Interests include: Crime and Deterrence, Demand for Punishment, Judicial Decision Making and Racial and Gender Inequality in Punishment.
Articles
Deterrence, Brutalization, and the Death Penalty: Another Examination of Oklahoma's Return to Capital Punishment, Criminology (1998)
A replication and extension of a weekly ARIMA analysis (1989–1991) by Cochran et al. (1994),...
Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Evidence and an Examination of Police Killings. (with Ruth D. Peterson), Journal of Social Issues (1994)
This paper reviews and assesses the empirical literature on murder, capital punishment, and deterrence. There...
Felony Murder and Capital Punishment: an Examination of the Deterrence Question (with Ruth D. Peterson), Criminology (1991)
A proper test of the deterrent effect of the death penalty must consider capital homicides....
Police Killings and Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period (with Ruth D. Peterson), Criminology (1987)
In view of (1) escalating national attention and political and judicial activity centering on capital...
Poverty, Inequality, and City Homicide Rates: Some Not So Unexpected Findings, Criminology (1984)
Messner's recent investigation of homicide and relative and absolute economic deprivation is replicated here, but...