Research:

His research has examined a wide range of life course transitions, including birth timing, remarriage, retirement, and widowhood, as well as a range of issues in health service.

Recent Publications:

Articles in Refereed Journals:

Heckert, D.M., Heckert, A., & Ferraiolo, M. (Under review). Images of serial murderers among college students. Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society.

Sanderson, S., Heckert, A., & Dubrow, J. (In Press). Militarist, Marxian, and non-Marxian materialist theories of gender inequality: A cross-cultural test. Social Forces.

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (2005). Do multiple outcomes and conditional factors improve prediction of batterer reassault? Violence and Victims, Vol. 20, No. 1.

Steck, L.W., Heckert, Druann, & Heckert, A. (2004). The identity salience of race among African American and White students. Race and Society, Vol.6, No. 1, 57-73.

Heckert, A., & Heckert, Druann. (2004). Using a new typology of deviance to analyze ten common norms of the United States middle-class. The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 2, 209-228.

Heckert, A., & Heckert, Druann. (2004). Using an integrated typology of deviance to expand Merton’s anomie theory. Criminal Justice Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, Vol. 17, No. 1, 75-90.

Jones, A. S., D’Agostino, R. B., Gondolf, E., & Heckert, A. (2004). Assessing the effect of batterer program completion on reassault using propensity scores. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 19, No. 9, 1002-1020.

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (2004). Battered women’s perceptions of risk versus risk factors and instruments in predicting repeat reassault. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Vol. 19, No. 7, 778-800.

Heckert, Druann, Heckert, Jessica, & Heckert, A. (2003). Representations of hair color: A content analysis. Sociological Imagination, Vol. 39, No. 2, 77-92,
 

Gondolf, E., & Heckert, A. (2003). Determinants of women’s perceptions of risk in battering relationships. Violence and Victims, 18, No. 4, 371-386. 

Heckert, Alex, & Heckert, Druann. (2002). A new typology of deviance:  Integrating normative and reactivist definitions of deviance. Deviant Behavior, 23, 449-479.  

Darling, R., Hager, M., Stockdale, J., & Heckert, A. (2002). Divergent views of clients and professionals: A comparison of responses to a needs assessment instrument. Journal of Social Service Research, 28, No. 3, 41-63. 

Gondolf, E., Heckert, A., & Kimmel, C. (2002). Non-physical abuse among batterer program participants. Journal of Family Violence, 17, No. 4, 293-314.  

Heckert, A., Matula, D., & Gondolf, E. (2000). Women’s accounts of domestic violence. Women and Criminal Justice, 12, No. 2/3, 95-120. 

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (2000). The effect of perceptions of sanctions on batterer program outcomes. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 37, No. 4, 369-391. 

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (2000). Predictors of underreporting of male violence by batterer program participants and their partners. Journal of Family Violence, 15, No. 4, 423-443.  

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (2000). Assessing assault self-reports by batterer program participants and their partners. Journal of Family Violence, 15, No. 2, 181-197. 

Heckert, A., Nowak, T., & Snyder, K. (1998). The impact of husbands’ and wives’ relative earnings on marital disruption. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 60, 690-703. 

Weingarten, J., Clay, J., & Heckert, A. (1997). Impact of socioeconomic status on health care utilization:  factors influencing length of stay. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 384-409.

Book Chapters:

Heckert, A, & Gondolf, E. (forthcoming, 2004). Predicting levels of abuse and reassault among batterer program participants. Fisher, Bonnie (Ed.), Violence Against Women and Family Violence Conference Proceedings.  National Institute of Justice. US Department of Justice.

Heckert, D.M., & Heckert, A. (2000). Positive deviance. In P. Adler, P. Adler, & J. Corzine (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior: Volume One, Historical, Conceptual, and Theoretical Issues.

Final Reports:

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (March 2002). Predicting Levels of Abuse and Reassault Among Batterer Program Participants . Final report submitted to National Institute of Justice for Grant No. 98-WT-VX-0014, 159 pages.

Recent Grant Proposals and Contracts:

Darling, R., & Heckert, A. (2000). Program Evaluation of: Kids Included in Child Care in the 21^st Century, funded by the Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare and conducted by ARC Allegheny, an agency based in Pittsburgh. $59,296. Funded.

Heckert, A., & Gondolf, E. (1998). Predicting levels of abuse and reassault among arrested batterers. National Institute of Justice, $94,981. Funded. Final report submitted March 2002.

Heckert, A. (1998). Predicting levels of abuse and reassault among arrested batterers. Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Faculty Professional Development Council, $4,253. Funded.