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52
Citations
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World Ranking
2353
National Ranking
1140

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Ronald L. Akers is affiliated with the University of Florida in the United States. Their professional career includes research in academic settings without a specified focus on recent individual papers or topic areas.

Akers has been recognized as an ACM Senior Member since 2009. This designation reflects a certain level of professional achievement and contribution within the computing machinery community.

No detailed information regarding specific research publications, coauthors, or frequent publication venues is currently available. Similarly, there is no data on the main fields, subfields, or principal topics of study associated with Akers.

Despite the limited publicly available details, Akers' long-standing affiliation with a major research university indicates involvement in academic and possibly interdisciplinary research environments.

Best Publications

  • Deviant behavior;: A social learning approach

    Ronald L. Akers

  • Criminological Theories: Introduction and Evaluation

    Ronald L. Akers

  • Social Learning And Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance

    Ronald L. Akers

  • A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior

    Robert L. Burgess;Robert L. Akers

  • Social learning and deviant behavior: a specific test of a general theory.

    Ronald L. Akers;Marvin D. Krohn;Lonn Lanza-Kaduce;Marcia Radosevich

  • Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance.

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  • Criminological Theories : Introduction, Evaluation, and Application

    Ronald L. Akers;Christine Sharon Sellers

  • Rational Choice, Deterrence, and Social Learning Theory in Criminology: The Path Not Taken*

    Ronald L. Akers

  • Self-control as a general theory of crime

    Ronald L. Akers

  • A Longitudinal Test of Social Learning Theory: Adolescent Smoking

    Ronald L. Akers;Gang Lee

  • The Empirical Status of Social Learning Theory of Crime and Deviance: The Past, Present, and Future

    Ronald L. Akers;Gary F. Jensen

  • Adolescent marijuana use: A test of three theories of deviant behavior

    Ronald L. Akers;John K. Cochran

  • Beyond Hellfire: An Exploration of the Variable Effects of Religiosity on Adolescent Marijuana and Alcohol Use

    John K. Cochran;Ronald L. Akers

  • Drugs, Alcohol, and Society: Social Structure, Process, and Policy

    Ronald L. Akers

  • Social Learning Theory and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: A Longitudinal Study

    Marvin D. Krohn;William F. Skinner;James L. Massey;Ronald L. Akers

  • Social Contexts and Social Learning in Sexual Coercion and Aggression: Assessing the Contribution of Fraternity Membership

    Scot B. Boeringer;Constance L. Shehan;Ronald L. Akers

  • Are self-reports of adolescent deviance valid? Biochemical measures, randomized response, and the bogus pipeline in smoking behavior.

    Ronald L. Akers;James Massey;William Clarke;Ronald M. Lauer

  • IS DIFFERENTIAL ASSOCIATION/SOCIAL LEARNING CULTURAL DEVIANCE THEORY?*

    Ronald L. Akers

  • age, social learning, and social bonding in adolescent substance use

    Ronald L. Akers;Gang Lee

  • Problems in the Sociology of Deviance: Social Definitions and Behavior

    Ronald L. Akers

  • Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime

    Ronald L. Akers;Gary F. Jensen

  • The Child Savers: The Invention of Delinquency.

    Ronald L. Akers;Anthony M. Platt

Frequent Co-Authors

Marvin D. Krohn
Marvin D. Krohn University of Florida
Wesley G. Jennings
Wesley G. Jennings University of Mississippi
John K. Cochran
John K. Cochran University of South Florida
Chris L. Gibson
Chris L. Gibson University of Florida
Angela R. Gover
Angela R. Gover University of Colorado Denver
George E. Higgins
George E. Higgins University of Louisville
Beth L. Parker
Beth L. Parker University of Guelph

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