Jack Levin
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American sociologist
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Jack Levin 's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jack Levin specializes in research on murder, prejudice and hate, sociology of aging and sociology of conflict at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. He has interviewed and corresponded with brutal killers, such as the Hillside Strangler and Charles Manson, and other violent criminals: serial killers and rapists, mass murderers, and vicious hatemongers. He is also asked by news and television reports to comment on important occurrences of homicide or hate. Along with interviews, writing material, teaching classes, and research Levin has also given talks about violence or hate to groups including the White House Conference on Hate Crimes, Department of Justice, the Department of Education, OSCE’s Officer for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Jack Levin has authored and co-authored over 30 books and has written and published over 200 articles.
Jack Levin 's Published Works
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Published Works
- Hate Crimes: the Rising Tide Of Bigotry And Bloodshed (1993) (345)
- The Relationship of Animal Abuse to Violence and Other Forms of Antisocial Behavior (1999) (276)
- Elementary Statistics in Social Research (1974) (215)
- Mass Murder at School and Cumulative Strain (2009) (194)
- Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (2005) (184)
- Multiple Homicide: Patterns of Serial and Mass Murder (1998) (183)
- Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace (1985) (135)
- The Analysis of Communication Content: Developments in Scientific Theories and Computer Techniques (1969) (108)
- An exploratory analysis of sex differences in gossip (1985) (99)
- The business culture of the community college: Students as consumers; students as commodities (2005) (95)
- Gossip: The Inside Scoop (1987) (92)
- Ageism: Prejudice and Discrimination Against the Elderly. (1983) (91)
- Hate crimes revisited : America's war against those who are different (2002) (90)
- Mass Murder: An Analysis of Extreme Violence (2003) (81)
- Firing Back: The Growing Threat of Workplace Homicide (1994) (72)
- Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed (1994) (71)
- Globalizing the Community College (2001) (69)
- Educators, professionalism and politics : global transitions, national spaces and professional projects (2012) (51)
- HOMICIDE AGAINST THE ELDERLY: A RESEARCH NOTE* (1991) (49)
- Experimentally manipulating race: Perceptions of police brutality in an arrest: A research note (1997) (45)
- The Functions of Discrimination and Prejudice (1981) (42)
- Elementary Statistics In Social Research: The Essentials (2003) (41)
- The Nature and Prevalence of Familicide in the United States, 2000–2009 (2013) (35)
- The Devil Made Me Do It (2008) (32)
- Are the times changing? An analysis of gender differences in sexual graffiti (1987) (31)
- Multiple judgments: Institutional context and part-time faculty (2007) (30)
- Why We Hate (2004) (28)
- The Violence of Hate: Confronting Racism, Anti-Semitism, and Other Forms of Bigotry (2001) (26)
- Are People More Disturbed by Dog or Human Suffering (2017) (24)
- Elementary Statistics in Criminal Justice Research (1998) (24)
- Gossip Columns: Media Small Talk (1977) (23)
- Reign of Terror (1993) (21)
- Hippie Values: An Analysis of the Underground Press (1970) (21)
- Another stereotype: Old age as a second childhood. (1984) (21)
- The Effects of Labeling Students upon Teachers’ Expectations and Intentions (1982) (20)
- School Rampage in International Perspective: The Salience of Cumulative Strain Theory (2013) (20)
- Embarrassment and Helping Behavior (1982) (17)
- Differential effects of complementary and competing variables in primacy-recency. (1966) (16)
- The Functions Of Prejudice (1975) (15)
- Nurses' Diagnostic Stereotyping of the Elderly (1981) (15)
- Punk and Middle-Class Values (1985) (14)
- Social science research: a handbook for students (1975) (14)
- The Gossip Tabloid as Agent of Social Control (1988) (13)
- Sociology of educational late blooming (1991) (13)
- Hate Crimes and Ethnic Conflict (2001) (13)
- Understanding the Career Choice for Underrepresented Minority Doctoral Students in Science and Engineering (2013) (12)
- For the Thrill of It (1993) (11)
- Normalcy in Behavioral Characteristics of the Sadistic Serial Killer (2008) (11)
- From Thrill to Defensive Motivation (2015) (11)
- Hate crime offenders (2017) (10)
- Serial Murder: Myths and Realities (1999) (10)
- When a Crime Committed by a Teenager Becomes a Hate Crime (2007) (10)
- Reducing the Link's false positive problem (2009) (9)
- Limits to Organizational Change in the Community College. (1996) (9)
- Serial Killers and Sadistic Murderers: Up Close and Personal (2008) (9)
- Beats, Hippies, the Hip Generation and the American Middle Class: An Analysis of Values. (1972) (9)
- Institutional efforts to address disadvantaged students: An “up-so-down” view (2008) (8)
- Willingness to Interact with an Old Person (1981) (8)
- Inside the Death Chamber: Exploring Executions (2002) (8)
- Bifactor analysis of a multitrait-multimethod matrix of leadership criteria in smalll groups. (1973) (8)
- Covering Mass Murder: An Experimental Examination of the Effect of News Focus—Killer, Victim, or Hero—on Reader Interest (2018) (8)
- Blurring The Boundaries: The Declining Significance of Age (2012) (7)
- Yanks, Canucks, and Aussies: Governance as Liberation. (2008) (7)
- Cultures of hate in the urban and the rural:assessing the impact of extremist organisations (2004) (7)
- The Community College Presidency: Conditions and Factors of Impact on an Institution. (1995) (7)
- Making Sense of Mass Murder (1999) (7)
- Sexuality and romance in advice books for the elderly. (1984) (6)
- The Human Puzzle: An Introduction to Social Psychology (1987) (6)
- BLURRING FAME AND INFAMY: A Content Analysis of Cover-Story Trends in People Magazine* (2005) (6)
- How To Work With The Media (1993) (6)
- Selection and use of simple technology in home, school, work, and community settings (1987) (6)
- Elementary Statistics in Behavioral Research (1994) (6)
- The Inside Scoop (1987) (5)
- Personal Appearance as a Reflection of Social Attitudes: Stereotype or Reality? (1970) (5)
- Hate Crime: A Global Perspective (2015) (5)
- Social Problems: Causes, Consequences, Interventions (1983) (5)
- Sociological Snapshots: Seeing Social Structure and Change in Everyday Life (1993) (5)
- Closed Systems of Behavior and Traditional Family Ideology (1968) (5)
- New Universities’ Organizational Identities Through Presidential Lenses (2018) (5)
- The Elderly Sick Role: An Experimental Analysis (1985) (5)
- Social Change in Sex Roles: An Analysis of Advice Columns (1974) (5)
- Policies for Higher Education Institutions (2017) (4)
- Crazy Like a Fox (1994) (4)
- Mass Murder in Perspective (2014) (4)
- Explaining Mass Shootings (2016) (4)
- Multiple Homicide: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder (2017) (4)
- Breaking the Code of Good Intentions (2002) (4)
- Elementary Statistics in Social Research (2nd ed.). (1979) (4)
- Hate Goes to School (1993) (4)
- Mass Murder: America's Growing Menace. (1986) (3)
- Shared Governance in Community Colleges in the Global Economy. (2002) (3)
- Rampage School Shootings (2018) (3)
- Capitol Hill Mass Murder Case (2007) (3)
- An Effective Response to Teenage Crime is Possible -- and Cities Are Showing the Way. (2000) (3)
- Hate crimes in transition. (2020) (2)
- Fighting City Hall (1994) (2)
- Comparative Reference Group Behavior and Assimilation. (1973) (2)
- Community Colleges Seen from an Organizational-Cultural Perspective: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations (2009) (2)
- Social comparison of grades: the influence of mode of comparison and Machiavellianism. (1973) (2)
- Role Distance in Negro and Majority Fiction (1966) (2)
- The Changing Qualities of Violence in American Popular Culture (2008) (2)
- From Thrill to Defensive Hate Crimes: The Impact of September 11, 2001 (2014) (2)
- Social Constraint as a Determinant of Charitable Behavior (1971) (2)
- Elementary statistics in social research : a workbook (1977) (1)
- The Impact of Teacher and Student Expectancy in a Microteaching Situation (1976) (1)
- Some Determinants of Anti-Establishment Career Goals: An Empirical Analysis (1971) (1)
- Response to Scheuneman (1987) (1)
- The Sociology of Violence (2007) (1)
- Some Comments on Gans's "Positive Functions of Poverty" and on "The Famine in American Mass Communications Research" (1973) (1)
- Making Monsters into Celebrities: Popular Culture Is Saturated with Images of Infamy (2008) (1)
- Take Good Care of My Baby (1994) (1)
- Breaking barriers : how children and adults with severe handicaps can access the world through simple technology (1990) (1)
- Social Science Research (1978) (1)
- The Gossip Reporter as Anthropologist (1987) (1)
- Discourses of Democratization: Students’ Upward Mobility and the University Transfer Approach at Borough of Manhattan Community College (2009) (0)
- Mass Murder in America: Trends, Characteristics, Explanations, and Policy Response (2021) (0)
- Who's Minding the Kids? Is Violence Filling the Void in Our Teenagers' Lives? (2008) (0)
- The Appeal of Cults: If You Can't Get What You Need from Your Friends, You May Be Tempted to Join (2008) (0)
- Hatred Is Hip (1993) (0)
- Promoting Respect for Difference on the College Campus (2007) (0)
- I Hate You to Death (1994) (0)
- Back Matter (1979) (0)
- Enquiring Times: The Tabloidization of Hard News (2008) (0)
- Sociology: Snapshots and Portraits of Society (1996) (0)
- Overlooked Differentiation and Student Categorization: The Hybrid Identity and the Climate of Isolation in Wake Technical Community College (2009) (0)
- Just How Powerful Is a Role? Ask the Prisoners and Guards on Campus (2008) (0)
- Reacting to a Personal Threat (1993) (0)
- From spectators to hatemongers (2001) (0)
- Gender Inequality Across Cultures: Both Men and Women Pay a Price (2008) (0)
- Acknowledgements: the Levin/Kile rule (2019) (0)
- Stay With Me (2013) (0)
- How To Work with the Media. Survival Skills for Scholars, Volume 2. (1993) (0)
- Promising Practices in Community Colleges (2010) (0)
- Keeping an Eye and a Camera on College Students: A High-Tech Response to Celebratory Rioting (2008) (0)
- Attitude Similarity and Parent-Child Attractiveness (1983) (0)
- The Psychology of Gossip (1987) (0)
- Fads: Is Goldfish Gobbling Next? (2008) (0)
- Fun for everyone : a guide to adapted leisure activities for children with disabilities (1990) (0)
- Ridding the World of Evil (1993) (0)
- Let the System Do It! Taking Care of Society's Problems Can Hurt (2008) (0)
- Terror American Style: Have We Changed Since September 11? (2008) (0)
- The Postman Always Shoots Twice (1994) (0)
- Profiling Terrorists: Lessons from the War on Drugs (2008) (0)
- Children of the Organization Men: The New Individualists (2008) (0)
- Workbook to accompany elementary statistics in social research (1983) (0)
- Fat Chance in a Slim World: We Believe It's the Size of a Book's Cover That Counts (2008) (0)
- An Apple Pie and an Open Mind: My Visit to a Patriot Potluck (2008) (0)
- Highway to Hell? Fear and Loathing on the Road (2008) (0)
- Dirty Work: Who's Going to Do the Unpleasant Jobs? (2008) (0)
- “All the News That’s Fit to Whisper” (1987) (0)
- The Stigma of Aging: Almost, but Not Quite, Elderly Enough (2008) (0)
- Heartburn and Modern Times: Don't Blame the Tex-Mex (2008) (0)
- Reunion, American Style: The Ritual of Recommuning (2008) (0)
- Animal Cruelty and Human Violence: Is There a Connection? (2008) (0)
- The Coming Crisis (1993) (0)
- Americans Are Moving to the Margins of Society: They No Longer Trust Mainstream Solutions (2008) (0)
- 27. Prosecuted Defensive Hate Crimes: A Content Analysis (2007) (0)
- The Demise of Bystander Apathy: We Admire Idols of Activism (2008) (0)
- College Fraternities—A Counteracting Force on Campus: Where Else Would Students Get to Know One Another? (2008) (0)
- Reducing the False Positive Problem: A Study of Animal Abuse and Serial Murder (2008) (0)
- Twixt: Teens Yesterday and Today (1983) (0)
- The Consequences of Coalitions: Responding to White Supremacist Leaflets (2008) (0)
- Thwarting the Bullies in Our Schools: A Two-Pronged Strategy for Reducing School Violence (2008) (0)
- Is the Death Penalty Only a Vehicle for Revenge? An Ardent Abolitionist States His Case (2008) (0)
- The Boomerang Effect in Planning Social Change: In the Social Arena, Good Intentions Sometimes Go Wrong (2008) (0)
- Hate around the World (1993) (0)
- Letters: Response to Scheuneman (1987) (0)
- Strategic Planning and the Struggle to Generate a Responsive College: Differential Effects upon the Development of the Student Body at Harry Truman College in Illinois (2009) (0)
- Adult Socialization Can Be Murder: Development Continues Throughout Life (2008) (0)
- Conclusions: The Development and Transformation of the Community College in the Twenty-First Century (2017) (0)
- You Must Get Ill First; Then You Recover: Checking Out of a Mental Hospital May Be Harder Than Checking in (2008) (0)
- The Actions of Colleges, Universities, and Their Members (2017) (0)
- Violence in City Schools: What Principals Are Doing to Stem the Rising Tide (2008) (0)
- An Anatomy of Serial Murder (1994) (0)
- D. P. Gorskii. Generalization and Cognition (1987) (0)
- Violence Goes to School. Keynote Address. (1998) (0)
- Organizational Change and Student Accommodation: Edmonds Community College as an Adaptive-Responsive Organization (2009) (0)
- If You Wish (2011) (0)
- Into the Future (2008) (0)
- Riding the Rumor Mill: Our Basic Anxieties Are Projected in Various Tall Tales (2008) (0)
- The Construction of Educational Experiences: Elements and Dynamics of the Complexity of College Life at Bakersfield College (2009) (0)
- Elevator Culture: You Really Can't Do Anything Else but Stare at the Door (2008) (0)
- Give Us Still Your Masses …: But Please Don't Send the Criminals and Terrorists! (2008) (0)
- Research Note: Beasts and Babies: Styles of Stereotyping (1982) (0)
- Murder without Guilt (1994) (0)
- Keeping Children Safe from Sex Crimes: The Community Approach Sounds Effective but May Do More Harm Than Good (2008) (0)
- Can Hate Be Healed? The Difference Between Cultural and Pathological Prejudice (2008) (0)
- Are People More Disturbed by Animal or Human Suffering: The Influence of Species and Age (2013) (0)
- Teaching Students They Are Not at the Center of the Universe: We Construct the World in Our Own Image (2008) (0)
- From the Editor (1999) (0)
- Elementary statistics in social research / Jack Levin, James Alan Fox (1991) (0)
- Confessions of a Soap Opera Addict: The Daytime Serials Are More Than I Bargained for (2008) (0)
- The Outcomes of Policies in Higher Education Institutions (2017) (0)
- For Love, Money, or Revenge (1994) (0)
- Sticks and Stones May Break …: In Reality, Names May Indeed Hurt You (2008) (0)
- Willingness to Interact with an Old Person Measure (2016) (0)
- America's Youngsters Are Responsible for Church Burnings: It's Neither the Klan Nor the White Aryan Resistance (2008) (0)
- Better Late Than Never: Misery Can Be a Turning Point for Academic Success (2008) (0)
- Guest Opinion: The Death Penalty and Mass Murder (1989) (0)
- Cultivating Bias in the Media: Problematic Presentations and Future Prospects (2012) (0)
- Nasty Pictures in Our Heads (1993) (0)
- George Brecher, MD, 1913–2004 (2004) (0)
- Gory without Glory (1994) (0)
- Racism and Anti-Semitism Are Often Culturally Validated (2014) (0)
- The Immaculate Americans: Being Cleaner Doesn't Mean We're Better (2008) (0)
- Remembering All the Victims (1994) (0)
- The Economic Escalator: Americans on Their Way Down (2008) (0)
- Minority against Minority (1993) (0)
- Forging Student Identity: Socialization, Development, and Contextual Tensions in Community Colleges (2009) (0)
- Fascination with Serial Murder: The Impact of the Killer’s Body Count and Torture (2011) (0)
- Global transitions and educational professionalism: Trajectories of occupational boundary work in the politics of professionalization (2013) (0)
- From the Editor (1999) (0)
- Institutionalism as a Way to View Higher Education Organizations: Organizational Change/Organizational Stability (2017) (0)
- Reducing Hate and Prejudice on Campus: A Sociologist’s Contributions (2011) (0)
- EBOOK : Elementary Statistics in Social Research, 12th Edition (2014) (0)
- Introduction: The Background (2017) (0)
- Hate Crimes: Myths and Realities (2007) (0)
- The challenge of ageism. (1983) (0)
- Baby Boomers: A Generation without a Gap (2008) (0)
- Till Death Do Us Part (1994) (0)
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