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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
38
Citations
6801
World Ranking
5909
National Ranking
2815

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Social science

David Jacobs mostly deals with Criminology, Politics, State, Human factors and ergonomics and Conflict theories. His study looks at the relationship between Politics and fields such as Punishment, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. His State research includes elements of Deadly force and Ethnic group.

His study focuses on the intersection of Ethnic group and fields such as Fundamentalism with connections in the field of Imprisonment. The Human factors and ergonomics study which covers Suicide prevention that intersects with Injury prevention. His research investigates the connection between Law enforcement and topics such as Political economy that intersect with problems in Political sociology, Principle of legality, Development economics, Legislature and Legal death.

His most cited work include:

  • Coffin nails and corporate strategies (419 citations)
  • The Determinants of Deadly Force: A Structural Analysis of Police Violence (299 citations)
  • The Politics of Punishment across Time and Space: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis of Imprisonment Rates (242 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

His primary scientific interests are in Politics, Criminology, Political economy, Economic inequality and Social psychology. His Politics study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Punishment, Explanatory power and State. When carried out as part of a general Criminology research project, his work on Criminal justice, Imprisonment and Deadly force is frequently linked to work in Suicide prevention and Panel analysis, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.

His work in Imprisonment addresses subjects such as Prison, which are connected to disciplines such as Political system. He works mostly in the field of Political economy, limiting it down to concerns involving Economic growth and, occasionally, Political sociology. The study incorporates disciplines such as Development economics and Social control in addition to Unemployment.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Politics (47.50%)
  • Criminology (25.00%)
  • Political economy (20.00%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2009-2020)?

  • Politics (47.50%)
  • Criminology (25.00%)
  • Political economy (20.00%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

Politics, Criminology, Political economy, Economic inequality and Suicide prevention are his primary areas of study. The Politics study combines topics in areas such as Power, Legislature and State. He studied State and Harm that intersect with Political sociology.

David Jacobs combines subjects such as Racial threat, Explanatory power and American political science with his study of Criminology. David Jacobs has included themes like Economic growth, Business cycle, Development economics, Presidential system and Novelty in his Political economy study. His studies in Suicide prevention integrate themes in fields like Injury prevention and Human factors and ergonomics.

Between 2009 and 2020, his most popular works were:

  • On the Politics of Imprisonments: A Review of Systematic Findings (37 citations)
  • Union Strength, Neoliberalism, and Inequality Contingent Political Analyses of U.S. Income Differences since 1950 (35 citations)
  • The Determinants of the Number of White Supremacist Groups: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis (20 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Politics
  • Social science

David Jacobs spends much of his time researching Politics, Development economics, Political economy, Criminology and Explanatory power. His Politics research incorporates elements of Family income, Prison, Unemployment and Imprisonment. His work deals with themes such as Criminal justice and Conservatism, which intersect with Prison.

His research in Unemployment intersects with topics in Dominance, Pooled time series analysis and Racial threat. His Imprisonment study frequently intersects with other fields, such as Divided society. David Jacobs interconnects Economic system and Demographic economics in the investigation of issues within Explanatory power.

Best Publications

  • Coffin nails and corporate strategies

    David Jacobs;Robert H. Miles;Kim S. Cameron

  • The Determinants of Deadly Force: A Structural Analysis of Police Violence

    David Jacobs;Robert M. O'Brien

  • The Politics of Punishment across Time and Space: A Pooled Time-Series Analysis of Imprisonment Rates

    David Jacobs;Jason T. Carmichael

  • The political sociology of the death penalty: A pooled time-series analysis

    David Jacobs;Jason T. Carmichael

  • Toward a Political Model of Incarceration: A Time-Series Examination of Multiple Explanations for Prison Admission Rates

    David Jacobs;Ronald E. Helms

  • Inequality and Police Strength: Conflict Theory and Coercive Control in Metropolitan Areas.

    David Jacobs

  • Vigilantism, Current Racial Threat, and Death Sentences:

    David Jacobs;Jason T. Carmichael;Stephanie L. Kent

  • Political Opportunities and African‐American Protest, 1948–19971

    J. Craig Jenkins;David Jacobs;Jon Agnone

  • MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE STRENGTH FROM 1980 TO 2000: A FIXED‐EFFECTS ANALYSIS OF NONLINEAR AND INTERACTIVE EFFECTS IN LARGE U.S. CITIES

    Stephanie L. Kent;David Jacobs

  • Interracial Conflict and Interracial Homicide: Do Political and Economic Rivalries Explain White Killings of Blacks or Black Killings of Whites?

    David Jacobs;Katherine Wood

  • The Political Context of Sentencing: An Analysis of Community and Individual Determinants

    Ronald Helms;David Jacobs

  • Inequality and Police Use of Deadly Force: An Empirical Assessment of a Conflict Hypothesis

    David Jacobs;David Britt

  • Collective Outbursts, Politics, and Punitive Resources: Toward a Political Sociology of Spending on Social Control

    David Jacobs;Ronald Helms

  • Political Institutions, Minorities, and Punishment: A Pooled Cross-National Analysis of Imprisonment Rates

    David Jacobs;Richard Kleban

  • RACIAL THREAT, PARTISAN POLITICS, AND RACIAL DISPARITIES IN PRISON ADMISSIONS: A PANEL ANALYSIS*

    Bradley Keen;David Jacobs

  • Ideology, Social Threat, and the Death Sentence: Capital Sentences across Time and Space

    David Jacobs;Jason T. Carmichael

  • Subordination and Violence against State Control Agents: Testing Political Explanations for Lethal Assaults against the Police

    David Jacobs;Jason T. Carmichael

  • Testing Coercive Explanations for Order: The Determinants of Law Enforcement Strength over Time

    David Jacobs;Ronald E. Helms

  • Economic Inequality and Homicide in the Developed Nations From 1975 to 1995

    David Jacobs;Amber M. Richardson

  • Toward a Political Sociology of Punishment: Politics and Changes in the Incarcerated Population☆

    David Jacobs;Ronald Helms

Frequent Co-Authors

Mayer N. Zald
Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Pamela Paxton
Pamela Paxton The University of Texas at Austin
Zhenchao Qian
Zhenchao Qian Brown University
J. Craig Jenkins
J. Craig Jenkins The Ohio State University

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