Research
Departmental faculty members publish the results of their research in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals and generate external funding from local, state and national government agencies and private foundations. Ph.D students and faculty members collaborate in a number of research projects.
Articles in selected peer-reviewed journals (January 2004- January 2010)
Recent and forthcoming publications by Faculty and Students (current)
Funded research projects (external grants, current)
See also:
Ph.D. Dissertations completed and Dissertations in progress
Youth Violence Prevention Conference
Recent and forthcoming publications by Faculty and Students
(updated September 2011)
* Denotes UMSL CCJ Ph.D. student ** Denotes UMSL CCJ Alumni
Rengifo, Andres F. and Amanda Bolton*. (forthcoming). “Routine Activities and Fear of Crime: Specifying Individual-Level Mechanisms.” European Journal of Criminology.
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin and Jody Miller. (forthcoming). “Precocious role entry as a mediating factor in women’s methamphetamine use: Implications for life-course and pathways research.” Criminology.
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin, Ross Macmillan and Callie Rennison. (forthcoming). “The
transcendence of violence across relationships: New methods for understanding men’s and
women’s experiences of intimate partner violence across the life course.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin. (forthcoming). “The life course consequences of childhood sexual assault: Effects on relationship formation and intimate violence across relationships.” In L. Carpenter and J. DeLamter (eds.), Sex for Life: From Virginity to Viagra, How Sexuality Changes Throughout our Lives. New York University Press.
Peterson, Dana and Dena C. Carson. (forthcoming). “Group Sex Composition and Youths’ Delinquency: A Comparison of Gang and Non-gang Peer Groups.” In Finn-Aage Esbensen and Cheryl L. Maxson (eds.), Youth Gangs in International Perspective: Tales from the Eurogang Program of Research. New York: Springer.
DiPietro, Stephanie and Robert J. Bursik, Jr. (forthcoming). “Criminological Studies of the New Immigration: The Dangers of Pan-ethnic Classifications.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
McGloin, Jean Marie and Stephanie DiPietro. (forthcoming) . “Girls, Friends, and Delinquency.” In Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory. Oxford University Press.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor, and D. Wayne Osgood. (forthcoming). “Results form a Multi-Site Evaluation of the G.R.E.A.T. Program.” Justice Quarterly.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage and Kristy Matsuda. (forthcoming). “How do we know if we are preventing gang membership?” In National Institute of Justice and Center for Disease Control (ed.), Principles of gang membership prevention. National Institute of Justice and Center for Disease Control.
Melde, Chris** and Finn-Aage Esbensen. (forthcoming). “The Onset of Gang Membership as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” In F.-A. Esbensen and C.L. Maxson (under contract), YouthGangs in International Perspective: Tales from the Eurogang Program of Research. New York, NY: Springer.
Cobbina, Jennifer**, Beth M. Huebner, and Mark Berg**. (forthcoming). “Men, Women, and Post-Release Offending: An Examination of the Nature of the Link between Relational Ties and Recidivism”. Crime & Delinquency.
Xie, Min, Karen Heimer, and Janet L. Lauritsen. (forthcoming). “Violence Against Women in US Metropolitan Areas: Changes in Women’s Status and Risk, 1980-2004.” Criminology.
Xie, Min and Janet L. Lauritsen. (forthcoming). “Racial Context and Crime Reporting: A Test of Black’s Stratification Hypothesis.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Lauritsen, Janet L. and Kristin Carbone-Lopez. (forthcoming). “Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Violent Victimization: An Examination of Individual-, Family-, and Community-Level Predictors.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Maxson, Cheryl L. and Kristy Matsuda. (forthcoming). “Gang Delinquency”. In B. Feld and Donna Bishop (eds.), The Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice. Oxford University Press.
Matsuda, Kristy, Finn-Aage Esbensen, and Dena C. Carson. (forthcoming). “Putting the ‘Gang’ in Eurogang; Characteristics of Delinquent Youth Groups by Different Definitional approaches.” In F.-A. Esbensen and C.L. Maxson (under contract), Youth Gangs in International Perspective: Tales from the Eurogang Program of Research. New York, NY: Springer.
Miller, Jody and Andrea Nichols*. (forthcoming). “Identity, Sexuality, Commercial Sex Among Sri Lankan Nachchi.” Invited Article. Sexualities.
Owens, Jennifer G.* and Lee Ann Slocum. (forthcoming). “Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy and abstainers: An exploration of characteristics that distinguish abstainers from offenders.” Crime & Delinquency.
Rosenfeld, Richard. (forthcoming). “Institutional Analysis in Criminology: An Overview of the Current Volume.” In Richard Rosenfeld, Kenna Quinet, and Crystal Garcia (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Criminological Theory and Research: The Role of Social Institutions. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Morris, Nancy and Lee Ann Slocum. (forthcoming). “Estimating country level terrorism trends using group-based trajectory analysis: A comparison of latent class growth analysis and general mixture modeling.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Berg, Mark**, Lee Ann Slocum, and Rolf Loeber. (forthcoming). “Illegal behavior and police reporting by victims of violence.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Slocum, Lee Ann, Andres F. Rengifo, and Kristin Carbone-Lopez. (forthcoming). “Specifying the strain-violence link: The role of emotions in women’s use of violence.” Victims and Offenders.
Bennett, Trevor, Scott Jacques**, and Richard Wright. (forthcoming). “The Emergence and Evolution of Drug User Groups in the UK.” Addiction Research and Theory.
Jacques, Scott** and Richard Wright. (forthcoming). "A Sociological Theory of Drug Sales, Gifts, and Frauds". Crime & Delinquency.
Jacques, Scott** and Richard Wright. (forthcoming). “Ironies of Crime, Control, and Criminology.” Critical Criminology.
Wright, Richard and Volkan Topalli. (forthcoming), “Choosing Street Crime.” In F. Cullen and P. Wilcox (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jacques, Scott** and Richard Wright. (forthcoming), Drug Dealing and Culture in Suburbia. In F. Cullen and P. Wilcox (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Stacey, Michele**, Kristin Carbone-Lopez, and Richard Rosenfeld. (2011). “Demographic change and ethnically motivated crime: The impact of immigration on anti-Hispanic hate crime in the United States.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.
Gottfredson, Denise and Stephanie DiPietro. (2011). “School Size, Social Bonding, and Student Victimization.” Sociology of Education.
Melde, Chris** and Finn-Aage Esbensen. (2011). “Gang Membership as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Criminology.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage and Dana Peterson. (2011). “Youth Gangs.” In B. Bradford Brown and Mitchell Prinstein (eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Inc.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage, Kristy Matsuda, Terrance J. Taylor, and Dana Peterson. (2011). “Multimethod Strategy for Assessing Program Fidelity: The national evaluation of the revised G.R.E.A.T. program.” Evaluation Review.
Peterson, Dana and Finn-Aage Esbensen. (2011). “Preventing Youth Gang Involvement with G.R.E.A.T.” In S.R. Jimerson, M.J. Furlong, A.B. Nickerson & M.J. Mayer (eds.), The Handbook of School Violence and School Safety: International Research and Practice (2nd Edition). New York, NY: Routledge.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage, Dana Peterson, Terrance J. Taylor, Adrienne Freng, D. Wayne Osgood, Dena C. Carson*, and Kristy N. Matsuda. (2011). “Evaluation and Evolution of the Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.) Program.” Journal of School Violence.
Varano, Sean P, Beth Huebner, and Timothy S. Bynum. (2011) “Correlates and Consequences of Pre-Incarceration Gang Involvement among Incarcerated Youthful Felons”. Journal of Criminal Justice
Berg, Mark** and Beth M. Huebner. (2011). “Reentry and the Ties that Bind: An Examination of Social Ties, Employment, and Recidivism”. Justice Quarterly.
Nichols, Andrea*. (2011). “Gendered Organizations: Challenges for Domestic Violence Victim Advocates and Feminist Advocacy.” Feminist Criminology.
Rosenfeld, Richard. (2011). “Changing Crime Rates.” In James Q. Wilson and Joan Petersilia (eds.), Crime and Public Policy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Rosenfeld, Richard. (2011). “The Big Picture: 2010 Presidential Address to the American Society of Criminology.” Criminology.
Rosenfeld, Richard. (2011). “From Mass Incarceration to Targeted Policing: Introduction to the Special Issue.” Criminology and Public Policy.
Rosenfeld, Richard and Steven F. Messner. (2011). “The Intellectual Origins of Institutional-Anomie Theory.” In Francis T. Cullen, Cheryl Lero Jonson, Andrew J. Myer, and Freda Adler (eds.), The Origins of American Criminology: Advances in Criminological Theory, Volume 16, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Messner, Steven F., Richard Rosenfeld, and Susanne Karstedt. (2011). “Social Institutions and Crime.” In Francis T. Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Jacques, Scott** and Richard Wright. (2011). “Informal Control and Illicit Drug Trade.” Criminology.
Rosenfeld, Richard, Jeff Rojek, and Scott Decker. (2011). "Age Matters: Race Differences in Police Searches of Young and Older Male Drivers." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Slocum, Lee Ann, Sally S. Simpson, Alison Hipwell, and Rolf Loeber. (2011). "Young Girls' and Caretakers' Reports of Problem Behavior: Comprehension and Concordance Across Age, Gender, Race, and Behavior Type. Youth & Society.
Lauritsen, Janet L. (2010). “Advances and Challenges in Empirical Studies of Victimization,”Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Slocum, Lee Ann. (2010). "General Strain Theory and the Development of Stressors and Substance Use over Time: An Empirical Examination." Journal of Criminal Justice.
Slocum, Lee Ann, Bradley Brick**, Terrance J. Taylor, and Finn-Aage Esbensen. (2010). "Neighborhood Structural Characteristics, Individual-Level Attitudes, and Youth’s Crime Reporting Intentions." Criminology.
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin, Finn-Aage Esbensen, and Bradley T. Brick**. (2010) “Correlates and Consequences of Peer Victimization: Gender differences in direct and indirect forms of bullying.” Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice.
Oliver, Brian*. (2010). "My Sentence is Over but will my Punishment ever end?" Dialectical Anthropology
Klinger, David. (2010). “The Consequences of Using Deadly Force.” In Johannes Knutsson and Joseph Kuhns (eds.), Police Use of Force: A Global Perspective. Praeger.
Lauritsen, Janet L. and Dena Carson*. (2010). “The President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime.” In The Encyclopedia on Victimology and Crime Prevention (pp. 659-662). Sage Publications, Inc.
Lauritsen, Janet L., and Karen Heimer. (2010). “Violent Victimization Among Males and Economic Conditions: The Vulnerability of Race and Ethnic Minorities.” Criminology & Public Policy.
Rengifo, Andres F., Don Stemen, Brendan Dooley*, Ethan Amidon*, and Amanda Gendon*. (2010). "Cents and Sensibility: A Case Study of Corrections Reform in Kansas and Michigan." Journal of Criminal Justice.
Rosenfeld, Richard. (2010). “Raising the Level of Public Debate: Another View of Criminology’s Policy Relevance.” In Natasha Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear (eds.), Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.
Rosenfeld, Richard and Steven F. Messner. (2010). “The Normal Crime Rate, the Economy, and Mass Incarceration: An Institutional-Anomie Perspective on Crime-Control Policy.” In Scott Decker and Hugh Barlow (eds.), Criminology and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
Nichols, Andrea*. (2010). "Dance, Ponnaya, Dance! Police Abuses against Transgendered Sex Workers in Sri Lanka." Feminist Criminology.
Jacques, Scott* and Richard Wright. (2010). "Criminology as Social Control: Discriminatory Research and Its Role in the Reproduction of Social Inequalities." Crime, Law, & Social Change.
Taylor, Terrance J., Finn-Aage Esbensen, Bradley T. Brick**, and Adrienne Freng. 2010. “Exploring the Measurement Quality of a Street Code Scale of Youth Violence: Similarities and differences across groups and contexts.” Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice.
Stemen, Don and Andres F. Rengifo. 2010. "Policies and Imprisonment: The Impact of Structured Sentencing and Determinate Sentencing on State Incarceration Rates." Justice Quarterly.
Jenness, Valerie, Cheryl L. Maxson, Jennifer M. Sumner, and Kristy N. Matsuda. 2010. "Accomplishing the difficult, but not impossible: Collecting self-report data on sexual assault victimization in correctional facilities." Criminal Justice Policy Review.
Dodge, Mary, Laura Valcore, and David Klinger. 2010. “Maintaining Separate Spheres in Policing: Women on SWAT Teams.” Women and Criminal Justice.
Miller, Jody. 2010. "Commentary on Heidensohn‘s 'The Deviance of Women‘: Continuity and Change over Four Decades of Research on Gender, Crime, and Social Control." British Journal of Sociology.
Maxson, Cheryl L., Kristy N. Matsuda, and Karen Hennigan. 2010. "'
Cobbina, Jennife**r, Toya Z. Like, and Jody Miller. 2010. "Gang Fights Versus Cat Fights: Urban Young Men‘s Gendered Narratives of Violence." Deviant Behavior.
Huebner, Beth M., and Mark Berg**. 2010. “Examining the Sources of Variation in Risk for Recidivism.” Justice Quarterly.
Esbensen, Finn-Aage, and Dena Carson*. 2010. “Consequences of Being Bullied: Results from a longitudinal assessment of bullying victimization in a multi-site sample of American students.” Youth & Society.
Slocum, Lee Ann. 2010. "General Strain Theory and continuity in offending over time: Assessing and
extending GST explanations of persistence." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.
Rengifo, Andres F. and Don Stemen. 2010. "The Impact of Drug Treatment on Recidivism: Do Mandatory Programs Make a Difference? Evidence from Kansas’ Senate Bill 123." Crime and Delinquency.
Jacques, Scott* and Richard Wright. 2010. "Right or Wrong? Toward a Theory of IRBs’ (Dis)Approval of Research." Journal of Criminal Justice Education.
Jacques, Scott* and Richard Wright. 2010. "Dangerous Intimacy: Toward a Theory of Violent Victimization in Active Offender Research." Journal of Criminal Justice Education
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin and Candace Kruttschnitt. 2010. "Risky Relationships? Assortative Mating and Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence." Crime and Delinquency.
Morris, Nancy and Lee Ann Slocum. 2010. "The Validity of Self-Reported Prevalence, Frequency and Timing
of Arrest: An evaluation of Data Collected using a Life Events Calendar." Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency.
White, Michael D. and David Klinger. 2010. “Contagious Fire?" An Empirical Assessment of the "Problem" of Multi-Shooter/Multi-Shot Deadly Force Incidents in Police Work.” Crime and Delinquency.
Baumer, Eric P. and Janet L. Lauritsen. 2010 “Reporting Crime to the Police, 1973-2005: A Multivariate Analysis of Long-Term Trends in the NCS and NCVS.” Criminology
Jacques, Scott*. 2010. “The Necessary Conditions for Retaliation: Toward a
Theory of Non-Violent and Violent Forms in Drug Markets.” Justice Quarterly.
Huebner, Beth M., Christina DeJong, and Jennifer Cobbina**. 2010. “Women Coming Home: Long-Term Patterns of Recidivism.” Justice Quarterly.
See also: Articles in selected peer-reviewed journals (January 2004- January 2010)
Funded research projects (external grants, current)
Finn-Aage Esbensen (Principal Investigator). “A Multi-method, Multi-site Study of Gang Desistance.” National Institute of Justice.
Dave Klinger (Principal Investigator). "Deadly Force Decision Making and Other Aspects of Officer-Involved Shootings." Bureau of Justice Assistance Assistance/Institute for Intergovernmental Research.
Janet Lauritsen (Principal Investigator). "Visiting Fellow: National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Redesign." Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Janet Lauritsen (Co-Principal Investigator). "Collaborative Proposal: Violent Victimization in the U.S.: The Vulnerability of Minorities and Women Over Time." National Science Foundation. Co-Principal Investigators include Karen Heimer and Joseph Lang, University of Iowa.
Rick Rosenfeld (Principal Investigator). "Understanding the Crime Drop in New York." Research Foundation of the City University of New York. (2011)
Finn-Aage Esbensen (Principal Investigator). “Process and Outcome Evaluation of G.R.E.A.T.” National Institute of Justice (2006-2012).
External grants completed recently:
Andres F. Rengifo, and Don Stemen. “Context and Impact of Organizational Changes in State Corrections Agencies: A Study of Local Discourses and Practices in Kansas and Michigan.” National Institute of Corrections (2009-2010).
Richard Rosenfeld (Principal Investigator). “The Contextual Relationship Between Individual Level Violence and Macro Level Economic Factors.” Centers for Disease Control (2008-2010).
Richard Wright and Richard Rosenfeld (with Scott Jacques) (Co-Principal Investigators), “The Influence of Respectability on Predation and Social Control.” National Science Foundation (2008-2010).
Timothy S. Bynum, and Beth M. Huebner (Co-Principal Investigators), “The Efficacy of Sex Offender Residency Restrictions in Michigan and Missouri.” National Institute of Justice (2008-2010).
Don Stemen and Andres F. Rengifo (Co-Principal Investigators), “Alternative Sentencing Policies for Drug Offenders: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Kansas Senate Bill 123,” National Institute of Justice (2008-2010).
Jody Miller, “The Gendered Social Organization of Commercial Sex in Sri Lanka.” American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies (2008-2009).
Janet L. Lauritsen and Karen Heimer (Co-Principal Investigators), “Gender and Violent Victimization, 1973-2005.” National Institute of Justice (2007-2009).
Finn-Aage Esbensen, “Evaluation of Teens, Crime, and the Community Program and
Community Works Training.” National Institute of Justice (2003-2009).
Andres F. Rengifo, “Thinking for a Change. The Institutional Transformation of the Departments of Corrections of Kansas and Michigan.” JEHT Foundation (2008-2009).