{"id":778,"date":"2014-03-04T12:39:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T19:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=778"},"modified":"2017-05-29T13:17:49","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T20:17:49","slug":"biderman-albert-d-1923","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=778","title":{"rendered":"BIDERMAN, ALBERT D., 1923-2003"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Research sociologist; college professor. Born– July 10, 1923, Patterson, N.J. Parents– Isaac and Celia (Silberstein) Biderman. Married– Sumiko Fujii, November 9, 1951. Children– Three. Education– New York University, A.B., 1947; University of Chicago, M.A., 1952, Ph.D., 1964.\u00a0U.S. Army, WWII. Instructor in sociology at Illinois Institute of Technology, 1948-52.\u00a0 research social psychologist at Maxwell Air Force Base, 1952-57; ; senior research associate at the Bureau of Social Science Research in Washington, D.C., 1957-86; American University Research Professor of Justice, 1986-2003.\u00a0 Director, Crime Survey Research Consortium, 1979-86. Member American Sociological Association; American Association for Public Opinion Research; American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow); American Statistical Association (fellow); District of Columbia Sociological Society (President, 1965-66). Received the Steward A. Rice Merit Award from the District of Columbia Sociological Society, 1985. Died June 16, 2003.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online; obituary, Washington Post.<\/em><\/p>\n

Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Annotated Bibliography on Prisoner Interrogation, Compliance and Resistance. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1963.<\/p>\n

Bibliography on Display and Communication; Literature and Films, Selected for Their Pertinence to Kinostatistics for Social Indicators. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1973.<\/p>\n

The Criminal Record as a Social Problem. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1970.<\/p>\n

Cultural Models of Captive Relationships. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1960.<\/p>\n

Death as a Criterion in the Study of Extreme Captive Situations. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1961.<\/p>\n

Information, Intelligence, Enlightened Public Policy; Functions and Organization of Societal Feedback. New York; s.n., 1969.<\/p>\n

Interim Report of an Inventory of Surveys of the Public and Crime, Justice and Related Topics. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1971.<\/p>\n

An Inventory of Surveys of the Public on Crime, Justice and Related Topics. Washington, D.C.; National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, 1972.<\/p>\n

Kinostatics for Social Indicators. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1971.<\/p>\n

March to Calumny; the Story of American POWs in the Korean War. New York; Macmillan, 1963.<\/p>\n

National Goals and Statistical Indicators. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1963.<\/p>\n

Recent Second-career Patterns of Military Retirees. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1973.<\/p>\n

Report on a Pilot Study in the District of Columbia on Victimization and Attitudes Toward Law Enforcement. Washington, D.C.; Government Printing Office, 1967.<\/p>\n

Surveys of Population Samples for Estimating Crime Incidence. Washington, D.C.; Office of Law Enforcement Assistance, United States Department of Justice, 1968. (also published as the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Vol. 374).<\/p>\n

Toward Improved Graphic Social Reporting. S.l.; s.n., 1974.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n

An Analysis of 36 Competitive Procurements of Social Program Evaluation Studies. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1974.<\/p>\n

A Competitive Evaluation Research Industry. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1972.<\/p>\n

Data Sources on White-collar Law-breaking. Washington, D.C.; U.S. Department of Justice, 1980.<\/p>\n

The Employment of Retired Military Personnel. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1966.<\/p>\n

Historical Incidents of Extreme Overcrowding. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1965.<\/p>\n

An Inventory of Surveys of the Public on Crime, Justice and Related Topics. Washington, D.C.; National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice, Government Printing Office, 1972.<\/p>\n

Political Economies of Social Research; the Case of Sociology. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1968.<\/p>\n

Self-perceived Social Value and Moral Qualities of One’s Work; Neglected Social Dimensions for Quality of Employment Indicators. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1976.<\/p>\n

Social Scientist and International Affairs; a Case for a Sociology of Social Science. New York; Wiley, 1968.<\/p>\n

Understanding Crime Incidence Statistics … New York; Spring-Verlag, 1989.<\/p>\n

Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mass Behavior in Battle and Captivity; the Communist Soldier in the Korean War. Chicago; University of Chicago Press, 1968.<\/p>\n

Toward an Agenda for Research on National Victimization Survey Statistics. Washington, D.C.; Bureau of Social Science Research, 1978.<\/p>\n

Joint_Editor:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Measuring Work Quality for Social Reporting. Beverly Hills; Sage, 1976.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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