Piquero, Alex R.
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Dr. Alex R. Piquero is the Asbel Smith Professor of Criminology and Associate Dean for Graduate Programs in the School of Economic, Political, and Policy Studies. In 2018 he was inducted as a Fellow of The University of Texas System Academy of Distinguished Teachers. During his career he has authored over 350 peer-reviewed articles and as of September 2016 his works have been cited over 21,000 times. His research interests include: criminal careers, crime prevention, criminological theory, and quantitative research methods.
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2019 recipient of the Web of Science Highly Cited Researchers award for Social Sciences
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Staying Home, Staying Safe? A Short-Term Analysis of COVID-19 on Dallas Domestic Violence
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-14)COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on the lives of persons around the world and social scientists are just beginning to understand its consequences on human behavior. One policy that public health officials put in place to help ... -
Harmonizing Legal Socialization to Reduce Antisocial Behavior: Results from a Randomized Field Trial of Truanting Young People
(Routledge, 2019-06-05)Legal socialization conceptualizes two processes for attaining compliance as either consensus-based or coercive-based. However, in real life, an adolescent’s exposure to police and school authorities is likely to incorporate ... -
School Start Times, Delinquency, and Substance Use: A Criminological Perspective
(Sage Publications Inc., 2019-04-26)Research finds a lack of sleep during adolescence is associated with a variety of negative outcomes and suggests that early school start times contribute to this problem. Criminologists have largely overlooked the relevance ... -
Psychosocial Maturation, Race, and Desistance from Crime
(Springer New York LLC, 2019-05-21)Research on maturation and its relation to antisocial behavior has progressed appreciably in recent years. Psychosocial maturation is a relatively recent concept of development that scholarship has linked to risky behavior. ... -
Do (Sex) Crimes Increase during the United States Formula 1 Grand Prix?
(Springer Nature, 2019-12-17)Objectives: We examine whether violent, property, or sex trafficking–related crime increased during the 2018 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas. Methods: Ordinary least squares regression models, time ... -
Just Do It? An Examination of Race on Attitudes Associated with Nike’s Advertisement Featuring Colin Kaepernick
The relationship between race and just about any social issue has been and continues to be controversial. Within the context of literature on public opinion regarding sports and social movements, this study considers the ... -
Spatiotemporal Association between Temperature and Assaults: A Generalized Linear Mixed-Model Approach
We aim to analyze the association between temperature and assault at highly disaggregated spatial units with great temporal resolution to investigate their spatiotemporal dynamics. We applied generalized linear mixed models ... -
The Linkage Between Mental Health, Delinquency, and Trajectories of Delinquency: Results from the Boricua Youth Study
Purpose: To examine the longitudinal relationship between depression, delinquency, and trajectories of delinquency among Hispanic children and adolescents. Methods: Propensity score matching is used to match depressed and ... -
Changing the Relationship between Impulsivity and Antisocial Behavior: The Impact of a School Engagement Program
This study examines the extent to which a third-party policing experiment designed to prevent truancy in disadvantaged adolescents is able to weaken the effect of impulsivity on self-reported antisocial behavior over time. ... -
Crime in College Predicts Violent Crime in the National Football League
The relationship between past and future crime is one of the most robust findings within criminology. Yet, there have been few attempts to examine whether this linkage holds in specific employment arenas. In this study, ... -
Red States and Black Lives: Applying the Racial Threat Hypothesis to the Black Lives Matter Movement
(Routledge, 2018-11-05)Despite increased media attention, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has received little scholarly attention. News coverage of BLM is often divisive, which suggests important differences may exist in how the public ... -
Childhood Reports of Food Neglect and Impulse Control Problems and Violence in Adulthood
(MDPI AG, 2018-06-01)Food insecurity and hunger during childhood are associated with an array of developmental problems in multiple domains, including impulse control problems and violence. Unfortunately, extant research is based primarily on ... -
On the Potential Implications of Reports of Fictitious Drug Use for Survey Research on Juvenile Delinquency
(Sage Publishers, 2015-08-01)A variety of methodological issues have been raised over self-reports of delinquency and its correlates. In this study, we call attention to the provision of untruthful information and provide an investigation of this issue ... -
Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice: A Developmental Perspective
(2015-07-28)Responses to juvenile offending have swung between rehabilitative and punishment approaches since the 1960s. A shift back toward rehabilitation has been influenced by recent research on adolescence, adolescent decision ...
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