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Overview

Michael R. Gottfredson is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the social sciences with a strong emphasis on sociology and political science, as well as epidemiology and health-related fields.

Their scholarly work spans several key topics including crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, intimate partner and family violence, and homelessness and social issues.

Gottfredson has published multiple papers in respected academic venues. Notable recent publications include:

  • The Essential Role of Cross-national Research in Assessing Theories of Crime: Illustrations from Modern Control Theory, 2021, International Criminology
  • Intimate Partner Violence, Femicide, and General Theories: Issues for Research and Policy From the View of Modern Control Theory, 2024, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice
  • Wikström, Per-Olof H., Kyle Treiber, and Gabriela Roman: Character, Circumstances, and Criminal Careers: Toward a Dynamic Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2024, International Criminology

Their frequent publication venues reflect their research focus and include International Criminology and the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.

They often collaborate with colleagues such as Mikaela S. Nielsen, with whom they have co-authored works.

Best Publications

  • A general theory of crime.

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Travis Hirschi

  • Age and the Explanation of Crime

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • Victims of personal crime : an empirical foundation for a theory of personal victimization

    Michael J Hindelang;Michael R Gottfredson;James Garofalo

  • Decision Making in Criminal Justice: Toward the Rational Exercise of Discretion

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Don M. Gottfredson

  • Commentary: Testing the General Theory of Crime

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • THE TRUE VALUE OF LAMBDA WOULD APPEAR TO BE ZERO: AN ESSAY ON CAREER CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL CAREERS, SELECTIVE INCAPACITATION, COHORT STUDIES, AND RELATED TOPICS*

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Travis Hirschi

  • Victims of crime: The dimensions of risk

    Michael R. Gottfredson

  • Control Theory and the Life-Course Perspective

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • The Generality of Deviance

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • Decision Making in Criminal Justice

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Don M. Gottfredson

  • Victims of Personal Crime: An Empirical Foundation for a Theory of Personal Victimization

    Michael J. Hindelang;Michael R. Gottfredson;James Garofalo

  • A Study of the Behavior of Law

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Michael J. Hindelang

  • THE METHODOLOGICAL ADEQUACY OF LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH ON CRIME

    Michael Gottfredson;Travis Hirschi

  • On the Etiology of Criminal Victimization

    Michael R. Gottfredson

  • CAUSES OF WHITE‐COLLAR CRIME*

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • The Empirical Status of Control Theory in Criminology

    Michael R. Gottfredson

  • Youth violence: What we know and what we need to know.

    Brad J. Bushman;Katherine Newman;Sandra L. Calvert;Geraldine Downey

  • SCIENCE, PUBLIC POLICY, AND THE CAREER PARADIGM*

    Michael Gottfredson;Travis Hirschi

  • In Defense of Self-Control

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • Implementation and Evaluation

    John S. Goldkamp;Michael R. Gottfredson;Peter R. Jones;Doris Weiland

  • Self‐Control Theory

    Michael R. Gottfredson

  • The Distinction between Crime and Criminality

    Travis Hirschi;Michael R. Gottfredson

  • OF CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION

    Michael R. Gottfredson;Michael J. Hindelang

Frequent Co-Authors

Travis Hirschi
Travis Hirschi University of Arizona
Brad J. Bushman
Brad J. Bushman The Ohio State University
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University
Daniel W. Webster
Daniel W. Webster Johns Hopkins University
Nina G. Jablonski
Nina G. Jablonski Pennsylvania State University
Sandra L. Calvert
Sandra L. Calvert Georgetown University
Geraldine Downey
Geraldine Downey Columbia University
Daniel Romer
Daniel Romer University of Pennsylvania
Mark Dredze
Mark Dredze Johns Hopkins University

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