Gennaro Vito

... 8 No. 4, December 1991 © 1991 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences ... KEIL AND VITO 449 In our analysis we estimate measurement models (Bollen 1989; Joreskög and Sorbom 1988) for two latent variables: 1) per-ceptions of neighborhood safety2 and 2) support for capital ...

... Page 3. KEIL AND VITO 191 Research conducted in several states since Gregg suggests that "guided discretion" fails to provide significant protection against arbitrary and ... Bowers and Pierce (1980) conducted a study of capital sentencing in Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Texas. ...

Racial profiling is an important issue in contemporary policing. Racial profiling research has primarily involved two things: (1) examining traffic stop data, and (2) using a benchmark or baseline in the discovery of racial profiling. A smaller literature has examined the searches to uncover racial profiling. The purpose of the present study is to examine traffic stop data-in particular searches-in

Using multivariate techniques, this article reanalyzes data from the Espy file to test a hypothesis by historian George Wright. In Racial Violence in Kentucky, Wright concludes that legal executions became a functional substitute for Black lynchings in Kentucky. Wright assumes that executions formed a legal substitute for lynchings of Blacks. For this reason, Black lynchings declined dramatically during the 1920s

The purpose of the present study is to examine traffic stop data—in particular data on searches—to better understand racial profiling. We use a measure of capriciousness to understand whether the decision to search occurs at random. Using data from more than 40,000 traffic stops from Louisville, Kentucky, the present study finds that race is one of many factors that are used in the determination of a search. For the overall, White, and Black samples, we find that the decision to search occurs at random, suggesting that racial profiling is not occurring in these data.

Journal of Criminal Justice Vol. 16, pp. 319330 (1988) All rights reserved. Printed in USA 00472352 88 3.00 + .00 Copyright 1988 Pergamon Press plc THE EFFECTS OF INTENSIVE SUPERVISION ON SHOCK PROBATIONERS EDWARD J. LATESSA Criminal Justice Program University ...

Drug policy making is the central focus of this analy sis To date, this process has been plagued by some well-known dy sfunctional aspects of public administration This article considers the experience of one state, Kentucky, under the Federal government's new dmg policy initiatives to demonstrate the nature of this policy-making process

... 5 12 KEIL AND VITO ... Bowers and Pierce (1980) conducted a study of capital sentencing in four states (Florida, Georgia, Ohio, and Texas) and found that blacks convicted of killing whites were more likely to receive a death sentence than were other combinations of race of the ...

... GENNARO F. VITOa,†, THOMAS J. KEILb and VIVIANA ANDREESCUc ... Although, sev-eral studies (Böhm, Flanagan, and Harris, 1990; Dieter, 1997; Fox, Radelet, and Bonsteel, 1991; Paternoster, 1991; Sandys and McGarrell, 1995; Zeisel and Gallup, 1989) acknowledged a ...

Policing is recognized as a morally dangerous profession. This study extends analyses of police corruption via a scale developed by Carl Klockars by surveying police managers attending the Administrative Officers’ Course at the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. The findings indicate that these police managers acknowledge the existence of a questionable moral climate in police agencies and

... Gennaro F. Vito* University of Louisville ABSTRACT ... In Furman v. Georgia (see Bowers, 1983;Bowers & Pierce, 1980), a number of the Supreme Court justices raised serious questions about racial discrimination and arbitrariness in the application of the death penalty. ...

An understanding of policy development, change and implementation is a necessary ingredient in analysis of criminal justice policy. This paper attempts to describe the process of policy formation in criminal justice within the framework of "Agenda Building." Through case studies of ...