Contributions to Professional Journals

1. "White Institutions and Black Rage" (with P. H. Rossi, D.P. Boesal, B. K. Edison and W. E. Groves), Trans-Action, March 1969, pp. 24-31.

2. "Establishing Rapport with Deviant Groups" (with J. Adams), Social Problems, Fall 1970.

3. "Local Political Leadership and Popular Discontent in the Ghetto" (with P. H. Rossi), The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, September 1970.

4. "The Status of Women in Modern Language Departments: A Report" (with F. Howe and L. Morlock), Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, May 1971.

5. "Race and Class Differences in Per Pupil Staffing Schools, 1970-1971" (with A. Hartmann), Integrated Education, January 1972.

6. "Patterns of Vandalism During Civil Disorders as an Indicator of Selection of Targets" (with H. Aldrich), American Sociological Review 37(5):533-546, 1972.

7. "The Structuring of Normative Judgements Concerning the Seriousness of Crimes" (with P. H. Rossi, E. Waite and C. Bose), American Sociological Review 39 (2): 224-237, 1974.

8. "A Gaming Approach to Crowd Behavior," American Sociological Review, 39(3):355-373, 1974.

9. "Champagne's Assessment of Legal Services Programs: An Evaluation of an Evaluation," Urban Affairs Quarterly, Spring 1974.

10. "Generalized Performance Measures for Urban Political Systems" (with P. H. Rossi), Social Science Quarterly, Spring 1974.

11. "Performance Measures: Half Full or Half Empty?" in Social Science Quarterly, Spring 1974.

12. "Determinants of White Collar Income: An Evaluation of Equal Pay for Equal Work" (with W. Bridges), Social Science Research, Fall 1974.

13. "Doing Good or Worse: Evaluation Research Politically Re-Examined" (With P. H. Rossi), Social Problems, February 1975.

14. "Descriptive Distortions in Covariance Based Statistics" (with M. Hennessy and R. McCleary), Social Science Research 5(2):107-126, 1976.

15. "Household Work in the Suburbs: The Job and its Participants" (with C. Berheide and S. F. Berk), Pacific Sociological Review, October 1976.

16. "Broken Homes and Middle Class Delinquency: A Re-Evaluation" (with M. Hennessy and P. Richards), Criminology, February 1977.

17. "The Vagaries and Vulgarities of Scientific Jury Selection" (with M. Hennessy and J. Swan), Evaluation Quarterly 1(1):143-158, 1977.

18. "Discretionary Methodological Decisions in Applied Research," Sociological Methods and Research 5(3):317-334, 1977.

19. "Sex, Earnings and the Nature of Work: A Job Level Analysis of Male-Female Income Differences" (with W. P. Bridges), Social Science Quarterly, February 1978.

20. "A Time Series Analysis of the Impact of a Water Conservation Campaign" (with J. E. Maki and D. M. Hoffman), Evaluation Quarterly 2(1):107-118, 1978.

21. "A Simultaneous Equation Model for the Division of Household Labor" (with S. F. Berk), Sociological Methods and Research 6(4):431-468, 1978.

22. "The Wheels of Misfortune: A Time Series Analysis of Bicycle Accidents on a College Campus" (with N. Jurik, M. Johnson and T. Rose), Evaluation Quarterly 2(4):608-619, 1978.

23. "Doing Good Well: The Use of Quantitative Social Science Data in Advocacy Proceedings" (with J. Oppenheim), Law and Policy Quarterly 1(2):123-146, 1979.

24. "An Introduction to Estimation Procedures for Pooled Cross-Sectional and Time Series Data" (with D. Hoffman, J. Maki, D. Rauma and H. Wong), Evaluation Quarterly 3(3):385-410, 1979.

25. "A Dynamic Decision Theoretic Perspective on Modeling the Performance of the Criminal Justice System" (with T. Cooley), Social Sciences Research 8:265-286, 1979.

26. "Price and Prejudice: A Variance Components Analysis of Some Causes and Consequences of Regulating Chicago Storefront Banks" (with J. Oppenheim), Law and Society Review 14(1):7-26, 1980.

27. "Reducing Consumption in Periods of Acute Scarcity: The Case of Water" (with T. Cooley, C. J. LaCivita, R. Parker, K. Sredl and M. Brewer), Social Science Research 9(2):99-120, 1980.

28. "Bringing the Cops Back In: A Study of Efforts to Make the Criminal Justice System More Responsive to Incidents of Family Violence" (with D. R. Loseke, S. F. Berk and D. Rauma), Social Science Research 9(3):193-215, 1980.

29. "Crime and Poverty Among Ex-Offenders: Some Experimental Evidence" (with P. H. Rossi and K. J. Lenihan), American Sociological Review 45(5):766-786, 1980.

30. "Does IQ Really Matter: A Study of the Use of IQ Scores for Tracking the Mentally Retarded" (with A. Shih and W. Bridges), American Sociological Review 46(1):58-71, 1981.

31. "On Non-Linear Hierarchical Log Linear Models and the Iterative Proportion Fitting Algorithm" (with J. Magidson and J. Swan), Sociological Methods and Research 10(1):3-49, 1981.

32. "On the Compatibility of Basic and Applied Sociological Research: An Effort at Marriage Counseling," The American Sociologist, November 1981.

33. "An Overview of Evaluation Strategies and Procedures" (with P. H. Rossi), Human Organizations, Winter 1981.

34. "A Test of The Stability of Punishment Hypothesis: The Case of California, 1851-1970" (with D. Rauma, S. Messinger and T. Cooley), The American Sociological Review 46(6):805-828, 1981.

35. "Throwing the Cops Back Out: The Decline of a Local Program to Make the Criminal Justice System More Responsive to Incidents of Domestic Violence" (with D. Rauma, D. R. Loseke and S. F. Berk), Social Science Research 11(3):245-279, 1982.

36. "Selection Biases in Sociological Data" (with S. C. Ray), Social Science Research 11(4):351-398, 1982.

37. "Crime and Poverty: Some QuasiExperimental Evidence" (with David Rauma), Social Science Research 11(4):318-351, 1982.

38. "Beyond Nine to Five: Sexual Harassment on the Job," editor with M. B. Brewer of a special issue of The Journal of Social Issues 38(4), 1983.

39. "Capitalizing on Nonrandom Assignment to Treatments: A Regression Discontinuity Evaluation of a Crime Control Program" (with David Rauma), Journal of the American Statistical Association 78(381):21-27, 1983.

40. "An Introduction to Sample Selection Bias in Sociological Data," American Sociological Review 48(3):386-397, 1983.

41. "Prisons as Self Regulating Systems: The Case of California from 1851 to 1980" (with S. Messinger, D. Rauma and J. Berecochea), Law and Society Review 17(4):547-586, 1983.

42. "The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault" (with L. Sherman), American Sociological Review 49(2):261-271, 1984.

43. "Cops on Call: Summoning the Police to Domestic Violence Incidents" (with S. F. Berk, P. J. Newton and D. L. Loseke), Law and Society Review 18(3):479-498, 1984.

44. "The Foundations of Parole in California" (with S. L. Messinger, J. E. Berecochea and D. Rauma), Law and Society Review 19(1):69-106, 1985.

45. "Does Arrest Really Deter Wife Battery? An Effort to Replicate the Findings of the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment" (with P. Newton), American Sociological Review 50(2):253-262, 1985.

46. "Social Policy Experimentation: A Position Paper" (with R. Boruch, D. Chambers, P. Rossi and A. Witte), Evaluation Review 9(4):387-430, 1985.

47. "Varieties of Normative Consensus" (with P. H. Rossi), American Sociological Review 50(3):333-346, 1985.

48. "What a Difference a Day Makes: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Shelters for Battered Women" (with P. J. Newton and S. F. Berk), Journal of Marriage and the Family, June 1986.

49. "Remuneration and Recidivism: The Long-Term Impact of Unemployment Compensation on Ex-Offenders" (with D. Rauma), Journal of Quantitative Criminology 3(1):3-28, 1987.

50. "How Applied Research Can Save Sociologists from Themselves," The American Sociologist, Summer 1987.

51. "Anticipating the Social Consequences of AIDS: A Position Paper," The American Sociologist, Fall 1987.

52. "Errors in Forecasting Social Phenomena," (with Thomas F. Cooley), Climatic Change 11:247-265, 1987.

53. "Dangerous People: A Review of the NAS Report on Career Criminals" (with S. Messinger), Criminology 25(3):767-781, 1987.

54. "Police Responses to Family Violence Incidents: An Analysis of an Experimental Design with Incomplete Randomization" (with L. Sherman), Journal of the American Statistical Association 83(401):70-76, 1988.

55. "The Role of Subjectivity in Criminal Justice Classification and Prediction Methods," Criminal Justice Ethics 7(1), 1988.

56. "When Random Assignment Fails: Some Lessons from the Minneapolis Spouse Abuse Experiment" (with G. Smyth and L. Sherman), Journal of Quantitative Criminology 4(3):209-224, 1988.

57. "Thinking About Hate-Motivated Crime," Journal of Interpersonal Violence 5(3):334-349, 1990.

58. "An Evaluation of an Undergraduate Course on AIDS" (with Paul Abramson, Joan Sekler, and Monique Cloud), Evaluation Review 13(5):516-532, 1990.

59. "Drug Use, Prostitution and the Prevalence of AIDS: An Analysis using Census Tracts" Journal of Sex Research 27(4):607-621, 1991.

60. "Estimates of AIDS Incubation Periods from Convenience Samples" (with Paul Abramson), New Directions in Program Evaluation 46(Summer):37-50, 1991.

61. "Toward a Methodology for Mere Mortals," Sociological Methodology, 1991.

62. "A Bayesian Analysis of the Colorado Springs Spouse Abuse Experiment," (with Alec Campbell, Ruth Klap and Bruce Western), Criminal Law and Criminology, 83:170-200, 1992.

63. "The Differential Deterrent Effects of An Arrest in Incidents of Domestic Violence: A Bayesian Analysis of Four Randomized Field Experiments," (with Alec Campbell, Ruth Klap and Bruce Western) American Sociological Review:(5) 57:689-708, 1992.

64. "Between Two Extremes: An Examination of Efficiency and Effectiveness of Community Service Orders and their Implications for the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines," (with Malcolm Feeley and Alec Campbell), University of Southern California Law Review, 66(1): 155-207, 1993.

65. Comment on The Role of Offense and Offender Characteristics in Federal Sentencing, Southern California Law Review, 66(1): 401-404,1993.

66. "Chance and the Death Penalty (with commentary and rejoinder)," (with Robert Weiss and Jack Boger),Law and Society Review,27: 89-110 1993.

67. Measuring the Impact of Water Conservation Campaigns," (with Daniel Schulman, Matthew McKeever, and Howard Freeman), Climatic Change, 24: 233-248, 1993.

68. "Preliminary Data on Race and Crack Charging Practices in Los Angeles," (with Alec Campbell), Federal Sentencing Reporter, 6 (1): 36-38, 1993.

69. "The Role of Water in Urban Metabolisim," in Urban Policies, 94(1):131-148, 1994.

70. "Three Trends in Evaluation Research," Evaluation Practice, Vol. 15, No. 3, October 1994: pp. 261-265.

71. "Public Perceptions of Global Warming," (with Daniel Schulman) Climatic Change, Vol. 29, pp. 1-33. 1995.

72. "Statistical Inference for Apparent Populations," with commentary and rejoinder, (with Bruce Western and Robert Weiss), Sociological Methodology, Vol. 25, 1995. Cambridge, UK: Blackwell Publishing.

73. "Assessing the Capriciousness of Death Penalty Charging," (with Robert Weiss and Cathie Lee), Law & Society Review, Vol. 30, No. 3, pp. 607-626, 1996.

74. "Motivated by Hatred or Prejudice: Categorization of Hate-Motivated Crimes in Two Police Divisions," (with Elizabeth Boyd and Karl Hamner), Law & Society Review, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 819-850, 1996.

75. "Just Punishment: Guideline Sentences and Normative Consensus," (with Peter H. Rossi and Alec Campbell), Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 267-290, 1997.

76. "The Ethics of Scientific Research: An Analysis of Focus Groups of Scientists and Institutional Representatives" (with Neil Wenger and Stanley Korenman), Journal of Investigative Medicine, Vol. 45, No. 6, pp. 371-380, 1997.

77. "Evaluation of the Research Norms of Scientists and Admimistrators Responsible for Academic Research Integrity" (with Stanley Korenman, and Neil Wenger), Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 279, No. 1, pp. 41-47, 1997.

78. "Deployment of Violence: The Los Angeles Police Department's Use of Dogs" (with Alec Campbell and James J. Fyfe), Evaluation Review, Vol. 22, No. 4, pp. 535-565, 1998.

79. "News Media Portrayals and the Epidemiology of Homicide" (with Susan Sorenson), American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 88, No. 10, pp. 1510-1514, 1998.

80. "Punishment for Unethical Behavior in the Conduct of Research" (with Neil S. Wenger, Stanley G. Korenman, and H. Liu), Academic Medicine, Nov, 73(11):1187-1194, 1998.

81. "Water Conservation", Southern California Environmental Report Card, Institute of the Environment, UCLA, 1998.

82. "Public Perceptions of Climate Change: A Willingness to Pay Assessment" (with Robert Fovell), Climatic Change, Volume 41, Numbers 3/4: 413-446, 1999.

83. "Death Penalty Decisions in Los Angeles County: An Illustrative Analysis Using Skeptical Priors" (with Robert Weiss, Wenzhi Li, and Margaret Farrell-Ross), Sociological Methods and Research, Volume 28, Number 1: 92-116, 1999.

84. "Reporting Unethical Research Behavior" (with Neil S. Wenger, Stanley G. Korenman, and Honghu Li), Evaluation Review, Volume 23, Number 5: 553-568, 1999.

85. "An Evaluation of California's Inmate Classification System Using a Generalized Regression Discontinuity Design" (with Jan de Leeuw), Journal of the American Statistical Association, Volume 94, Number 448: 1045-1052, 1999.

86. "Young guns: An Empirical Study of Persons Who Use a Firearm in a Suicide or Homicide," (with Susan Sorenson), Injury Prevention, Volume 5: 280-283, 1999.

87. "Just Punishments: Federal Guidelines and Public Views Compared," (with Peter Rossi), Federal Sentencing Reporter, Volume 12, Number 1, 27-29, 2000.

88. "Measuring Consensus about Scientific Norms," (with Stanley G. Korenman, and Neil S. Wenger), Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 6, Number 2000: 315-340, 2000.

89. "Approximation and Inversion of a Complex Meteorological System via Local Linear Filters," (with Frederic Schoenberg, Robert Fovell, Cheng Li, Rong Lu, and Robert Weiss). Journal of Applied Meteorology, Volume 40, Issue 3, 2000: 446--458.

90. "Households that Pollute," Southern California Environmental Report Card, UCLA, Institute of the Environment, 2000.

91. "Handgun Sales, Beer Sales, and Youth Homicide, 1972-1993," (with Susan Sorenson), Journal of Public Health Policy, Volume 22: 191-206, 2001.

92. "The Use of Statistical Tools for Evaluating Computer Simulations," (with Robert G. Fovell, Frederic Schoenberg, and Robert E. Weiss), Climatic Change, 51: 119-130, 2001.

93. "Workshop on Statistical Approaches for the Evaluation of Complex Computer Models," (with Peter Bickel, Katherine Campbell, Sallie Keller-McNulty, Elizabeth Kelly, and Jerome Sacks), Statistical Science, 17: 173-192, 2002.

94. "Legalized Abortion and the Homicide of Young Children: An Empirical Investigation (with Susan Sorenson and Douglas Wiebe). Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 2(1): 239-256, 2002.

95. "A Randomized Experiment Testing Inmate Classification Systems," (with Andrew Baek, Heather Ladd, and Heidi Graziano), Criminology and Public Policy, 2(2): 215-242, 2003.

96. "Youth Homicide and the Legalization of Abortion," (with Susan Sorenson, Dawn Upchurch, and Douglas Weibe), Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy, 3(1): 45-64, 2003.

97. "Statistical Difficulties in Determining the Role of Race in Capital Cases: A Re-analysis of Data from the State of Maryland," (with Azusa Li and Laura Hickman), Journal of Quantitative Criminology, forthcoming, 2005.

98. "New Claims about Executions and General Deterrence: Deja Vu All Over Again?" Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, 2(2): 303-330, 2005.

99. "An Introduction to Ensemble Methods for Data Analysis," Sociological Methods and Research, forthcoming, 2005.

100. "Developing a Practical Forecasting Screener for Domestic Violence Incidents," (with Yan He and Susan Sorenson ), Evaluation Review, 29(4): 358-382, 2005.

101. "Knowing When to Fold 'Em: An Essay on Evaluating the Impact of CEASEFILE, COMSTAT, and EXILE," Criminology and Public Policy, forthcoming, 2005.

102. "Randomized Experiments as the Bronze Standard," Journal of Experimental Criminology, forthcoming, 2005.

103. "Forecasting Dangerous Inmate Misconduct: An Application of Ensemble Statistical Procedures," (With Brian Kriegler and Jong-Ho Baek) Journal of Quantitative Criminology, forthcoming 2006.