Job Market Ph.D. Candidates 2008-2009

Mark T. Berg - Hired!

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Relationship between Victimization and Offending: Modeling Causal Mechanisms across Place and Time

Dissertation Committee: Janet Lauritsen (chair), Finn Esbensen, Richard Rosenfeld, and Rolf Loeber (outside member)

Areas of Interest: Social structural and cultural sources of
criminal behavior, longitudinal profiles of criminal activity (individual and macro levels), methodological advancements in the measurement and study of crime

Bradley Brick - Hired!

Email:btbrick@umsl.edu

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Dissertation Title: Race, Social Context, and School Punishment: An Examination of Disparity in School Discipline

Dissertation Committee: Finn-Aage Esbensen (Chair), Janet L. Lauritsen, Lee Ann
Slocum, Eric A. Stewart (outside member)

Areas of Interest: Formal and Informal Social Control, Juvenile Delinquency, Criminological Theory, Community context and Crime, Citizen Responses to the Police

Jennifer Cobbina - Hired!

Email:jecyr4@umsl.edu

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Dissertation Title:From Prison to Home: Women’s Pathways In and Out of
Crime.

Dissertation Committee:Jody Miller (Chair), Beth Huebner, Richard Wright and Patricia O'Brien (outside member).

Areas of Interest: Prisoner reentry, recidivism, corrections

Kimberly Martin - Hired!

Email:khm257@umsl.edu

Curriculum Vitae: pdf

Dissertation Title: The Social Context of Felony Criminal Processing in U.S.
Courts: The Role of Public Sentiment, Conservatism, and Sentencing
Reform

Dissertation Committee: Eric Baumer (Chair), Beth Huebner, Andres F. Rengifo, and
Brian Johnson (outside member).

Areas of Interest: Sociology of Law and Punishment, Communities and Crime, Gender/Feminist Theory, Geographic Information Systems/Spatial Econometrics

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