the diversity of Iranians, while h…
Negative Affective Responses to Stress among Urban Police Officers
The larger literature on police stress indicates that much of their stress emanates from two sources: organizational and environmental. These sources coexist in officers’ lives but function differently across police agencies. Officer experiences with stress also tend to lead to emotional reactions, some of which can be negative and increase the risk of misconduct. Agnew’s general strain theory provides one useful theoretical framework within whic…
International Institutions of the Middle East
This volume is a key text for understanding the major regional international organizations of the Middle East. Analysing the Arab League, the Gulf Cooperation Council, and the Arab-Maghreb Union in a concise and accessible format, it explores their successes and failures across their full range of activities (economic, social, and political), while contextualising the reasons why many consider that these organizations have stalled.The book:- asse…
Police Consent Decrees and Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation
Research Summary Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 granted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to investigate, intervene into, and force reforms within any police department deemed to exhibit a pattern or practice of police misconduct. The DOJ's primary enforcement mechanism is to sue the offending jurisdiction. Such lawsuits are typically settled with “consent decrees” or court‐ordered lega…
Global strategic studies
This contribution reflects on the state of strategic studies today and the criticism it has received in recent years, as being outdated and irrelevant. The authors formulate some premises for reinvigorating this field of inquiry by widening its scope and research agenda to do more justice to the wide variety of actors, perspectives and practices observable in the enterprise of strategy in our contemporary globalised world
(Re-)emergent orders
The concept of order is often neglected in the study of conflict – seemingly such a ‘disordering’ process. With the recent increase in the examination of rebel governance however, bringing order back into our understanding of rebel and insurgent groups has much to offer in exploring the everyday politics which connect authorities, rebel movements and the population itself, in a complex mass of intersubjective and power-based interactions and nego…
The missing link? Police and state-building in South Arabia
The failure of the state-building project, the insurgency and, to use the famous phrase, Britain's ‘scuttle’, or ignominious withdrawal, from South Arabia have long been the subject of study, receiving attention from many angles and new perspectives. One aspect which has received less attention is the role of policing in the state-building project of the Federation of South Arabia. This article sets out to explore this lacuna by contextualizing t…
Hezbollah
This detailed analysis follows the rise and evolution of Hezbollah from an Islamic resistance movement to its role as a governing force in Lebanon, exploring the group's impact on the security and power dynamics in the Middle East. This is the first book of its kind to offer a comprehensive study of Hezbollah, providing an overview of the organization's key personalities, events, and structures over the past three decades. Inspired by the latest …
Validating Peer Review in Criminal Justice Evaluation Research
Peer review is the bedrock of the scientific enterprise, yet it enjoys scant validation. The federal government’s CrimeSolutions.gov initiative provides a unique opportunity to address this limitation. As part of the initiative, trained experts evaluate criminal justice evaluation research on several of the same criteria editors use to make publication decisions. Data from a sample of articles published in Social Sciences Citation Index journals …
A Bump in the Road to Confession
What Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine is a relatively new movement that seeks to put clinical medicine on a firmer scientific footing. I take it as uncontroversial that medical practice should be based on best evidence—the interesting questions concern the details. This paper tries to move towards a coherent and unified account of best evidence in medicine, by exploring in particular the EBM position on RCTs (randomized controlled trials)
(Re-)emergent orders
The concept of order is often neglected in the study of conflict – seemingly such a ‘disordering’ process. With the recent increase in the examination of rebel governance however, bringing order back into our understanding of rebel and insurgent groups has much to offer in exploring the everyday politics which connect authorities, rebel movements and the population itself, in a complex mass of intersubjective and power-based interactions and nego…
Prediction and the periodic table
Cops Grants and Crime Revisited
Using 6 years of panel data, Zhao, Scheider, and Thurman (2002) found that funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS), reduced property and violent crime in large U.S. cities. We merged their COPS data with 11 years of panel data from a sample of 189 large cities, such that the period before the COPS program was covered. We also controlled for pre‐existing effects on crime of police spending…
Evidence in Medicine and Evidence-Based Medicine
It is surely obvious that medicine, like any other rational activity, must be based on evidence. The interest is in the details: how exactly are the general principles of the logic of evidence to be applied in medicine? Focussing on the development, and current claims of the 'Evidence-Based Medicine' movement, this article raises a number of difficulties with the rationales that have been supplied in particular for the 'evidence hierarchy' and fo…
Between Darius and Khomeini
Iran, since the advent of its nation-state building process, has struggled to define its national identity in a relevant and resonant way. This article, while acknowledging the multi-dimensional nature of Iran's national identity, focuses on its two most profound components: Nationalism and Islamism. It explores how the tensions between these two are at the heart of not only the problem of Iranian identity but also of Persian identity. Examining …
The Value of a Fixed Methodology
Prediction and accommodation revisited
Why There's No Cause to Randomize
The evidence from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) is widely regarded as supplying the ‘gold standard’ in medicine—we may sometimes have to settle for other forms of evidence, but this is always epistemically second-best. But how well justified is the epistemic claim about the superiority of RCTs? This paper adds to my earlier (predominantly negative) analyses of the claims produced in favour of the idea that randomization plays a uniquely pri…
Spinning Multiple Plates Under Fire
Order informs an actor’s context, studying order and accounting for the rules and relationships underpinning that order can tell us a great deal about how power and authority is constructed, renegotiated and contested. Order represents a promising prism and field of study for understanding civil wars. This article begins by assessing the ‘order turn’ in the literature over the past decade. From this basis we identify four key areas that represent…
Scientific Realism and Scientific Change
Journal Article Scientific Realism and Scientific Change Get access John Wobball John Wobball The London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Pages 201–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219324 Published: 01 July 1982
Global strategic studies
This contribution reflects on the state of strategic studies today and the criticism it has received in recent years, as being outdated and irrelevant. The authors formulate some premises for reinvigorating this field of inquiry by widening its scope and research agenda to do more justice to the wide variety of actors, perspectives and practices observable in the enterprise of strategy in our contemporary globalised world
O man
Prediction and the ‘periodic law’
An Unreal Image
Underdetermination, realism and empirical equivalence
Is Policing for Profit? Answers From Asset Forfeiture
Research Summary Critics have argued that asset forfeiture encourages policing for profit, but their arguments have yet to transcend the anecdotal arena. We gathered data on asset forfeiture payments from a multistate sample of 572 law enforcement agencies and tested two hypotheses aimed at answering the question, is policing for profit? Although we found no clear evidence of more forfeiture in states that permit local agencies to receive the mos…
Negative Affective Responses to Stress among Urban Police Officers
The larger literature on police stress indicates that much of their stress emanates from two sources: organizational and environmental. These sources coexist in officers’ lives but function differently across police agencies. Officer experiences with stress also tend to lead to emotional reactions, some of which can be negative and increase the risk of misconduct. Agnew’s general strain theory provides one useful theoretical framework within whic…
For Universal Rules, Against Induction
This essay criticizes John Norton's 2010 defense of the thesis that “all induction is local.” Norton's local inductions are bound, if cogent, to involve general principles, and the need to accredit these general principles threatens to lead to all the usual problems associated with the ‘problem of induction’. Norton, in fact, recognizes this threat, but his responses are inadequate. The right response involves not induction but a sophisticated ve…
Fix it and be Damned
Police Consent Decrees and Section 1983 Civil Rights Litigation
Research Summary Section 14141 of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 granted the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) the authority to investigate, intervene into, and force reforms within any police department deemed to exhibit a pattern or practice of police misconduct. The DOJ's primary enforcement mechanism is to sue the offending jurisdiction. Such lawsuits are typically settled with “consent decrees” or court‐ordered lega…
The Effects of Local Law Enforcement Block Grants on Serious Crime
Research Summary The Local Law Enforcement Block Grants (LLEBG) Program was second only to the Community‐Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Program in its funding levels. Some $3 billion was dispensed to local jurisdictions to reduce crime and improve public safety; yet the effects of LLEBG funding on crime have been all but ignored. Accordingly, panel data from more than 5,000 cities covering a 12‐year period (1990–2001) were collected, and index…
Stable instability
Given the morass of the Syrian civil war and Lebanon’s exposure to the consequences, this article seeks to explore how the intersecting dynamics of Lebanese domestic conflicts and the multiple implications of the bloodbath in Syria have influenced the behaviour of Lebanese political parties in their ongoing struggle over the formulation of a new electoral law, leading to a broad consensus among the country’s parties to postpone the 2013 parliamen…
Reading Booth in Beirut
The concept of Emancipation has become increasingly important in security studies in recent years but how well does the idea travel outside of the Western context in which it was conceived and into the Middle East? This article examines Hizbollah's four main identities: religious, resistance, socioeconomic, and as allies/proxies of Iran and asks to what extent this key regional non-state actor sees itself as an emancipatory agent in its own terms…
Criminal justice
Proofs and Refutations
Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion (which mirrors certain real developments in the history of mathematics) raises some phi…
The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of scien…
Mathematics, Science and Epistemology
Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume 2 presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished), together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of scienc…
Proofs and Refutations
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Proofs and Refutations: the Logic of Mathematical Discovery. By Imre Lakatos. Edited by John Worrall and Elie Zahar. ( Cambridge University Press. 1976. Pp. xii + 174. Price £7.50, paper £1.95) Daniel Isaacson Daniel Isaacson Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 28, Issue 111, April 1978, Pages 169–171, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219364 P…
A Reply to David Bloor
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The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes
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Die Methodologie der wissenschaftlichen Forschungsprogramme
Royal Society, betrachtet die Hexentheorie als das Musterbeispiel empirischen Denkens. Wir müssen das empirische Denken definieren, ehe wir mit Hume anfangen, Bücher zu verbren nen. Das wissenschaftli
The pressure of light
Scientific Realism and Scientific Change
Journal Article Scientific Realism and Scientific Change Get access John Wobball John Wobball The London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 32, Issue 128, July 1982, Pages 201–231, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219324 Published: 01 July 1982
An Unreal Image
The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science. Kepler's `A Defence of Tycho against Ursus' with Essays on its Provenance and Significance
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science. Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus' with Essays on its Provenance and Significance. By Nicholas Jardine. (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1984. Pp. ix + 301. Price £32.50) John Worrall John Worrall London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 35, Issue 140, July 1985, …
Scientific Realism
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Scientific Realism. Edited By Jarret Leplin. (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1984. Pp. vii + 266. Price £20.80, pb., £7.55). John Worrall John Worrall London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 370–376, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220136 Published: 01 July…
The Value of a Fixed Methodology
Structural Realism
The main argument for scientific realism is that our present theories in science are so successful empirically that they can’t have got that way by chance - instead they must somehow have latched onto the blueprint of the universe. The main argument against scientific realism is that there have been enormously successful theories which were once accepted but are now regarded as false. The central question addressed in this paper is whether there …
Fix it and be Damned
The Rise of the Wave Theory of Light
Criminal justice
John Watkins (1924-1999)
What is this thing called philosophy of science
In defense of the “quantoids”
This article critiques DiCristina's (1977) JCJE article concerning the quantitative emphasis in criminal justice curriculums. I argue that he (1) overlooked one of the more profound merits associated with quantitative research when he proposed that both methods should receive equal attention, (2) underestimated the contribution quantitative methods have made to policy, and (3) confused theoretical problems with methodological problems when he eva…
Prediction and the periodic table
What Evidence in Evidence-Based Medicine
Evidence-Based Medicine is a relatively new movement that seeks to put clinical medicine on a firmer scientific footing. I take it as uncontroversial that medical practice should be based on best evidence—the interesting questions concern the details. This paper tries to move towards a coherent and unified account of best evidence in medicine, by exploring in particular the EBM position on RCTs (randomized controlled trials)
John Kadvany, Imre Lakatos and the Guises of Reason
Prediction and the ‘periodic law’
Crime Control in America
I. INTRODUCTION. 1. Identifying and Evaluating Crime Control. Introduction. The Crime Problem in America. Approaches, Not Just Policies. On the Importance of Definitions. Evaluating Success: An Impossible Task? Displacement and Diffusion. The Tentative Nature of Scientific Knowledge. How Resources Dictate Public Policy and Guide Research. Academic Crusaders and Bandwagon Science. How Crime Control is Accomplished: A Preview of What's to Come. Doe…
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