Scholarship summary
Publications and Participation in Scholarly and Professional Meetings
A. Journal Articles
1980 The Pains of Long term Imprisonment: A Comparison of British and American Perspectives, British Journal of Criminology 20(2): 148 156, April.
1980 Time Served and Institutional Misconduct: Patterns of Involvement in Disciplinary Infractions Among Long term and Short term Inmates, Journal of Criminal Justice 8(6): 357 367.
1981 Dealing With Long term Confinement: Adaptive Strategies and Perspectives Among Long term Prisoners, Criminal Justice and Behavior 8(3): 201 222, June.
1982 Risk and the Timing of Recidivism in Three Cohorts of Prison Releasees, Criminal Justice Review 7(2): 34 45, Fall.
Reprinted in: U.S. Parole Commission, Research Unit. Federal Parole Decision making: Selected Reprints, Volume Five. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, December 1984, pp. 65 78.
1982 Correctional Policy and the Long term Prisoner, Crime and Delinquency 28(1): 82 95, January.
1982 Discretion in the Prison Justice System: A Study of Sentencing in Institutional Disciplinary Proceedings, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 19(2): 216 237, July.
1982 Another Look at the Effectiveness of Parole Supervision (with Michael R. Gottfredson and Susan Mitchell Herzfeld), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 19(2): 277 298, July.
1983 Correlates of Institutional Misconduct Among State Prisoners: A Research Note, Criminology 21(1): 29 40, February.
1984 Public Opinion and Prison Policy: A Review (with Susan L. Caulfield), The Prison Journal 64(2): 31 46, Fall/Winter.
1985 Public Perceptions of the Courts: Another Look at Demographic and Related Attitudinal Variables (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Edward J. Brown), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22(1): 66 82, February.
1985 Consumer Perspectives on Police Operational Strategy, Journal of Police Science and Administration 13(1): 10 21, March.
1985 Sentence Planning for Long term Inmates, Federal Probation 69(3):23 28, September.
Reprinted, in part, in: Elements to Consider in Developing Programs for Long term Inmates, pp. 66 68 in U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Managing Long term Inmates: A Guide for the Correctional Administrator. Washington, DC: National Institute of Corrections, 1985.
1987 Measuring and Explaining Legislator Crime Control Ideology (with E.F. McGarrell), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 24(2): 102 118, May.
1987 Change and Influence in Popular Criminology: Public Attributions of Crime Causation, Journal of Criminal Justice 15(3): 231 244. p. 73
1987 Prison Labor and Recidivism (with K. Maguire and T. Thornberry), Journal of Quantitative Criminology 4(1): 3 18, March.
1988 Guest Editor's Comments: The Role of Public Opinion in Criminal Justice Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25(2): 116 119, May.
1989 Ideology and Crime Control Policy Positions in a State Legislature (with E.F. McGarrell and A. Lizotte), Journal of Criminal Justice 17(2): 87 101.
1990 Prospectus for a Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1(1): 1 8, Spring.
1990 Compositional Changes in a Long term Prisoner Population, 1956 89 (with David Clark, David Aziz, and Bruce Szelest), The Prison Journal 70(1): 15 34, Spring/Summer.
Reprinted in: Chris W. Eskridge, ed., Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Co., 1993, pp. 191-200.
1990 Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada: Findings From a National Survey, Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1(2): 195 213, Fall.
1991 Current Death Penalty Opinion in New York State (with Robert M. Bohm and Philip W. Harris), Albany Law Review 54(3/4): 819 843.
1991 Adaptation and Adjustment Among Long term Prisoners, Federal Prisons Journal 2(2): 44 51, Spring.
1992 Long-term Incarceration: Issues of Science, Policy and Correctional Practice, Forum on Corrections Research 4(2): 19-24, June.
1993 A Full Employment Policy for Prisons in the United States: Some Arguments, Estimates and Implications (with Kathleen Maguire), Journal of Criminal Justice 21(2): 117-130.
1993 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature, Revisited (With Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen), Criminal Justice Policy Review 5(3): 183-206.
1993 Crime Control Ideology Among New York Legislators (with Debra Cohen and Pauline Gasdow Brennan), Legislative Studies Quarterly 18(3): 411-422.
1993 Conservatism and Capital Punishment in the State Capitol: Lawmakers and the Death Penalty (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen), The Prison Journal, 72(1/2): 37-56
1994 A Limited Capacity to Treat: Examining the Effects of Prison Population Control Strategies on Prison Education Programs (with J. Marquart, S. Cuvelier, V. Burton, Jr., K. Adams, J. Gerber, D. Longmire, K. Bennett and E. Fritsch), Crime and Delinquency, 40 (4): 495-515.
1994 Research Needs in Adult Corrections, Texas Probation 9 (3): 76-80.
1994 A Large-Scale Multidimensional Test of the Effect of Prison Education Programs on Offender Behavior (with K. Adams, K. Bennett, J. Marquart, S. Cuvelier, V. Burton, Jr., E. Fritsch, J. Gerber, and D. Longmire), The Prison Journal 74(4): 433-449.
1995 National Crime and Justice Survey. Executive Exchange, National Association of Probation Executives, Summer: 2-3.
Reprinted in Texas Probation 10(4): 6-7, October
1996 Community Corrections in the Public Mind. Federal Probation 60(3): 3-9. September.
1996 Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Executives: A Contemporary Portrait of Wardens of State Prisons for Adults, (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). The Prison Journal 76(4): 385-397, December.
Reprinted in: Stan Stojkovic, John Klofas and David Kalinich (Eds.), The Administration and Management of Criminal Justice Organizations, Third Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1999.
1997 Getting Tough on Prisoners: Findings from the National Corrections Executive Survey, (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). Crime and Delinquency 43(1): 24-41, January.
1997 Developing a Residential Staff Training Program (with N. Horton, N. Powell Bartlett, D. Beto and M. Foster). Texas Probation 12(3): 6-10, July.
1997 Public Opinion and Public Policy in Criminal Justice. The Public Perspective 8(4): 1-2, 12-13, 16,17,19, 21-22, 24-25, 29-31. Storrs, CT: The Roper Center, October.
1998 Academic Advising in Baccalaureate Criminal Justice and Criminology Programs: A National Survey (with J. Gerber, J. Hertenstein and M. Foster). Journal of Criminal Justice Education 9(2): 233-248.
2000 Liberal Education and the Criminal Justice Major. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 11(1): 1-15, Spring 2000.
2001 Correctional nurses’ perceptions of their role, training requirements, and prisoners’ health care needs (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Journal of Correctional Health Care, 8(1): 67-85.
2002 An Analysis of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Job Stress in Correctional Nurses. (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Research in Nursing and Health, 25(4): 282-294
B. Edited Books
1995 Timothy J. Flanagan, (Ed.) Long-term Imprisonment: Science, Policy and Correctional Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
1996 Timothy J. Flanagan and Dennis R. Longmire, (Eds.) Americans View Crime and Justice: A National Public Opinion Survey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Ch. 1: Public opinion on crime and justice: history, development and trends.
Ch. 6: Reform or punish: Americans’ views of the correctional system
Ch. 11: Public opinion and public policy in criminal justice
1998 Timothy J. Flanagan, James W. Marquart and Kenneth Adams, (Eds.) Incarcerating Criminals: Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
C. Book Chapters
1982 Explaining the Parole Decision: The Effect of Alternate Conceptualizations on Analyses of Decisionmaking, in Nicolette Parisi (Ed.), Coping With Imprisonment. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
1982 Lifers and Long termers: Doing Big Time, in Robert Johnson and Hans Toch (Eds.), The Pains of Imprisonment. Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications, 1982, and Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1988.
1985 Questioning the 'Other' Parole: The Effectiveness of Community Supervision of Offenders, in Lawrence F. Travis, III (Ed.), Probation, Parole and Community Corrections. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
1989 Prison Labor and Industry, in Lynne Goodstein and Doris L. MacKenzie (Eds.), The American Prison: Issues in Research and Policy. New York: Plenum Publishers.
1995 Public Opinion About Police Abuse of Force (with Michael S. Vaughn). In William A. Geller and Hans Toch, (Eds.), Police Use of Excessive Force and Its Control: Key Issues Facing the Nation. Washington, D.C.: Police Executive Research Forum.
Reprinted in Police Violence: Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force. William A. Geller and Hans Toch, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
1998 Collaboration in Criminal Justice Research. In To Research, To Read, To Reason, To Write, To Report: An Introduction to Research Writing. D. Dowdey, B. Jones and K. Pannell (Eds). Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster.
1999 Adult Correctional Treatment. (with Gerald G. Gaes, Laurence L. Motiuk and Lynn Stewart) in Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research. (vol. 26). M. Tonry and J. Petersilia (Eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2002 Public Opinion, a 4,000 word entry for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. (David Levinson, ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage
2005 Public Opinion, Crime, and Justice: An American Perspective. S. Parmentier, G. Vervaeke, R Doutrelepont, and G. Kellens (Eds.), Public Opinion and the Administration of Justice. (Brussels, Belgium: Uitgeverij Politeia NV, 2005).
D. Book Reviews
1986 Review of Probation and Justice: Reconsideration of Mission. P.D. McAnany, D. Thomson and D. Fogel, (Eds.), Justice Quarterly 3(2): 241 245, June.
1987 Review of Prison Violence in America. M. Braswell, S. Dillingham and R. Montgomery, Jr., (Eds.), Justice Quarterly 4(1): 137 140, March.
1988 Review of Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management, by John J. DiIulio. Contemporary Sociology 17(6): 802 803.
1988/9 Reviews of Profiles of Social Research (Morton Hunt), Evaluation Strategies in Criminal Justice (William S. Davidson, et al,1989) and The Search for Criminal Man (Ysabel Rennie) for Criminal Justice Educator, the newsletter of the New York State Criminal Justice Educators Association, Summer, 1988 and Winter, 1989.
1991 Review of Private Prisons: Cons and Pros, by Charles H. Logan, Contemporary Sociology 20(4): 600 601.
E. Reference Books
1979 Nicolette Parisi, Michael R. Gottfredson, Michael J. Hindelang and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1978. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
1980 Timothy J. Flanagan, Michael J. Hindelang, and Michael R. Gottfredson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1979. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1981 Michael J. Hindelang, Michael R. Gottfredson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1980. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1982 Timothy J. Flanagan, David J. vanAlstyne and Michael R. Gottfredson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1981. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1983 Timothy J. Flanagan and Maureen McLeod, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1982. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1984 Edward J. Brown, Timothy J. Flanagan and Maureen McLeod, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1983. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1985 Edmund F. McGarrell and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1984. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1986 Timothy J. Flanagan and Edmund F. McGarrell, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1985. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1987 Katherine M. Jamieson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1986. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1988 Timothy J. Flanagan and Katherine M. Jamieson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1987. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1989 Katherine M. Jamieson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1988. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1990 Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1989. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1991 Kathleen Maguire and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1990. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1992 Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - 1991. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1993 Kathleen Maguire, Ann L. Pastore and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - 1992. Washington, DC: USGPO.
F. Research Monographs
1976 Crime Seriousness Weighting Systems. Technical Assistance Monograph No. 3, Quantitative Training For Public Policy Analysts Project. Albany, NY: State University of New York.
1976 The Delphi Technique: A Tool For Criminal Justice Planners (with Michael R. Buckman). Technical Assistance Monograph No. 2 (see above).
1977 Local Crime Analysis: Structure and Function (with John H. Laub and Anthony F. Pasciuto). Technical Assistance Monograph No. 1 (see above).
1980 Long term Prisoners: A Descriptive Analysis. Criminal Justice Research Center Working Paper Series No. 20. Albany, NY: Criminal Justice Research Center.
1980 Long term Prisoners: An Analysis of Institutional Incidents. No. 21 (see above).
1980 Long term Prisoners: An Analysis of Inmate Perspectives and Policy Implications. No. 22 (see above).
1984 Research on Long term Incarceration: A Review and Assessment. Kansas City, MO: Correctional Services Group, Inc.
1985 Research Support for Policy Development: An Administrator's Guide to Research on Long term Prisoners. Kansas City, MO: Correctional Services Group, Inc.
Published as: Development of a Management oriented Data Base on Long term Inmates, pp. 81 95 in U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Managing Long term Inmates: A Guide for the Correctional Administrator. Washington, DC: National Institute of Corrections.
1986 Attitudes of New York Legislators Toward Crime and Criminal Justice. A Report of the State Legislator Survey 1985. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center Working Paper Series No. 26. Albany: State University of New York.
1988 The Effect of Prison Industry Employment on Offender Behavior: Report of the Prison Industry Research Project (with T.P. Thornberry, K.E. Maguire and E.F. McGarrell). Albany: Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York.
1991 Children in Custody, 1987: A Comparison of Public and Private Juvenile Custody Facilities. (with Terence P. Thornberry, Stewart Tolnay, and Patricia Glynn). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
1991 Attitudes of New York Legislators Toward Crime and Criminal Justice: A Report of the State Legislature Survey 1991. Albany: School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York.
1994 Prison Education Research Project: Final Report. Huntsville, TX: Sam Houston State University, Criminal Justice Center.
2001 Review of Criminal Justice Programs: A Report to the Massachussetts Board of Higher Education. Boston: MA Board of Higher Education.
G. Other Publications
1981 Crime in America: Projections and Public Attitudes. Report prepared for the U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Published in The Role of the Federal Government in State and Local Law Enforcement. Hearings, 96th Congress, 2nd Session, Serial No. 96 88. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1984 Commentary on the Police Corps/Police Cadet Proposals. Editorial, Police Federation News, Vol. 3, No.3, May, p. 12.
1985 Revitalizing Prison Industries: Potential, Problems and Prospects. Report prepared for the New York State Assembly, Committees on Codes and Government Operations. Hearings, Albany, New York, May 30.
1989 Ideology and Crime Control Policy Positions in the New York State Legislature: Research Review. Criminal Justice Educator (Newsletter of the Criminal Justice Educators Association of New York State), Summer 1989: 1,7.
1990 Assessing a Decade, 1980 1990. Accreditation self study report by the State University of New York at Albany to the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Albany: State University of New York at Albany.
1991 Some Suggestions for a Basic Corrections Library. Criminal Law Reporter, April 1991, pp. 11 13.
1994 Crime Bill May Bring More Federal Intrusion into Texas Prisons. Houston Chronicle, Sunday, November 27, 1994, p. 4C.
Reprinted as: Keeping the Feds Out of Texas Prisons? Texas Probation, 10(1): 2-3, January, 1995; Prison System May Feel Federal Influence, The Echo, 67(2): 7, February, 1995.
1995 Put Idle, Healthy Prisoners to Work, Help Them and Taxpayers. Houston Chronicle, Sunday, April 23, 1995, p. 4F
1996 Prison Discipline, a 3,000 word entry for The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (M.D. McShane and F.P. Williams, III, eds.) New York: Garland Publishing Co.
2001 Educate Prisoners to Spare Them From Return Trip to Jail. Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, Thursday, November 29, 2001, p.13a.
2002 Public Opinion, a 4,000 word entry for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. ( David Levinson, ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
H. Conference Presentations and Participation
1975 Procedural Due Process in Prison Disciplinary Proceedings: The View From Wolff v. McDonnell. Southern Conference of Corrections, Tallahassee.
1978 The Nature and Distribution of Disciplinary Infractions Among Long term and Short term Pris-oners. American Society of Criminology, Dallas.
1979 Dealing With Long term Confinement: Adaptive Strategies and Perspectives Among Long term Prisoners. American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia. (Panel Chair).
1980 Sentencing in Prison: The Relationship Between Conduct and Disposition in Prison Disciplinary Proceedings. American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1981 Making Parole: An Analysis of Factors Associated With Release Decisionmaking in a State Correctional System. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia.
1981 A Quasi experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Parole Supervision (with Michael R. Gottfredson and Susan Mitchell Herzfeld). American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC.
1982 Survival in the Community: An Analysis of the Temporal Distribution of Recidivism Among Three Groups of Prisoners. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Louisville.
1982 Discussant, panel on Violence and Victimization in the Federal Prison System, American Society of Criminology, Toronto.
1983 Public Policy and Parole Supervision. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Antonio.
1983 Chair, panel on Crime Prevention: Novel Approaches. American Society of Criminology, Denver.
1984 Chair, panel on Public Opinion, Jury Behavior, and the Criminal Courts. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Victimization Experience, Fear of Crime, and Perceptions of the Criminal Courts (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Edward J. Brown). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Defining the 'Proper' Role of the Police: Citizen Perspectives on the Nature and Scope of Police Responsibility. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Public Perceptions of the Causes of Crime. American Society of Criminology, Cincinnati.
1984 Sentence Planning for Long term Prisoners: Principles, Problems and Prospects. Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association, Farmington, CT. (Invited presentation).
1985 The Role of Research in Probation Program Development. New York State Conference on Probation and Community Alternatives, Albany, NY. (Invited presentation)
1985 Compositional Changes in a Long term Inmate Population, 1956 82 (with David W. Aziz). American Society of Criminology, San Diego.
1986 The Determinants of Legislative Crime Control Ideology: A Replication. (with Edmund F. McGarrell) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando.
1986 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Alan J. Lizotte). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando.
1986 Does Putting Inmates to Work Make a Difference?: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Correctional Industry Experience. (with Terence P. Thornberry and Edmund F. McGarrell). American Society of Criminology, Atlanta.
1987 The Prison Industry Research Project: Preliminary Findings on the Effect of Industry Experience on Offender Behavior (with T.P. Thornberry, E.F. McGarrell, and K. E. Maguire). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, St. Louis.
1987 Prison Labor, Prisoner Behavior and Post Release Recidivism (with T.P. Thornberry, K.E. Maguire and E.F. McGarrell). American Society of Criminology, Montreal.
1988 Public Support and Confidence in the Police: A View From the 1980's. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Francisco.
1988 Discussant, panel on Prison Labor and Prisoner Employment, American Society of Criminology, Chicago.
1990 The Accreditation Process as a Mechanism for the Promotion of Institutional Change. Council of Fellows, American Council on Education, Michigan State University.
1990 Adaptation and Adjustment Among Long Term Prisoners. U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons National Conference on Issues in Corrections, Washington, DC.
1991 Invited Participant, The Attorney General's Summit on Law Enforcement Responses to Violent Crime, Washington DC.
1991 A Full Employment Policy for Prisoners in the United States: Some Estimates and Implications (with Kathleen Maguire). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1991 Panelist, roundtable on Publishing in Criminal Justice Journals, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1991 Panelist, workshop on Preparing for Academic Careers. Presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for graduate student members, Nashville.
1991 Current Death Penalty Opinion in New York State (with Philip W. Harris and Robert M. Bohm). Albany Law School/University at Albany Conference on The Death Penalty: Perspectives on the Past and Future in New York State, Albany.
1991 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature, Revisited. (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen). American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
1991 Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice Among New York Lawmakers: Continuity and Change Over Time. (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen). Southwest Association of Criminal Justice Educators, San Antonio.
1991 Measuring and Explaining Crime Control Ideology Among State Legislators, 1985 and 1991 (with Debra Cohen and Pauline Gasdow Brennan). American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1992 The Future of Criminal Justice Education: Challenges and Opportunities. Community College Educators Association of Texas, Houston (Invited presentation).
1992 Conservatism and Capital Punishment in the Capitol: Lawmakers and the Death Penalty. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh.
1992 Roundtable, Models for Linking Academic and Professional Programs. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh.
1992 Employing Prisoners: Issues, Problems and Goals. American Correctional Association, San Antonio.
1993 Public Policy and Prison Education (with James W. Marquart, Steven J. Cuvelier, Jurg Gerber, Dennis Longmire, Velmer Burton, Kenneth Adams, Eric Fritsch and Katherine Bennett). Southwestern Criminal Justice Educators Association, Dallas.
1993 The Future of Criminal Justice Education. Southern Association of Criminal Justice Educators, Charleston, South Carolina.
1993 Twenty Years of Public Opinion on Crime, Justice and Related Topics, 1973-93. American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, Arizona.
1994 Making the Case for Community Corrections: The Role of Research. Texas Annual Conference of Chief Probation Officers, Huntsville, Texas.
1994 The Crime Bill and Corrections. American Society of Criminology, Miami.
1995 Lessons from a Quarter Century of Criminal Justice Research. Houston Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni Association, Houston, Texas.
1995 Coping With Long-term Imprisonment. Inmate Mentor’s Group Conference, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Institution, McKean, PA.
1995 Americans View Corrections. National Association of Probation Executives, Dallas Texas.
1995 Understanding the Beast of Public Opinion in Crime and Justice. Faculty Research Series, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville.
1995 Academic Advising: Organizational and Effectiveness Concerns. American Council on Education Fellows Annual Seminar, Alexandria, Virginia.
1995 The National Opinion Survey on Crime and Justice: Implications for Community Corrections Leaders. Texas Annual Conference of Chief Probation Officers, Huntsville, Texas.
1995 Three Strikes and You’re Out: Public Safety Through Incarceration? National Safety Council, Dallas, Texas.
1995 Three Strikes and You’re Out Legislation: Public Opinion and Public Policy in Criminal Justice, American Society of Criminology, Boston, MA.
1996 Getting Tough on Prisoners: Findings from the National Corrections Executive Survey (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, NV.
1996 Marketing Corrections. Texas Community Justice Assistance Division, 10th annual Skills Conference, Austin, TX.
1996 Community Corrections in the Public Mind. Plenary address, 21st Annual Institute, American Probation and Parole Association, Chicago, IL.
1996 Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Executives: A Contemporary Portrait. (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). American Society of Criminology, Chicago.
1997 Academic Advising in Baccalaurate Criminal Justice and Criminology Programs: Preliminary Findings from a National Assessment. (with Jurg Gerber, Jerry Hertenstein and Matthew Foster). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1999 Development and implementation of an undergraduate competency examination program in computing skills. 13th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education. Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, July.
2000 Challenges and Rewards of Correctional Nursing (with Nancy A. Flanagan). National Commission on Correctional Health Care, New Orleans, April.
2000 Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Nurses (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, New Orleans, April.
2001 Long-term incarceration and the future of American imprisonment policy: what we know, and what we need to know. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Long-term Offenders Training Conference, Elizabethtown PA, June 2001.
2002 Competency examinations as measures of quality assessment and student learning. Meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, San Antonio, February.
2002 Challenge and Change in Correctional Nursing (with Nancy A. Flanagan). National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Fort Lauderdale, April.
2002 Competency examinations as measures of quality assessment and student learning. 14th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education. University of Vienna, Austria, July
2003 Public Opinion, Crime and Justice: An American Perspective. International Conference on Public Opinion and Administration of Justice, University of Leuven, Belgium, September.
2005 Public Opinion and Public Policy on Crime and Justice in 20th Century America, Canada, and Europe: On Causes, Effects, and Unintended Consequences. Department of Modern History, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, April.
2010 Policing Communities and Community-centric Policing: An Evidence-based Assessment. Dow Visiting Scholar Lecture, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, November.
- I have published 40 peer
reviewed works in scholarly journals in criminology, political science, and
law; five of these articles have been reprinted in scholarly anthologies.
- I have published three
edited books, fifteen edited reference books, eight book chapters, five book
reviews, fourteen research monographs published by government agencies or
research organizations, and eleven other publications including Congressional
testimony, encyclopedia entries, and editorials.
- I have presented 65 scholarly papers at meetings of the
American Society of Criminology, the American Political Science Association,
the Council of Fellows of the American Council on Education, and others.
- I have delivered invited
lectures at the University of Vienna, Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium),
Glasgow Caledonian University, the National University of Ireland, Maynooth,
and universities in the United States.
Publications and Participation in Scholarly and Professional Meetings
A. Journal Articles
1980 The Pains of Long term Imprisonment: A Comparison of British and American Perspectives, British Journal of Criminology 20(2): 148 156, April.
1980 Time Served and Institutional Misconduct: Patterns of Involvement in Disciplinary Infractions Among Long term and Short term Inmates, Journal of Criminal Justice 8(6): 357 367.
1981 Dealing With Long term Confinement: Adaptive Strategies and Perspectives Among Long term Prisoners, Criminal Justice and Behavior 8(3): 201 222, June.
1982 Risk and the Timing of Recidivism in Three Cohorts of Prison Releasees, Criminal Justice Review 7(2): 34 45, Fall.
Reprinted in: U.S. Parole Commission, Research Unit. Federal Parole Decision making: Selected Reprints, Volume Five. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, December 1984, pp. 65 78.
1982 Correctional Policy and the Long term Prisoner, Crime and Delinquency 28(1): 82 95, January.
1982 Discretion in the Prison Justice System: A Study of Sentencing in Institutional Disciplinary Proceedings, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 19(2): 216 237, July.
1982 Another Look at the Effectiveness of Parole Supervision (with Michael R. Gottfredson and Susan Mitchell Herzfeld), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 19(2): 277 298, July.
1983 Correlates of Institutional Misconduct Among State Prisoners: A Research Note, Criminology 21(1): 29 40, February.
1984 Public Opinion and Prison Policy: A Review (with Susan L. Caulfield), The Prison Journal 64(2): 31 46, Fall/Winter.
1985 Public Perceptions of the Courts: Another Look at Demographic and Related Attitudinal Variables (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Edward J. Brown), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 22(1): 66 82, February.
1985 Consumer Perspectives on Police Operational Strategy, Journal of Police Science and Administration 13(1): 10 21, March.
1985 Sentence Planning for Long term Inmates, Federal Probation 69(3):23 28, September.
Reprinted, in part, in: Elements to Consider in Developing Programs for Long term Inmates, pp. 66 68 in U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Managing Long term Inmates: A Guide for the Correctional Administrator. Washington, DC: National Institute of Corrections, 1985.
1987 Measuring and Explaining Legislator Crime Control Ideology (with E.F. McGarrell), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 24(2): 102 118, May.
1987 Change and Influence in Popular Criminology: Public Attributions of Crime Causation, Journal of Criminal Justice 15(3): 231 244. p. 73
1987 Prison Labor and Recidivism (with K. Maguire and T. Thornberry), Journal of Quantitative Criminology 4(1): 3 18, March.
1988 Guest Editor's Comments: The Role of Public Opinion in Criminal Justice Policy, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 25(2): 116 119, May.
1989 Ideology and Crime Control Policy Positions in a State Legislature (with E.F. McGarrell and A. Lizotte), Journal of Criminal Justice 17(2): 87 101.
1990 Prospectus for a Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1(1): 1 8, Spring.
1990 Compositional Changes in a Long term Prisoner Population, 1956 89 (with David Clark, David Aziz, and Bruce Szelest), The Prison Journal 70(1): 15 34, Spring/Summer.
Reprinted in: Chris W. Eskridge, ed., Criminal Justice: Concepts and Issues. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Co., 1993, pp. 191-200.
1990 Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs in the United States and Canada: Findings From a National Survey, Journal of Criminal Justice Education 1(2): 195 213, Fall.
1991 Current Death Penalty Opinion in New York State (with Robert M. Bohm and Philip W. Harris), Albany Law Review 54(3/4): 819 843.
1991 Adaptation and Adjustment Among Long term Prisoners, Federal Prisons Journal 2(2): 44 51, Spring.
1992 Long-term Incarceration: Issues of Science, Policy and Correctional Practice, Forum on Corrections Research 4(2): 19-24, June.
1993 A Full Employment Policy for Prisons in the United States: Some Arguments, Estimates and Implications (with Kathleen Maguire), Journal of Criminal Justice 21(2): 117-130.
1993 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature, Revisited (With Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen), Criminal Justice Policy Review 5(3): 183-206.
1993 Crime Control Ideology Among New York Legislators (with Debra Cohen and Pauline Gasdow Brennan), Legislative Studies Quarterly 18(3): 411-422.
1993 Conservatism and Capital Punishment in the State Capitol: Lawmakers and the Death Penalty (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen), The Prison Journal, 72(1/2): 37-56
1994 A Limited Capacity to Treat: Examining the Effects of Prison Population Control Strategies on Prison Education Programs (with J. Marquart, S. Cuvelier, V. Burton, Jr., K. Adams, J. Gerber, D. Longmire, K. Bennett and E. Fritsch), Crime and Delinquency, 40 (4): 495-515.
1994 Research Needs in Adult Corrections, Texas Probation 9 (3): 76-80.
1994 A Large-Scale Multidimensional Test of the Effect of Prison Education Programs on Offender Behavior (with K. Adams, K. Bennett, J. Marquart, S. Cuvelier, V. Burton, Jr., E. Fritsch, J. Gerber, and D. Longmire), The Prison Journal 74(4): 433-449.
1995 National Crime and Justice Survey. Executive Exchange, National Association of Probation Executives, Summer: 2-3.
Reprinted in Texas Probation 10(4): 6-7, October
1996 Community Corrections in the Public Mind. Federal Probation 60(3): 3-9. September.
1996 Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Executives: A Contemporary Portrait of Wardens of State Prisons for Adults, (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). The Prison Journal 76(4): 385-397, December.
Reprinted in: Stan Stojkovic, John Klofas and David Kalinich (Eds.), The Administration and Management of Criminal Justice Organizations, Third Edition. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1999.
1997 Getting Tough on Prisoners: Findings from the National Corrections Executive Survey, (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). Crime and Delinquency 43(1): 24-41, January.
1997 Developing a Residential Staff Training Program (with N. Horton, N. Powell Bartlett, D. Beto and M. Foster). Texas Probation 12(3): 6-10, July.
1997 Public Opinion and Public Policy in Criminal Justice. The Public Perspective 8(4): 1-2, 12-13, 16,17,19, 21-22, 24-25, 29-31. Storrs, CT: The Roper Center, October.
1998 Academic Advising in Baccalaureate Criminal Justice and Criminology Programs: A National Survey (with J. Gerber, J. Hertenstein and M. Foster). Journal of Criminal Justice Education 9(2): 233-248.
2000 Liberal Education and the Criminal Justice Major. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 11(1): 1-15, Spring 2000.
2001 Correctional nurses’ perceptions of their role, training requirements, and prisoners’ health care needs (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Journal of Correctional Health Care, 8(1): 67-85.
2002 An Analysis of the Relationship Between Job Satisfaction and Job Stress in Correctional Nurses. (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Research in Nursing and Health, 25(4): 282-294
B. Edited Books
1995 Timothy J. Flanagan, (Ed.) Long-term Imprisonment: Science, Policy and Correctional Practice. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
1996 Timothy J. Flanagan and Dennis R. Longmire, (Eds.) Americans View Crime and Justice: A National Public Opinion Survey. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
Ch. 1: Public opinion on crime and justice: history, development and trends.
Ch. 6: Reform or punish: Americans’ views of the correctional system
Ch. 11: Public opinion and public policy in criminal justice
1998 Timothy J. Flanagan, James W. Marquart and Kenneth Adams, (Eds.) Incarcerating Criminals: Prisons and Jails in Social and Organizational Context. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
C. Book Chapters
1982 Explaining the Parole Decision: The Effect of Alternate Conceptualizations on Analyses of Decisionmaking, in Nicolette Parisi (Ed.), Coping With Imprisonment. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage Publications.
1982 Lifers and Long termers: Doing Big Time, in Robert Johnson and Hans Toch (Eds.), The Pains of Imprisonment. Beverly Hills, CA.: Sage Publications, 1982, and Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press, 1988.
1985 Questioning the 'Other' Parole: The Effectiveness of Community Supervision of Offenders, in Lawrence F. Travis, III (Ed.), Probation, Parole and Community Corrections. Prospect Heights, IL: Waveland Press.
1989 Prison Labor and Industry, in Lynne Goodstein and Doris L. MacKenzie (Eds.), The American Prison: Issues in Research and Policy. New York: Plenum Publishers.
1995 Public Opinion About Police Abuse of Force (with Michael S. Vaughn). In William A. Geller and Hans Toch, (Eds.), Police Use of Excessive Force and Its Control: Key Issues Facing the Nation. Washington, D.C.: Police Executive Research Forum.
Reprinted in Police Violence: Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force. William A. Geller and Hans Toch, eds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
1998 Collaboration in Criminal Justice Research. In To Research, To Read, To Reason, To Write, To Report: An Introduction to Research Writing. D. Dowdey, B. Jones and K. Pannell (Eds). Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster.
1999 Adult Correctional Treatment. (with Gerald G. Gaes, Laurence L. Motiuk and Lynn Stewart) in Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research. (vol. 26). M. Tonry and J. Petersilia (Eds.). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
2002 Public Opinion, a 4,000 word entry for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. (David Levinson, ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage
2005 Public Opinion, Crime, and Justice: An American Perspective. S. Parmentier, G. Vervaeke, R Doutrelepont, and G. Kellens (Eds.), Public Opinion and the Administration of Justice. (Brussels, Belgium: Uitgeverij Politeia NV, 2005).
D. Book Reviews
1986 Review of Probation and Justice: Reconsideration of Mission. P.D. McAnany, D. Thomson and D. Fogel, (Eds.), Justice Quarterly 3(2): 241 245, June.
1987 Review of Prison Violence in America. M. Braswell, S. Dillingham and R. Montgomery, Jr., (Eds.), Justice Quarterly 4(1): 137 140, March.
1988 Review of Governing Prisons: A Comparative Study of Correctional Management, by John J. DiIulio. Contemporary Sociology 17(6): 802 803.
1988/9 Reviews of Profiles of Social Research (Morton Hunt), Evaluation Strategies in Criminal Justice (William S. Davidson, et al,1989) and The Search for Criminal Man (Ysabel Rennie) for Criminal Justice Educator, the newsletter of the New York State Criminal Justice Educators Association, Summer, 1988 and Winter, 1989.
1991 Review of Private Prisons: Cons and Pros, by Charles H. Logan, Contemporary Sociology 20(4): 600 601.
E. Reference Books
1979 Nicolette Parisi, Michael R. Gottfredson, Michael J. Hindelang and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1978. Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office.
1980 Timothy J. Flanagan, Michael J. Hindelang, and Michael R. Gottfredson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1979. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1981 Michael J. Hindelang, Michael R. Gottfredson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1980. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1982 Timothy J. Flanagan, David J. vanAlstyne and Michael R. Gottfredson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1981. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1983 Timothy J. Flanagan and Maureen McLeod, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1982. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1984 Edward J. Brown, Timothy J. Flanagan and Maureen McLeod, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1983. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1985 Edmund F. McGarrell and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1984. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1986 Timothy J. Flanagan and Edmund F. McGarrell, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1985. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1987 Katherine M. Jamieson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1986. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1988 Timothy J. Flanagan and Katherine M. Jamieson, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1987. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1989 Katherine M. Jamieson and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1988. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1990 Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1989. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1991 Kathleen Maguire and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 1990. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1992 Timothy J. Flanagan and Kathleen Maguire, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - 1991. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1993 Kathleen Maguire, Ann L. Pastore and Timothy J. Flanagan, (Eds.). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics - 1992. Washington, DC: USGPO.
F. Research Monographs
1976 Crime Seriousness Weighting Systems. Technical Assistance Monograph No. 3, Quantitative Training For Public Policy Analysts Project. Albany, NY: State University of New York.
1976 The Delphi Technique: A Tool For Criminal Justice Planners (with Michael R. Buckman). Technical Assistance Monograph No. 2 (see above).
1977 Local Crime Analysis: Structure and Function (with John H. Laub and Anthony F. Pasciuto). Technical Assistance Monograph No. 1 (see above).
1980 Long term Prisoners: A Descriptive Analysis. Criminal Justice Research Center Working Paper Series No. 20. Albany, NY: Criminal Justice Research Center.
1980 Long term Prisoners: An Analysis of Institutional Incidents. No. 21 (see above).
1980 Long term Prisoners: An Analysis of Inmate Perspectives and Policy Implications. No. 22 (see above).
1984 Research on Long term Incarceration: A Review and Assessment. Kansas City, MO: Correctional Services Group, Inc.
1985 Research Support for Policy Development: An Administrator's Guide to Research on Long term Prisoners. Kansas City, MO: Correctional Services Group, Inc.
Published as: Development of a Management oriented Data Base on Long term Inmates, pp. 81 95 in U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Corrections, Managing Long term Inmates: A Guide for the Correctional Administrator. Washington, DC: National Institute of Corrections.
1986 Attitudes of New York Legislators Toward Crime and Criminal Justice. A Report of the State Legislator Survey 1985. Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center Working Paper Series No. 26. Albany: State University of New York.
1988 The Effect of Prison Industry Employment on Offender Behavior: Report of the Prison Industry Research Project (with T.P. Thornberry, K.E. Maguire and E.F. McGarrell). Albany: Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center, University at Albany, State University of New York.
1991 Children in Custody, 1987: A Comparison of Public and Private Juvenile Custody Facilities. (with Terence P. Thornberry, Stewart Tolnay, and Patricia Glynn). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
1991 Attitudes of New York Legislators Toward Crime and Criminal Justice: A Report of the State Legislature Survey 1991. Albany: School of Criminal Justice, State University of New York.
1994 Prison Education Research Project: Final Report. Huntsville, TX: Sam Houston State University, Criminal Justice Center.
2001 Review of Criminal Justice Programs: A Report to the Massachussetts Board of Higher Education. Boston: MA Board of Higher Education.
G. Other Publications
1981 Crime in America: Projections and Public Attitudes. Report prepared for the U.S. Senate, Committee on the Judiciary. Published in The Role of the Federal Government in State and Local Law Enforcement. Hearings, 96th Congress, 2nd Session, Serial No. 96 88. Washington, DC: USGPO.
1984 Commentary on the Police Corps/Police Cadet Proposals. Editorial, Police Federation News, Vol. 3, No.3, May, p. 12.
1985 Revitalizing Prison Industries: Potential, Problems and Prospects. Report prepared for the New York State Assembly, Committees on Codes and Government Operations. Hearings, Albany, New York, May 30.
1989 Ideology and Crime Control Policy Positions in the New York State Legislature: Research Review. Criminal Justice Educator (Newsletter of the Criminal Justice Educators Association of New York State), Summer 1989: 1,7.
1990 Assessing a Decade, 1980 1990. Accreditation self study report by the State University of New York at Albany to the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. Albany: State University of New York at Albany.
1991 Some Suggestions for a Basic Corrections Library. Criminal Law Reporter, April 1991, pp. 11 13.
1994 Crime Bill May Bring More Federal Intrusion into Texas Prisons. Houston Chronicle, Sunday, November 27, 1994, p. 4C.
Reprinted as: Keeping the Feds Out of Texas Prisons? Texas Probation, 10(1): 2-3, January, 1995; Prison System May Feel Federal Influence, The Echo, 67(2): 7, February, 1995.
1995 Put Idle, Healthy Prisoners to Work, Help Them and Taxpayers. Houston Chronicle, Sunday, April 23, 1995, p. 4F
1996 Prison Discipline, a 3,000 word entry for The Encyclopedia of American Prisons (M.D. McShane and F.P. Williams, III, eds.) New York: Garland Publishing Co.
2001 Educate Prisoners to Spare Them From Return Trip to Jail. Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, Thursday, November 29, 2001, p.13a.
2002 Public Opinion, a 4,000 word entry for the Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. ( David Levinson, ed.). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
H. Conference Presentations and Participation
1975 Procedural Due Process in Prison Disciplinary Proceedings: The View From Wolff v. McDonnell. Southern Conference of Corrections, Tallahassee.
1978 The Nature and Distribution of Disciplinary Infractions Among Long term and Short term Pris-oners. American Society of Criminology, Dallas.
1979 Dealing With Long term Confinement: Adaptive Strategies and Perspectives Among Long term Prisoners. American Society of Criminology, Philadelphia. (Panel Chair).
1980 Sentencing in Prison: The Relationship Between Conduct and Disposition in Prison Disciplinary Proceedings. American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1981 Making Parole: An Analysis of Factors Associated With Release Decisionmaking in a State Correctional System. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Philadelphia.
1981 A Quasi experimental Study of the Effectiveness of Parole Supervision (with Michael R. Gottfredson and Susan Mitchell Herzfeld). American Society of Criminology, Washington, DC.
1982 Survival in the Community: An Analysis of the Temporal Distribution of Recidivism Among Three Groups of Prisoners. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Louisville.
1982 Discussant, panel on Violence and Victimization in the Federal Prison System, American Society of Criminology, Toronto.
1983 Public Policy and Parole Supervision. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Antonio.
1983 Chair, panel on Crime Prevention: Novel Approaches. American Society of Criminology, Denver.
1984 Chair, panel on Public Opinion, Jury Behavior, and the Criminal Courts. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Victimization Experience, Fear of Crime, and Perceptions of the Criminal Courts (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Edward J. Brown). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Defining the 'Proper' Role of the Police: Citizen Perspectives on the Nature and Scope of Police Responsibility. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Chicago.
1984 Public Perceptions of the Causes of Crime. American Society of Criminology, Cincinnati.
1984 Sentence Planning for Long term Prisoners: Principles, Problems and Prospects. Middle Atlantic States Correctional Association, Farmington, CT. (Invited presentation).
1985 The Role of Research in Probation Program Development. New York State Conference on Probation and Community Alternatives, Albany, NY. (Invited presentation)
1985 Compositional Changes in a Long term Inmate Population, 1956 82 (with David W. Aziz). American Society of Criminology, San Diego.
1986 The Determinants of Legislative Crime Control Ideology: A Replication. (with Edmund F. McGarrell) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando.
1986 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature (with Edmund F. McGarrell and Alan J. Lizotte). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Orlando.
1986 Does Putting Inmates to Work Make a Difference?: Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Evaluation of Correctional Industry Experience. (with Terence P. Thornberry and Edmund F. McGarrell). American Society of Criminology, Atlanta.
1987 The Prison Industry Research Project: Preliminary Findings on the Effect of Industry Experience on Offender Behavior (with T.P. Thornberry, E.F. McGarrell, and K. E. Maguire). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, St. Louis.
1987 Prison Labor, Prisoner Behavior and Post Release Recidivism (with T.P. Thornberry, K.E. Maguire and E.F. McGarrell). American Society of Criminology, Montreal.
1988 Public Support and Confidence in the Police: A View From the 1980's. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, San Francisco.
1988 Discussant, panel on Prison Labor and Prisoner Employment, American Society of Criminology, Chicago.
1990 The Accreditation Process as a Mechanism for the Promotion of Institutional Change. Council of Fellows, American Council on Education, Michigan State University.
1990 Adaptation and Adjustment Among Long Term Prisoners. U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons National Conference on Issues in Corrections, Washington, DC.
1991 Invited Participant, The Attorney General's Summit on Law Enforcement Responses to Violent Crime, Washington DC.
1991 A Full Employment Policy for Prisoners in the United States: Some Estimates and Implications (with Kathleen Maguire). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1991 Panelist, roundtable on Publishing in Criminal Justice Journals, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1991 Panelist, workshop on Preparing for Academic Careers. Presented by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for graduate student members, Nashville.
1991 Current Death Penalty Opinion in New York State (with Philip W. Harris and Robert M. Bohm). Albany Law School/University at Albany Conference on The Death Penalty: Perspectives on the Past and Future in New York State, Albany.
1991 Crime Control Ideology and Policy Positions in a State Legislature, Revisited. (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen). American Political Science Association, Washington, DC.
1991 Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice Among New York Lawmakers: Continuity and Change Over Time. (with Pauline Gasdow Brennan and Debra Cohen). Southwest Association of Criminal Justice Educators, San Antonio.
1991 Measuring and Explaining Crime Control Ideology Among State Legislators, 1985 and 1991 (with Debra Cohen and Pauline Gasdow Brennan). American Society of Criminology, San Francisco.
1992 The Future of Criminal Justice Education: Challenges and Opportunities. Community College Educators Association of Texas, Houston (Invited presentation).
1992 Conservatism and Capital Punishment in the Capitol: Lawmakers and the Death Penalty. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh.
1992 Roundtable, Models for Linking Academic and Professional Programs. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Pittsburgh.
1992 Employing Prisoners: Issues, Problems and Goals. American Correctional Association, San Antonio.
1993 Public Policy and Prison Education (with James W. Marquart, Steven J. Cuvelier, Jurg Gerber, Dennis Longmire, Velmer Burton, Kenneth Adams, Eric Fritsch and Katherine Bennett). Southwestern Criminal Justice Educators Association, Dallas.
1993 The Future of Criminal Justice Education. Southern Association of Criminal Justice Educators, Charleston, South Carolina.
1993 Twenty Years of Public Opinion on Crime, Justice and Related Topics, 1973-93. American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, Arizona.
1994 Making the Case for Community Corrections: The Role of Research. Texas Annual Conference of Chief Probation Officers, Huntsville, Texas.
1994 The Crime Bill and Corrections. American Society of Criminology, Miami.
1995 Lessons from a Quarter Century of Criminal Justice Research. Houston Citizen’s Police Academy Alumni Association, Houston, Texas.
1995 Coping With Long-term Imprisonment. Inmate Mentor’s Group Conference, U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, Federal Correctional Institution, McKean, PA.
1995 Americans View Corrections. National Association of Probation Executives, Dallas Texas.
1995 Understanding the Beast of Public Opinion in Crime and Justice. Faculty Research Series, Sam Houston State University, Huntsville.
1995 Academic Advising: Organizational and Effectiveness Concerns. American Council on Education Fellows Annual Seminar, Alexandria, Virginia.
1995 The National Opinion Survey on Crime and Justice: Implications for Community Corrections Leaders. Texas Annual Conference of Chief Probation Officers, Huntsville, Texas.
1995 Three Strikes and You’re Out: Public Safety Through Incarceration? National Safety Council, Dallas, Texas.
1995 Three Strikes and You’re Out Legislation: Public Opinion and Public Policy in Criminal Justice, American Society of Criminology, Boston, MA.
1996 Getting Tough on Prisoners: Findings from the National Corrections Executive Survey (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett) Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, NV.
1996 Marketing Corrections. Texas Community Justice Assistance Division, 10th annual Skills Conference, Austin, TX.
1996 Community Corrections in the Public Mind. Plenary address, 21st Annual Institute, American Probation and Parole Association, Chicago, IL.
1996 Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Executives: A Contemporary Portrait. (with W. Wesley Johnson and Katherine Bennett). American Society of Criminology, Chicago.
1997 Academic Advising in Baccalaurate Criminal Justice and Criminology Programs: Preliminary Findings from a National Assessment. (with Jurg Gerber, Jerry Hertenstein and Matthew Foster). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Nashville.
1999 Development and implementation of an undergraduate competency examination program in computing skills. 13th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education. Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, July.
2000 Challenges and Rewards of Correctional Nursing (with Nancy A. Flanagan). National Commission on Correctional Health Care, New Orleans, April.
2000 Occupational Stress and Job Satisfaction Among Correctional Nurses (with Nancy A. Flanagan). Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, New Orleans, April.
2001 Long-term incarceration and the future of American imprisonment policy: what we know, and what we need to know. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, Long-term Offenders Training Conference, Elizabethtown PA, June 2001.
2002 Competency examinations as measures of quality assessment and student learning. Meeting of the Academic Affairs Resource Center, American Association of State Colleges and Universities, San Antonio, February.
2002 Challenge and Change in Correctional Nursing (with Nancy A. Flanagan). National Commission on Correctional Health Care, Fort Lauderdale, April.
2002 Competency examinations as measures of quality assessment and student learning. 14th International Conference on Assessing Quality in Higher Education. University of Vienna, Austria, July
2003 Public Opinion, Crime and Justice: An American Perspective. International Conference on Public Opinion and Administration of Justice, University of Leuven, Belgium, September.
2005 Public Opinion and Public Policy on Crime and Justice in 20th Century America, Canada, and Europe: On Causes, Effects, and Unintended Consequences. Department of Modern History, The National University of Ireland, Maynooth, April.
2010 Policing Communities and Community-centric Policing: An Evidence-based Assessment. Dow Visiting Scholar Lecture, Saginaw Valley State University, Michigan, November.