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David McDowall

Criminal Justice

#139

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#158

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Criminology

#128

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#144

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David McDowall

Sociology

#1957

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#2190

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David McDowall '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, David McDowall is an American criminologist and distinguished teaching professor in the School of Criminal Justice at University at Albany, SUNY, where he is also co-director of the Violence Research Group. Educated at Portland State University and Northwestern University, he taught at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1990 until joining the University at Albany in 1996. He has published a number of studies pertaining to gun violence in the United States.

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David McDowall 's Published Works

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Interrupted Time Series Analysis (1980) (706)
A Modern History of the Kurds (1958) (519)
Effects of restrictive licensing of handguns on homicide and suicide in the District of Columbia. (1991) (349)
Contextual Effects in Models of Criminal Victimization (1993) (346)
Social Change and Crime Rates: An Evaluation of Alternative Theoretical Approaches (1991) (182)
Seasonal Cycles in Crime, and Their Variability (2012) (149)
The Police, Crime, and Economic Theory: An Assessment (1982) (134)
Reciprocal Causal Relationships among Drug Use, Peers, and Beliefs: A Five-Wave Panel Model (1996) (127)
MANDATORY SENTENCING AND FIREARMS VIOLENCE: EVALUATING AN ALTERNATIVE TO GUN CONTROL (1983) (121)
Criminalizing delinquency: The deterrent effects of the New York juvenile offender law (1988) (117)
A Comparison of Supplementary Homicide Reports and National Vital Statistics System Homicide Estimates for U.S. Counties (2000) (113)
Collective Security and the Demand for Legal Handguns (1983) (112)
A Comparative Study of the Preventive Effects of Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Gun Crimes (1992) (108)
BOOT CAMP PRISONS AND RECIDIVISM IN EIGHT STATES (1995) (107)
Easing Concealed Firearms Laws: Effects on Homicide in Three States (1995) (91)
Escaping crime: the effects of direct and indirect victimization on moving (2008) (81)
Underreporting of justifiable homicides committed by police officers in the United States, 1976-1998. (2003) (80)
Firearm Availability and Homicide Rates in Detroit, 1951–1986 (1991) (76)
Zero-inflated and overdispersed: what's one to do? (2013) (64)
The Deterrent Effects of the Florida Felony Firearm Law (1984) (63)
Do US City Crime Rates Follow a National Trend? The Influence of Nationwide Conditions on Local Crime Patterns (2009) (62)
"One With A Gun Gets You Two": Mandatory Sentencing and Firearms Violence in Detroit (1981) (58)
Prior Police Contact and Subsequent Victim Reporting: Results from the NCVS (2006) (56)
THE EFFECTS OF RESIDENTIAL TURNOVER ON HOUSEHOLD VICTIMIZATION (2008) (54)
COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND THE OWNERSHIP OF FIREARMS FOR PROTECTION (1987) (53)
An Illustrated History of Britain (1989) (51)
The Kurds: A Nation Denied (1985) (50)
The Use of Official Records to Measure Crime and Delinquency (2010) (49)
The incidence of defensive firearm use by US crime victims, 1987 through 1990. (1994) (49)
The Impact of Youth Curfew Laws on Juvenile Crime Rates (2000) (45)
Guns, Southernness, and gun control (1993) (44)
Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond (1989) (42)
Design and Analysis of Time Series Experiments (2017) (42)
How effective are our ‘better angels’? Assessing country-level declines in homicide since 1950 (2015) (41)
TESTS OF NONLINEAR DYNAMICS IN U.S. HOMICIDE TIME SERIES, AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS* (2002) (38)
An Artifact in Pretest-Posttest Designs (1980) (37)
Preventing homicide: an evaluation of the efficacy of a Detroit gun ordinance. (1991) (35)
The analysis of case-control studies in criminology (1988) (35)
GENERAL DETERRENCE THROUGH CIVILIAN GUN OWNERSHIP: AN EVALUATION OF THE QUASI‐EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE* (1991) (34)
Are U.S. Crime Rate Trends Historically Contingent? (2005) (32)
COMPARING THE UCR AND NCS OVER TIME (1992) (31)
A Comparison of SHR and Vital Statistics Homicide Estimates for U.S. Cities (2008) (31)
Firearms and Self-Defense (1995) (29)
Seasonal Variation in Homicide and Assault Across Large U.S. Cities (2015) (28)
The Kurdish question: a historical review (2005) (27)
Underreporting of Homicides by Police in the United States, 1976-2013 (2017) (26)
Using quasi-experiments to evaluate firearm laws: comment on britt et al.'s reassessment of the d.c. gun law (1996) (25)
Measuring Civilian Defensive Firearm Use: A Methodological Experiment (2000) (25)
Regional Culture and Patterns of Homicide (2003) (25)
The Accuracy of Supplementary Homicide Report Rates for Large U.S. Cities (2015) (24)
Fiscal Politics and the Police: Detroit, 1928–76 (1986) (24)
Poverty and Homicide in Detroit, 1926-1978 (1986) (24)
Gun Availability and Robbery Rates: A Panel Study of Large U.S. Cities, 1974–1978 (1986) (23)
Crime , Deterrence , and Right-to-Carry Concealed (1996) (23)
Understanding Crime Statistics: What Is Convergence, and What Do We Know About It? (2006) (22)
The reproduction of racial inequality: how crime affects housing turnover (2010) (21)
Does Target-hardening Result in Deadlier Terrorist Attacks against Protected Targets? An Examination of Unintended Harmful Consequences (2017) (20)
Carrying Guns and Involvement in Crime (2002) (19)
Britain in close-up (1993) (15)
1948 and after: Israel and the Palestinians (1991) (14)
HERE WE GO AGAIN—CAN WE LEARN ANYTHING FROM AGGREGATE‐LEVEL STUDIES OF POLICY INTERVENTIONS? (2006) (14)
Neighborhood Context and Delinquency: A Longitudinal Analysis (1994) (13)
A Time-Series Analysis of Terrorism: Intervention, Displacement, and Diffusion of Benefits (2018) (12)
Constructing an index of officially recorded crime: The use of confirmatory factor analysis (1986) (12)
IMPACT OF VICTIMIZATION ON RESIDENTIAL MOBILITY: EXPLAINING RACIAL AND ETHNIC PATTERNS USING THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY† (2014) (12)
The Palestinians: The Road to Nationhood (1995) (11)
Fatal firearm-related injury surveillance in Maryland. (1998) (10)
Time-series designs. (2012) (9)
A Profile of the Population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1989) (9)
Additional Discussion about Easing Concealed Firearms Laws (1995) (8)
Lebanon, a conflict of minorities (1983) (8)
Introduction to volume 4 : Measurement and analysis of crime and justice : An introductory essay (2000) (7)
The Kurds: An historical perspective (1991) (7)
Evaluating Effects of Changes in Gun Laws (1993) (7)
COLLECTIVE SECURITY AND FATAL FIREARM ACCIDENTS (1985) (6)
The Kurds of Syria (1998) (5)
The Present and Possible Future of Quantitative Criminology (2010) (5)
Likely Errors When Linking Supplementary Homicide Report Records for Large U.S. Cities (2008) (4)
Iraq since the Gulf War: prospects for democracy (1994) (4)
Time Series Properties of Crime Rate Changes: Comments Related to David Greenberg’s Paper (2014) (3)
John R. Lott, Jr.’s Defensive Gun Brandishing Estimates (2005) (3)
The 2015 and 2016 U.S. Homicide Rate Increases in Context (2019) (3)
Does Recent Victimization Impact Confidence in the Criminal Justice System? (2016) (3)
Development and Economy in Educational Building in Greece, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Report on OECD Project. (1968) (2)
A deadlier post-9/11 terrorism landscape for the USA abroad: a quasi-experimental study of backlash effects of terrorism prevention (2020) (2)
Clarity or ambiguity? The withdrawal clause of UN Security Council Resolution 242 (2014) (2)
Commentary: Preventing suicide: need for a life course approach (2007) (1)
The National Violent Death Reporting System and Police-Involved Firearm Deaths. (2019) (1)
Territories of the National Imagination: Intifada Observed@@@Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising Against Israeli Occupation.@@@Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising-Israel's Third Front.@@@Intifada: The Palestinian Uprising.@@@Palestine and Israel: The Uprising and Beyond. (1991) (1)
The paradox of liberation: secular revolutions and religious counterrevolutions. By Michael Walzer (2015) (1)
Examining the state repression‐terrorism nexus: Dynamic relationships among repressive counterterrorism actions, terrorist targets, and deadly terrorist violence in Israel (2020) (1)
Federal Firearms Policy and Mandatory Sentencing (1982) (1)
The Palestinians: new directions (1991) (1)
The Middle East: war without end? (1990) (1)
Book Review Gun Violence: The Real Costs By Philip J. Cook and Jens Ludwig. 242 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2000. $25. 0-19-513793-0 (2001) (1)
Longitudinal Data and Their Uses (2009) (1)
The Relationship between Murders of Police and Justifiable Homicides by Police, 1980-2010 (2012) (1)
Auxiliary Modeling Procedures (2019) (0)
The Thames : from Hampton to Richmond Bridge (2002) (0)
The Intervention Component, It (1980) (0)
CRIMINOLOGY REVIEWERS LIST (2015) (0)
Into the Future (2019) (0)
REVIEWS (2003) (0)
Begin: an anatomy of leadership (1989) (0)
ARIMA Algebra (2019) (0)
Facts and fables: the Arab—Israeli conflict (1990) (0)
The Noise Component:N(at) (2019) (0)
Seasonal Cycles in Crime, and Their Variability (2011) (0)
The Intervention Component: X( It) (2019) (0)
Introduction to ITSA (2019) (0)
The Paradoxical Effects of Personal Relationships with Neighbors on Burglary Victimization. (2006) (0)
Thirteen days in September: Carter, Begin and Sadat at Camp David. By Lawrence Wright (2015) (0)
The Thames : Richmond to Putney Bridge (2005) (0)
Towards a Palestinian entity (1990) (0)
The PKK: a report on separatist violence in Turkey, 1973–1992 (1993) (0)
A deadlier post-9/11 terrorism landscape for the USA abroad: a quasi-experimental study of backlash effects of terrorism prevention (2019) (0)
A Comparison of the NVSS and SHR Homicide Estimates for Large U.S. Cities (2007) (0)
Quantitative Methods and Crime (2015) (0)
The Stochastic Component, Nt (1980) (0)
Uniform Crime Reports (2021) (0)

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