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Crime and Delinquency in Nevada (with Brooke M. Wagner, Andrew L. Spivak, and Deborah Koetzle), The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (2012)

Crime and justice system have received much attention from American scholars and politicians in the...

 

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The Determinants of Executions Since 1951: How Politics, Protests, Public Opinion, and Social Divisions Shape Capital Punishment (with David Jacobs), Social Problems (2007)

This time-series study uses hypotheses derived from a politically refined version of conflict theory to...

 

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Delinquency and Crime in Nevada (with Deborah K. Shaffer), The Social Health of Nevada: Leading Indicators and Quality of Life in the Silver State (2006)

The United States has always had significantly higher crime rates than other developed nations, and...