Showing 1 through 5 of 73 records. | 1. Jenks, David. and Costelloe, Michael. "It's Not Whether you Win or Lose, It's how you Place the Blame: Police Agencies Politicking about Crime Rates." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov 13, 2007 <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p200190_index.html>Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: Police agencies face the media every September when the latest crime statistics are released through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports. Although the academic community has long established that these numbers are a weak measure of overall crime and normally fluctuate for a variety of reasons, police agencies respond each year. This research reviewed a random sample of articles from 1970-2006 that referred to police officials taking credit for drops in crime via their policies, and/or placing blame for increases. A thorough content analysis was conducted evaluating patterns for taking credit or placing blame. |
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| 2. Arrington, Theodore. and Brenner, Saul. "The Rational Losing Litigant Model and Measuring Ideology of the U.S. Supreme Court" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott Wardman Park, Omni Shoreham, Washington Hilton, Washington, DC, Sep 01, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p41125_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: McGuire and Stimson (2004) theorize that rational losing litigants will not appeal their cases to the Supreme Court unless they expect to win at that level. Based on this theory they argue that reverse cases alone ought to be used for measuring the ideology of the Court. We suggest a number of flaws in their argument. We test their conclusion re-garding using reverse cases alone to measure ideology by looking at the correlation be-tween Segal-Cover scores and civil liberties support scores for natural courts from 1953-2003. We find that using all the cases is sometimes a better measure of ideology than re-verse cases alone, and argue that the former is to be preferred for a number of sound methodological reasons. |
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| 3. Elgun, Ozlem. "How to Lose a War in 10 Days: Personalization of Military Regimes and War Outcomes" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p151533_index.html>Publication Type: Proceeding |
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| 4. Jasper, James. "When All Is Lost, There's Nothing Left to Lose: The Emotional Dynamics of Political Worst Cases" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta Hilton Hotel, Atlanta, GA, Aug 16, 2003 <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p106449_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
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| 5. Gillespie, William. "Appeals of Sentences Under the Guidelines: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Midwest Political Science Association, Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois, Apr 20, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-12-06 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p139313_index.html>Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: I investigate what factors lead to appellant success or failure when appealing sentences given by district court judges that fall outside of the recommended Federal Sentencing Guideline range (a.k.a. sentencing departures). |
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