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Albert J. Reiss

Criminal Justice

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#59

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#27

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Criminology

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#29

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Albert J. Reiss

Sociology

#485

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#591

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#220

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PhD Sociology University of Chicago
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Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Albert John Reiss Jr. was an American sociologist and criminologist. Career He served as the William Graham Sumner Professor of Sociology at Yale University from 1970 until his retirement in 1993. He is recognized for his contributions to social control theory, as well as for his research on police violence. He has been credited with coining the term "proactive" while researching violent incidents between police and private citizens as a research director for Lyndon B. Johnson's President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice. This research led Reiss to conclude that there was a greater risk of violence in proactive police encounters than in reactive ones, prompting innovation in policing practices in many American police departments.

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Albert J. Reiss's Published Works

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Occupations and Social Status (1962) (975)
Understanding and Preventing Violence (1992) (893)
Police control of juveniles. (1970) (476)
Delinquency as the Failure of Personal and Social Controls (1951) (411)
Advancing Knowledge About Co-Offending: Results from a Prospective Longitudinal Survey of London Males (1991) (387)
Communities and Crime (1989) (367)
Beyond Rational Choice : The Social Dynamics of How People Seek Help ' (2008) (328)
Co-Offending and Criminal Careers (1988) (301)
On Exploring the "Dark Figure" of Crime (1967) (289)
Why Are Communities Important in Understanding Crime? (1986) (196)
Selecting Strategies of Social Control Over Organizational Life (1984) (182)
The Social Integration of Queers and Peers (1961) (168)
The Distribution of Juvenile Delinquency in the Social Class Structure (1961) (165)
SYSTEMATIC OBSERVATION OF NATURAL SOCIAL PHENOMENA (1971) (162)
Police Organization in the Twentieth Century (1992) (152)
Police brutality-answers to key questions (1968) (141)
Environment and Organization: A Perspective on the Police (1964) (128)
Continuities in the Study of Ecological Succession: Changes in the Race Composition of Neighborhoods and Their Businesses (1976) (112)
Systematic Observation of Public Police : Applying Field Research Methods to Policy Issues (1998) (104)
An Empirical Test of Differential Association Theory* (1964) (85)
Controlling Police Use of Deadly Force (1980) (74)
Command, Control, and Charisma: Reflections on Police Bureaucracy (1966) (73)
The Social Organization of Legal Contacts (1969) (72)
Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities. (1957) (70)
Apathy, Truancy and Delinquency as Adaptations to School Failure (1969) (64)
The ''Religious Factor" and Delinquent Behavior (1970) (61)
Town-Building in History@@@Social Characteristics of Urban and Rural Communities, 1950 (1957) (58)
Indicators of Crime and Criminal Justice: Quantitative Studies. (1984) (54)
Rural-Urban and Status Differences in Interpersonal Contacts (1959) (49)
On Cities and Social Life: Selected Papers (1981) (40)
Formal Devices for Making Selection Decisions (1953) (40)
Beyond the law : crime in complex organizations (1995) (38)
The Accuracy, Efficiency, and Validity of a Prediction Instrument (1951) (38)
Sex Offenses: The Marginal Status of the Adolescent (1960) (36)
Jewish Settler Violence: Deviance as Social Reaction (1989) (35)
Status Deprivation and Delinquent Behavior (1963) (34)
Louis Wirth On Cities And Social Life (1964) (32)
Social Correlates of Psychological Types of Delinquency (1952) (32)
Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. II. An Appraisal of the Research Methods (1951) (28)
Occupational Mobility of Professional Workers (1955) (27)
Cities and society: The revised Reader in urban sociology (1959) (27)
The Effect of Civil Disorders on Small Business in the Inner City1 (1970) (27)
Patterns of behavior in police and citizen transactions . Career orientations, job satisfaction, and the assessment of law enforcement problems by Police Officers (1967) (20)
Policing Neighborhoods: A Report From Indianapolis (1998) (20)
Inappropriate Theories and Inadequate Methods as Policy Plagues: Self-Reported Delinquency and the Law (1975) (17)
Community Life and Social Policy. (1956) (17)
The Institutionalization of Risk (2008) (16)
Towards a Revitalization of Theory and Research on Victimization by Crime (1981) (16)
Interrogation and the Criminal Process (1967) (16)
Organizational Crime (1993) (15)
Absentee Ownership and Management in the Black Ghetto: Social and Economic Consequences (1971) (15)
Occupational Segregation in a Metropolitan School System (1965) (14)
Are Educational Norms and Goals of Conforming, Truant and Delinquent Adolescents Influenced by Group Position in American Society (1959) (12)
Crime Control and the Quality of Life (1983) (11)
Some Logical and Methodological Problems in Community Research (1954) (11)
The Study of Deviant Behavior: Where the Action Is (1995) (10)
Cooley and Sociological Analysis. (1969) (9)
Understanding and preventing violence, Vol. 1. (1993) (9)
Reader in urban sociology (1952) (9)
Putting Sociology into Policy (1970) (9)
How Serious is Serious Crime (1982) (8)
Community life and social policy : selected papers (1956) (8)
Schools in a Changing Society. (1968) (8)
Sharing Confidential and Sensitive Data (1991) (6)
Administrative Criminology@@@Understanding and Preventing Violence. (1993) (5)
Research Problems in Metropolitan Population Redistribution (1956) (5)
Demographic Characteristics and Job Mobility of Migrants in Six Cities (1953) (5)
Economic Growth and the Rate of Urbanization: A Comment on the Paper by Davis and Golden (1954) (5)
The Role of the Police in a Changing Society (1966) (3)
The program review team approach and multisite experiments: The spouse assault replication program (1991) (3)
Measurement of the nature and amount of crime ; Public perceptions and recollections about crime, law enforcement, and criminal justice (1967) (3)
Cooley and sociological analysis (1970) (3)
Crime in urban society (1970) (3)
Longitudinal Study of Trial Courts: A Plea for Development of Explanatory Models (1990) (3)
The Community in America.Roland L. Warren (1964) (3)
Violence prevention strategies directed toward high-risk minority youths. (1991) (3)
Research on Administrative Discretion and Justice. (1971) (3)
Police and the social order : contemporary research perspectives (1979) (2)
Book Review: Industrialization and Labor: Social Aspects of Economic Development (1952) (2)
CRIME PREVENTION IN URBAN COMMUNITIES, A WESTERN PERSPECTIVE (1995) (2)
Police officers as boundary personnel: attitude congruence between policeman and small businessmen in urban areas (1971) (2)
Whither the Craft (1969) (2)
Book Review:Why Families Move: A Study in the Social Psychology of Urban Residential Mobility. Peter H. Rossi (1956) (2)
Official and Survey Statistics (1986) (2)
Reflections on Police Bureaucracies in Modern Societies (1967) (2)
A QUASI-EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF PERSONAL VICTIMIZATION REPORTING BY HOUSEHOLD RESPONDENTS IN THE NATIONAL CRIME SURVEY (I) (2002) (2)
A SOCIOPSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY OF CONFORMING AND DEVIATING BEHAVIOR AMONG ADOLESCENTS. (1959) (1)
THE POLICE AND THE PUBLIC IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND. By Duncan Chappell and Paul R. Wilson. St. Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, 1969. 214 pp. $5.05 (1973) (1)
Diversion and Social Control: Alternative Measures of Crime Control (1995) (1)
A 1968 Follow-up Study of Crime and Insurance Problems of Businesses Surveyed in 1966 in Three Cities (1969) (1)
Towards Comparative Societal Longitudinal Studies (1994) (1)
Chapter 10 (1981) (1)
Following the Action with Violence Research@@@Understanding and Preventing Violence. (1993) (1)
Book Review:Youthful Offenders at Highfields: An Evaluation of the Effects of the Short-Term Treatment of Delinquent Boys. H. Ashley Weeks (1959) (1)
Towards a Sociology of Measurement@@@Notes on Social Measurement: Historical and Critical. (1986) (0)
Conforming and deviating behavior and the problem of guilt. (1960) (0)
Volume Information (1967) (0)
Crime and Justice, Volume 18 (1994) (0)
Preface (1986) (0)
Book Review:American Cities in the Growth of the Nation. Constance McLaughlin Green (1958) (0)
Policy Implications of Crime Victim Surveys (1986) (0)
Rethinking the Community's Role in Crime@@@Communities and Crime (Vol. 8, Crime and Justice: A Review of Research). (1988) (0)
Occupations and Social Status. by Albert J. Reiss,; Otis Dudley Duncan; Paul K. Hatt; Cecil C. North (2010) (0)
Erratum (2007) (0)
Comment: Crime, law & order as election issues (1968) (0)
Attitude Congruence Between Policemen and Small Businessmen in Urban Areas (1970) (0)
Whither the Craft of Criminology? (1993) (0)
Sociology in Law Enforcement (1967) (0)
Book Review:Police Riots: Collective Violence and Law Enforcement. Rodney Stark (1974) (0)
On Culture and Social Change: Selected Papers@@@On Cities and Social Life: Selected Papers (1965) (0)
The Criminality of Women.Otto Pollak (1951) (0)
Some Sociological Issues about American Communities (1966) (0)
Detention in Remand Homes: A Report of the Cambridge Department of Criminal Science on the Use of Section 54 of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1933. (1954) (0)
3 – Putting Sociology into Policy*† (1976) (0)
Business-Workflow & Office Communication (1996) (0)
Preface (1993) (0)
Back Matter (1957) (0)
Books Received (1965) (0)
Social Disorganization.Robert E. L. Faris (1949) (0)
Patterns in Forcible Rape.Menachem Amir (1974) (0)
The Dialogue on Violence@@@Understanding and Preventing Violence. (1993) (0)
A Syllabus and a Bibliography of Marriage and the Family (1951) (0)

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