Published Research & Project Outcomes

Riad*, J.K., Waugh, W.L., and Norris, F.H. (June, 2001). The psychology of evacuation and the design of policy. A. Farazmand (Ed.), Handbook of Crisis and Emergency Management.

Ruback, R. B., & Wroblewski, J. (2001). The Federal Sentencing Guidelines:  Psychological and policy reasons for simplification. Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. 7, 739-775

Ruback, R. B., Ménard, K. S., Outlaw, M. S., & Shaffer, J. N. (1999). Normative advice to campus crime victims: Effects of gender, age, and alcohol. Violence and Victims, 14, 381-396.

Ruback, R. B. (1998). Warranted and unwarranted complexity in the federal sentencing guidelines. Law & Policy, 20, 357-382.

Ruback, R. B., & Vardaman, P. J. (1997). Decision making in delinquency cases: The role of race and juveniles’ admission/denial of the crime. Law and Human Behavior, 21, 47-69.

Ruback, R. B. (1994). Advice to crime victims: Effects of crime, victim, and advisor factors. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 21, 423-442.

Ruback, R. B., & Greenberg, M. S. (1986). Legal and ethical aspects of applied social psychological research in field settings. In M. J. Saks & L. Saxe (Eds.), Advances in applied social psychology (Vol. 3). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum. (Reviewed in Contemporary Psychology, 1988, 33, 67-68)

Ruback, R. B., & Greenberg, M. S. (1985). Crime victims as witnesses: Their accuracy and credibility. Victimology: An International Journal, 10, 410-424.

Ruback, R. B. (1982). Issues in family law: Implications for therapists. In J. C. Hansen (Ed.), The Family Therapy Collections (Vol. 1). Rockville, MD: Aspen Systems.

Ruback, R. B. Dabbs, J. M., Jr., & Purvis, J. A. (1982). A computer procedure to map citizens’ calls to the police. Criminal Justice Review, 7, 68-73.

Ruback, R. B. (1981). Perceived honesty in the parole interview. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 7, 677-681.

Friedmann, R. R., Ruback, R. B., & Huang, W. S. W. (1992). A research agenda for criminal justice in Georgia: Consensus across agencies. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 6, 261-274.

Greenberg, M. S., Wilson, C. E., Ruback, R. B., & Mills, M. K. (1979). Social and emotional determinants of victim crime reporting. Social Psychology Quarterly, 42, 364-372.

Hofer, P. J., Blackwell, K. R., & Ruback, R. B. (1999). The effect of the federal sentencing guidelines on inter-judge sentencing disparity. Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, 90, 239-321.

Huang, W. S. W., Finn, M. A., Ruback, R. B., & Friedmann, R. R. (1996).  Individual and contextual influences on sentence lengths: Examining political conservatism. The Prison Journal, 76, 398-419.

Keenan, J. P., Ruback, R. B., & Hadley, J. G. (1994). Measuring the military atmosphere of boot camps. Federal Probation, 58(1), 67-71.

Outlaw, M. C., & Ruback, R. B. (1999). Predictors and outcomes of victim restitution orders. Justice Quarterly, 16, 847-869.

Thompson, M. P., Norris, F. H., & Ruback, R. B. (1996). System influences on post-homicide beliefs and distress. American Journal of Community Psychology, 24, 785-809.

Presentations

Uhl, G., Ruback, R.B., & Riad*, J.K. (1992).  Evaluating multi-jurisdictional task forces. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Evaluation Association, Seattle, WA.

* Jasmin R. Ruback has been published under the name J. K. Riad.