Unpublished Report
Taylor, R. B., Goldkamp, J.S, Weiland, D., Breen, C., Garcia, R. M., Presley, L. Wyant, B. (2006). A Preliminary Investigation Concerning DNA Evidence and the Criminal Justice System in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania: Policy, Practice and Prospects. Unpublished final report. PDF
Publications
Books
Taylor, R. B. (2001). Breaking away from broken windows: Baltimore Neighborhoods and the nationwide fight against crime, grime, fear and decline. New York: Westview.
WEB
MENTIONS
Taylor, R.
B. (1988) Human
Territorial Functioning: An Empirical
Evolutionary
Perspective on Individual and Small Group Territorial Cognitions,
Behaviors, and Consequences.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Reviewed in: British Journal of Criminology, 1990, V. 30 No. 2; Contemporary Psychology, July, 1990; Contemporary Sociology, May, 1990; Environment and Behavior, September, 1989; Man, V. 24, p. 693, 1989.
Edited Books
Taylor, R. B. (Ed.) (1986) Urban Neighborhoods: Research and Policy. New York: Praeger.
Textbook
Taylor, R.
B. (1993) Research
methods in criminal justice.
New York: McGraw Hill. (Accompanied by Taylor, R. B. (1994)
Instructor's
manual for Research Methods in Criminal Justice
(309 pages) New York: McGraw Hill.)
Monographs
Taylor, R.
B. and Harrell, A. (1996)
Physical
environment and crime.
Washington: National Institute of Justice. (NCJ157311) (31 pages)
PDF
Gottfredson, S.D., and Taylor, R.B. (1983) America's Correctional Crisis: Prison Crowding and Public Policy. Washington: U.S. GPO. (see Judicature article below)
Goodman, A.C., and Taylor, R.B. (1983) The Baltimore Neighborhood Fact Book: 1970 and 1980. Baltimore: Center for Metropolitan Planning and Research, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland.
Articles in Refereed Journals
Garcia, R. M., Taylor, R. B., Lawton, B. A. (in press) Impacts of violent crime and neighborhood structure on trusting your neighbors. Justice Quarterly. PDF
McCord, E.S., Ratcliffe, J.H., Garcia, R.M., and Taylor, R. B. (2007). Nonresidential Crime Attractors and Generators Elevate Perceived Neighborhood Crime and Incivilities. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 44: 295-320. PDF
Taylor, R. B., Goldkamp, J.S., Weiland, D.S., Breen, C., Garcia, R.M., Presley, L.A., Wyant, B.R. (2007). Revise policies mandating offender DNA collection. Criminology and Public Policy 6(4) 2301-2312. PDF
Taylor, R. B., Ratcliffe, J.H., Dote, L., and Lawton, B. (2007). Roles of neighborhood race and status in the middle stages of juror selection. Journal of Criminal Justice 35(4) 391-403. PDF
Wyant, B.R. , and Taylor, R. B. (2007). Size of household gun collections: Implications for gender and subcultures. Criminology 45(3) 519-546. PDF
Walsh, J., and Taylor, R. B. (2007) Community structural predictors of spatially aggregated motor vehicle theft rates: Do they replicate? Journal of Criminal Justice 35 297-311 PDF
Walsh, J., and Taylor, R. B. (2007) Predicting decade-long changes in community motor vehicle theft rates: Impacts of structure and surround. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 44 (1) 64-90. PDF
Wang, (+) K., and Taylor, R. B. (2006) Simulated walks through dangerous alleys: Impacts of features and progress on fear. Journal of Environmental Psychology 26 269-283 PDF
Lawton, (+) B. A., Taylor, R. B., and Luongo, (+) A. (2005) Police Officers on Drug Corners in Philadelphia, Drug Crime and Violent Crime: Intended, Diffusion, and Displacement Impacts. Justice Quarterly 22(4) 427-451. PDF.
Ellen, J.M., Jennings, J.M., Meyers, T., Chung, S., and Taylor, R. B. (2004). Perceived social cohesion and prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases. Sexually Transmitted Diseases 31 117-122. PDF
Robinson, J. B., Lawton, B. A., Taylor, R. B., and Perkins, D. D. (2003). Multilevel Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities: Fear of Crime, Expected Safety, and Block Satisfaction Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19 (No. 3, September) 237-274 PDF.
Taylor, R. B., Anderson, T., and McConnell, P. (2003). Competencies and interest in a problem-focused undergraduate research methods criminal justice course: Two assessments. Journal of Criminal Justice Education 14 133-148. PDF
Taylor, R. B. (2002) Fear of crime, local social ties, and collective efficacy: Maybe masquerading measurement, maybe déjà vu all over again. Justice Quarterly 19 773-792. PDF
Taylor, R. B., and Mason, R. (2002) Responses to prison for environmental criminals: Impacts of incident, perpetrator and respondent characteristics. Environment and Behavior 34 194-216. PDF
Taylor, R. B., and McConnell, P. (2001) BAC and Beer: Operationalizing Drunk Driving Laws in a Research Methods Course Exercise. Teaching Sociology 29, 219-228. PDF
Kurtz ,
E., Koons, B., & Taylor, R. B. (1998). Land use, physical
deterioration, resident-based control and calls for service on urban
streetblocks. Justice
Quarterly,
15 121-149.
PDF
Taylor, R.
B. (1997) Order and disorder of streetblocks and neighborhoods:
Ecology, microecology and the systemic model of social organization.
Journal
of Research in Crime and Delinquency
34
113-155. (Cited in June 1997 APA
Monitor
story on 50th birthday of ecological psychology)
PDF
Taylor, R.
B. (1996) Neighborhood Responses to Disorder and Local Attachments:
The Systemic Model of Attachment, Social Disorganization, and
Neighborhood Use Value.
Sociological
Forum
11 41-74.
PDF
Perkins, D. D., and Taylor, R. B. (1996). Ecological assessments of community disorder: Their relationship to fear of crime and theoretical implications. American Journal of Community Psychology 24 63-107.
Perkins, D. D., Brown, B. B., and Taylor, R. B. (1996) The Ecology of empowerment: Predicting participation in community organizations. Journal of Social Issues 52 85-111.
Taylor. R. B. (1995) The Impact of crime on communities. Annals of the American Academy of Political And Social Sciences 539, 28-45. PDF
Taylor, R. B., Koons, B. A., Kurtz , E. M., Greene, J. R., and Perkins, D. D. (1995). Streetblocks with more nonresidential land use have more physical deterioration: Evidence from Baltimore and Philadelphia. Urban Affairs Review (formerly Urban Affairs Quarterly) 31 120-136. PDF
Perkins, D. D., Wandersman, A., Rich, R., and Taylor, R. B. (1993). The Physical environment of street crime: Defensible space, territoriality, and incivilities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 13 29-49.
Taylor, R. B., and Covington, J. (1993). Community structural change and fear of crime. Social Problems 40 374-397. PDF
Perkins, D. D., Meeks (+) , J., and Taylor, R. B. (1992). The Physical environment of street blocks and resident perceptions of crime and disorder: Implications for theory and measurement. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 12, 21-34. PDF (absract only)
Kagehiro, D., Laufer, W., and Taylor, R. B. (1992). Social perception of third party consent and reasonableness test of Illinois v. Rodriguez. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 29, 217-228. PDF
Kagehiro, D. K., Taylor, R. B., Laufer, W. S., & Harland, A. T. (1991). Hindsight bias and social perceptions of third party consentors to warrantless search. Law and Human Behavior, 15, 305-314. PDF
Kagehiro, D. K., Taylor, R. B., & Harland, A. T. (1991). Reasonable expectations of privacy and third party consent searches. Law and Human Behavior, 15, 121-138. PDF
Covington, J., & Taylor, R. B. (1991). Fear of crime in urban residential neighborhoods: Implications of between and within-neighborhood sources for current models. The Sociological Quarterly, 32, 231-249.
Taylor, R. B., & Shumaker, S. A. (1990). Local crime as a natural hazard: Implications for understanding the relationship between disorder and fear of crime. American Journal of Community Psychology, 18, 619-642. PDF
Taylor, R. B., & Covington, J. (1990). Ecological change, changes in violence, and risk prediction. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 5, 164-175. PDF
Covington, J. C., & Taylor, R. B. (1989). Gentrification and crime: Robbery and larceny changes in appreciating Baltimore neighborhoods in the 1970's. Urban Affairs Quarterly, 25, 142-172.
Kagehiro, D., & Taylor, R. B. (1988). Third party consent searches: Legal vs. social perceptions of "common authority". Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 18, 1274-1287.
Taylor, R. B., & Covington, J. (1988). Neighborhood changes in ecology and violence. Criminology, 26, 553-589. PDF
Taylor, R. B., & Hale, M. (1986). Testing alternative models of fear of crime. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 77, 151-189. PDF
De Soto, C. B., Hamilton, M. M., & Taylor, R. B. (1985). Words, people and implicit personality theory. Social Cognition, 3, 369-382.
Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. (1985). Attachment to place: Discriminant validity and impacts of disorder and diversity. American Journal of Community Psychology 13 525-542.
Gottfredson, S. D., & Taylor, R. B. (1985). Public policy and prison populations: Measuring opinions about reform. Judicature, 68, 190-201. PDF
Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. (1984). Understanding block crime and fear. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 21, 303-331.
Taylor, R. B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. (1984). Neighborhood naming as an index of attachment to place. Population and Environment, 7, 101-111
Switzer, R.(*),
& Taylor, R. B. (1983). Predicting privacy vs. sociability of
residential choice: Impacts of personality and local social ties.
Basic
and
Applied
Social
Psychology,
4,
123-136.
Brower,
S., Dockett, K., & Taylor, R. B. (1983). Resident's perceptions
of site- level features. Environment
and
Behavior,
15,
419-437.
Taylor, R.
B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. (1981). Territorial
cognitions and social climate in urban neighborhoods.
Basic
and
Applied
Social
Psychology,
2,
289-303.
Taylor, R.
B., & Lanni, J. C. (1981). Territorial dominance: The Influence
of the resident advantage in triadic decisionmaking.
Journal
of
Personality
and
Social
Psychology,
41,
909-915.
Taylor, R.
B. (1981). Perception of density: Individual differences?
Environment
and
Behavior, 13,
3-22.
Taylor, R.
B., Gottfredson, S. D., Brower, S., Drain, W., & Dockett, K.
(1980). Toward a resident-based model of community crime prevention:
Urban territoriality, social networks, and design. JSAS
Catalog
of
Selected
Documents
in
Psychology,
10,
Ms. 2044.
Taylor, R.
B., & Brooks, D. K.(*)
(1980). Temporary territories: Responses to intrusions in a public
setting. Population
and
Environment,
3,
135-145.
Taylor, R.
B. (1980). Conceptual dimensions of crowding reconsidered.
Population
and
Environment,
3,
298-308.
Taylor, R.
B., & Ferguson, G. (1980). Solitude and intimacy: Linking
territoriality and privacy experiences.
Journal
of
Nonverbal
Behavior,
4,
227-239.
Verbrugge,
L. M., & Taylor, R. B. (1980). Negative and positive effects of
metropolitan population density.
Urban
Affairs
Quarterly,
16,
135-160.
Taylor, R.
B., De Soto, C. B., & Lieb, R.(*)
(1979). Sharing secrets: Disclosure and discretion in dyads and
triads. Journal
of
Personality
and
Social
Psychology,
37,
1196-1203. PDF
Taylor, R.
B., & Stough, R. R. (1978). Territorial cognition: Assessing
Altman's typology.
Journal
of
Personality
and
Social
Psychology,
36,
418-422. PDF
Chapters in Edited Volumes, Texts, and Handbooks
Taylor, R. B. (2001). Understanding the connections between physical environment, crime, fear and resident-based control. In J. Q. Wilson, and J. Petersilia (Eds.) Crime: Public policies and crime control. (pp. 413-425). Oakland: ICS Press.
Taylor, R. B. (2001). On the corner of Mount and Fayette. In A. Booth and A. C. Crouter (Eds.) Does It Take a Village? : Community Effects on Children, Adolescents, and Families (pp. 203-210). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
Taylor, R. B. (2000). Crime and human ecology: Social disorganization vs. social efficacy. In R. Paternoster and R. Bachman (Eds.), Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory. Chicago: Roxbury Publishing.
Brower, S., & Taylor, R. B. (1997). Qualities of ideal and real-world neighborhoods. In M. Gray (Ed.), Evolving Environmental Ideals: Changing Ways of Life, Values, and Design Practices (pp. 99-106). Stockholm: Kungl Tekniska Hogskolan.
Taylor, R. B. (1997). Relative impacts of disorder, structural change, and crime in residents and business personnel in Minneapolis-St. Paul. In S. Lab (Ed.), Community crime prevention at the crossroads. Cincinnati: Anderson.
Taylor, R. B. (1991). Urban communities and crime. In M. Gottdiener & E. Pickvance (Eds.), Urban life in transition. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Taylor, R.
B., & Kagehiro, D. K. (1991). Probationers on home confinement
with electronic monitoring: Individual, system, and community
concerns. In D. K. Kagehiro & W. S. Laufer (Eds.),
Handbook
of
Law
and
Psychology.
New York: Springer Verlag.
Kagehiro,
D. K., & Taylor, R. B. (1991). Exploring the Fourth Amendment:
'Reasonable expectation of privacy' in consent searches. In D. K.
Kagehiro & W. S. Laufer (Eds.),
Handbook
of
Law
and
Psychology.
New York: Springer Verlag.
Greene, J.
R., & Taylor, R. B. (1988). Community-based policing and foot
patrol: Issues of theory and evaluation. In J. R. Greene & S. D.
Mastrofski (Eds.),
Community
policing:
Rhetoric
or
reality?.
New York: Praeger.
Gottfredson,
S. D., Warner, B. D., & Taylor, R. B. (1988). Conflict and
consensus in criminal justice settings. In N. Walker & M. Hough
(Eds.), Sentencing
and
the
public.
London: Gower.
Gottfredson,
S. D., & Taylor, R. B. (1988). Community contexts and criminal
offenders. In T. Hope & M. Shaw (Eds.),
Crime
and
community
context.
London: HMSO.
Taylor, R.
B. (1987). Toward an environmental psychology of disorder. In D.
Stokols & I. Altman (Eds.),
Handbook
of
environmental
psychology.
New York: Wiley.
Taylor, R.
B., & Gottfredson, S. D. (1987). Environmental design, crime, and
prevention: An Examination of community dynamics. In A. J. Reiss &
M. Tonry (Eds.),
Communities
and
crime (Crime
and
justice:
An
Annual
review
of
research)
(Vol. 8, pp. 387-416). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Gottfredson,
S. D., & Taylor, R. B. (1987). Attitudes of correctional
policymakers and the public. In S. D. Gottfredson & S. McConville
(Eds.), America's
correctional
crisis.
New York: Greenwood Press.
Gottfredson,
S. D., & Taylor, R. B. (1985). Person-environment interactions
in the prediction of recidivism. In J. M. Byrne & R. Sampson
(Eds.), The
Social
psychology
of
crime.
New York: Springer Verlag.
Taylor, R.
B., & Brower, S. (1985). Home and near-home territories. In I.
Altman & C. Werner (Eds.), Human
behavior
and
environment:
Current
theory
and
research
(Vol. 8: Home environments). New York: Plenum.
Taylor, R.
(1985). Environmental psychology. In E. M. Altmaier & M. E. Meyer
(Eds.), Applied
specialties
in
psychology.
New York: Random House.
Shumaker,
S. A., & Taylor, R. B. (1983). Toward a clarification of
people-place relationships: A model of attachment to place. In N. R.
Feimer & E. S. Geller (Eds.),
Environmental
psychology:
Directions
and
perspectives.
New York: Praeger.
Taylor, R.
B. (1983). Conjoining environmental psychology, personality, and
social psychology: Natural marriage or shotgun wedding? In N. R.
Feimer & G. S. Geller (Eds.),
Environmental
psychology: Directions
and
perspectives.
New York: Praeger.
Shumaker,
S. A., & Taylor, R. B. (1982). Environment and social behavior.
In B. Raven & Z. Rubin (Eds.),
Social
psychology
(Second ed.). New York: Wiley.
Taylor, R.
B. (1982). The neighborhood physical environment and stress. In G. W.
Evans (Ed.), Environmental
stress.
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Taylor, R.
B., Gottfredson, S. D., & Brower, S. N. (1980). The defensibility
of defensible space. In T. Hirschi & M. Gottfredson (Eds.),
Understanding
crime.
Beverly Hills: Sage.
Taylor, R.
B., Brower, S., & Stough, R. (1976). User generated visual
features as signs in the urban residential environment. In L. M. Ward
& et al. (Eds.),
The
Behavioral
basis
of
design:
Book
1.
Stroudsburg, PA: Dowden, Hutchinson, and Ross.
Book Reviews
Taylor, R. B. (2006). Review of: Illusion of Order: The False Promise of Broken Windows Policing, by Bernard Harcourt. American Journal of Sociology, 1625-1628. PDF
Taylor, R. B. (2002) Crime in public housing . Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
Taylor, R.
B. (1992). Review of The Geography of Crime, edited by D. J. Evans
and D. T. Herbert. Environment
and
Behavior,
24,
571-574.
Taylor, R.
B. (1990). Community crime prevention in a different light. (Review
of Social construction of reform: Crime prevention and community
organization, by Dan A. Lewis, Greta A. Salem, and Dennis P.
Rosenbaum). Contemporary
Psychology,
35,
986-987.
Taylor, R.
B. (1979). Ecological psychology demystified. (Review of Introduction
to ecological psychology, by Allen Wicker).
Contemporary
Psychology,
24,
979-980.