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Marc Gertz

Criminal Justice

#116

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#133

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#15

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Policing

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Criminology

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#96

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Sociology

#2242

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#2497

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Marc Gertz'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, Marc G. Gertz is an American criminologist and professor at the Florida State University College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research includes an influential 1995 survey he conducted with his Florida State University colleague, Gary Kleck, on the frequency of defensive gun use.

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The Construct Validity and Refinement of Process-Based Policing Measures (2007) (483)
RACIAL TYPIFICATION OF CRIME AND SUPPORT FOR PUNITIVE MEASURES (2004) (427)
Crime, News and Fear of Crime: Toward an Identification of Audience Effects (1997) (361)
RACIAL COMPOSITION OF NEIGHBORHOOD AND FEAR OF CRIME (1997) (314)
FEAR, TV NEWS, AND THE REALITY OF CRIME* (2000) (283)
Armed resistance to crime: the prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun (1995) (255)
Perceived Racial and Ethnic Composition of Neighborhood and Perceived Risk of Crime (2001) (230)
THE MISSING LINK IN GENERAL DETERRENCE RESEARCH (2005) (175)
Television and Fear of Crime: Program Types, Audience Traits, and the Mediating Effect of Perceived Neighborhood Racial Composition (2003) (169)
Race and attitudes toward the police: Assessing the effects of watching "reality" police programs (2002) (145)
Punitive attitudes toward criminals (2009) (144)
RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PERCEIVED NEIGHBORHOOD RACIAL COMPOSITION AND WHITES' PERCEPTIONS OF VICTIMIZATION RISK: DO RACIAL STEREOTYPES MATTER? ∗ (2012) (131)
Economic Insecurity, Blame, and Punitive Attitudes (2005) (130)
Public perceptions of white-collar crime and punishment (2008) (121)
The typification of Hispanics as criminals and support for punitive crime control policies (2011) (108)
The Scary World of Online News? Internet News Exposure and Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice (2016) (104)
Sex Crimes, Children, and Pornography (2008) (94)
PUBLIC OPINION AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE JUVENILE COURT (2007) (94)
ETHNIC THREAT AND SOCIAL CONTROL: EXAMINING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR JUDICIAL USE OF ETHNICITY IN PUNISHMENT* (2011) (76)
Carrying Guns for Protection: Results from the National Self-Defense Survey (1998) (64)
Public (Mis)Understanding of Crime Policy (2015) (63)
Female Inmates’ Procedural Justice Perceptions of the Police and Courts (2014) (61)
Why do people support gun control? Alternative explanations of support for handgun bans (2009) (59)
A test of a micro-level application of shaming theory (2003) (52)
Strain, Crime, and Contingencies (2008) (51)
Perceived Criminal Threat from Undocumented Immigrants: Antecedents and Consequences for Policy Preferences (2016) (49)
Shared Race/Ethnicity, Court Procedural Justice, and Self‐Regulating Beliefs: A Study of Female Offenders (2015) (48)
The Social Correlates of Punitiveness Toward Criminals: A Comparison of the Czech Republic and Florida (2002) (48)
Retraction Notice: The Social Context of Latino Threat and Punitive Latino Sentiment (2015) (46)
Undocumented Immigrant Threat and Support for Social Controls (2014) (41)
The racial foundations of whites' support for child saving. (2014) (40)
Examining Public Preferences for the Allocation of Resources to Rehabilitative Versus Punitive Crime Policies (2015) (40)
Civil Service Reform in Florida State Government (2003) (40)
Investigating the Determinants of the Street Code and its Relation to Offending among Adults (2012) (35)
Victimization, Fear of Crime, and Trust in Criminal Justice Institutions: A Cross-National Analysis (2018) (34)
Crime Salience and Public Willingness to Pay for Child Saving and Juvenile Punishment (2016) (31)
Environmental Risk Exposure, Risk Perception, Political Ideology and Support for Climate Policy (2017) (28)
Sentencing policy and disparity: Guidelines and the influence of legal and democratic subcultures (2008) (28)
Race, punishment, and the Michael Vick experience. (2011) (26)
Examining External Support Received in Prison and Concerns About Reentry Among Incarcerated Women (2016) (26)
The Effect of Interracial Contact on Whites' Perceptions of Victimization Risk and Black Criminality (2013) (25)
The illegitimacy of one-sided speculation: getting the defensive gun use estimate down (1997) (24)
Racial Crime Stereotypes and Offender Juvenility (2014) (22)
Impediments to Cross-national Research: Problems of Reliability and Validity (1992) (22)
Major criminal justice systems : a comparative survey (1987) (19)
The Influence of Gender on the Placement of Children with Gay or Lesbian Adoptive Parents (2007) (18)
Economic anxieties, fear of crime, and punitive attitudes in Latin America (2020) (18)
Sometimes Ignorance is Bliss: Investigating Citizen Perceptions of the Certainty and Severity of Punishment (2012) (17)
The Criminal Justice System: Politics and Policies (2012) (16)
The National Felon League?: A comparison of NFL arrests to general population arrests (2015) (16)
Contact and Compromise (2014) (16)
What about the environment? Assessing the perceived seriousness of environmental crime (2011) (16)
They Protect Our Homeland but Neglect Our Community (2016) (15)
Variables influencing sentencing severity: Intercourt differences in Connecticut (1985) (15)
Superficial Survey Choice: An Experimental Test of a Potential Method for Increasing Response Rates and Response Quality in Correctional Surveys (2014) (14)
Security at the Expense of Liberty (2013) (13)
Housing for the “Worst of the Worst” Inmates (2013) (13)
Racial Threat and Opposition to the Re-Enfranchisement of Ex-Felons (2012) (12)
Fear of punishment and the willingness to engage in criminal behavior: A research note (1995) (11)
The Impact of Prosecutor/Public Defender Interaction on Sentencing: An Exploratory Typology (1980) (11)
Out-Group Animus and Punitiveness in Latin America (2020) (10)
Public perceptions on paying student athletes (2013) (10)
Czech police officers (2004) (10)
Taxation with Representation? (2010) (9)
White’s Residential Preferences (2012) (8)
Problems of reliability and validity in criminal justice research (1977) (8)
Saving Children, Damning Adults? An Examination of Public Support for Juvenile Rehabilitation and Adult Punishment (2019) (7)
Are NFL Arrestees Violent Specialists or High Frequency Offenders or Both? (2016) (7)
15 years later: Post 9/11 support for increased security and criminalizing muslims (2017) (6)
Public attitudes toward blameworthiness and control of the mortgage foreclosure crisis (2011) (5)
DIFFERENCES IN COMMUNITY STANDARDS FOR THE VIEWING OF HETEROSEXUAL AND HOMOSEXUAL PORNOGRAPHY (2000) (5)
The Ethnic Typification of Crime and Support for Punitive Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis of Arabs in Israel (2012) (5)
The Dynamics of Plea Bargaining in Three Countries (1990) (4)
What Happens on the Field Stays on the Field: Exploring the Link between Football Player Penalties and Criminal Arrests (2017) (4)
Expanding social workers' perceptions of multicultural practice: an illustration from the Hispanic community (1998) (3)
Public Opinion of Genetic and Neuropsychological Contributors to Criminal Involvement (2014) (3)
Prosecutorial decisionmaking in the Netherlands: A research note (1990) (2)
Group Threat, Racial/Ethnic Animus, and Punitiveness in Latin America: A Multilevel Analysis (2020) (2)
Race and Gender Effects on Perception of Criminal Events: Testing Hypotheses from Black's "The Behavior of Law.". (1994) (2)
Change in regime, social change and incarceration rates in Hungary (1997) (2)
INFLUENCE IN COURT SYSTEMS: THE CLERK AS INTERFACE (2016) (2)
DUI Policy: Can the United States Learn from Scandinavia? (1993) (1)
Exploring sentencing in three European cities (1995) (1)
Hispanic perceptions of youth gangs: A descriptive exploration (1995) (1)
Crime in College Predicts Violent Crime in the National Football League (2018) (1)
Sometimes Ignorance is Bliss: Investigating Citizen Perceptions of the Certainty and Severity of Punishment (2011) (0)
Media Reliance and Public Knowledge about Criminal Punishment (2012) (0)
Superficial Survey Choice: An Experimental Test of a Potential Method for Increasing Response Rates and Response Quality in Correctional Surveys (2013) (0)
Assessment of Procedural and Distributive Justice in Police Research (2005) (0)
The Scary World of Online News? Internet News Exposure and Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice (2015) (0)
Perceived Racial Composition and Perceived Criminal Threat: Examining the Moderating Effect of Ideology (2010) (0)
A Post-9/11 Balancing Act: Individual Rights versus the State's Authority (2005) (0)
Investigating the Determinants of the Street Code and its Relation to Offending among Adults (2011) (0)
Is the Meaning of Procedural Justice Universal? An Examination of Female Inmates (2012) (0)
Low Self-Control and Public Perceptions of Identity Theft (2011) (0)
Perceptions of Court Fairness: A Comparative Analysis of Germans and Americans (2010) (0)
Perceived and Actual Racial and Ethnic Composition of Neighborhoods and Minority Threat (2006) (0)
Policing Process Questionnaire (2018) (0)
Perceived Court Fairness in Germany and the United States (2009) (0)
Perceived Threats from Illegal Immigrants and Popular Support for Criminal Justice Policies (2010) (0)
The Blurred ‘Blue line’: a cross-national comparison of the sources of public support for extralegal policing (2020) (0)
Racial Stereotypes and Concern about Crime and Terrorism: Comparing Race and Gender Effects (2010) (0)
Variation in Self-Reported Familial and Marital Social Bonds and among First Time and Repeat Female Offenders (2011) (0)
The Ties that Bind: Variation in Self-Reported Community and Social Bonds among Female Offenders (2011) (0)
Perceived Criminal Threat from Illegal Immigrants and Popular Support for Punitive Controls (2009) (0)
Selected Reading: Perceived Criminal Threat from Undocumented Immigrants (2017) (0)
Self- and Socially-Imposed Sanction Risk Perception Among Deterrable Offenders (2008) (0)

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