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Alfred Blumstein

Criminal Justice

#16

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#23

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#14

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Criminology

#14

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#20

Historical Rank

#9

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Alfred Blumstein

Sociology

#876

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#1019

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#369

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Alfred Blumstein's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Alfred Blumstein is an American scientist and the J. Erik Jonsson University Professor of Urban Systems and Operations Research at the Heinz College and Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University. He is known as one of the top researchers in criminology and operations research.

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Criminal careers and "career criminals" (1986) (1349)
The Criminal Career Paradigm (2003) (842)
Youth Violence, Guns, and the Illicit-Drug Industry (1995) (668)
Deterrence and incapacitation : estimating the effects of criminal sanctions on crime rates (1980) (662)
CRIMINAL CAREER RESEARCH: ITS VALUE FOR CRIMINOLOGY* (1988) (587)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (2007) (444)
Population Growth in U. S. Prisons, 1980-1996 (1999) (376)
On the Racial Disproportionality of United States' Prison Populations (1982) (335)
The Crime Drop in America (2005) (325)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Index (2007) (304)
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform (1984) (298)
Characterizing Criminal Careers (1987) (295)
Assessing the Impact of Exposure Time and Incapacitation on Longitudinal Trajectories of Criminal Offending (2001) (293)
Delinquency Careers: Innocents, Desisters, and Persisters (1985) (282)
Explaining recent trends in U.S. homicide rates (1998) (256)
Estimation of Individual Crime Rates from Arrest Records (1979) (255)
Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals": Vol. 1. (1988) (240)
Theory of the Stability of Punishment, A. (1973) (221)
The rise and decline of homicide--and why. (2000) (193)
Sentencing of Convicted Offenders: An Analysis of the Public's View (1980) (186)
Specialization and seriousness during adult criminal careers (1988) (185)
REDEMPTION IN THE PRESENCE OF WIDESPREAD CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS (2009) (167)
LONGITUDINAL AND CRIMINAL CAREER RESEARCH: FURTHER CLARIFICATIONS (1988) (158)
Linking Gun Availability to Youth Gun Violence (1996) (156)
The Crime Drop in America: Frontmatter (2005) (152)
A PROSPECTIVE TEST OF A CRIMINAL CAREER MODEL (1989) (122)
PROBABILISTIC MODELS OF YOUTHFUL CRIMINAL CAREERS (1987) (117)
Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America: REENTRY AS A TRANSIENT STATE BETWEEN LIBERTY AND RECOMMITMENT (2005) (110)
The Dynamics of a Homeostatic Punishment Process (1976) (96)
Does Incapacitation Reduce Crime? (2007) (94)
Violence by Young People: Why the Deadly Nexus? (1995) (94)
Demographically disaggregated projections of prison populations (1980) (90)
The Landing Capacity of a Runway (1959) (85)
MAKING RATIONALITY RELEVANTTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 1992 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS (1993) (84)
PREVALENCE AND RECIDIVISM IN INDEX ARRESTS: A FEEDBACK MODEL (1981) (83)
The Crime Drop in America: Disaggregating the Violence Trends (2005) (83)
Models of a Total Criminal Justice System (1969) (83)
TREND AND DEVIATION IN CRIME RATES: A COMPARISON OF UCR AND NCS DATA FOR BURGLARY AND ROBBERY* (1991) (78)
The Crime Drop and Beyond (2006) (71)
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE OFFENDING FREQUENCY (λ) OF IMPRISONED AND FREE OFFENDERS (1997) (71)
THE IDENTIFICATION OF “CAREER CRIMINALS” FROM “CHRONIC OFFENDERS” IN A COHORT (1980) (68)
Problems in Modeling and Measuring Recidivism (1971) (67)
Youth, guns, and violent crime. (2002) (65)
An Analysis of the Time Series of the Imprisonment Rate in the States of the United States: A Further Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis (1979) (59)
Prison Populations: A System out of Control? (1988) (56)
Seriousness Weights in an Index of Crime (1974) (52)
Crime, Justice & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Toward a National Research Agenda (2020) (45)
U.S. Criminal Justice Conundrum: Rising Prison Populations and Stable Crime Rates (1998) (45)
Interaction of criminological research and public policy (1994) (42)
Reframing the research question of mental patient criminality. (1986) (41)
Cross-National Measures of Punitiveness (2005) (41)
Racial Disproportionality in U.S. State Prisons: Accounting for the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Involvement, Arrests, Sentencing, and Time Served (2018) (37)
Crime Modeling (2002) (34)
Bringing Down the U.S. Prison Population (2011) (34)
On the Optimum Use of Incarceration for Crime Control (1978) (33)
Race and the Criminal Justice System (2009) (32)
Selective Incapacitation as a Means of Crime Control (1983) (32)
The Crime Drop in America: an Exploration of Some Recent Crime Trends (2006) (31)
Filtered sampling from populations with heterogeneous event frequencies (1993) (31)
Recidivism as a feedback process: An analytical model and empirical validation (1973) (31)
The Influence of Capacity on Prison Population: A Critical Review of Some Recent Evidence (1983) (30)
An Overview of the Symposium and Some Next Steps (2005) (30)
Making do: The effects of a mass transit strike on travel behavior (1983) (28)
The Recent Rise and Fall of American Violence (2005) (27)
AN ANALYTICAL INVESTIGATION OF AIRPORT CAPACITY (1960) (25)
NOT ALL CRIMINAL CAREER MODELS ARE EQUALLY VALID (1992) (25)
The Notorious 100:1 Crack: Powder Disparity--The Data Tell Us that It Is Time to Restore the Balance (2003) (24)
The Deterrent Effect of Legal Sanctions on Draft Evasion (1977) (23)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: How Does Onset Age Relate to Individual Offending Frequency? (2007) (22)
Research on Sentencing: The Search for Reform, Vol. 1. (1984) (21)
MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS IN PUBLIC HEALTH RESEARCH (2005) (20)
THE UCR-NCS RELATIONSHIP REVISITED: A REPLY TO MENARD (1992) (20)
Linking the Crime and Arrest Processes to Measure Variations in Individual Arrest Risk per Crime (Q) (2010) (20)
Racial Disproportionality in Prison (2015) (19)
Systems Analysis and the Criminal Justice System (1967) (19)
Youth Violence, Guns, and Illicit Drug Markets. National Institute of Justice Research Preview. (1996) (18)
Analysis of arrest rates for trends in criminality (1975) (17)
RESTORE RATIONALITY TO SENTENCING POLICY (2007) (16)
Criminal Violence of NFL Players Compared to the General Population (1999) (16)
An Approach to the Allocation of Scarce Imprisonment Resources (1983) (15)
An OR Missionary's Visits to the Criminal Justice System (2007) (15)
The Roots of Punitiveness in a Democracy (2007) (14)
Approaches to reducing both imprisonment and crime (2011) (14)
Estimation of arrest careers using hierarchical stochastic models (1990) (14)
Presidents' Symposium: The Current Missionary Role of OR/MS (1987) (13)
Crime and Incarceration in the United States (2011) (11)
From Incapacitation to Criminal Careers (2016) (11)
American Prisons in a Time of Crisis (1989) (9)
Control of Selection Effects in the Evaluation of Social Problems (1979) (8)
On Testing the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: A Reply (1981) (8)
Research on deterrent and incapacitative effects of criminal sanctions (1978) (7)
Summary of report of the panel on research on deterrent and incapacitative effects: Assembly of behavioral and social sciences national academy of science Washington, D.C. 20418 (1978) (7)
Growing or Stable Incarceration Rates: A Comment on Cahalan's "Trends in Incarceration in the United States since 1880" August 1, 1979 To the Editor (1980) (7)
FEDERAL SUPPORT OF LOCAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE OPERATIONS (2008) (7)
Linking Evidence and Criminal Justice Policy (2013) (7)
The Crime Drop in America: Epilogue, 2005: After the Crime Drop (2005) (6)
Science and Technology and the President's Crime Commission (2018) (6)
Enhancing Aviation Security with The SWIFT System (Short Wait Integrated Flight Travel) (2003) (6)
A national program of research, development, test, and evaluation on law enforcement and criminal justice (1970) (6)
Erratum to: Racial Disproportionality in U.S. State Prisons: Accounting for the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Involvement, Arrests, Sentencing, and Time Served (2017) (6)
Explaining the Crime Bust of the 1990s (2000) (6)
Optional Specification of Air-Pollution-Emission Regulations Including Reliability Requirements (1972) (5)
Mass Incarceration: Perspectives on U.S. Imprisonment (2000) (5)
Making Sentencing Policy More Rational and More Effective (1991) (5)
Violence: A New Frontier for Scientific Research (2000) (5)
A Monte Carlo Analysis of the Ground Controlled Approach System (1957) (5)
Some Perspectives on Quantitative Criminology Pre-JQC: and Then Some (2010) (5)
Benefit-cost analysis of family planning (1973) (4)
Assessing the Recent Ups and Downs in U.S. Homicide Rates: (564232006-003) (1998) (4)
Next Steps in Criminal Career Research (1994) (3)
Potential for Redemption for Sex Offenders (2015) (3)
Systems analysis for social problems (1970) (3)
"Free-Enterprise Corrections": Using Industry To Make Offenders Economically Viable (1968) (3)
Designing and Sustaining an Award-Winning Analytics Educational Program: The Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University (2018) (3)
Editorial: Probing the connection between crime and punishment in the United States (1995) (2)
Research on Criminal Careers, Part 1 (2012) (2)
Systems analysis and planning for the criminal justice system (1972) (2)
Policy applications of population models: A comparative review (1977) (2)
Race and Criminal Justice (2001) (2)
Racial Disproportionality in U.S. State Prisons: Accounting for the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Involvement, Arrests, Sentencing, and Time Served (2017) (2)
MINUTES OF THE MEMBERSHIP GROUP OF SEARCH, THE NATIONAL CONSORTIUM FOR JUSTICE INFORMATION AND STATISTICS (2008) (2)
RESEARCH ON SENTENCING (2016) (1)
Some Trends in Homicide and Its Age‐Crime Curves (2017) (1)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Are Chronic Offenders Serious Offenders, and Does This Relationship Vary with Age? (2007) (1)
Engineer to Operations Research to Criminology: Quite a Trajectory (2020) (1)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: How Do Prevalence and Individual Offending Frequency Vary with Age? (2007) (1)
Youth Violence and Guns (2003) (1)
BEHAVIORAL, POLITICAL, AND OPERATIONAL RESEARCH PROGRAMS ON COUNTERINSURGENCY SUPPORTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE (1965) (1)
The Meaning of “Intermittency” in Criminal Careers (2020) (1)
Air Traffic Control (1955) (1)
Bringing evidence into criminal justice policy (2016) (1)
Economic conditions and minority violence (editorial) (2010) (1)
A model for estimating incentive costs and pregnancies in a family planning program. (1972) (1)
Tribute to Donald C. Stone (1996) (1)
Redemption for Reintegrating Prisoners (2012) (0)
In the Beginning: Saul Gass and Other Pioneers (2006) (0)
Document Title: Extension of Current Estimates of Redemption Times: Robustness Testing, Out-of-State Arrests, and Racial Differences (2012) (0)
Foreword by Charles F. Wellford (2007) (0)
Crime, Justice & the COVID-19 Pandemic: Toward a National Research Agenda (2020) (0)
DESIGN FOR COORDINATED PARATRANSIT SERVICE FOR ELDERLY AND HANDICAPPED PERSONS IN ALLEGHENY COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. RESOURCE PAPER (1979) (0)
Examining the Redemption Process in the Context of Employer Concern about Particular Types of Crime (2011) (0)
Document Title: Potential of Redemption in Criminal Background Checks (2010) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: How Does Specialization/Versatility Vary with Age? (2007) (0)
Developments in Estimating Time to Redemption (2008) (0)
Estimation of Arrest Careers Using Hierarchical (1990) (0)
Processes of Redemption Should be Built into the Use of Criminal-History Records for Background Checking (2009) (0)
A PARATRANSIT PERSPECTIVE ON EVALUATION OF URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (1975) (0)
The Meaning of “Intermittency” in Criminal Careers (2020) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Titles in the series (2007) (0)
Crime punishment and demographics. (1980) (0)
On Estimating the Response of Draft Evasion Rates to Legal Sanctions: Two Perspectives (1978) (0)
7 Urban Crime Rates : Effects of Inequality , Welfare Dependency , Region , and Race (2021) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Trajectories of Offending (2007) (0)
THE CHOICE OF ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES IN COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS (1965) (0)
Redemption: The Effect of Prior Criminal History and Racial Differences in Risk Profiles (2010) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Overview of CSDD Data (2007) (0)
COVID, Crime & Criminal Justice: Affirming the Call for System Reform Research (2022) (0)
Book review: When Brute Force Fails: How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment (2012) (0)
IMS Panel on Cross-Disciplinary Research in the Statistical Sciences (2016) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: What Is the Role of Co-offenders, and How Does It Vary with Age? (2007) (0)
Correspondence, ASC Fellows and Awards, 1992-1997 (2017) (0)
International Crime and Justice: Crossnational Measures of Punitiveness (2010) (0)
Potential for Redemption in Criminal Background Checks (2007) (0)
Correspondence: 1992 ASC Nominations and Elections (1992) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Overview of Criminal Careers (2007) (0)
Editor's Introduction (1973) (0)
A Summary and an Agenda for Future Research (2007) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: Comparing the Validity of Prospective, Retrospective, and Official Onset for Different Offending Categories (2007) (0)
AN ANALYSIS OF THE TIME SERIES OF THE IMPRISONMENT RATE IN THE U,S. STATES (1977) (0)
CRIMINOLOGY THE DYNAMICS OF A HOMEOSTATIC PUNISHMENT PROCESS * (2017) (0)
Drugs and guns intersected in America ’ s inner cities , leading to a rapid increase in violence among minority youth (2002) (0)
Developing Estimates of Duration and Residual Career Length (2007) (0)
Delinquency Careers: Innocents, Desisters, (2016) (0)
2012 Annual Report, Subcommittee on Bureau of Justice Assistance, OJP Scientific Advisory Board, June 11, 2012 (2012) (0)
Discussion of William Sabol's Paper " Implications of Criminal Justice System Adaptation for Prison Population Growth and Corrections Policy. " (0)
Robustness Testing of Redemption Estimates (2009) (0)
An Overview of the Symposium and Some (2016) (0)
Erratum to: Racial Disproportionality in U.S. State Prisons: Accounting for the Effects of Racial and Ethnic Differences in Criminal Involvement, Arrests, Sentencing, and Time Served (2017) (0)
Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: References (2007) (0)
A Macro Research Agenda in Criminology (1993) (0)
Impressions of the Louisiana family planning program. (1973) (0)
Criminology: Science + Policy Analysis (2011) (0)

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