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Ronald Akers is affiliated with the following schools: Indiana State University, Florida State University, University of Kentucky, University of Florida, American University, University of Iowa, Kent State University, University of Washington

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According to Wikipedia, Ronald Louis Akers is an American criminologist and professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of Florida's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Career Akers taught sociology at the University of Washington from 1965 to 1972, criminology at Florida State University from 1972 to 1974, and sociology at the University of Iowa from 1974 to 1980. He chaired the department of sociology at the University of Iowa from 1978 to 1980, when he became a professor at the University of Florida. From 1980 to 1985, he chaired the department of sociology at the University of Florida, and in 1994, he became the director of the Center for Studies in Criminology and Law there.

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Ronald Akers's Published Works

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Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of a general theory. (1979) (1469)
Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance. (2000) (1301)
Deviant behavior;: A social learning approach (1973) (1204)
A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior (1966) (1012)
Criminological Theories : Introduction, Evaluation, and Application (2000) (956)
Social learning and social structure : a general theory of crime and deviance (1999) (549)
Criminological Theories: Introduction and Evaluation (1994) (456)
A Longitudinal Test of Social Learning Theory: Adolescent Smoking (1996) (297)
Beyond Hellfire: An Exploration of the Variable Effects of Religiosity on Adolescent Marijuana and Alcohol Use (1989) (256)
The Empirical Status of Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance: The Past, Present, and Future (2006) (248)
Behind the Shield: The Police in Urban Society. (1968) (247)
Self-control as a general theory of crime (1991) (243)
Social Learning Theory and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: A Longitudinal Study (1985) (227)
Adolescent marijuana use: A test of three theories of deviant behavior (1985) (224)
Rational Choice , Deterrence , and Social Learning Theory in Criminology : The Path Not Taken (2013) (215)
Are self-reports of adolescent deviance valid? Biochemical measures, randomized response, and the bogus pipeline in smoking behavior. (1983) (189)
age, social learning, and social bonding in adolescent substance use (1999) (177)
Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression: Assessing the Contribution of Fraternity Membership (1991) (177)
Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken (1990) (141)
Drugs, Alcohol, and Society: Social Structure, Process, and Policy (1992) (135)
IS DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION/SOCIAL LEARNING CULTURAL DEVIANCE THEORY?* (1996) (130)
Community Context and Theories of Deviant Behavior: An Examination of Social Learning and Social Bonding Theories (1984) (128)
Assessing the Overlap in Dating Violence Perpetration and Victimization among South Korean College Students: The Influence of Social Learning and Self-Control (2011) (125)
Social Learning and Structural Factors in Adolescent Substance Use (2004) (116)
PRISONIZATION IN FIVE COUNTRIES Type of Prison and Inmate Characteristics (1977) (104)
Social Learning and Social Structure: (1997) (99)
SOCIAL LEARNING THEORY AND ALCOHOL BEHAVIOR AMONG THE ELDERLY (1989) (98)
Parental and Peer Influences on Adolescent Drug Use in Korea (2006) (96)
FEAR OF CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION AMONG THE ELDERLY IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMUNITIES (1987) (96)
"It's a White thing": An exploration of beliefs about suicide in the African-American community. (1993) (93)
Problems in the Sociology of Deviance: Social Definitions and Behavior (1968) (92)
Social learning theory and the explanation of crime : a guide for the new century (2003) (91)
The Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance (2009) (87)
Is stalking a learned phenomenon? An empirical test of social learning theory (2011) (85)
Socio-Economic Status and Delinquent Behavior: A Retest (1964) (83)
Norm Qualities and Adolescent Drinking and Drug Behavior: The Effects of Norm Quality and Reference Group on Using and Abusing Alcohol and Marijuana (1982) (79)
Linking Sociology and Its Specialties: The Case of Criminology (1992) (78)
A Comparison of Recidivism of Florida's Community Control and Prison: A Five-Year Survival Analysis (1993) (78)
Prediction and Classification: Criminal Justice Decision Making. (1989) (71)
Cessation of alcohol and drug use among adolescents: A social learning model (1984) (70)
Deterrence and the death penalty: The views of the experts (1996) (64)
Do perceptions of neighborhood disorganization predict crime or victimization? An examination of gang member versus non-gang member jail inmates (2010) (59)
The sociology of adolescent drug and drinking behavior: A review of the state of the field: Part II (1979) (56)
Homosexual and Drug Behavior in Prison: A Test of the Functional and Importation Models of the Inmate System (1974) (55)
Routine activities and social control in the aftermath of a natural catastrophe (1995) (51)
Addiction: The Troublesome Concept (1991) (50)
Evaluation of cigarette smoking among adolescents: the Muscatine study. (1982) (47)
Understanding Gang Membership and Crime Victimization Among Jail Inmates (2013) (47)
Substance Use by Korean Adolescents: A Cross-Cultural Test of Social Learning, Social Bonding, and Self-Control Theories (2017) (46)
Examining the Influence of Delinquent Peer Association on the Stability of Self-Control in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence: Toward an Integrated Theoretical Model (2013) (42)
SOCIAL STATUS AND DEVIANCE (1980) (39)
Toward a Social Learning Model of Violence and Terrorism (2014) (39)
Life events and alcohol behavior among older adults. (1988) (38)
A Comparison of Four General Theories of Crime and Deviance (2011) (38)
Organizational Size, Complexity, and the Administrative Component in Occupational Associations (1970) (36)
Social learning variables and the risk of habitual smoking among adolescents: the Muscatine study. (1988) (35)
Social Learning Theory (2011) (35)
Opiate Use, Addiction, and Relapse (1968) (28)
An alternative view of the labelling versus psychiatric perspectives on societal reaction to mental illness. (1977) (27)
The Professional Association and the Legal Regulation of Practice (1968) (26)
Magic Mint, The Internet, and Peer Associations: A Test Of Social Learning Theory Using Patterns of Salvia Divinorum Use (2011) (26)
Size and the Administrative Component in Occupational Associations (1970) (25)
Microbiological studies on the performance of a laminar airflow biological cabinet. (1968) (24)
A Cross-Cultural Test of Social Structure and Social Learning: Alcohol Use among South Korean Adolescents (2013) (20)
Crime, law, and sanctions : theoretical perspectives (1978) (19)
Conceptual and Analytical Models in Testing Social Learning Theory: Reply (1982) (19)
Type of Leadership in Prison: a Structural Approach to Testing the Functional and Importation Models* (1977) (17)
Differential organization of health professions: a comparative analysis. (1968) (17)
THEORY AND IDEOLOGY IN MARXIST CRIMINOLOGY (1979) (12)
Policing in the wake of Hurricane Andrew: comparing citizens’ and police priorities (1998) (12)
Framework for the Comparative Study of Group Cohesion: The Professions (1970) (11)
Attitude Transference and Deviant Behavior: A Comparative Study in Japan and the United States (2011) (11)
Supervisor Referrals to Employee Assistance Programs: A Social Learning Perspective (1995) (11)
Law and control in society (1975) (10)
Donald R. Cressey: An Intellectual Portrait of a Criminologist (1989) (8)
Faith-based mentoring and restorative justice: Overlapping theoretical, empirical, and philosophical background (2008) (8)
A New Trick for an Old Dog: Applying Developmental Trajectories to Inform Drug Use Progression (2010) (7)
“Taking Social Learning Global": Micro-Macro Transitions in Criminological Theory (2017) (6)
Social Learning Theory: Process and Structure in Criminal and Deviant Behavior (2010) (6)
Crime prevention and social control (1974) (6)
Professionalism and the Public Interest: Price and Quality in Optometry. (1983) (5)
Development of a laminar air-flow biological cabinet. (1969) (5)
Comment on Gove's Evaluation of Societal Reaction as an Explanation of Mental Illness (1972) (5)
Toward a Comparative Definition of Law (1965) (3)
Sociological Theory and Practice: The Case of Criminology (2005) (3)
Moving Toward Equal Ground: Engaging the Capacity of Youth, Families, and Communities to Improve Treatment Services and Outcomes in the Juvenile Justice System (2007) (3)
Social Learning Theories of Crime (2012) (2)
Book Review: What do We do about Drugs? Consequences and Reform of Public Policy (1992) (2)
Social Learning Theory : Correcting Misconceptions (2018) (2)
Social Learning Theory A Social Learning Perspective on Deviant Behavior (2015) (1)
Social Structure and Social Learning in Crime and Deviance (2017) (1)
The Origins of Me and of Social Learning Theory: Personal and Professional Recollections and Reflections (2017) (1)
Implementing Thinking for a Change in Floridas Juvenile Institutions (2006) (1)
Social Learning and Cultural Deviance Theory (2017) (1)
Reintegrative Shaming: A New General Theory of Crime?@@@Crime, Shame, and Reintegration. (1990) (1)
Law and Control in Society. (1976) (1)
Book Review:Crimes against Bureaucracy. Erwin O. Smigel, H. Laurence Ross (1972) (0)
Personal and Property Crime Victimization Indexes (2014) (0)
Norms, definitions, and deviance: Comment on Meier (1981) (0)
Law and Durkheimian Order: An Empirical Examination of the Convergence of Legal and Social Definitions of Law (2017) (0)
RESEARCH ON DEVIANCE. Edited by Jack D. Douglas and CRIMINAL LIFE: VIEWS FROM THE INSIDE. Edited by David M. Petersen and Marcello Truzzi (1974) (0)
Comparison of Theoretical Explanations of Substance Use Among University Students in Bolivia and the United States (2009) (0)
Familiar Dimensions of Delinquency and Drug Abuse: Juveniles’ Perspectives of Social Learning (2010) (0)
Elderly Drinking Behavior: The Florida Study (2017) (0)
A Partial Test of the SSSL Model: Examining the Link Between Neighborhood Structure and Antisocial Behavior (2009) (0)
Adolescent Drug and Drinking Behavior: The Boys Town Study (2017) (0)
A Personal History of the Development of Social Learning Theory (2017) (0)
A Cross-Cultural Test of Four Theories of Crime and Deviance (2010) (0)
Development and Revisions of Differential Association Theory (2017) (0)
Teenage Drinking: A Summary of Research Findings (1979) (0)
Understanding Crime Victimization among Gang Members: A Test of Micro- and Macro-level Explanations (2009) (0)
Rape and Sexual Aggression (2017) (0)
Book reviews (1987) (0)
Research on Deviance.@@@Criminal Life: Views from the Inside. (1974) (0)
Adolescent Smoking Behavior: The Iowa Study (2017) (0)
Social Learning Variables in Delinquency Prediction (2017) (0)
The Impact of Perceptions of Disorder on Fear among Juvenile Offenders (2011) (0)
77 SOCIAL FACTORS RELATED TO CIGARETTE SMOKING IN CHIL-DREN: THE MUSCATINE STUDY (1981) (0)
Evaluating the Florida Faith- and Community-Based Delinquency Treatment Initiative: Year 1 (2005) (0)
COMMENTARY ON PART I: THEORY AND RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CRIME AND DEVIANCE (2006) (0)
Research and Development Testing of Space Vehicles and Missiles under Systems Management: A More Functional Approach (1969) (0)
Research on Social Learning Variables in Crime and Delinquency (2017) (0)
The Social Learning Theory of Criminal and Deviant Behavior (2017) (0)
Other Studies on Social Learning (2017) (0)
Testing Social Structure/Social Learning Theory: Findings from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (2008) (0)
Minor and Serious Offending among American and Bolivian University Students: A Test of Social Learning Theory (2012) (0)
Mixing Faith-based and Cognitive Behavioral Interventions in Juvenile Corrections (2008) (0)

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