Western Criminology Review Archive

© 1998 Western Criminology Review

Preliminaries

Inaugural Letter from the WSC President

Barbara Bloom, WSC President

Preface to the First Issue

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Thematic Issue on Restorative Justice: Theory Meets Practice
Patrick G. Jackson, Editor

Articles

Restorative Justice Through Victim-Offender Mediation: A Multi-Site Assessment

Mark S. Umbreit

Restorative Justice in New Zealand: Family Group Conferences as a Case Study

Allison Morris and Gabrielle Maxwell

Victim-Offender Mediation Programs: An Exploration of Practice and Theoretical Frameworks

John R. Gehm

Crime Victims and Restorative Justice in Juvenile Courts: Judges as Obstacle or Leader?

Gordon Bazemore

Restorative Justice Interventions for Juvenile Offenders: A Research Agenda for the Next Decade

Mara F. Schiff

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
25th Annual Conference, February 26–28, 1998
Visions of Justice: From Retribution to Restoration

Conference Schedule and List of Panel Presentations

Program Abstracts

© 1999 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Articles

An Analysis of Curfew Enforcement and Juvenile Crime in California

Mike Males and Dan Macallair

Animations of Crime Maps Using Virtual Reality Modeling Language

Suresh K Lodha and Arvind Verma

Building the Foundation for a Side-by-Side Explanatory Model: A General Theory of Crime, the Age-Graded Life Course Theory, and Attachment Theory

Rebecca Katz

A Drug Use Typology for Treatment Intervention

George Yacoubian

Book Review

Review of ‘In the Mix:’ Struggle and Survival in a Women’s Prison by Barbara Owen

Joanne Belknap

© 1999 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Articles

Reflections on Crime and Criminology at the Millenium

Elliott Currie

The Changing Role of Victim Impact Evidence in Capital Cases

Joel Donahoe

What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You: Perceptions and Misconceptions of Harmful Behaviors Among Criminology and Criminal Justice Students

Matthew B. Robinson

The Role of the Auditor in the Prevention and Detection of Business Fraud: SAS No. 82

Barbara Farrell and Joseph Franco

Book Review

Review of Random Violence: How We Talk About New Crimes and New Victims by Joel Best

Marilyn McShane

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
26th Annual Conference, February 25–28, 1999

Conference Schedule and List of Panel Presentations

Program Abstracts

© 2000 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Articles

Where Did Hispanic Jurors Go? Racial and Ethnic Disenfranchisement in the Grand Jury and the Search for Justice

Hiroshi Fukurai

A Profile of Race-Bias Hate Crime in Los Angeles County

Karen Umemoto and C. Kimi Mikami

Worry About Victimization: An Alternative and Reliable Measure for Fear of Crime

Frank P. Williams, Marilyn D. McShane, and Ronald L. Akers

Commentary

Toward A More “Progressive” Criminology? A Rejoinder to Elliott Currie

Richard Hil

Response to Richard Hil

Elliott Currie

© 2001 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Articles

Constructing Images of Workplace Homicide

Ronald Burns

Testing Therapeutic Jurisprudence Theory: An Empirical Assessment of the Drug Court Process

Scott Senjo and Leslie A. Leip

The Portrayal of Crime in the Cypriot Media: An Exploratory Study

Olga Tsoudis

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
27th Annual Conference, February 24–26, 2001
Diversity and Justice

Conference Schedule and List of Panel Presentations

Program Abstracts

© 2002 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Patrick G. Jackson, WCR Editor

Articles

Variables Affecting Adolescent Victimization: Findings from a National Youth Survey

Gideon Fishman,  Gustavo S. Mesch and Zvi Eisikovits

A Topological Representation of the Criminal Event

Arvind Verma and S.K. Lodha

Television Network News Coverage of Corporate Crime from 1970-2000

Brendan Maguire

Facing Change: New Directions for Critical Criminology in the Early New Millennium?

Richard Hil

Research Note

Recidivism Among the Customers of Female Street Prostitutes: Do Intervention Programs Help?

Martin A. Monto and Steve Garcia

© 2002 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Gisela Bichler and Stephen Tibbetts, WCR Editors

Articles

The Embeddedness of Adolescent Employment and Participation in Delinquency: A Life Course Perspective

John P. Wright, Francis T. Cullen and Nicolas Williams

A Closer Look at the Age, Peers, and Delinquency Relationship

Daniel P. Mears and Samuel H. Field

Re-Examining the Integrative Social Capital Theory of Crime

Rebecca S. Katz

The Influence of Empathy in Mock Jury Criminal Cases: Adding to the Affect Control Model

Olga Tsoudis

Discouragement of Crime Through Civil Remedies: An Application of a Reformulated Routine Activities Theory

James R. Brunet

Book Reviews

Book Review of I Won’t Do Manhattan: Causes and Consequences of a Decline in Street Prostitution

Anthony Carona

Book Review of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavior Evidence

Eric S. McCord

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
29th Annual Conference, February 21-24, 2002
Crossing Boundaries, Increasing Knowledge

Keynote Address: The Blind Men and the Elephant: A Parable for Crime and Justice?

Paul Cromwell

Panels Conference Schedule and Panel Presentations

Paper Abstracts

Special Thematic Issue on Therapeutic Jurisprudence
© 2003 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Carrie J. Petrucci, David B. Wexler, and Bruce J. Winick, WCR Guest Editors

Articles

Welcome Home? Examining the “Reentry Court” Concept from a Strengths-based Perspective

Shadd Maruna and Thomas P. LeBel

Maintaining Change: Converging Legal and Psychological Initiatives in a Therapeutic Jurisprudence Framework

James McGuire

Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Adversarial Injustice: Questioning Limits

David Carson

Defending Depositions in High-Stakes Civil and Quasi-Criminal Litigation: An Application of Therapeutic Jurisprudence

Dennis P. Stolle and Mark D. Stuaan

Therapeutic Jurisprudence: An Ethical Paradigm for Therapists in Sex Offender Treatment Programs

Bill Glaser

Battered Immigrant Women and the Legal System: A Therapeutic Jurisprudence Perspective

Edna Erez and Carolyn Copps Hartley

© 2003 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Gisela Bichler and Stephen Tibbetts, WCR Editors

Articles

Family Structure, Power-Control Theory, and Deviance: Extending Power-control Theory to Include Alternative Family Forms

Kristin A. Bates, Christopher D. Bader, and F. Carson Mencken

The Moderating Effects of Internal and Perceived External Sanction Threats on the Relationship between Deviant Peer Associations and Criminal Offending

Ruth X. Liu

Stranger Danger: Explaining Women’s Fear of Crime

Hannah Scott

Testing the Stream Analogy for Lethal Violence: A Macro Study of Suicide and Homicide

Bohsiu Wu

Commentary

An Obligation to Make a Difference in the Real World? Thoughts on the Proper Role of Criminologists and Critical Criminologists in the 21st Century

Matthew B. Robinson

Book Reviews

Book Review of Women and the Criminal Justice System

Erika Davis-Frenzel

Book Review of Detained, Immigration Laws and the Expanding I.N.S. Jail Complex

Kathleen Nadeau

Book Review of Behind the Walls: A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates

Dale Sechrest

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
30th Annual Conference, February 20-23, 2003
Pathways to Partnerships

WSC 30th Annual Meeting Opening Address

Chief Constable Jamie Graham

Panels Conference Schedule and List of Panel Presentations

Paper Abstracts and Presenter Contacts

© 2004 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Gisela Bichler and Stephen Tibbetts, WCR Editors

Articles

Neighborhood Characteristics and Crime: A Test of Sampson and Groves’ Model of Social Disorganization

Ivan Y. Sun, Ruth Triplett, and Randy R. Gainey

Social Learning and Structural Factors in Adolescent Substance Use

Gang Lee, Ronald L. Akers, and Marian J. Borg

Estimation Issues Associated with Time-Series—Cross-Section Analysis in Criminology

John L. Worrall and Travis C. Pratt

Polls, Politics, and Crime: The “Law and Order” Issue of the 1960s

Dennis D. Loo and Ruth-Ellen M. Grimes

Book Reviews

Book Review of Why Crime Rates Fell

Marissa Potchak

Book Review of Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist

J.C. Oleson

Book Review of Justice Blind? Ideals and Realities of American Criminal Justice

Robert Moore

© 2004 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Gisela Bichler and Stephen Tibbetts, WCR Editors

Articles

Motivation or Opportunity: Which Serves as the Best Mediator in Self-Control Theory?

George E. Higgins and Melissa L. Ricketts

Managing the Transition from Institution to Community: A Canadian Parole Officer Perspective on the Needs of Newly Released Federal Offenders

Jason D. Brown

Confidence in the Police and Perceptions of Risk

Taiping Ho and Jerome McKean

An Excursus on the Population Size-Crime Relationship

Mitchell B. Chamlin and John K. Cochran

Book Reviews

Book Review of A Restorative Justice Reader: Texts, Sources, and Contexts

Russ Immarigeon

Book Review of Superhighway Robbery: Preventing E-commerce Crime

Sharon Chamard

Book Review of Ethics in Crime and Justice: Dilemmas and Decisions

Egan Kyle Green

Conference Proceedings

Western Society of Criminology
31st Annual Conference, February 19-22, 2004
Criminology & Practice: Expanding the Horizon of Collaboration

Panels Conference Schedule and Panel Presentations

Paper Abstracts and Presenter Contacts

Special Thematic Issue on Environmental Criminology and Crime Analysis
© 2004 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Julie Wartell, Elizabeth Groff, & Deborah Lamm Weisel, WCR Guest Editors

Articles

The Unspecified Temporal Criminal Event: What is Unknown is Known with Aoristic Analysis and Multinomial Logistic Regression

Martin A. Andresen and Greg W. Jenion

Who Commits Near Repeats? A Test of the Boost Explanation

Kate J. Bowers and Shane D. Johnson

Crime on Public Transport: ‘Static’ and ‘Non-Static’ (Moving) Crime Events

Andrew D. Newton

Conference Proceedings

Environmental Criminology & Crime Analysis
12th International Symposium, July 1-4, 2004.
Hosted by the New Zealand Police

Program

Abstracts

Posters

Delegates

© 2005 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Gisela Bichler and Stephen Tibbetts, WCR Editors

Articles

Victimization and Attitudes Towards Wife Abuse of Impoverished Minority Women

Shahid Alvi, Martin D. Schwartz, Walter DeKeserdey, and Jacqueline Bachus

Evaluating the Competing Assumptions of Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) A General Theory of Crime and Psychological Explanations of Aggression

Todd Armstrong

Self-Concept and Delinquency: The Effects of Reflected Appraisals by Parent and Peers

David Brownfield and Kevin Thompson

Holiday Revelry and Legal Control of Fireworks: A Study of Neutralization in Two Normative Contexts

Timothy Buzzell

Beyond Minneapolis: A Preliminary Theoretical Model for Alleviating Conceptual Ruts in Domestic Violence Intervention Research

William DeLeon-Granados, William Wells, and Jennie Long

A Circle of Distortion: The Social Construction of Mass Murder in the United States

Grant Duwe

Kids, Cops, Parents, and Teachers: Exploring Juvenile Attitudes toward Authority Figures

Terry Nihart, Kim Michelle Lersch, Christine Sellers, and Tom Mieczkowski

Social Disorganization and the Ability and Willingness to Enact Control: A Preliminary Test

Ruth A. Triplett, Ivan Y. Sun, and Randy R. Gainey

Reactions of Victimized Youth: Strain as an Explanation of School Delinquency

Lisa Hutchinson Wallace, Justin W. Patchin, and Jeff D. May

Community, Strain, and Delinquency: A Test of a Multi-Level Model of General Strain Theory

Jennifer Wareham, John K. Cochran, Richard Dembo, and Christine S. Sellers

Research Note

Girl “Crew” Members Doing Gender, Boy “Crew” Members Doing Violence: An Ethnographic and Network Analysis of Maria Hinojosa’s New York Gangs

Laura L. Hansen

Commentary

An Ethical Paradigm for Sex Offender Treatment: Response to Glaser

Jill Levenson and David D’Amora

Glaser Response to Levenson and D’Amora

Bill Glaser

Book Reviews

Book Review of State Crime: Governments, Violence, and Corruption

Jana Bufkin

Book Review of Forensic Psychology: Concepts, Debates, and Practice

John DeFrancesco

© 2006 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Sex Offender Registries as a Tool for Public Safety: Views from Registered Offenders

Richard Tewksbury

Improving Probation through Client Strengths: Evaluating Strength Based Treatments for at Risk Youth

Don Kurtz and Travis Linnemann

Illegal Drug Markets: The Geographic Perspective and Crime Propensity

Jennifer B. Robinson and George F. Rengert

Special Thematic Issue on Prisoner Reentry
© 2006 Western Criminology Review

Preface

G. Roger Jarjoura, WCR Guest Editor

Articles

The Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative: Measuring the Effects on Service Delivery

Laura Winterfield, Pamela K. Lattimore, Danielle M. Steffey, Susan Brumbaugh, and Christine Lindquist

Family Members’ Experiences with Incarceration and Reentry

Rebecca L. Naser and Christy A. Visher

The Challenges of Prisoner Reentry from a Rural Perspective

Eric J. Wodahl

Incorporating the Strengths Perspective into Intensive Juvenile Aftercare

William H. Barton

Planning for Quality: A Strategy for Reentry Initiatives

Martha L. Henderson and Dena Hanley

Book Reviews

Book Review of After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration

Derrick Franke

Book Review of Life on the Outside: The Prison Odyssey of Elaine Bartlett

Jill Farrell

Book Review of Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America

David M. Bierie

Complete issue 7(3) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
André Rosay & Sharon Chamard, Co-Editors
© 2006 Western Criminology Review

Commentary

Research: A Practitioner’s Perspective, From the Streets: Keynote Speech As Delivered at the 2006 National Institute of Justice Conference on July 17, 2006

William J. Bratton

Articles

The Distribution of Property Crime and Police Arrest Rates Across Los Angeles Neighborhoods

John B. Davis

Self-Restraint: A Study on the Capacity and Desire for Self-Control

John K. Cochran, Valentina Aleksa, and Mitchell B. Chamlin

Testing the General Theory of Crime: Comparing the Effects of “Imprudent Behavior” and an Attitudinal Indicator of “Low Self-Control”

Bruce J. Arneklev, Lori Elis, and Sandra Medlicott

The “Rural Mystique”: Social Disorganization and Violence Beyond Urban Communities

Leana Allen Bouffard and Lisa R. Muftic

The Criminal Justice Response to Elder Abuse in Nursing Homes: A Routine Activities Perspective

Brian K. Payne and Randy R. Gainey

Complete issue 8(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
André Rosay & Sharon Chamard, Co-Editors
© 2007 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses: Best Evidence on “What Works” for Criminal Justice Decision Makers

Anthony Petrosino and Julia Lavenberg

Gender Similarities and Differences in Correctional Staff Work Attitudes and Perceptions of the Work Environment

Eric G. Lambert, Eugene A. Paoline, III, Nancy L. Hogan, and David N. Baker

Testing the Cultural Invariance of Parenting and Self-Control as Predictors of American Indian Delinquency

Gregory D. Morris, Peter B. Wood, and R. Gregory Dunaway

Disorganization Precursors, the Family and Crime: A Multi-Year Analysis of Canadian Municipalities

Siu Kwong Wong

Complete Issue 8(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
André Rosay & Sharon Chamard, Co-Editors
© 2007 Western Criminology Review

Articles

A Partial Test of an Integrative Control Model: Neighborhood Context, Social Control, Self-Control, and Youth Violent Behavior

Paul R. Vowell

Sentencing Disparity: Aboriginal Canadians, Drunk Driving and Age

Michael Weinrath

State-Corporate Crime and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant

Alan S. Bruce and Paul J. Becker

Criminal Use of Firearm Silencers

Paul A. Clark

Book Review

Book Review of Road to Whatever: Middle-Class Culture and the Crisis of Adolescence

Mike Males

Complete Issue 9(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
André Rosay & Sharon Chamard, Co-Editors
© 2008 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Looking Inside Zone V: Testing Social Disorganization Theory in Suburban Areas

Sunghoon Roh and Tae M. Choo

Sticks and Stones and Broken Bones: The Influence of Parental Verbal Abuse on Peer Related Victimization

Lisa Hutchinson and David Mueller

A Cross-National Test of Institutional Anomie Theory: Do the Strength of Other Social Institutions Mediate or Moderate the Effects of the Economy on the Rate of Crime?

Beth Bjerregaard and John K. Cochran

Commentary

Factors and Conditions Influencing the Use of Research by the Criminal Justice System

Christopher A. Innes and Ronald S. Everett

Complete issue 9(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
André Rosay & Sharon Chamard, Co-Editors
© 2008 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Do Guns Matter? A Multi-level Cross-National Examination of Gun Availability on Assault and Robbery Victimization

Irshad Altheimer

An Integrated Model of Juvenile Drug Use: A Cross-Demographic Groups Study

Wen-Hsu Lin and Richard Dembo

Self-Control and Ethical Beliefs on the Social Learning of Intellectual Property Theft

Sameer Hinduja and Jason R. Ingram

Family Structure and Parental Behavior: Identifying the Sources of Adolescent Self-Control

Kelli Phythian, Carl Keane, and Catherine Krull

Commentary

“The Tragic Meaning of Blood”: Symbol, Myth, and the Construction of Criminology—Keynote address delivered at the 2006 Western Society of Criminology Conference, Seattle, February 25, 2006

Jonathan M. Wender

Complete issue 10(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Leana A. Bouffard and Jeffrey A. Bouffard, Co-Editors
© 2009 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Conceiving of Sex as a Commodity: A Study of Arrested Customers of Female Street Prostitutes

Martin A. Monto and Deana Julka

Internet Scallywags: A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Forms and Measurements of Digital Piracy

Whitney D. Gunter

The Effects of Race on Relationships with the Police: A Survey of African American and Latino Youths in Chicago

Arthur J. Lurigio, Richard G. Greenleaf, and Jamie L. Flexon

Explaining Deviant Peer Associations: An Examination of Low Self-Control, Ethical Predispositions, Definitions, and Digital Piracy

Scott E. Wolfe and George E. Higgins

Thematic Special Issue on Discourse, Race, and the State
Complete issue 11(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
© 2010 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Karen S. Glover, Chris Curtis, and Stuart Henry, WCR Guest Editors

Articles

Keynote Address: Critical Criminology for a Global Age

Raymond Michalowski

Notes on the Study of Language: Towards a Critical Race Criminology

Michael J. Coyle

Victims’ Rights and Public Safety? Unmasking Racial Politics in Crime Discourses Surrounding Parole Revocation for “Lifers” in California

Julie A. Beck

From Child to Captive: Constructing Captivity in a Juvenile Institution

Christopher Bickel

From Corrections to College: The Value of a Convict’s Voice

Martin Leyva and Christopher Bickel

Complete issue 11(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Leana A. Bouffard and Jeffrey A. Bouffard, Co-Editors
© 2010 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Communication Isolation as Reported by a Group of Deaf Texas Inmates

Aviva Twersky Glasner and Katrina R. Miller

Methamphetamine Laboratories: The Geography of Drug Production

Ralph A. Weisheit and L. Edward Wells

The Waiver and Withdrawal of Death Penalty Appeals as “Extreme Communicative Acts”

Avi Brisman

Victimless Deviance: Toward a Classification of Opposition Justification

Stelios Stylianou

Complete issue 11(3) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Leana A. Bouffard and Jeffrey A. Bouffard, Co-Editors
© 2010 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Who’s to Blame? Elaborating the Role of Attributions in General Strain Theory

John P. Hoffmann and Karen R. Spence

The Cost of Substance Abuse: The Use of Administrative Data to Investigate Treatment Benefits in a Rural Mountain State

Peter A. Collins, Jonathon A. Cooper, Brady Horn, Mary K. Stohr, Anthony Walsh, Lisa Bostaph, and Edward T. Baker

Hedonic Calculus: Does Self Restraint Desire Matter?

Pan Chen and Alexander T. Vazsonyi

Persistent versus late Onset among Female Offenders: A Test of State Dependent and Population Heterogeneity Interpretations

Elaine Gunnison and Lisa M. McCartan

Complete issue 12(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Leana A. Bouffard and Jeffrey A. Bouffard, Co-Editors
© 2011 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Defining Stalking: The Influence of Legal Factors, Extralegal Factors, and Particular Actions on Judgments of College Students

Amy I. Cass

An Analysis of the Mediating Effects of Social Relations and Controls on Neighborhood Crime Victimization

Gayle M. Rhineberger-Dunn and Susan M. Carlson

Normal Homicides, Normal Defendants: Finding Leniency in Oklahoma’s Murder Conviction Machinery

G. Larry Mays and David Keys

Reciprocal Effects of Family Disruption and Crime: A Panel Study of Canadian Municipalities

Siu Kwong Wong

Not in My Name: An Investigation of Victims’ Family Clemency Movements and Court Appointed Closure

Thomas J. Mowen and Ryan D. Schroeder

Thematic Special Issue on Critical Criminology
Karen S. Glover, Stuart Henry, and Christine Curtis, Co-Editors
Complete issue 12(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
© 2011 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Mass Incarceration, Prevention, and Immigration

Christine Curtis

Articles

Keynote Address, Critical Criminology and Justice Studies Conference 2010 Honolulu: Classrooms or Cells?

Meda Chesney-Lind

Decarceration Nation? Penal Downsizing and the Human Security Framework

Alan Mobley

Is Prevention Inherently Good? A Deconstructionist Approach to Prevention Literature, Policy and Practice

Lorinda Stoneman

Immigration Policy, Criminalization and the Growth of the Immigration Industrial Complex: Restriction, Expulsion and Eradication of the Undocumented in the U.S.

Jesse Díaz Jr.

Advancing Critical Criminology through Anthropology

Avi Brisman

Complete issue 12(3) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Karen S. Glover, Co-Editors
© 2011 Western Criminology Review

Articles

College Student Victims and Reporting Crime to the Police: The Influence of Collective Efficacy

Timothy C. Hart and Violet Colavito

Public Perceptions of School Resource Officer (SRO) Programs

Brad A. Myrstol

Blame the Media? The Influence of Primary News Source, Frequency of Usage, and Perceived Media Credibility on Punitive Attitudes

Courtney A. Waid-Lindberg, Rhonda R. Dobbs, and Tara O’Connor Shelley

Examining the Intersection of Self-control, Peer Association and Neutralization in Explaining Digital Piracy

Catherine D. Marcum, George E. Higgins, Scott E. Wolfe, and Melissa L. Ricketts

Early Adult Outcomes of Male Arrest Trajectories: Propensity versus Causation Effects

Margit Wiesner, Deborah M. Capaldi, and Hyoun K. Kim

The Influence of Nondiagnostic Information and Victim Stereotypes on Perceptions of Guilt

Daniel M. Rempala and Andrew L. Geers

Rush to Judgment: Prisoners’ Views of Juvenile Justice

Frank Butler

Structural Shifts in Select Determinants of Crime with a Focus on Rural and Urban Differences

Steven C. Deller and Melissa W. Deller

Complete issue 13(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Karen S. Glover, Co-Editors
© 2012 Western Criminology Review

Articles

Is Emerging Adulthood Influencing Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy? Adding the “Prolonged” Adolescent Offender

Christopher Salvatore, Travis Taniguchi, Wayne N. Welsh

Delinquent Friends and Reactions to Strain: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Pathways

Ryan E. Spohn

Drunk Driving in the United States: An Examination of Informal and Formal Factors to Explain Variation in DUI Enforcement across U.S. Counties

Bryan D. Rookey

Demographics and Homicide in Canada: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of the Role of Young Males on Changing Homicide Rates

Tanya Trussler

Complete issue 13(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Karen S. Glover, Co-Editors
© 2012 Western Criminology Review

Keynote Presentation

The Supreme Court Needs to Enter the 21st Century

Erwin Chemerinsky

Articles

Sex Offender Myths in Print Media: Separating Fact from Fiction in U.S. Newspapers

Marcus A. Galeste, Henry F. Fradella, and Brenda Vogel

Incarcerated Sex Offenders’ Perceptions of Family Relationships: Previous Experiences and Future Expectations

Richard Tewksbury and David P. Connor

Specifying the Dynamic Relationships of General Strain, Coping, and Young Adult Crime

Jennifer L. Huck, Daniel R. Lee, Kendra N. Bowen, Jason D. Spraitz, and James H. Bowers, Jr.

Commentary and Call for Papers on AB 109

Realignment in California: Policy and Research Implications

Barbara Owen and Alan Mobley

Complete issue 13(3) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Karen S. Glover, Co-Editors
© 2012 Western Criminology Review

Featured Article

Characteristics of Internationally Trafficked Stolen Vehicles along the U.S.-Mexico Border

Steven Block

Critical Criminology & Justice Studies Articles

Keynote Address, 4th Annual Conference, February 2012: Rethinking Intervention: Consciousness, Solidarity, and Hope as Criminological Principles

Elliott Currie

The Marginalization of Critical Perspectives in Public Criminal Justice Core Curricula

Brian Jay Frederick

Commentary and Call for Articles on Collaborative Authorship

Observations on Student-Faculty Collaborative Research and the Ethics of Joint Publishing

Gilbert Geis

Complete issue 14(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Nicole Bracy, Co-Editors
© 2013 Western Criminology Review

Keynote Address from the 2013 WSC Conference, Berkeley, California

“Get Dirty”

John R. Hepburn

Feature Articles

Victims as Stakeholders: Research from a Juvenile Court on the Changing Roles of Victims in Restorative Justice

William R. Wood

Experiencing Prejudice and Violence among Latinos: A General Strain Theory Approach

Anthony W. Hoskin

Critical Criminology & Justice Studies Articles

Malleable Mandates: Liberal Ideology and the Politics of Protection and Punishment in the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act

Sonya Goshe

Youth Justice Innovation on the West Coast: Examining Community-Based Social Justice Organizations through a Left Realist Lens

Tim Goddard and Randolph R. Myers

Commentary: Reflecting on Gil Geis’s Ethics of Joint Publishing

Faculty-Student Collaborative Research: Experiencing the Ethics of Joint Publishing with Gilbert Geis

Colin Goff

Collaborative Lessons Learned under the Tutelage of Gilbert Geis

Mary Dodge

Hands in the Clay: Mentoring, Students, and Criminological Reformation

Alan Mobley

Five Reasons Why I Agree with Gil Geis: Publish with Your Students

Francis T. Cullen

Comparative Observations on Collaborative Research and Joint Publishing: A Response to Gilbert Geis

Gregg Barak

On the Ethics of Collaborative Authorship: The Challenge of Authorship Order and the Risk of “Textploitation”

Stuart Henry

Special Thematic Issue on White Collar Crime
Complete issue 14(2) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Nicole Bracy, Co-Editors
© 2013 Western Criminology Review

Preface

Danielle McGurrin and Stuart Henry

Feature Article

White Collar Crime Representation in the Criminological Literature Revisited, 2001-2010

Danielle McGurrin, Melissa Jarrell, Amber Jahn, and Brandy Cochrane

Symposium on Gregg Barak’s Theft of a Nation

Theft of a Nation Symposium: Introduction

Danielle McGurrin

An Economy Run by Criminals: Reflections on Gregg Barak’s Theft of a Nation

Elliott Currie

The Importance of Integrating Victimology in White-Collar Crime: A Targeted Comment on Barak’s Analysis in Theft of a Nation

Mary Dodge

Corporate Crime and the Corporate Agenda for Crime Control: Disappearing Awareness of Corporate Crime and Increasing Abuses of Power

Paul Leighton

Too Big to Jail

Robert Tillman

The Extraordinary Relevance of Barak’s Theft of a Nation

Michael J. Lynch

Commentary and Reflection

The Flickering Desires for White-Collar Crime Studies in the Post-Financial Crisis: Will They Ever Shine Brightly?

Gregg Barak

Complete issue 14(3) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Nicole Bracy, Co-Editors
© 2013 Western Criminology Review

Feature Articles

Collective Crime as a Source of Social Solidarity: A Tentative Test of a Functional Model for Responses to Mass Violence

Miika Vuori, James Hawdon, Oksanen Atte, and Pekka Räsänen

Neighborhood Boundaries and Structural Determinants of Social Disorganization: Examining the Validity of Commonly Used Measures

Timothy C. Hart and Jeremy Waller

We Be Drinkin’: A Study of Place Management and Premise Notoriety among Risky Bars and Nightclubs

Juan J. Franquez, Jennifer Hagala, Steven Lim, and Gisela Bichler

Controlling Crime and Disorder in Rental Properties: The Perspective of the Rental Property Manager

Greg Koehle

Clutching at Life, Waiting to Die: The Experience of Death Row Incarceration

Diana Peel

Complete issue 15(1) in Adobe Portable Document Format (.pdf)
Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Nicole Bracy, Co-Editors
© 2014 Western Criminology Review

Preface

The Last Editors: Passing the Torch to the Next Editors of WSC’s New Journal

Stuart Henry, Christine Curtis, and Nicole L. Bracy

Feature Articles

Drilling Down: An Examination of the Boom-Crime Relationship in Resource-Based Boom Counties

Rick Ruddell, Dheeshana S. Jayasundara, Roni Mayzer, and Thomasine Heitkamp

An Empirical Test of Social Information Processing Theory and Emotions in Violent Situations

Kendra N. Bowen, Jennifer J. Roberts, Eric J. Kocian, and Aaron Bartula

Early Contact with the Criminal Justice System and Intellectual Functioning as Risk Factors for Violent and Chronic Adult Offending

Johanna M. Thomas, Shaun A. Thomas, Kyle A. Burgason, and Lillian C. Wichinsky

Monitoring the Impact of Scenario-based Use-of-force Simulations on Police Heart Rate: Evaluating the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Skills Refresher Program

Jennifer Armstrong, Joseph Clare, and Darryl Plecas