Contributions to Books

1. "White Institutions and Black Rage" (with P. H. Rossi, D. P. Boesel, B. K. Edison and W. Eugene Groves), in Ghetto Revolts, Peter H. Rossi (ed.), MIT Press, 1970.

2. "The Emergency of Muted Violence in Crowd Behavior: A Case Study of an Almost Riot," in Collective Violence, James F. Short, Jr. and Marvin E. Wolfgang (eds.), Aldine Press, 1972.

3. "The Controversy Surrounding Analyses of Collective Violence: Some Methodological Notes," in Collective Violence, James F. Short Jr. and Marvin E. Wolfgang (eds.), Aldine Press, 1972.

4. "Characteristics of Public Issues as Determinants of Political Behavior" (with P. H. Rossi), in Cities in Change, John Walton and Donald Carns (eds.), Allyn Bacon, 1973.

5. "Data Requirements for Evaluation Research: A Plea to Plan Ahead," in Criminal Justice Research, Emilio Viano (ed.), D. C. Heath, 1975.

6. "Social Science and Jury Selection: A Case Study of a Civil Suit," in Psychology and the Law, Gordon Bermant, Charlon Nemeth and Neil Vidar (eds.), D. C. Heath, 1976.

7. "Some Ethical Implications of the New Jersey Pennsylvania Income Maintenance Experiment" (with P. H. Rossi and M. Boeckman), in Ethics and Social Intervention, H. C. Kelman and D. P. Warwick (eds.), Washington D.C.: Hemisphere Press, 1977.

8. "The Politics of Corrections Reform" (with P. H. Rossi), in Corrections and Punishment: Structure, Function, and Process, Volume VIII, David Greenburg (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1977.

9. "Feet of Clay in Hobnail Boots: An Assessment of Statistical Inference in Applied Research" (with M. Brewer), in Evaluation Studies Review Annual, Volume III, Thomas Cook (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1978.

10. "The New Home Economics: An Agenda for Sociological Research," in Women and Household Work, Sarah F. Berk (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980.

11. "Money Work and Crime: A Summary of Findings from the Transitional Aid Research Project" (with P. H. Rossi and K. J. Lenihan), in Problems in American Social Policy Research, C. C. Abt (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1980.

12. "A Didactice Review of Some Recent Statistical Developments with Implications for the Evaluation of Criminal Justice Programs," in Handbooks of Criminal Justice Evaluation, M. Klein and K. Teilman (eds.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980.

13. "Evaluating Criminal Justice Legislation" (with P. Burstein and I. Nagel), in Handbook of Criminal Justice Evaluations, M. Klein and K. Teilman (eds.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980.

14. "A Retrospective on Prison Reform and Elites" (with P. H. Rossi), in Measuring Social Judgements: The Factorial Survey Approach, Steven Nock (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1980.

15. "A Further Test of the Stability of Punishment Hypothesis" (with D. Rauma and S. Messinger), in Methodolgical Developments in Criminological Research, J. Hagan (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1982.

16. "Where Angels Fear to Tread and Why," in Standards for Program Evaluation, P. H. Rossi (ed.), San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1982.

17. "Training in Quanitative Methods," in Applied Sociology, H. E. Freeman, Russell R. Dynes, P. H. Rossi, and W. F. Whyte (eds.), San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1983.

18. "The Criminological Diagnosis of Collective Behavior: An Argument for Disaggregate Labeling" (with L. Masotti), in Criminological Diagnosis: An International Perspective, Wolfgang and Ferracuti (eds.), Boston: Lexington Press, 1983, (written in 1974).

19. "Mutual Combat and Other Family Violence Myths" (with S. F. Berk, D. R. Loseke and D. Rauma), in The Dark Side of Families, Finkelhorn et al. (eds.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1983.

20. "Introduction and Overview" (with Marilynn Brewer), in Beyond Nine to Five: Sexual Harassment on the Job, M. B. Brewer and R. A. Berk (eds.), special issue of The Journal of Social Issues, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1983.

21. "Supply Side Sociology of the Family: The Challenge of the New Home Economics" (with S. F. Berk), in the Annual Review of Sociology, Vol. 9, R. H. Turner (ed.), 1983.

22. "The Scope of Evaluation Activities in the United States" (with Peter H. Rossi), in Evaluating the Welfare State: Social and Political Perspectives, S. E. Spiro and E. Yuchtman Yar (eds.), New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1983.

23. "An Introduction to Applications of the General Nonlinear Model," in Handbook of Survey Research, P. H. Rossi, J. Wright and A. Anderson (eds.), New York: Academic Press, 1983.

24. "Some Consequences of Convenience Samples in Crime and Justice Research," in Proceedings of the American Statistical Association Workshop on Crime and Justice Statistics, A. Galfand (ed.), Washington D.C.: National Institute of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, 1983.

25. "The Randomization of Arrest" (with Lawrence Sherman), in Randomization and Field Experimentation, R. F. Boruch and W. Wothke (eds.), San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1985.

26. "Data Collection Strategies in the Minneapolis Domestic Assault Experiment," in Collection Evaluation Data: Problems and Solutions, H. Freeman, P. H. Rossi and L. Burstein (eds.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1985.

27. "Program Evaluation," in the Final Report of the Attorney General's Commission on the Prevention of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, Sacramento: Office of the Attorney General, 1986.

28. "A Conceptual Framework for Measuring Norms" (with Peter H. Rossi), in the Social Fabric, James F. Short, Jr. (ed.), Beverly Hills: Sage Publications, 1987.

29. "Causal Inference as a Prediction Problem," in Classification and Prediction in Criminal Justice Decisions, D. Gottfredson and M. Tonry (eds.), Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.

30. "The Economics of Household Production: A Critique," in the New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economic Theory and Doctrin, J. Eatwell, M. M. Milgate and P. Newman (eds.), Macmillan Press, 1987.

31. "How Applied Sociology Can Save Basic Sociology," in The Future of Sociology, E. Borgatta and K. Cook (eds.), Newbury Park, ÇA: Sage Publications, 1988.

32. "Casual Inference for Sociological Data," in The Handbook of Sociology, N. Smelser (ed.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988.

33. "An Empirical Analysis of Police Responses to Incidents of Wife Battery" (with S. F. Berk and P. J. Newton), in Coping with Family Violence: New Research, D. Finkelhorn, G. Hotaling and M. Straus (eds.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1988.

34. "The Social Consequences of AIDS: Some Preliminary Observations," in The Social Impact of AIDS in the U.S., R. A. Berk (ed.), Cambridge, MA: Abt Books, 1989.

35. "A Primer on Robust Regression," in Modern Methods of Data Analysis, S. Long and J. Fox (eds.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990.

36. "What Your Mother Never Told You About Randomized Field Experiments," in Community Based Care of People with AIDS: Developing a Research Agenda, AHCPR Conference Proceedings, Washington D.C.: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1990.

37. "Current Perspectives on Environmental Problems and Environmental Policies" in Values in Conflict: Policy Interactions in the Pacific Basin, J. P. Montgomery (ed.), CSIA Discussion Paper 91-98, Kennedy School of Goverment, Harvard University, September 1991.

38. "Time Series Analysis," in Encyclopedia of Sociology, E. F. Borgatta (editor-in-chief), Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1991.

39. "Research Priorities for the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change," in Global Environmental Change, NATO ASI Series, Vol I, P. Anderson, J. Eddy and R. Corell (eds.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992.

40. "Thinking More Clearly About Hate-Motivated Crimes" (with E. Boyd and K. Hamner), in Hate Crimes: Confronting Violence Against Lesbians and Gay Men, G. M. Herek and K. T. Berrill (eds.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992.

41. "Studying the Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change," in Global Climate Change and California: Potential Impacts and Responses, N. Dowling and J. Knox (eds.), Davis, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

42. "Arresting Ex-offenders in Spouse Abuse Incidents: What the Scientific Evidence Shows," in Understanding Family Violence, Richard Gelles and Doniken Loseke (eds.), Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.

43. "Hate Crime" in M.S. Hamm (ed.), Hate Crime: International Perspectives on Causes and Control, New York: Anderson Publishing, 1993.

44. "Uncertainty in the Construction and Interpretation of Mesoscale Models of Physical and Biological Processes," Peter Goffman and Gene Likens (eds.), New York: Chapman and Hall, 1994.

45. "Sexual Activity as Told in Surveys," (with Paul R. Abramson and Paul Okami) in P.R. Abramson and S. Pinkerton, Sexual Nature, Sexual Culture, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.

46. "Statistical Assumptions as Empirical Commitments," (with David A. Freedman), in T. Blomberg and S. Cohen (eds.), Law, Punishment, and Social Control: Essays in Honor of Sheldon Messinger, second edition. Aldine de Gruyter, 2003, pages 235-254 (earlier version in the first edition, 1995).

47. "Statistical Inference for Sociological Data," in M. Alexander et al., (eds.), Refashioning Sociology: Responses to a New World Order, pp. 215-220, TASA Conference Proceedings, Brisbane, 1998.

48. "Computer Simulations as Experiments: Using Program Evaluation Tools to Assess the Validity of Interventions in Virtual Worlds," (with Jason Bond, Rong Lu, Richard Turco, and Robert Weiss), in L. Bickman (ed.), Donald Campbell's Legacy (Volume II): Contributions to Research Design, Sage Publications, 2000.

49. "Random Walk" in Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, M.L. Beck (ed.). Sage Publications, forthcoming 2004.

50. "Multilevel Statistical Models and Ecological Scaling," (with Jan de Leeuw) in Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology: Methods and Applications, Jianguo Wu et al. (eds.), Columbia University Press, Forthcoming, 2005.

51. "Data Mining within a Regression Framework," in Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Handbook: A Complete Guide for Practitioners and Researchers, Oded Maimon and Lior Rokach (eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Forthcoming, 2005.