Publications in VIVO

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Thomas, Kyle

Associate Professor

Positions

Associate Professor, Sociology

Research Areas

Research

keywords

Offender decision making, criminological theory

Publications

selected publications

chapter
journal article
- The Contextual Generality of Crime: Workplace and Street Crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 639-688. 2024
- Revisiting the relationship between age, employment, and recidivism 2023
- Estimating Latent Preferences for Crime: Implications for Rational Choice, Identity, and Desistance Theories. Justice Quarterly. 613-643. 2023
- Value orientations, life transitions, and desistance: Assessing competing perspectives. Criminology. 103-131. 2023
- Structural predictors of choice: Testing a multilevel rational choice theory of crime. Criminology. 606-636. 2022
- Status Gains versus Status Losses: Loss Aversion and Deviance. Justice Quarterly. 871-896. 2022
- Can the group disincentivize offending? Considering opt‐out thresholds and decision reversals*. Criminology. 738-765. 2021
- Reflected appraisals across multiple reference groups: Discrepancies in self and individual delinquency. Social Science Research. 2021
- Paternoster on Human Agency and Crime: a Rejoinder to Critics on His Behalf. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. 524-542. 2021
- Reflections on the utility of school-based surveys for gang research. Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research. 96-109. 2021
- Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory^†. Criminology. 485-509. 2020
- Affinity, Affiliation, and Guilt: Examining Between- and Within-Person Variability in Delinquent Peer Influence. Justice Quarterly. 715-738. 2020
- Quantifying the Likelihood of False Positives: Using Sensitivity Analysis to Bound Statistical Inference. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 631-662. 2019
- Peers and offender decision-making. Criminology and Public Policy. 759-784. 2019
- Testing a rational choice model of “desistance:” Decomposing changing expectations and changing utilities. Criminology. 687-714. 2019
- Rationalizing Delinquency: Understanding the Person-situation Interaction through Item Response Theory. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 3-41. 2019
- Peer Influence and Delinquency. Annual Review of Criminology. 241-264. 2019
- Revisiting Delinquent Attitudes: Measurement, Dimensionality and Behavioral Effects. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 313-341. 2018
- TESTING THE TRANSITIVITY OF REPORTED RISK PERCEPTIONS: EVIDENCE OF COHERENT ARBITRARINESS. Criminology. 59-86. 2018
- Considering the Elements that Inform Perceived Peer Deviance. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 597-627. 2016
- INCENTIVES FOR COLLECTIVE DEVIANCE: GROUP SIZE AND CHANGES IN PERCEIVED RISK, COST, AND REWARD*. Criminology. 459-486. 2016
- On the Relationship Between Peer Isolation and Offending Specialization. Crime and Delinquency. 26-53. 2016
- DELINQUENT PEER INFLUENCE ON OFFENDING VERSATILITY: CAN PEERS PROMOTE SPECIALIZED DELINQUENCY?. Criminology. 280-308. 2015
- Incentivizing Responses to Self-report Questions in Perceptual Deterrence Studies: An Investigation of the Validity of Deterrence Theory Using Bayesian Truth Serum. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 677-707. 2014
- Peer Influence and Context: The Interdependence of Friendship Groups, Schoolmates and Network Density in Predicting Substance Use. Journal of Youth and Adolescence: a multidisciplinary research publication. 1436-1452. 2014
- The Causal Impact of Exposure to Deviant Peers. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 476-503. 2013
- A DUAL‐SYSTEMS APPROACH FOR UNDERSTANDING DIFFERENTIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO PROCESSES OF PEER INFLUENCE. Criminology. 435-474. 2013
- Do individual characteristics explain variation in sanction risk updating among serious juvenile offenders? Advancing the logic of differential deterrence.. Law and Human Behavior. 10-21. 2013
- An Analysis of Written Conductive Energy Device Policies. Criminal Justice Policy Review. 399-426. 2012
- Trends in police research: a cross‐sectional analysis of the 2000–2007 literature. Police Practice and Research: an international journal. 520-547. 2010
- Conducted Energy Device Use in Municipal Policing: Results of a National Survey on Policy and Effectiveness Assessments. Police Quarterly. 290-315. 2010

Teaching

courses taught

SOCY 4014 - Criminology
Primary Instructor - Spring 2020 / Spring 2021 / Spring 2022
Examines the scientific study of types of criminal behavior and explanations for criminal behavior, with special attention to social factors affecting criminal behavior.
SOCY 4024 - Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Primary Instructor - Fall 2019 / Spring 2020 / Fall 2021 / Spring 2022 / Fall 2022 / Fall 2023
Examines the history, incidence and prevalence of delinquent behavior among youth.
SOCY 6111 - Stats 2: Statistic Analysis
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2023
Introduces students to mainstream multivariate regression techniques used in the social sciences. The majority of the course focuses on the Ordinary Least Square model and on the extension of this model to nominal, ordinal and count dependent variables. Students analyze data of their choosing with statistical software packages including SPSS, SAS, and STATA. Department prerequisite: SOCY 5111 or equivalent.
SOCY 7004 - Criminological Theory
Primary Instructor - Fall 2020 / Fall 2022
Examines the major criminological theories of the 18th through 21st centuries in Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Emphasizes the historical contexts and paradigms of knowledge influencing these theories.

Background

education and training

Ph.D., University of Maryland College Park Campus 2015
M.A., University of Maryland College Park Campus 2011
B.A., Washington State University 2009

International Activities

geographic focus

Germany Country