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Papers by Marian Borg

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Edited by Hugh D. Barlow. Westview Press, 1995. 301 pp

Social Forces, Sep 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of 21. The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates

Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Edited by Hugh D. Barlow. Westview Press, 1995. 301 pp

Research paper thumbnail of Social learning and structural factors in adolescent substance use

W. Criminology Rev., 2004

Akers' (1998) Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) model of crime and deviance posits that... more Akers' (1998) Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) model of crime and deviance posits that social learning is the principal social psychological process by which the social structural causes of crime and deviance have an impact on individual behavior. The central hypothesis of this model is that the effects of social structural factors on deviant behavior are substantially mediated by the variables specified in social learning theory. The SSSL model is tested here with data from the Boys Town study of adolescent substance use utilizing the LISREL program. The structural variables are gender, class, and age as indicators of differential location in the social structure; family structure, as a measure of differential social location; and community size, as an indicator of differential social organization. The social learning variables are differential peer association, differential reinforcement, definitions favorable and unfavorable to substance use, and imitation. The dependent variables are adolescent alcohol and marijuana behavior. The imitation variable does not fit into stable measurement models of the latent social learning construct and has weaker mediating effects. The other social learning variables do fit in stable models as indicators of the social learning construct in Structural Equation Models (SEM) and have substantial mediating effects on the relationships between the structural variables and substance use. The findings tend to support the theoretical expectations, but caveats and limitations of the study are outlined that have implications for future research to test the theory more fully.

Research paper thumbnail of Envisioning Justice: The Complex Journey of Cold Case Homicide Survivors

Violence and Victims, 2018

While police make an arrest in the majority of homicide cases occurring annually in the United St... more While police make an arrest in the majority of homicide cases occurring annually in the United States, a portion remain unsolved and are eventually classified as “cold cases.” Family members of the victims are not only left grieving the loss of their loved ones, but also plagued by the knowledge that the murderer has yet to be officially identified or held accountable. How do these family members—cold case homicide survivors—navigate their open-ended journey through grief? Using a social constructivist approach, we analyze in-depth interviews with 24 cold case homicide survivors to describe the unique dimensions of their experience, including how their hopes are tied to understandings of achieving justice for their loved ones. Three themes emerge from their narratives: a certainty that the killers will be identified; a demand for the harshest punishment possible; and an underlying anxiety about what the identification of the offender will ultimately mean for them. We consider the im...

Research paper thumbnail of Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll Virginia 1989

... STEVEN E. FINKEL THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK MARIAN J. BORG Abstract All published preelection survey... more ... STEVEN E. FINKEL THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK MARIAN J. BORG Abstract All published preelection surveys of the 1989 Virginia gubernatorial contest overestimated the vote share of the black candidate and eventual victor, Douglas Wilder. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The structure of social monitoring in the process of social control

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01639625 1997 9968059, May 18, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work.by Hugh D. Barlow

Research paper thumbnail of Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates

Law & Society Review, 2001

... Marian J. Borg Karen F. Parker ... Address correspondence to MarianJ. Borg, Ph.D. Department ... more ... Marian J. Borg Karen F. Parker ... Address correspondence to MarianJ. Borg, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of Florida, PO Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611-7330 (e-mail: mborg@soc.ufl.edu). Law & Society Review, Volume 35, Number 2 (2001) ? ...

Research paper thumbnail of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction

Contemporary Sociology, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates

Annual Review of Sociology, Aug 1, 2000

Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty... more Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution. After reviewing recent changes in public opinion regarding the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on Umbreit and VosRetributive Versus Restorative Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Child Abuse in the Deep South: Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics

Criminal Justice Review, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Drug testing in organizations: Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control

Research paper thumbnail of Social Monitoring as Social Control: The Case of Drug Testing in a Medical Workplace

Sociological Forum, Aug 31, 1997

... Marian J. Borg2,3 and William P. Arnold III4 ... value of testing in relation to its costs, a... more ... Marian J. Borg2,3 and William P. Arnold III4 ... value of testing in relation to its costs, and the relevance of testing in as-sessing an individual's workplace competence (Imwinkelried, 1987; Nor-mand and Salyards, 1989; Parish, 1989; Nock and Kingston, 1990; Normand, Salyards ...

Research paper thumbnail of On botched executions

Strategies for Abolition, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Social learning and structural factors in adolescent substance use

W. Criminology Rev., 2004

Page 1. Western CRIMINOLOGY Western Criminology Review, 5(1) 17-34 (2004) Social Learning and Str... more Page 1. Western CRIMINOLOGY Western Criminology Review, 5(1) 17-34 (2004) Social Learning and Structural Factors in Adolescent Substance Use* Gang Lee University of Texas at El Paso Ronald L. Akers University of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Conflict management in the modern world-system

Sociological Forum, 1992

... nations of different status groups may also help explain why negotiation is not a likely form... more ... nations of different status groups may also help explain why negotiation is not a likely form ofconflict management between them. ... Pluralistic alliances, such as NATO, are characterized by a less centralized decision-making authority structure, a less dominant leader, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil

Law & Social Inquiry, 2013

This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociologica... more This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, "across time and space?" Our research merges these questions by exploring the applicability of Black's theory in a Latin American context. Data collected from a nationally representative survey in Brazil suggest support for Black's propositions regarding the impact of vertical, horizontal, cultural, and normative status on the likelihood of mobilizing the law, as well as the feasibility of using his framework for understanding legal behavior in non-Western settings. Our discussion considers implications and directions for future analyses in both the Brazilian and cross-cultural contexts.

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Edited by Hugh D. Barlow. Westview Press, 1995. 301 pp

Social Forces, Sep 1, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of 21. The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates

Introduction to Criminal Justice, 2013

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Edited by Hugh D. Barlow. Westview Press, 1995. 301 pp

Research paper thumbnail of Social learning and structural factors in adolescent substance use

W. Criminology Rev., 2004

Akers' (1998) Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) model of crime and deviance posits that... more Akers' (1998) Social Structure and Social Learning (SSSL) model of crime and deviance posits that social learning is the principal social psychological process by which the social structural causes of crime and deviance have an impact on individual behavior. The central hypothesis of this model is that the effects of social structural factors on deviant behavior are substantially mediated by the variables specified in social learning theory. The SSSL model is tested here with data from the Boys Town study of adolescent substance use utilizing the LISREL program. The structural variables are gender, class, and age as indicators of differential location in the social structure; family structure, as a measure of differential social location; and community size, as an indicator of differential social organization. The social learning variables are differential peer association, differential reinforcement, definitions favorable and unfavorable to substance use, and imitation. The dependent variables are adolescent alcohol and marijuana behavior. The imitation variable does not fit into stable measurement models of the latent social learning construct and has weaker mediating effects. The other social learning variables do fit in stable models as indicators of the social learning construct in Structural Equation Models (SEM) and have substantial mediating effects on the relationships between the structural variables and substance use. The findings tend to support the theoretical expectations, but caveats and limitations of the study are outlined that have implications for future research to test the theory more fully.

Research paper thumbnail of Envisioning Justice: The Complex Journey of Cold Case Homicide Survivors

Violence and Victims, 2018

While police make an arrest in the majority of homicide cases occurring annually in the United St... more While police make an arrest in the majority of homicide cases occurring annually in the United States, a portion remain unsolved and are eventually classified as “cold cases.” Family members of the victims are not only left grieving the loss of their loved ones, but also plagued by the knowledge that the murderer has yet to be officially identified or held accountable. How do these family members—cold case homicide survivors—navigate their open-ended journey through grief? Using a social constructivist approach, we analyze in-depth interviews with 24 cold case homicide survivors to describe the unique dimensions of their experience, including how their hopes are tied to understandings of achieving justice for their loved ones. Three themes emerge from their narratives: a certainty that the killers will be identified; a demand for the harshest punishment possible; and an underlying anxiety about what the identification of the offender will ultimately mean for them. We consider the im...

Research paper thumbnail of Race-of-Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll Virginia 1989

... STEVEN E. FINKEL THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK MARIAN J. BORG Abstract All published preelection survey... more ... STEVEN E. FINKEL THOMAS M. GUTERBOCK MARIAN J. BORG Abstract All published preelection surveys of the 1989 Virginia gubernatorial contest overestimated the vote share of the black candidate and eventual victor, Douglas Wilder. ...

Research paper thumbnail of The structure of social monitoring in the process of social control

Http Dx Doi Org 10 1080 01639625 1997 9968059, May 18, 2010

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work.by Hugh D. Barlow

Research paper thumbnail of Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates

Law & Society Review, 2001

... Marian J. Borg Karen F. Parker ... Address correspondence to MarianJ. Borg, Ph.D. Department ... more ... Marian J. Borg Karen F. Parker ... Address correspondence to MarianJ. Borg, Ph.D. Department of Sociology, University of Florida, PO Box 117330, Gainesville, FL 32611-7330 (e-mail: mborg@soc.ufl.edu). Law & Society Review, Volume 35, Number 2 (2001) ? ...

Research paper thumbnail of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction

Contemporary Sociology, 1999

Research paper thumbnail of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work

Contemporary Sociology, 1997

Research paper thumbnail of The Changing Nature of Death Penalty Debates

Annual Review of Sociology, Aug 1, 2000

Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty... more Focusing on the last 25 years of debate, this paper examines the changing nature of death penalty arguments in six specific areas: deterrence, incapacitation, caprice and bias, cost, innocence, and retribution. After reviewing recent changes in public opinion regarding the ...

Research paper thumbnail of Comment on Umbreit and VosRetributive Versus Restorative Justice

Research paper thumbnail of Book Review: Child Abuse in the Deep South: Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics

Criminal Justice Review, 1990

Research paper thumbnail of Drug testing in organizations: Applying Horwitz's theory of the effectiveness of social control

Research paper thumbnail of Social Monitoring as Social Control: The Case of Drug Testing in a Medical Workplace

Sociological Forum, Aug 31, 1997

... Marian J. Borg2,3 and William P. Arnold III4 ... value of testing in relation to its costs, a... more ... Marian J. Borg2,3 and William P. Arnold III4 ... value of testing in relation to its costs, and the relevance of testing in as-sessing an individual's workplace competence (Imwinkelried, 1987; Nor-mand and Salyards, 1989; Parish, 1989; Nock and Kingston, 1990; Normand, Salyards ...

Research paper thumbnail of On botched executions

Strategies for Abolition, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of Social learning and structural factors in adolescent substance use

W. Criminology Rev., 2004

Page 1. Western CRIMINOLOGY Western Criminology Review, 5(1) 17-34 (2004) Social Learning and Str... more Page 1. Western CRIMINOLOGY Western Criminology Review, 5(1) 17-34 (2004) Social Learning and Structural Factors in Adolescent Substance Use* Gang Lee University of Texas at El Paso Ronald L. Akers University of ...

Research paper thumbnail of Conflict management in the modern world-system

Sociological Forum, 1992

... nations of different status groups may also help explain why negotiation is not a likely form... more ... nations of different status groups may also help explain why negotiation is not a likely form ofconflict management between them. ... Pluralistic alliances, such as NATO, are characterized by a less centralized decision-making authority structure, a less dominant leader, and ...

Research paper thumbnail of Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black's Theory in Brazil

Law & Social Inquiry, 2013

This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociologica... more This research addresses two separate but related questions. First, to what extent are sociological theories proposed to explain legal behavior in Western societies applicable to non-Western contexts? And second, to what degree is Black's theory of law generalizable, as he contends, "across time and space?" Our research merges these questions by exploring the applicability of Black's theory in a Latin American context. Data collected from a nationally representative survey in Brazil suggest support for Black's propositions regarding the impact of vertical, horizontal, cultural, and normative status on the likelihood of mobilizing the law, as well as the feasibility of using his framework for understanding legal behavior in non-Western settings. Our discussion considers implications and directions for future analyses in both the Brazilian and cross-cultural contexts.