Daniel Mears

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Daniel Mears is affiliated with the following schools: Florida State University, University of Texas at Austin, Haverford College, Michigan State University

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According to Wikipedia, Daniel Preston Mears is an American criminologist, a Fellow of the American Society of Criminology, and the Mark C. Stafford Professor of Criminology at the Florida State University College of Criminology & Criminal Justice. A 2011 ranking of American criminologists ranked Mears as the second most influential in terms of scholarly contributions. His research interests include the study of supermax prisons, immigration and crime, causes of offending, sentencing, and juvenile and criminal justice policy.

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Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior (1998) (455)
Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society (2008) (438)
Vulnerable victims, monstrous offenders, and unmanageable risk: Explaining public opinion on the social control of sex crime (2013) (193)
Prison Visitation and Recidivism (2012) (189)
SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND RECIDIVISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRISONER REENTRY* (2008) (182)
NO COMMUNITY IS AN ISLAND: THE EFFECTS OF RESOURCE DEPRIVATION ON URBAN VIOLENCE IN SPATIALLY AND SOCIALLY PROXIMATE COMMUNITIES (2006) (175)
Social isolation and inmate behavior: A conceptual framework for theorizing prison visitation and guiding and assessing research (2013) (166)
A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing (2010) (134)
Here and Gone: Anticipation and Separation Effects of Prison Visits on Inmate Infractions (2013) (132)
Prisoner Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration (2014) (130)
The Immigration-Crime Nexus: Toward an Analytic Framework for Assessing and Guiding Theory, Research, and Policy (2001) (129)
Youth Development and Reentry (2004) (124)
THE CODE OF THE STREET AND INMATE VIOLENCE: INVESTIGATING THE SALIENCE OF IMPORTED BELIEF SYSTEMS. (2013) (121)
Low Self‐Control and Contact with the Criminal Justice System in a Nationally Representative Sample of Males (2009) (118)
Does Inmate Behavior Affect Post-Release Offending? Investigating the Misconduct-Recidivism Relationship among Youth and Adults (2014) (117)
Who buys New Age materials ? Exploring sociodemographic, religious, network, and contextual correlates of New Age consumption (2000) (103)
Young Adult Outcomes and the Life-Course Penalties of Parental Incarceration (2016) (100)
Reviving Juvenile Justice in a Get-Tough Era (2001) (99)
The Practice and Promise of Prison Programming (2002) (97)
The sociology of sentencing : Reconceptualizing decisionmaking processes and outcomes (1998) (94)
Sex Crimes, Children, and Pornography (2008) (94)
PUBLIC OPINION AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE JUVENILE COURT (2007) (94)
American Criminal Justice Policy: An Evaluation Approach to Increasing Accountability and Effectiveness (2010) (93)
SUPERMAX INCARCERATION AND RECIDIVISM (2009) (89)
Towards a Fair and Balanced Assessment of Supermax Prisons (2006) (87)
RACE‐SPECIFIC EMPLOYMENT CONTEXTS AND RECIDIVISM* (2010) (85)
The theory and practice of supermax prisons (2006) (84)
Towards a criminology of crimes against humanity (2009) (84)
Towards rational and evidence-based crime policy (2007) (81)
Wardens' Views on the Wisdom of Supermax Prisons (2006) (79)
Examining the Direct and Interactive Effects of Changes in Racial and Ethnic Threat on Sentencing Decisions (2010) (77)
Incarceration Heterogeneity and Its Implications for Assessing the Effectiveness of Imprisonment on Recidivism (2015) (73)
Race, Ethnic, and Gender Divides in Juvenile Court Sanctioning and Rehabilitative Intervention (2015) (73)
THEORIZING SANCTIONING IN A CRIMINALIZED JUVENILE COURT (2000) (72)
To execute or not to execute? Examining public support for capital punishment of sex offenders (2010) (71)
Offending and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Criminal Justice (2016) (67)
Evidence on the Effectiveness of Juvenile Court Sanctions (2011) (65)
Sex offender residence restriction laws: Parental perceptions and public policy☆ (2010) (65)
Faith-based efforts to improve prisoner reentry: Assessing the logic and evidence (2006) (65)
Spatial Distance, Community Disadvantage, and Racial and Ethnic Variation in Prison Inmate Access to Social Ties (2016) (65)
Juvenile Court and Contemporary Diversion: Helpful, Harmful, or Both? (2016) (65)
Assessing the Differential Effects of Race and Ethnicity on Sentence Outcomes Under Different Sentencing Systems (2013) (63)
Public (Mis)Understanding of Crime Policy (2015) (63)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Supermax Prisons (2006) (62)
Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Current Status of Evidence-Based Research. (2003) (61)
Research And Interventions To Reduce Domestic Violence Revictimization (2003) (60)
The Path of Least Desistance: Inmate Compliance and Recidivism (2017) (59)
It Varies From State to State (2013) (58)
Supermax prisons: the policy and the evidence (2013) (58)
Who Gets Visited in Prison? Individual- and Community-Level Disparities in Inmate Visitation Experiences (2017) (57)
What is the effect of IQ on offending? (2013) (57)
ACCOUNTABILITY, EFFICIENCY, AND EFFECTIVENESS IN CORRECTIONS: SHINING A LIGHT ON THE BLACK BOX OF PRISON SYSTEMS* (2008) (56)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Correctional Sanctions (2014) (56)
Reducing Domestic Violence Revictimization (2001) (56)
Reinventing Community Corrections (2017) (54)
Addressing the Needs of Youth with Disabilities in the Juvenile Justice System: The Current State of Knowledge (2003) (53)
Sentencing and State‐Level Racial and Ethnic Contexts (2015) (52)
Self-Control Theory and Nonlinear Effects on Offending (2013) (52)
Immigration and Crime: What's the Connection? (2002) (51)
An Assessment of Supermax Prisons Using an Evaluation Research Framework (2008) (48)
Examining Prison Effects on Recidivism: A Regression Discontinuity Approach (2017) (47)
Recidivism and Time Served in Prison (2016) (47)
Thinking fast, not slow: How cognitive biases may contribute to racial disparities in the use of force in police-citizen encounters (2017) (47)
Toward a systematic foundation for identifying evidence-based criminal justice sanctions and their relative effectiveness☆ , ☆☆ (2010) (47)
Gender differences in the effects of prison on recidivism (2012) (46)
Culture and Formal Social Control: The Effect of the Code of the Street on Police and Court Decision-making (2017) (46)
The effectiveness of prison for reducing drug offender recidivism: a regression discontinuity analysis (2017) (44)
THE “TRUE” JUVENILE OFFENDER: AGE EFFECTS AND JUVENILE COURT SANCTIONING (2014) (43)
Supermax housing: Placement, duration, and time to reentry (2010) (43)
Improving Criminal Justice through Better Decision Making: Lessons from the Medical System (2009) (42)
Solitary Confinement as Punishment: Examining In-Prison Sanctioning Disparities (2018) (42)
Trends in Understanding and Addressing Domestic Violence (2005) (39)
Getting Tough with Juvenile Offenders (2001) (38)
Support for Balanced Juvenile Justice: Assessing Views About Youth, Rehabilitation, and Punishment (2015) (38)
Columbine Revisited: Myths and Realities About the Bullying–School Shootings Connection (2017) (37)
The Dimensions, Pathways, and Consequences of Youth Reentry (2004) (37)
Out-of-Control Criminal Justice: The Systems Improvement Solution for More Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency (2017) (36)
The Privatization Debate (2016) (36)
Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Labor Market Changes and Their Effects on the Recidivism of Released Prisoners (2014) (35)
Sentencing Guidelines and the Transformation of Juvenile Justice in the 21st Century (2002) (35)
The prison experience: Introduction to the special issue (2012) (34)
Whites’ Perceptions About Black Criminality (2015) (33)
Financial Exploitation of the Elderly in a Consumer Context (2013) (32)
Drug Treatment in the Criminal Justice System: The Current State of Knowledge (2003) (32)
Interracial contact and fear of crime (2010) (31)
Opportunity theory and agricultural crime victimization (2007) (31)
Life-Course Perspectives and Prisoner Reentry (2013) (31)
Progressively Tougher Sanctioning and Recidivism (2018) (30)
In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct (2017) (30)
Revisiting the Effect of Visitation on Recidivism (2018) (30)
Whites’ Concern about Crime: The Effects of Interracial Contact (2009) (29)
Central Analytical Issues in the Generation of Cumulative Sociological Knowledge (2002) (28)
Prisoner Reentry, Employment, Signaling, and the Better Identification of Desisters (2012) (27)
Juvenile Transfer and the Specific Deterrence Hypothesis (2016) (27)
Practitioner Views of Priorities, Policies, and Practices in Juvenile Justice (2010) (26)
Social Exclusion and Parental Incarceration Impacts on Adolescents' Networks and School Engagement. (2018) (26)
A Critique Of Waiver Research (2003) (26)
The Effect of Interracial Contact on Whites' Perceptions of Victimization Risk and Black Criminality (2013) (25)
The Effect of Agency Scandal on Public Views Toward the Correctional System (2013) (25)
U.S. Prisoner Reentry Health Care Policy in International Perspective (2012) (24)
The Front End of the Juvenile Court (2011) (24)
The New Solitary Confinement? A Conceptual Framework for Guiding and Assessing Research and Policy on “Restrictive Housing” (2019) (24)
Unpacking the relationship between age and prison misconduct (2015) (23)
Efforts to Reduce Consumer Fraud Victimization Among the Elderly (2016) (23)
Racial Threat, Intergroup Contact, and School Punishment (2017) (23)
Evaluation Issues Confronting Juvenile Justice Sentencing Reforms: A Case Study of Texas (1998) (22)
Restrictive Housing in the U.S.: Issues, Challenges, and Future Directions (2016) (22)
Sex Offenders—America’s New Witches? A Theoretical Analysis of the Emergence of Sex Crime Laws (2016) (21)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice Reforms: A Closer Look at the Criteria and the Impacts on Diverse Stakeholders (2000) (21)
Assessments and Intake Processes in Juvenile Justice Processing: Emerging Policy Considerations (1999) (21)
Exploring State-Level Variation in Juvenile Incarceration Rates (2006) (20)
Using Performance Monitoring to Improve the Accountability, Operations, and Effectiveness of Juvenile Justice (2008) (20)
Document Title: Benefit-Cost Analysis of Supermax Prisons: Critical Steps and Considerations (2004) (19)
A Closer Look at the Age, Peers, and Delinquency Relationship (2002) (18)
Prison System Versus Critics’ Views on the Use of Restrictive Housing: Objective Risk Classification or Ascriptive Assignment? (2019) (17)
A Uniquely Punitive Turn? Sex Offenders and the Persistence of Punitive Sanctioning (2020) (17)
Juvenile Referrals in Texas: An Assessment of Criminogenic Needs and the Gap Between Needs and Services (2005) (16)
Findings from a Process Evaluation of a Statewide Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Program for Youthful Offenders (2001) (16)
Incarceration and the Life Course: Age-Graded Effects of the First Parental Incarceration Experience (2020) (16)
Linking Process and Outcomes in Evaluating a Statewide Drug Treatment Program for Youthful Offenders (2002) (14)
The Practice and Promise of Prison Programming. Research Report. (2002) (14)
Security at the Expense of Liberty (2013) (13)
Housing for the “Worst of the Worst” Inmates (2013) (13)
Reduce Recidivism ? Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society : Does Visitation (2008) (13)
A Process and Outcome Evaluation of an Agricultural Crime Prevention Initiative (2007) (13)
Will Churches Respond to the Call? Religion, Civic Responsibility, and Social Service (2002) (12)
How Universal Is Disproportionate Minority Contact? An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice Processing Across Four States (2020) (12)
Voting Preferences and Perceived Juvenile Crime Trends: Examining Racial and Political Differences (2019) (10)
Voices from the Field: Practitioners Identify Key Issues in Corrections-Based Drug Treatment (2003) (9)
The Goldilocks Rule—Too Little, Too Much, and “Just Right”: Curvilinear Effects of Sleep Duration on Delinquency (2020) (9)
Prison-Based Programming: Why It’s Needed and What It Can Do (2002) (8)
Gender and the Effect of Disciplinary Segregation on Prison Misconduct (2020) (8)
Privatized corrections in the 21st century (2019) (8)
Navigating Get-Tough and Support-Oriented Philosophies for Improving School Safety: Insights from School Administrators and School Safety Staff (2018) (7)
RETRACTED: LYNCHINGS, RACIAL THREAT, AND WHITES’ PUNITIVE VIEWS TOWARD BLACKS (2018) (7)
Education versus Punishment? Silo Effects and the School-to-prison Pipeline (2020) (7)
U.S. Supreme Court Decisions and Sex Offender Legislation: Evidence of Evidence-Based Policy? (2013) (6)
Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders (2021) (6)
Revisiting and Unpacking the Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement Relationship (2021) (6)
Young Offenders and an Effective Justice System Response: What Happens, What Should Happen, and What We Need to Know: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention (2012) (6)
The Role of Information in Changing Offender Behavior, Criminal Justice System Actions, and Policy Maker Decisions (2014) (5)
Creating Systems That Can Improve Safety and Justice (and Why Piecemeal Change Won’t Work) (2019) (5)
Forcible Rape and Adolescent Friendship Networks (2018) (5)
Past, Present, and Future of Juvenile Justice: Assessing the Policy Options (APO) (2009) (5)
The Benefits, Risks, and Challenges of Get-Tough and Support-Oriented Approaches to Improving School Safety (2018) (5)
The Contemporary Salience of Deprivation Theory: Prison Personnel Perceptions of Inmates and the Pains of Solitary Confinement (2020) (5)
Improving the Link Between Research and Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings: A Summary of Reports from the Strong Science for Strong Practice Project: (720802011-001) (2003) (5)
Who Goes to Prison (2018) (4)
Women in Solitary Confinement: Relationships, Pseudofamilies, and the Limits of Control (2020) (4)
Building with no end in sight: the theory and effects of prison architecture (2020) (4)
Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry (2019) (4)
Retracted : A Legacy of Lynchings: Perceived Black Criminal Threat Among Whites (2019) (4)
Deservingness and Punishment in Juvenile Justice: Do Black Youth Grow Up “Faster” in the Eyes of the Court? (2021) (4)
Views From the Inside: Insights About Restrictive Housing From Prison System Officials, Officers, and Staff (2021) (3)
Successful Transitions to Graduate School: Using Orientations to Improve Student Experiences in Criminology and Criminal Justice Programs (2015) (3)
Speeding in America (2016) (3)
Inferno: an anatomy of American punishment (2018) (3)
Family Size and Delinquency: A Comprehensive Examination (2012) (3)
Simplifying Reality: The Media’s Portrayal of the Private Prison Debate (2020) (3)
Document Title: The Costs and Benefits of Agricultural Crime Prevention: A Primer for Estimating the Costs and Benefits of the Agricultural Crime Technology Information and Operations Network (ACTION) (2007) (3)
The Legacy of Troubled Childhoods: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sleep, and Delinquency (2022) (3)
Work in Long-Term Restrictive Housing and Prison Personnel Perceptions of the Humanity of People Who Are Incarcerated (2022) (2)
The Impacts of Privatization in Corrections (2018) (2)
Forecasting Juvenile Correctional Populations in Texas (2002) (2)
The role of research and researchers in crime and justice policy (2010) (2)
Bridging the Research-Policy Divide to Advance Science and Policy: The 2022 Bruce Smith, Sr. Award Address to the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2022) (2)
Seven Ways to Make Prisons Work (2016) (2)
School-based services for youth with prior police contact: a randomized controlled trial (2020) (2)
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Supermax Prisons (2004) (2)
What Do We Really Know About the Prevalence of Restrictive Housing? Illuminating the “Dark Figure” of the Most Extreme Forms of Incarceration (2022) (2)
The Prison Experience (2015) (2)
Prisoner Reentry and Health Care (2010) (1)
Extended Solitary Confinement for Managing Prison Systems: Placement Disparities and Their Implications (2021) (1)
Managing Prisons Through Extended Solitary Confinement: A Necessary Approach or a Signal of Prison System Failure? (2021) (1)
Visitation and Misconduct in Prison (2011) (1)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Irrational Criminal Justice Policy (2010) (1)
Youth, Guns, and the Juvenile Justice System. Research Report. (2002) (1)
Causation, Theory, and Policy in the Social Sciences (2015) (1)
Document Title: Policy, Theory, and Research Lessons from an Evaluation of an Agricultural Crime Prevention Program (2007) (1)
Financial Victimization of the Elderly in a Consumer Context: Some Preliminary Findings. (2011) (1)
Children’s life chances are hurt when their parents are sent to prison (2016) (1)
Improving the Link Between Research and Drug Treatment in Correctional Settings Drug Treatment: A Summary of Reports from the Strong Science for Strong Practice Project (2003) (1)
Racial and Ethnic Divides in Privatized Punishment: Examining Disparities in Private Prison Placements (2020) (1)
Blurred and Confused: The Paradox of Police in Schools (2020) (1)
Supermax Incarceration (2020) (1)
Theories of Inmate Victimization (2021) (1)
Awareness among the Elderly of Efforts to Reduce Fraud Victimization (2013) (1)
Immigration and Crime (2002) (1)
An Investigation of Public Views about Capital Punishment of Sex Offenders (2009) (0)
Book Review: Book Review (2011) (0)
The Criminal Justice System (2017) (0)
Book Review: Readings in Juvenile Justice Administration (1999) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: References (2010) (0)
Book Review: Etiology of Substance Use Disorder in Children and Adolescents (2003) (0)
Pathways Through Juvenile Justice: A System-Level Assessment of Cumulative Disadvantage in the Processing of Juvenile Offenders (2021) (0)
A Within-Person Test of the Impact of Extended Solitary Confinement on Mental Health Functioning and Service Use (2022) (0)
The Practice and Pro 'se of Prison Program *ng (2012) (0)
School-based services for youth with prior police contact: a randomized controlled trial (2019) (0)
Support for Balanced Juvenile Justice: Assessing Views About Youth, Rehabilitation, and Punishment (2014) (0)
Priorities, Policies, and Practices in Juvenile Justice: Practitioner Views (2008) (0)
Decisionmaking Errors in Criminal Justice and How to Reduce Them (2008) (0)
List of 2017 Reviewers (2017) (0)
Identifying the Predictors of Prison Visitation (2013) (0)
Monitoring and assessing the effectiveness of juvenile justice sanctions (2012) (0)
Textbook Learning Strategies in Traditional and Nontraditional Students (2015) (0)
Escaping the Sisyphean Trap: Systemic Criminal Justice System Reform (2022) (0)
Introduction to the special issue on privatized corrections (2019) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Needs Evaluations (2010) (0)
The Impacts of Inmate Visitation on Recidivism (2007) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Preface (2010) (0)
A Reconceptualization of Social Bond Theory to Predict Change Sequences in Offending (2022) (0)
Media Reliance and Public Knowledge about Criminal Punishment (2012) (0)
Introduction: Out-of-Control Criminal Justice (2017) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Introduction (2010) (0)
Benefits of the Systems Improvement Solution and Pitfalls to Avoid in Implementing It (2017) (0)
Changes in Employment Conditions and the Effects on Recidivism (2011) (0)
The Effect of Overt Correctional System Graft on Public Opinion (2011) (0)
The US experience: challenges for councils (1994) (0)
Criminological and Criminal Justice Research (2019) (0)
Conclusion: Criminal Justice under Control (2017) (0)
The effectiveness of prison for reducing drug offender recidivism: a regression discontinuity analysis (2017) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: A Solution for Improving Criminal Justice Policy (2010) (0)
Criminological and Criminal Justice Research Areas and Topics (2019) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Notes (2010) (0)
978-1107-19370-3 — Fundamentals of Criminological and Criminal Justice Inquiry (0)
Self-Control Theory and Nonlinear Effects on Offending (2012) (0)
Systems Problems Are Not Specific to Crime and Justice (2017) (0)
Solitary Confinement and Prison Personnel: Emotional numbing as a response to work in extended restrictive housing* (2023) (0)
How Big Data can save America's out of control criminal justice policies (2018) (0)
Results from an Impact Evaluation of an Agricultural Crime Prevention Initiative (2006) (0)
Navigating Get-Tough and Support-Oriented Philosophies for Improving School Safety: Insights from School Administrators and School Safety Staff (2018) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Implementation Evaluations (2010) (0)
Diverse Inmate Populationsand Reentry (2015) (0)
Employment Contexts and Recidivism (2009) (0)
Prisoner Visitation and the Impact on Recidivism (2006) (0)
Reentry Policy and What Worksto Improve Reentry Outcomes (2015) (0)
Cost-Efficiency Evaluations (2010) (0)
Tracing changes in behavior across the extended solitary confinement process (2022) (0)
Assessing the Effectiveness of Correctional Sanctions (2013) (0)
The Causes of MassIncarceration and Thus Mass Reentry (2015) (0)
The Systems Improvement Solution for Safety, Justice, Accountability, and Efficiency (2017) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Outcome Evaluations and Impact Evaluations (2010) (0)
The Costs and Benefits of Agricultural Crime (2007) (0)
Learning Strategies in Traditional and Nontraditional Students (2015) (0)
Stressed Out in Lock Down: The Impacts of Work in Extended Restrictive Housing on Prison Personnel (2023) (0)
What Is a System (2017) (0)
Historical Trends inCorrections and Reentry Policy and Practice (2015) (0)
Profile of the InmatePopulation (2015) (0)
“Successful” Offending: The Salience of Performance Criteria for Understanding and Addressing Crime (2022) (0)
Book Review: David C. Pyrooz and Scott H. Decker, Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons (2022) (0)
We are still largely in the dark as to whether incarceration reduces recidivism (2015) (0)
American Criminal Justice Policy: Conclusion (2010) (0)
Causation and Criminological Theories and Policy (2007) (0)
Recidivism and RiskPrediction (2015) (0)
The Reentry Experience andReentry Challenges (2015) (0)
HERE AND GONE: ANTICIPATION AND SEPARATION EFFECTS (2016) (0)
Incarceration and the Life Course: Age-Graded Effects of the First Parental Incarceration Experience (2020) (0)
Special Issue: Criminal Justice Reform Guest Editor’s Introduction (2022) (0)
Identifying Causal Effects (2019) (0)

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