Jonathan R. Brauer
Social Sciences · Indiana University
Publications
45
Citations
613
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
20
Publishing since 2007
Jonathan R. Brauer studies criminology, focusing on how criminal and delinquent behavior develops and how researchers should measure and test theories about it. Much of his recent work is methodological and theoretical, examining how criminologists build and evaluate explanations of crime, including debates over concepts like self-control and the proper statistical handling of survey-style (ordinal) data. He also investigates topics such as stress, coercive control, and factors linked to offending and victimization.
Publication activity was modest and intermittent from 2017 to 2020, went quiet for several years, then surged sharply in 2025, indicating a recent burst of output.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- When stressed, you might get depressed—but will you also commit crime? Between-person correlations, within-person changes, and what criminology might get wrong about stress
2026
- Diagnosing a Correlation Paradox: How Loose Derivation Chains Conceal Theoretical Anomalies in Criminological Research
2026
- Money in the Bank: Progressive Problem Shifts in Criminological Science
2025
- Pursuing Precision in Criminology: Why Ordinal Data Demand Ordinal Methods
2025
- When the Mean is Misleading: A Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes
2025
- Loose Derivation Chains and Invisible Anomalies in Theory Testing: Evidence from Self-Control Research
2025
- Money in the bank: progressive problem shifts in criminological science
Theory and Society · 2025
- Pursuing Precision in Criminology: Why Ordinal Data Demand Ordinal Methods
2025
- Predicting the Future? Congruence and Transition Dynamics Between Past Behavior, Projections, and Future Criminal Behavior
2025
- Money in the Bank: Progressive Problem Shifts in Criminological Science
2025
- Loose Derivation Chains and Scientific Stagnation in Criminology: Evidence from Self-Control Research
2025
- Loose Derivation Chains and Scientific Stagnation in Criminology: Evidence from Self-Control Research
2025
- Unobservable Assumptions: Is “Self-Control” a Reflective Measure, Formative Construct, or Measurement Fiction?
2025
- Advances in Corrections Research
2020
- Beauty is in the eye of the offender: Physical attractiveness and adolescent victimization
Journal of Criminal Justice · 2019
- Justice Quarterly×2
- Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency×1
- Journal of Research on Adolescence×1
- Social Forces×1
- Journal of Criminal Justice×1
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