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Overview

Daniel P. Mears is affiliated with Florida State University in the United States and specializes in the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Their research includes significant contributions to criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, homelessness and social issues, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, sexual offending, crime, illicit activities, and governance, as well as education discipline and inequality and health policy implementation science.

Their recent scholarly publications include:

  • "A Uniquely Punitive Turn? Sex Offenders and the Persistence of Punitive Sanctioning" (2020), published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
  • "Incarceration and the Life Course: Age-Graded Effects of the First Parental Incarceration Experience" (2020), published in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
  • "Revisiting and Unpacking the Mental Illness and Solitary Confinement Relationship" (2021), published in Justice Quarterly
  • "Education versus Punishment? Silo Effects and the School-to-prison Pipeline" (2020), published in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
  • "How Universal Is Disproportionate Minority Contact? An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Juvenile Justice Processing Across Four States" (2020), published in Justice Quarterly

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Sonja E. Siennick
  • Vivian Aranda-Hughes
  • Steven N. Zane
  • George B. Pesta
  • Jennifer M. Brown

Daniel P. Mears has contributed to numerous academic journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Justice Quarterly
  • Crime & Delinquency
  • Criminal Justice and Behavior
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • American Journal of Criminal Justice

Their book publications are with notable publishers and include:

  • Comprehensive Deterrence Theory (2025), published by Cambridge University Press
  • أساسيات البحث في علم الجريمة: والعدالة الجنائية (2024), published by Naif University Press eBooks
  • Reinvention of Policing (2023), published by Rowman & Littlefield

Best Publications

  • Inmate Social Ties and the Transition to Society: Does Visitation Reduce Recidivism?

    William D. Bales;Daniel P. Mears

  • Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior

    Daniel P. Mears;Matthew Ploeger;Mark Warr

  • Prison Visitation and Recidivism

    Daniel P. Mears;Joshua C. Cochran;Sonja E. Siennick;William D. Bales

  • SOCIAL ECOLOGY AND RECIDIVISM: IMPLICATIONS FOR PRISONER REENTRY*

    Daniel P. Mears;Xia Wang;Carter Hay;William D. Bales

  • Vulnerable victims, monstrous offenders, and unmanageable risk: Explaining public opinion on the social control of sex crime

    Justin T. Pickett;Christina Mancini;Daniel P. Mears

  • Social Isolation and Inmate Behavior: A Conceptual Framework for Theorizing Prison Visitation and Guiding and Assessing Research

    Joshua C. Cochran;Daniel P. Mears

  • Prisoner Reentry in the Era of Mass Incarceration

    Daniel P. Mears;Joshua C. Cochran

  • American Criminal Justice Policy: An Evaluation Approach to Increasing Accountability and Effectiveness

    Daniel P. Mears

  • Reviving Juvenile Justice in a Get-Tough Era

    Jeffrey A. Butts;Daniel P. Mears

  • Youth Development and Reentry

    Daniel P. Mears;Jeremy Travis

  • Does Inmate Behavior Affect Post-Release Offending? Investigating the Misconduct-Recidivism Relationship among Youth and Adults

    Joshua C. Cochran;Daniel P. Mears;William D. Bales;Eric A. Stewart

  • The Practice and Promise of Prison Programming. Research Report.

    Sarah Lawrence;Daniel P. Mears;Glenn Dubin;Jeremy Travis

  • NO COMMUNITY IS AN ISLAND: THE EFFECTS OF RESOURCE DEPRIVATION ON URBAN VIOLENCE IN SPATIALLY AND SOCIALLY PROXIMATE COMMUNITIES

    Daniel P. Mears;Avinash S. Bhati

  • Here and Gone: Anticipation and Separation Effects of Prison Visits on Inmate Infractions:

    Sonja E. Siennick;Daniel P. Mears;William D. Bales

  • SUPERMAX INCARCERATION AND RECIDIVISM

    Daniel P. Mears;William D. Bales

  • The Immigration-Crime Nexus: Toward an Analytic Framework for Assessing and Guiding Theory, Research, and Policy

    Daniel P. Mears

  • A Multilevel Test of Minority Threat Effects on Sentencing

    Xia Wang;Daniel P. Mears

  • THE CODE OF THE STREET AND INMATE VIOLENCE: INVESTIGATING THE SALIENCE OF IMPORTED BELIEF SYSTEMS†

    Daniel P. Mears;Eric A. Stewart;Sonja E. Siennick;Ronald L. Simons

  • Sex Crimes, Children, and Pornography Public Views and Public Policy

    Daniel P. Mears;Christina Mancini;Marc G. Gertz;Jake Bratton

  • PUBLIC OPINION AND THE FOUNDATION OF THE JUVENILE COURT

    Daniel P. Mears;Carter Hay;Marc G. Gertz;Christina Mancini

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua C. Cochran
Joshua C. Cochran University of Cincinnati
William D. Bales
William D. Bales Florida State University
Eric A. Stewart
Eric A. Stewart Florida State University
Justin T. Pickett
Justin T. Pickett University at Albany, State University of New York
Marc Gertz
Marc Gertz Florida State University
Michael D. Reisig
Michael D. Reisig Arizona State University
Kevin M. Beaver
Kevin M. Beaver Florida State University
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Brandon C. Welsh
Brandon C. Welsh Northeastern University
J. C. Barnes
J. C. Barnes University of Cincinnati

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