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Michael R. Gottfredson

Criminal Justice

#13

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#19

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#12

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Criminology

#17

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#23

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#11

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Michael R. Gottfredson

Sociology

#121

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#169

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#64

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Michael R. Gottfredson's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of Pennsylvania
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Ryan Gottfredson is the former President of the University of Oregon, serving from August 1, 2012 to August 6, 2014. Biography He has a B.A from the University of California, Davis, a M.A. and a Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Albany.

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Michael R. Gottfredson's Published Works

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A General Theory of Crime (1990) (4369)
Age and the Explanation of Crime (1983) (1890)
Victims of Personal Crime: An Empirical Foundation for a Theory of Personal Victimization (1977) (1456)
OF CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION (1981) (926)
Commentary: Testing the General Theory of Crime (1993) (437)
Decisionmaking in criminal justice: Toward the rational exercise of discretion (1980) (361)
THE TRUE VALUE OF LAMBDA WOULD APPEAR TO BE ZERO: AN ESSAY ON CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL CAREERS, SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION, COHORT STUDIES, AND RELATED TOPICS* (1986) (330)
Decision Making in Criminal Justice (1988) (259)
Control theory and the life-course perspective. (1995) (234)
A Study of the Behavior of Law (1979) (233)
THE METHODOLOGICAL ADEQUACY OF LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH ON CRIME (1987) (225)
On the Etiology of Criminal Victimization (1981) (209)
Victims of crime: The dimensions of risk (1984) (199)
The Generality of Deviance (1995) (197)
CAUSES OF WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME* (1987) (164)
SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE CAREER PARADIGM* (1988) (148)
In Defense of Self-Control (2000) (137)
Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know. (2016) (133)
Implementation and Evaluation (1995) (123)
The Empirical Status of Control Theory in Criminology (2017) (86)
A general theory of adolescent problem behavior: Problems and prospects. (1994) (81)
Social Indicators of Adolescent Activities Near Peers and Parents. (1984) (80)
Self‐Control Theory (2007) (80)
Beyond Probation: Juvenile Corrections and the Chronic Delinquent (1979) (76)
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression: Self-Control Theory and Criminal Violence (2007) (72)
Substantive Contributions of Victimization Surveys (1986) (65)
Rethinking the Juvenile Justice System (1993) (61)
Treatment Destruction Techniques (1979) (61)
Policy Guidelines for Bail: An Experiment in Court Reform. (1985) (57)
Understanding Crime: Current Theory And Research (1980) (55)
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHITE-COLLAR CRIME FOR A GENERAL THEORY OF CRIME (1989) (49)
Another Look At the Effectiveness of Parole Supervision (1982) (44)
Drug Testing and Pretrial Misconduct: An Experiment on the Specific Deterrent Effects of Drug Monitoring Defendants on Pretrial Release (1992) (44)
Offender Classifications and Treatment Effects in Developmental Criminology: A Propensity/ Event Consideration (2005) (44)
A control theory interpretation of psychological research on aggression. (1993) (42)
Modern Control Theory and the Limits of Criminal Justice (2019) (41)
Bail decision making and pretrial detention (1979) (40)
A consideration of telescoping and memory decay biases in victimization surveys (1977) (39)
Sanctions, situations, and agency in control theories of crime (2011) (38)
Substantive Positivism and the Idea of Crime (1990) (37)
Design of the Research (1995) (36)
National crime control policies (1995) (35)
Self-Control and Opportunity (2017) (33)
Age and Crime, Logic and Scholarship: Comment on Greenberg (1985) (31)
Parole Board Decision Making: A Study of Disparity Reduction and the Implact of Institutional Behavior (1979) (31)
Sociological Aspects of Criminal Victimization (1981) (31)
Time served in prison and parole outcomes among parolee risk categories (1977) (31)
The Criminal Career Perspective as an Explanation of Crime and a Guide to Crime Control Policy (2016) (27)
PRISON BEHAVIOR AND RELEASE PERFORMANCE (1982) (24)
Risk-based crime statistics: A forecasting comparison for burglary and auto theft (1985) (23)
Theory and Research in the Sociology of Law (1979) (23)
An empirical analysis of pre-trial release decisions☆ (1974) (23)
The Distinction between Crime and Criminality (2017) (22)
Pretrial Drug Testing and Defendant Risk (1990) (22)
Urban structure and victimization (1982) (21)
Control Theories of Crime and Delinquency (2017) (19)
All Wise After the Fact Learning Theory, Again: Reply to Baldwin (1985) (18)
The Social Scientist and Rehabilitative Crime Policy (1982) (16)
Towards a general theory of crime. (1988) (15)
A Multidimensional Contingency Table Analysis of Parole Outcome (1978) (15)
Some Advantages of a Crime-free Criminology (2011) (13)
Personal Liberty and Community Safety (1995) (12)
Parole Guidelines and the Red uction of Sentenci ng Disparity (1979) (11)
15. Punishment of Children from the Perspective of Control Theory (2017) (9)
General Theory and Global Criminology: Childhood Environments, Problem Behaviors, and a Focus on Prevention (2018) (9)
A Note on the Role of Basic Theory in Thinking About Crime Prevention (2013) (8)
Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance by Ronald L. Akers:Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance (1999) (7)
Trite But True (1980) (7)
In Pursuit of A General Theory of Crime (2017) (7)
Self-Control Theory and Crime (2017) (6)
Crisis in American criminal policy? (1996) (4)
The Essential Role of Cross-national Research in Assessing Theories of Crime: Illustrations from Modern Control Theory (2021) (4)
Book Reviews (1999) (4)
Control Theories of Crime and Delinquency: Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 12 (2017) (4)
Legal Aim, Discretion, and Social Control (1983) (3)
Policy Implications About Properties of Arrest Risk Across Populations of Provisional Employees With and Without a Criminal Record (2017) (3)
Social Control and Self-Control Theory (2018) (2)
Age and the Explanation of Crime 1 (2007) (2)
31. Three Facts and Their Implications for Research on Crime (1991) (2)
A Propensity-Event Theory of Crime (2017) (2)
Criminal Victimization and the Elderly. (1987) (1)
Modern Control Theory, Lifestyle, and Criminal Victimization (2021) (1)
The Victim’s Decision to Report a Crime (1988) (1)
The Implementation of Pretrial Release Guidelines in Maricopa County (1995) (1)
Methods and Measures in Testing a General Theory of Crime (2020) (1)
The Use of Prisons as a Commons Problem: An Exploratory Study (1996) (1)
Pretrial Release Decisions (1988) (1)
Crime, Immigration, and Public Policy (2020) (1)
Response to Lerman (1980) (1)
Traditions in Social Science and Victim Policy (1990) (1)
Drug Testing in the Workplace: A View from the Data (1991) (1)
The Decision to Arrest (1988) (1)
Toward More Rational Decision Making (1988) (1)
Urban Structure and Victimization.By David L. Decker, David Shichor, and Robert M. O'Brien. Lexington Books, 1982. 180 pp. $15.95 (1984) (0)
SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS *10604 OF CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION (1981) (0)
Scholarship in the Public Interest (2016) (0)
General Theory and Global Criminology: Childhood Environments, Problem Behaviors, and a Focus on Prevention (2018) (0)
ReNew the New: An Approach for Regional River Clean-ups on the New River (2017) (0)
Consideration of Alternative Decisionmaking Models (1995) (0)
The basis for believing in the biological basis of crime. (1990) (0)
The Consequences of Bail Decisions in the Three Courts (1995) (0)
Pretrial Release in the Criminal Court (2010) (0)
Evidence about Guidelines (1995) (0)
Radical Issues in Criminology.Edited by Pat Carlen and Mike Collison. Totowa, N.J.: Barnes & Noble, 1980. 212 pp. $23.50 (1982) (0)
Moving Control Theory Forward (2020) (0)
The Implementation of Pretrial Release Guidelines (“Uniform Bond Standards”) in Dade County (1995) (0)
Prisons, Deterrence, and Incapacitation (2020) (0)
Multiple Causes and Multiple Factors in a Choice Theory of Crime (2020) (0)
The Nature of Bail Decisionmaking in Dade County (1995) (0)
Estimating the Impact of the Guidelines (1995) (0)
Stability Matters (2019) (0)
Bail, Pretrial Release, and Detention: The Critical Need for Judicial Reform (1995) (0)
The Construction of Pretrial Release Decision Guidelines in the Courts (1995) (0)
Self Control, Social Control, Morality, and Opportunity in a Choice Theory of Crime (2020) (0)
The Decision to Charge (1988) (0)
The Courts in Boston, Dade County, and Maricopa County (1995) (0)
Poster 45. What is Crime in Crime Trend Analysis?: A Research Note (2006) (0)
The Nature of Bail Decisionmaking in Boston Municipal Court (1995) (0)
The Nature of Bail Decisionmaking in Maricopa County (1995) (0)
A Note on the Role of Basic Theory in Thinking About Crime Prevention (2013) (0)
Correctional Decisions in Institutions (1988) (0)
Visibility, Equity, Rationality, and Effectiveness in the Three Court Systems (1995) (0)
Correctional Decisions in the Community (1988) (0)
Interview with Michael R. Gottfredson (2013) (0)
General Theory, Public Policy, and the Limits of Criminal Justice (2019) (0)
The Development and Implementation of Voluntary Guidelines in Criminal Justice (1995) (0)
Age Matters (2019) (0)
Punishment and restitution: A restitutionary approach to crime and the criminal: by Charles F. Abel and Frank H. Marsh. Greenwood Press (88 Post Road West, Westport, Connecticut 06881), 1984, 232 pp., hardcover—$29.95. (1987) (0)
Postscript: Pretrial Release Guidelines and the Passage of Time (1995) (0)
The Promise of Decision Guidelines for Pretrial Release (1995) (0)
Self-Control Theory of Crime (2019) (0)
Book Reviews : Surveillance and Service in Parole, Elliot Studt. Pp. 229. Washington, D.C., Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons, National Institute of Corrections, 1978 (original printing 1973 (1979) (0)
Biology and Crime. (1989) (0)
Bail Reform Revisited: Two Recent Experiments (2016) (0)

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