Richard Rosenfeld

Department Chair
Professor

Richard Rosenfeld's research interests include the social sources of criminal violence, crime statistics, and crime control policy. He is co-author with Steven F. Messner of Crime and the American Dream (Wadsworth, Third edition, 2001). His recent publications address the social determinants of support for the death penalty, social capital and rates of homicide, and the measurement of racial profiling in police-citizen encounters.