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Robert D. Hiscott - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Effect of Prior Youth Court Dispositions on Current Disposition: An Application of Societal-Reaction Theory
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2001
    Co-Authors: Anthony Matarazzo, Peter J. Carrington, Robert D. Hiscott
    Abstract:

    This paper tests hypotheses implicit in the Societal-Reaction perspective concerning the nature and pattern of the relationship between prior and current youth court dispositions. The dispositional stage is the most critical decision-making level which young offenders encounter in their contact with the youth court system. Previous research has produced inconsistent results in the attempt to determine which model or models of justice underlie dispositional decisions by youth court judges. Log-linear modeling is employed on 16,636 youth court cases in Canada in 1993/1994 to determine the nature and magnitude of the relationship between current and prior dispositions. The results indicate that prior youth court dispositions exert a significant impact on current dispositions, even when relevant variables are controlled. Evidence is found mainly of stabilization—the repetition of the same type of disposition—and also of escalation in dispositions. These findings provide support for the Societal-Reaction theory and possibly for the desert-based theory of sentencing.

Carla Mullenquinn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Societal Reaction to sex offenders a review of the origins and results of the myths surrounding their crimes and treatment amenability
    Deviant Behavior, 2004
    Co-Authors: James F Quinn, Craig J Forsyth, Carla Mullenquinn
    Abstract:

    Examination of Societal Reaction to sexual offenders reveals a history of harshness exemplified by the sexual psychopath laws of the 1930s. The latest round of legal attempts to control sex offenders uses Severe sentencing laws, civil commitment procedures and community notification statutes to confine and shame sex offenders. This paper shows these laws to be based on popular beliefs about the predatory nature of these men, the probability of their re-offense and their amenability to treatment rather than the facts about the sex offenses and offenders. The severe Reaction to sexual offenders is a vindictive one based on myth and misunderstanding that serves many interests. The paper exposes the contradictory myths and skewed emotions that guide our view of sex crimes and compares these with the facts about re-offense rates and the effects of treatment.

Anthony Matarazzo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Effect of Prior Youth Court Dispositions on Current Disposition: An Application of Societal-Reaction Theory
    Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 2001
    Co-Authors: Anthony Matarazzo, Peter J. Carrington, Robert D. Hiscott
    Abstract:

    This paper tests hypotheses implicit in the Societal-Reaction perspective concerning the nature and pattern of the relationship between prior and current youth court dispositions. The dispositional stage is the most critical decision-making level which young offenders encounter in their contact with the youth court system. Previous research has produced inconsistent results in the attempt to determine which model or models of justice underlie dispositional decisions by youth court judges. Log-linear modeling is employed on 16,636 youth court cases in Canada in 1993/1994 to determine the nature and magnitude of the relationship between current and prior dispositions. The results indicate that prior youth court dispositions exert a significant impact on current dispositions, even when relevant variables are controlled. Evidence is found mainly of stabilization—the repetition of the same type of disposition—and also of escalation in dispositions. These findings provide support for the Societal-Reaction theory and possibly for the desert-based theory of sentencing.

Natasha Markuzon - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • cost effective control of infectious disease outbreaks accounting for Societal Reaction
    PLOS ONE, 2015
    Co-Authors: Shannon M Fast, Marta C Gonzalez, Natasha Markuzon
    Abstract:

    Background Studies of cost-effective disease prevention have typically focused on the tradeoff between the cost of disease transmission and the cost of applying control measures. We present a novel approach that also accounts for the cost of social disruptions resulting from the spread of disease. These disruptions, which we call social response, can include heightened anxiety, strain on healthcare infrastructure, economic losses, or violence.

Zvi Eisikovits - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • The Social Construction of Disclosure: The Case of Child Abuse in Israeli Society
    Mandatory Reporting Laws and the Identification of Severe Child Abuse and Neglect, 2015
    Co-Authors: Zvi Eisikovits, Jonathan Davidov, Laura I. Sigad, Rachel Lev-wiesel
    Abstract:

    Based on 40 in-depth qualitative interviews with professionals, including law-enforcement personnel, educators, and mental health and health-care professionals, this chapter presents a study that describes and analyzes an insider’s view of the ways in which child abuse professionals perceive and understand the disclosure of violence. We found that disclosure is a function of social processes related to the values, ideologies, ways of thinking, and interests of the various social agents involved in the process. Thus, disclosure is not an objective fact-finding process and the subsequent assignment of visibility and proper Societal Reaction, but rather a social construction.

  • attitudes of israeli arab social workers concerning woman battering the relationship between responsibility Societal Reaction and legitimization of violence
    Journal of Social Service Research, 2000
    Co-Authors: Zvi Eisikovits, Avi Griffel, Michal Grinstein, Faisal Azaiza
    Abstract:

    Abstract The purpose of this study was to assess the relationship between attitudes towards intimate violence, knowledge about causality and preferred Societal Reaction to the phenomena among Israeli Arab social workers. One hundred thirty (130) Arab Israeli social workers were drawn randomly from the National Social Work registry and completed the “Attitudes of professionals towards intimate violence” questionnaire. SSA (Smallest Space Analysis) was performed. Findings show that most Arab Israeli social workers viewed the men as responsible for woman battering. The correlational structure of both attributed causality and perceived Societal response to woman battering displays a continuum: at one end, causes of violence are attributed to men, while at the other end we find, in smaller proportion, items which tend to blame the woman. Those who blame men tend to favor a punitive response and those who blame the women or both spouses tend to see intimate violence as a private matter, which requires no interv...