James F. Short Jr.
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- Bachelors Sociology University of Chicago
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Franklin Short Jr. was an American sociologist. Biography Born on June 22, 1924, James Franklin Short Jr. was raised on a farm near Pleasant Plains, Illinois. His father was a teacher. Short Jr. served in the United States Marine Corps before completing his doctorate in sociology at the University of Chicago, where he became known for his work with Fred Strodtbeck. He joined the faculty of Washington State University upon graduation in 1951, and retired in 1997. He was editor of the American Sociological Review from 1972 to 1975, awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1975, and served as president of the American Sociological Association in 1984. Short died at the age of 93 on May 13, 2018.
James F. Short Jr.'s Published Works
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- Group Process and Gang Delinquency (1965) (502)
- The Social Fabric at Risk: Toward the Social Transformation of Risk Analysis (1984) (454)
- Suicide and Homicide (1977) (327)
- Annual Review of Sociology (1975) (282)
- Reported Behavior as a Criterion of Deviant Behavior (1957) (192)
- Dealing Crack: The Social World of Streetcorner Selling (1999) (179)
- THE LEVEL OF EXPLANATION PROBLEM REVISITED—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY 1997 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS* (1998) (153)
- TOWARD A SOCIOLOGY OF ORGANIZATIONAL CRIME (1978) (151)
- Research in Delinquent Subcultures (1958) (149)
- Disputes involving youth street gang members: Micro-social contexts (2005) (133)
- Extent of Unrecorded Juvenile Delinquency Tentative Conclusions (1958) (130)
- Suicide and Homicide: Some Economic, Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Aggression. (1955) (121)
- Socioeconomic Status and Delinquent Behavior (1958) (104)
- THINKING ABOUT GOVERNMENT LEARNING (1983) (91)
- Suicide and homicide : some economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of aggression (1956) (78)
- On the Nature of Suicide. (1970) (72)
- Organizations, Uncertainties, and Risk. (1992) (72)
- Gang delinquency and delinquent subcultures (1970) (59)
- Values and Gang Delinquency: A Study of Street-Corner Groups (1963) (49)
- PERCEIVED OPPORTUNITIES, GANG MEMBERSHIP, AND DELINQUENCY. (1965) (49)
- Suicidology : contemporary developments (1977) (48)
- Youth, Gangs and Society: Micro- and Macrosociological Processes* (1973) (46)
- Aleatory Risks Versus Short-Run Hedonism in Explanation of Gang Action (1964) (43)
- Nuclear Waste: Knowledge Waste? (2010) (42)
- Reducing Youth Gang Violence: The Little Village Gang Project in Chicago. By Irving A. Spergel. Lanham, MD: AltaMira Press, 2007. Pp 400. $95.00 (cloth); $39.95 (paper). (2008) (41)
- The social fabric of the metropolis : contributions of the Chicago school of urban sociology (1972) (40)
- Differential Association with Delinquent Friends and Delinquent Behavior (1958) (38)
- The Response of Gang Leaders to Status Threats: An Observation on Group Process and Delinquent Behavior (1963) (37)
- Partying, Cruising, and Hanging in the Streets: Gangs, Routine Activities, and Delinquency and Violence in Chicago, 1959–1962 (2014) (36)
- Delinquency and society (1990) (36)
- CRIME AS HAZARD: PERCEPTIONS OF RISK AND SERIOUSNESS* (1985) (35)
- Integrated Developmental and Life‐Course Theories of Offending. Edited by David P. Farrington. Advances in Criminological Theory no. 14. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005. Pp. 279. $49.95 (cloth). (2006) (28)
- Suicide and Homicide: Some Economic, Sociological and Psychological Aspects of Aggression (1956) (27)
- Behavior Dimensions of Gang Delinquency (1963) (27)
- WOMEN IN TOXIC WORK ENVIRONMENTS: A CASE STUDY OF SOCIAL PROBLEM DEVELOPMENT* (1983) (26)
- The Social Fabric of the Metropolis. (1971) (26)
- Delinquency, Crime, and Society (1976) (25)
- Social Class and Delinquency: Predictions and Outcomes of Police-Juvenile Encounters (1975) (23)
- Gangs and Adolescent Violence (2010) (23)
- Politics and Youth Gangs: a Follow‐up Study* (1976) (22)
- Significant Adults, Caretakers, and Structures of Opportunity: An Exploratory Study (1967) (21)
- Poverty, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime. (1998) (19)
- On the Etiology of Delinquent Behavior (1979) (17)
- The search for criminal man (1978) (16)
- Criminology, Criminologists, and the Sociological Enterprise (2007) (16)
- On Defining, Describing and Explaining Elephants (and Reactions to Them): Hazards, Disasters, and Risk Analysis (1989) (15)
- The State of Sociology: Problems and Prospects (1981) (15)
- [Book Review: Integrated Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending] (2006) (14)
- The Natural History of an Applied Theory: Differential Opportunity and “Mobilization for Youth” (1975) (13)
- Dimensions of black suicide: a theoretical model. (1978) (13)
- Why gangs fight (1964) (12)
- The Chicago School and the roots of urban ethnography (2009) (12)
- Youth gangs and unions: Civil and criminal remedies (2006) (11)
- A Strategy for Utilizing Research Dilemmas: A Case from the Study of Parenthood in a Street Corner Gang1 (1962) (11)
- Rebellion and Authority: An Analytical Essay on Insurgent Conflicts.Nathan Leites , Charles Wolf, Jr.Why Men Rebel.Ted Robert Gurr (1971) (10)
- Criminology, the Chicago School, and sociological theory (2002) (10)
- The Social Fabric: Dimensions and Issues (1989) (9)
- Adult-Adolescent Relations and Gang Delinquency (1964) (9)
- An Experiment in the Prevention of Delinquency: The Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study.Edwin Powers , Helen Witmer (1954) (8)
- Legal Services, Prisoners' Attitudes and Rehabilitation (1978) (8)
- Experimental Research in Criminal Justice Settings: Is There a Role for Scholarly Societies? (2000) (8)
- Comment on Lerman's "Gangs, Networks, and Subcultural Delinquency" (1968) (8)
- Cities, gangs, and delinquency (1990) (8)
- Hazards, Risks, and Enterprise: Approaches to Science, Law, and Social Policy (1990) (8)
- Publicity and the control of corporate behavior: The case of infant formula (1986) (8)
- The Social fabric : dimensions and issues (1988) (7)
- Social dimensions of risk: The need for a sociological paradigm and policy research (1987) (7)
- On Community, Family and Delinquency: Selected Writings (1973) (7)
- Organizations, Disasters, Risk Analysis and Risk: Historical and Contemporary Contexts (1998) (7)
- Gangs, law enforcement, and the academy (2009) (7)
- The Analysis of Self-Descriptions by Members of Delinquent Gangs1 (1962) (7)
- Patrons, Clients and Friends: Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society.By S. N. Eisenstadt and L. Roniger. Cambridge University Press, 1984. 343 pp. Cloth, $39.50; paper, $14.95 (1986) (6)
- Criminology and the Study of Deviance (1981) (6)
- Criminal Differentiation and Occupational Differentiation (1974) (6)
- Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America by Gary LaFree:Losing Legitimacy: Street Crime and the Decline of Social Institutions in America. (1999) (5)
- Mutual Engagement: Sociology and Criminology? (2002) (5)
- Ethnic Segregation and Violence (2003) (4)
- Urban ethnography and research integrity (2009) (4)
- 8 – A NATURAL HISTORY OF ONE SOCIOLOGICAL CAREER (1969) (4)
- The place of rational choice in criminology and risk analysis (1997) (3)
- Delinquency, Crime, and Society. (1977) (3)
- On Collective Violence: Introduction and Overview (1970) (3)
- Criminology, History of (2015) (3)
- Action-Research Collaboration and Sociological Evaluation (1967) (3)
- Nuclear Waste: Progress with Public Engagement—Response (2010) (3)
- 6. Promoting Research Integrity in Community-Based Intervention Research (2010) (3)
- "Bargaining with Patriarchy" and "Bad Girl Femininity": Relationship and Behaviors among Chicago Girl Gangs, 1959–62 (2019) (3)
- The Changing Nature of Crime in America (2000) (3)
- African Homicide and Suicide.Paul Bohannan (1960) (3)
- Gangs, Sociology of (2001) (3)
- Experiments in teaching effectiveness : applied to introductory sociology (1958) (3)
- An investigation of the relation between crime and business cycles (1980) (2)
- Bringing the Study of Street Gangs Back into the Mainstream (2015) (2)
- Antifa, Street Gangs, and the Importance of Group Processes (2018) (2)
- The Sociocultural Context of Delinquency (1960) (2)
- Ernest W. Burgess on Community, Family, and Delinquency: Chicago: Heritage of Sociology Series (1973) (1)
- Book Review:The Gang: A Study in Adolescent Behavior. Herbert A. Bloch, Arthur Niederhoffer (1959) (1)
- Discussion: wrestling with the beast (2006) (1)
- Controlling Violent Crime (2018) (1)
- Legitimating the Behavioral and Social Sciences (1989) (1)
- Book Review:Troublemakers: Rebellious Youth in an Affluent Society. T. R. Fyvel (1964) (1)
- Organizations, Uncertainties and Risk. (1994) (1)
- A Note on Relief Programs and Crimes During the Depression of the 1930s's (1952) (1)
- Book Review:Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime. Francis A. J. Ianni (1975) (0)
- The Chicago School's Contribution to Criminological Theory and Methods (2021) (0)
- Book Review:Social Deviancy and Adolescent Personality: An Analytical Study With the MMPI. John C. Ball (1964) (0)
- Annual Review of Sociology. Volume 8, 1982. (1981) (0)
- Introduction: (1999) (0)
- The Role of Unsupervised Youth Groups in Violence (2018) (0)
- Partying, Cruising, and Hanging in the Streets: Gangs, Routine Activities, and Delinquency and Violence in Chicago, 1959–1962 (2013) (0)
- Introduction (1967) (0)
- Introduction (1981) (0)
- Visions of Social Control: Crime, Punishment and Classification.Stanley Cohen (1986) (0)
- An Empirical World Loosely Coupled@@@Spatial Processes@@@Deviance and Social Control@@@Social Movements@@@Development and the World Economy (1989) (0)
- Reflections on disciplines and fields, problems, policies, and life * (2020) (0)
- Controlling Delinquents.Stanton Wheeler , Helen MacGill HughesSocial Class and Delinquency.Lynn McDonald (1970) (0)
- Explaining Violence: Learning, Personality, and Social Contexts of Poverty, Race, and Ethnicity (2018) (0)
- Social Control and/or/as Aggression (1986) (0)
- Comment on Bock and Webber's “Social Status and Relational System of Elderly Suicides” (1972) (0)
- Status Forces in Delinquent Boys.Martin Gold (1964) (0)
- Government commissions and the search for knowledge (2020) (0)
- Editor's Introduction: Toward a Sociolegai Paradigm of Risk (2008) (0)
- Community and Neighborhood Contexts of Violent Crime (2018) (0)
- The Reconstruction of Patriotism: Education for Civic Consciousness.Morris Janowitz (1985) (0)
- Reflections on Disciplines and Fields, Problems, Policies, and Life (2018) (0)
- Social Structure and Group Processes in Explanation of Gang Delinquency (2017) (0)
- Risk Management, Vol. I: Theories, Cases, Policies and Politics. Vol. II: Management and Control (2004) (0)
- Book Review:Kids, Crime and Chaos: A World Report on Juvenile Delinquency. Roul Tunley (1963) (0)
- Crime: Sociological Aspects (2001) (0)
- Trans-action Books.@@@Cuban Communism.@@@Campus Power Struggle.@@@The Changing South.@@@Where Medicine Fails.@@@The Sexual Scene.@@@Black Experience: Soul.@@@Black Experience: The Transformation of Activism.@@@Law and Order: Modern Criminals.@@@Law and Order: The Scales of Justice. (1971) (0)
- A Journalist's Perceptions, A Sociological Challenge@@@Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice. (1980) (0)
- Antifa, Street Gangs, and the Importance of Group Processes (2018) (0)
- Measuring Violent Crime: Trends and Social Distributions (2018) (0)
- Levels of Explanation of Violent Behavior Committed in Groups (2018) (0)
- Juvenile delinquency and delinquents : the nexus of change (2008) (0)
- Political change in Europe : the left and the future of the Atlantic Alliance (1980) (0)
- Shifts in the Analysis of Race and Ethnic Relations: A Review of Three Decades of Theory and Research (1981) (0)
- THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON THE CAUSES AND PREVENTION OF VIOLENCE. To Establish Justice, to Insure Domestic Tranquility: The Final Report. Pp. x1, 277. New York: Praeger, 1970. $8.00 (1971) (0)
- Erving Seemed Surprised at How Little “Power” Came with the ASA Presidency, and Noted that the Position of Secretary Carried Much More Clout (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews : The Violent Few: A Study of Dangerous Juvenile Offenders, Donna Martin Hamparian, Richard Schuster, Simon Dinitz, and John P. Conrad. Pp. 218. Lexington, Mass., D. C. Heath, 1978 (1980) (0)
- Youth Collectivities and Adolescent Violence (2001) (0)
- Crime, Sociology of (2015) (0)
- “Levels of Explanation” of Violent Crime (2018) (0)
- Violent Crime: Foreword (2003) (0)
- The Individual Level of Explanation: Biobehavioral Influences and Control (2018) (0)
- BURSIK INTRODUCTION: “CRIMINOLOGY LIKE IT OUGHTA BE!” (2009) (0)
- Foreword by James F. Short Jr. (1997) (0)
- THE FUTURE OF IMPRISONMENT, Norval Morris, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1974. $6.95 (cloth) (1976) (0)
- Suicide@@@Suicide and Attempted Suicide@@@Status, Integration and Suicide@@@Suicide and Homicide (1965) (0)
- Explaining Violent Crime: The Macrosocial Level of Explanation (2018) (0)
- Pathways to Suicide: A Survey of Self-Destructive Behaviors.Ronald W. Maris (1984) (0)
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