DarrellSteffens-meier. Bibliographie.

  Darrell Steffensmeier

  SHORTENED CV

  Sociology & Criminology

  The Pennsylvania State University

  University Park, Pennsylvania 16802

  EDUCATION

1.       Ph.D. Sociology (1972), The University of Iowa

2.       M.A. Sociology (1970), The University of Iowa

3.       B.A. Philosophy, History St. Ambrose College

  POSITIONS HELD

1.       1976 - Professor of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University.

2.       1972 - Assistant Professor of Sociology, North Carolina State University.

  RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SPECIALIZATION

1.       Criminal Careers and Life Course Criminality

2.       Demography of Crime (Age, Gender, Race , Ethnicity, Cross National)

3.       White Collar and Corporate Crime; Organized and Professional Crime; Violent Crime , Economic Crime

4.       Communities/Neighborhoods and Crime

5.       Courts and Sentencing

6.       Gender, Crime, and Punishment

7.       Gender Studies, Social Change

8.       Qualitative & Quantitative Methods, Data Triangulation

9.       Crime Organizations and Networks

  MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

1.       American Society of Criminology

2.       American Sociological Association

3.       Law and Society Association

4.       Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

5.       International Association for the Study of Organized Crime

6.       Southern Sociological Association

  PROFESSIONAL AWARDS

Awards by the American Society of Criminology

1.       Fellow of American Society of Criminology (1996)

2.       Recipient of 2006 Michael Hindelang Award of American Society of Criminology for Confessions of a Dying Thief (2005), for outstanding scholarship in criminology (with Jeffery Ulmer)

3.       Recipient of 2012 Outstanding Article Award of American Society of Criminology for: “Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Racial Invariance Hypothesis: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons.” Criminology 2010, 48:1133 - 1169 (with Jeffery Ulmer, Ben Feldmeyer, and Casey Harris)

Other Awards

1.       Recipient of the 1987 Award of Outstanding Scholarship of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, for The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds (1986)

2.       Recipient of Distinction in the Social Sciences award, The Pennsylvania State University (1989)

3.       President, International Association for the Study of Organized Crime (1992 - 94)

4.       Recipient of Faculty Scholars Medal for outstanding achievement in Social & Behavioral Sciences of The Pennsylvania State University (2007)

5.       Recipient of Outstanding Graduate Teaching award of The Pennsylvania State University (2009)

  PUBLICATIONS

  Books

1.       Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise. 2005. Aldine - Transaction. (With Jeffery Ulmer). Recipient of 2006 Michael Hindelang Book Award of American Society of Criminology for outstanding scholarship in criminology

2.       Organized Crime in Pennsylvania -- a Decade of Change: the 1990 Report. 1991. Pennsylvania Crime Commission. (Project Director/Principal Writer//Project Director/Chief Analyst)

3.       The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds. 1986. Rowman and Littlefield. Recipient of the 1987 Award of Outstanding Scholarship of the Crime and Delinquency Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.

4.       Examining Deviance Experimentally. 1976. Alfred Press. (with Robert M. Terry).

  Refereed Articles and Book Chapters

  Note: Abbreviated listing, emphasis on recent publications. * Means Steffensmeier is senior author

1.       2013. Gender and Twenty - first - Century Corporate Crime: Female Involvement and the Gender Gap in Enron - Era Corporate Frauds. American Sociological Review 78: 448 - 476. (with Jennifer Schwartz , Michael Roche)*

2.       2014. Taking Criminal Opportunity Seriously: An Actor - Centered Approach. In Francis Cullen, Pamela Wilcox, Robert Sampson, and Brendan Dooley (Eds.). Challenging Criminological Theory: The Legacy of Ruth Kornhauser. Transaction Publishers. (with Jeffery Ulmer)*

3.       2014. Can the Gender Gap in Crime Be Explained? In Francis Cullen and Pamela Wilcox (Eds.) Sisters in Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender in Criminology. Oxford University Press. (with Jennifer Schwartz).

4.       2013. Race/Ethnic Disparities in Structural Disadvantage and Crime: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons. Social Science Quarterly (with Jeffery Ulmer, Casey Harris)*

5.       2013. Patterns and Trends in Elder Homicide Across Race and Ethnicity, 1985 - 2009. Homicide Studies 17:148 - 203. (with Ben Feldmeyer)

6.       2013. Racial/Ethnic Composition and Violence: Size - of - Place Variations in Percent Black and Percent Latino Effects on Violence Rates. Sociological Forum 28:811 - 841. (with Ben Feldmeyer)

7.       2014. The Sociological Explanation: The Age and Crime Relationship: Social Variation, Social Explanation. The Nature versus Biosocial Debate in Criminology (Kevin Beaver, J. C. Barnes, Brian Boutwell, eds.). Sage. (with Jeffery Ulmer)

8.       2012. Older inmates’ pursuit of good health: A focus group study. Research in Gerontological Nursing 4:185 - 194. (with Susan Loeb)

9.       2011. Reassessing Trends in Black Violent Crime, 1980 - 2008: Sorting out the “Hispanic Effect in UCR Arrests, NCVS Offender Estimates, and U.S. Prisoner Counts. Criminology 49:197 - 251 (with Ben Feldmeyer, Casey Harris, and Jeffery Ulmer)*

10.   2011. Stability and change in girls’ delinquency and the gender gap: Trends in violence and alcohol offending across multiple sources of evidence. In S. Miller, S. Leve, and P. Krieg (Eds.) Delinquent Girls: Contexts, Relationships, and Adaptation. NY: Springer. Delinquency: Conceptual and Policy Issues. (with Jennifer Schwartz)

11.   2011. Predictors of self - efficacy and self - rated health for older male inmates. Journal of Advanced Nursing 67:811 - 820. (with Susan Loeb)

12.   2010. Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Racial Invariance Hypothesis: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons. Criminology 48:1133 - 1169. (with Jeff Ulmer, Ben Feldmeyer, and Casey Harris)*

13.   2010. Stuctural Correlates of Homicide: Black, White, and Hispanic Comparisons. Proceedings of Homicide Research Working Group .(with Jeff Ulmer, Ben Feldmeyer, and Casey Harris)*

14.   2009. Trends in the Gender Gap in Violence: Reevaluating NCVS and Other Evidence.” Criminology 47:701 - 24. (with Jennifer Schwartz, Hua Zhong and Jeff Ackerman)

15.   2009. Assessing Trends in Women’s Violence via Data Triangulation: Arrests, Convictions, Incarcerations, and Victim Reports. Social Problems 56:494 - 525. (with Jennifer Schwartz an d Ben Feldmeyer)

16.   2009. Immigration Effects on Homicide Offending For Total and Race/Ethnicity - Disaggregated Populations (White, Black, and Latino). Homicide Studies 13: 211 - 226. (with Ben Feldmeyer)

17.   2010. Trends in girls’ delinquency and the gender gap: Statistical assessment of diverse sources. In Margaret Zahn (Ed.) Delinquent Girls: Findings from the Girls Study Group. Temple University Press. (with Jennifer Schwartz)*

18.   2008. Comparing incarcerated and community - dwelling older men’s health. Western Journal of Nursing Research 30:234 - 239. Also “Response to commentaries,” pp.256 - 258. (with Susan Loeb)

19.   2008. Violence by teenage girls: trends and context. Girls Study Group: Understanding and Responding to Girl’s Delinquency. Research Bulletin, Office of Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention. (with Margaret Zahn)

20.   2007. The nature of female offending: Patterns and explanation. In Female Offenders: Critical Perspectives and Effective Interventions. Edited by Ruth Zaplin. Boston: Jones & Bartlett. (with Jennifer Schwartz)*

21.   2007. In their own words: Older male prisoners’ health beliefs and concerns for the future. Geriatric Nursing, 28 : 319 - 329. (with Susan Loeb)

22.   2007. Gender and Serious Violence: Untangling the Role of Friendship Sex Composition and Peer Violence. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 5:235 - 253 (with Dana Haynie)

23.   2007. Elder Crime: Patterns and Current Trends, 1980 - 2004. Research on Aging 20: 1 - 27. (with Ben Feldmeyer)

24.   2006. Are girls more violent today than a generation ago? Probably not. Sociological Viewpoints 34:71 - 100. (with Ben Feldmeyer)*

25.   2006. Older male prisoners: Health status, self - efficacy beliefs, and health - promoting behaviors of older male prisoners. Journal of Correctional Health Care, 12 (4), 269 - 278. (with Susan Loeb)

26.   2006. Black and White Control of Numbers Gambling A Cultural Assets and Social Capital View. American Sociological Review 71 (1):123 - 156. (with and Jeffery Ulmer)*

27.   2006. Is There No Place for Culture in a Sociology of Legal and Illegal Enterprise? American Sociological Review 71(1):162 - 166. (with Jeffery Ulmer)

28.   2006. Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race - Ethnicity on Criminal Sentencing? Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 22:241 - 261. (with Stephen Demuth)*

29.   2006. Gender Gap Trends for Violent Crimes, 1980 - 2003: A UCR - NCVS Comparison. Feminist Criminology 1 (1):72 - 98. (with Hua Zhong, Jeff Ackerman, Jennifer Schwartz, and Suzanne Agha)*

30.   2005. An Assessment of Recent Trends in Girls’ Violence Using Diverse Longitudinal Sources: Is the Gender Gap Closing? Criminology 43:355 - 406. (with Jennifer Schwartz, Hua Zhong, and Jeff Ackerman)*

31.   2004. The Impact of Gender and Race - Ethnicity in the Pretrial Release Process. Social Problems 51:222 - 242. (with Stephen Demuth)

32.   2004. Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Large Urban Courts: Comparisons among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants. Social Science Quarterly 85:994 - 1011. (with Stephen Demuth)

33.   2004. Female Offending: Trends and Patterns. In Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice. (Edited by Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff). Clark Boardman. (with Jennifer Schwartz)*

34.   2004. Explaining Female Offending Patterns and Trends. In Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice (Edited by Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff). Clark Boardman. (with Jennifer Schwartz)*

35.   2004. Gender and criminal Behavior. In Encyclopedia of Criminology, edited by J. Mitchell Miller and Richard Wright. Routledge Press. (with Jennifer Schwartz)*

36.   2003. Confessions of a Dying Thief: A Tutorial on Differential Association. Chapter 10, pp. 227 - 264 in Advances in Criminological Theory: A Guide for the New Century. Social Learning Theory and the Explanation of Crime (edited by Ronald Akers and Gary Jensen). New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. (with Jeffery Ulmer)*

37.   2002. Organized Crime. Pp. 2928 - 34 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil Smelser and P .B. Baltes. Volume 3.15 Article 33. Elsevier Science Ltd. (with Fred Martens)*

38.   2001. Judges’ Race and Judicial Decision Making: Do Black Judges Sentence Differently? Social Science Quarterly 82:750 - 765. (with Chester Britt)*

39.   2001. Ethnicity and Judges’ Sentencing Decisions: Hispanic - Black - White Comparisons. Criminology 36:763 - 798. (with Stephen Demuth)*

40.   2001. Explaining Female Criminality: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. In Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice: Contemporary Issues (edited by: Claire Renzetti and Lynne Goodstein). Roxbury. (with Lisa Broidy)*

41.   2000. Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts: Who is Punished More Harshly? American Sociological Review 65:705 - 729. (with Stephen Demuth)*

42.   2000. Older Males and Older Females in the Arms of Criminal Law: Offender Patterns and Sentencing Outcomes. The Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences 55(3). (with Mark Motivans)*

43.   2000. Gender, Structural Disadvantage, and Urban Crime: Do Macrosocial Variables Also Explain Female Offending Rates? Criminology 38:403 - 438. (with Dana Haynie)*

44.   2000. Gender, Age, and Crime. In Criminology: A Contemporary Handbook (edited by Joseph Sheley). Wadsworth. (This is a collection of chapters written by “major experts” in the field.) (with Emilie Allan)*

45.   2000. Sentencing the Older Offender: Is There an ‘Age Bias’? Chapter 12, pp. 185 - 206 in Elders, Crime, and the Criminal Justice System (edited by Max Rothman, Burton Dunlop, and Pamela Entzel). Springer. (Mark Motivans)*

46.   2000. The Structural Sources of Urban Female Violence in the United States: A Macrosocial Gender - Disaggregated Analysis of Adult and Juvenile Violent Offending Rates. Homicide Studies 4: 107 - 134. (with Dana Haynie)*

47.   1999. Men and Women Decisionmakers: Does the Judge’s Gender Affect the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants. Social Forces 77:1163 - 1196. (with Chris Hebert)*

48.   1999. Making Sense of Recent U.S. Crime Trends, 1980 - 96/98: Age Composition Effects and Other Explanations. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency 36:235 - 274. (with Miles Harer)*

49.   1998. The Interaction of Race, Gender, and Age in Criminal Sentencing: The Punishment Cost of Being Young, Black, and Male. Criminology 36(4):763 - 798. (with Jeffery Ulmer, and John Kramer)*

50.   1996. Race and Prison Violence. Criminology 34:323 - 356. (with Miles D. Harer)

51.   1996. Gender and Crime: Toward a Gendered Paradigm of Female Offending. Annual Review of Sociology 22:459 - 87. (with Emilie Allan)*

52.   1995. Age and the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants. Justice Quarterly 12:701 - 719. (with John Kramer and Jeffery Ulmer)*

53.   1995. A Public Policy Agenda for Combating Organized Crime. In Crime and Public Policy (edited by Hugh Barlow). Westview Press.*

54.   1995 Describing and Explaining Recent Trends in Female Crime. In Women, Crime, and Criminal Justice (Edited by Barbara Raffel Price and Natalie Sokoloff). Clark Boardman.*

55.   1995. Age - Inequality and Property Crime. In Crime and Inequality. (edited by John Hagan and Ruth Peterson). Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. (with Emilie Allan)*

56.   1995. Fencing Stolen Goods. In Encyclopedia of Police Science (2nd edition). New York: Garland.*

57.   1994. Understanding Black Urban Violence: Communities as Units of Stratification and Social Control. Social Forces 73:729 - 752. (with Ed Shihadeh)

58.   1993. National Trends in Female Arrests, 1960 - 1990: Assessment and Recommendations for Research. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9:413 - 441.*

59.   1993. Gender and Imprisonment Decisions. Criminology 31:411 - 446. (with John Kramer, and Cathy Streifel)* 1993. Race and Imprisonment Decisions. Sociological Quarterly 34:357 - 76. (with John Kramer)

60.   1992. Cohort Size and Crime Rates Over the Life Course: The Easterlin Hypothesis Reconsidered. American Sociological Review 57:306 - 314. (with Cathy Streifel, and Ed Shihadeh)*

61.   1992. Time - series Analysis of Female - to - Male Arrests for Property Crimes, 1960 - 1985: A Test of Alternative Explanations. Justice Quarterly 9:78 - 103. (with Cathy Streifel) *

62.   1992. Differing Effects of Income Inequality on Black and White Offending Rates. Social Forces 70:1035 - 1054. (with Miles D. Harer)

63.   1991. The Distribution of Crime by Age and Gender Across Three Historical Periods -- 1935, 1960, and 1985. Social Forces 69 :869 - 894. (with Cathy Streifel)*

64.   1989. Causes of white - collar crime revisited: an assessment of the Hirschi and Gottfreds on assertions. Criminology 27:345 - 358.*

65.   1989. Age and the distribution of crime. American Journal of Sociology 94:803 - 831. (with Emilie Allan, Miles D. Harer and Cathy Streifel)*

66.   1989. Modernization and female crime: a cross - national test of alternative explanations. Social Forces 68:262 - 283.*

67.   1989. Youth, underemployment, and property crime: effects of the quantity and the quality of job opportunities on juvenile and young adult arrest rates. American Sociological Review 54:107 - 123. (with Emilie Allan)

68.   1988. Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of crime/deviance. Deviant Behavior 9:55 - 76. (with Robert Terry)

69.   1988. Sex dis parities in crime by population subgroup: residence, race, and age. Justice Quarterly 5:53 - 80. (with Emilie Allan)*

70.   1987. Relative cohort size and youth crime in the United States, 1953 - 84. American Sociological Review 52:702 - 710. (with Cathy Streifel, an d Miles D. Harer)*

71.   1987. The invention of the ‘new’ senior citizen criminal: an analysis of crime trends of elderly males and elderly females, 1964 - 84. Research on Aging 9:281 - 311.*

72.   1986. Institutional sexism in the underworld: a view from the inside. Sociological Inquiry 56:304 - 323. (with Robert Terry)*

73.   1983. An organizational perspective on sex - segregation in the underworld: building a sociological theory of sex differences in crime. Social Forces 61:1010 - 1032.*

74.   1983. Flawed arrest `rates’ and overlooked reliability problems in UCR arrest statistics: some second thoughts on ‘female’ masculinity of violent crime. Journal of Criminal Justice 11:167 - 173.*

75.   1982. Sex differences in urban arrest patterns, 1934 - 79: Stability or change? Social Problems 29:37 - 50. (with Michael Cobb)*

76.   1982. Sex - based differences in the sentencing of adult criminal defendants: An empirical test and theoretical overview. Sociology and Social Research 66: 289 - 304. (with John Kramer)*

77.   1980. World War II and its effects on the sex differential in arrests: an empirical test of the sex - role equality and crime proposition. Sociological Quarterly 21:246 - 255. (with Alvin Rosenthal, and Constance Shehan)*

78.   1980. Sociocultural vs. biological/sexist explanations of sex differences in crime: a survey of american criminology textbooks, 1919 - 1965. The American Sociologist 15:246 - 255. (with Robert E. Clark)*

79.   1980. Trends in female delinquency: a review of arrest, court, self - report, and field data. Criminology 18:62 - 85. (with Renee Hoffman Steffensmeier)*

80.   1980. A review and assessment of sex differences in adult crime, 1965 - 77. Social Forces 58:1080 - 1108.*

81.   1980. Assessing the impact of the women’s movement on s ex - based differences in the handling of adult criminal defendants. Crime and Delinquency 26:344 - 357.*

82.   1979. Images of man and social control: Research continuities and further developments. Criminal Justice Review 4:41 - 54.*

83.   1979. Sex role orientation and attitudes toward female police. Police Studies 2:39 - 42.*

84.   1979. The differential impact of criminal stigmatization on male and female felons. Sex Roles: a Journal of Research 6:1 - 8. (with John Kramer)*

85.   1978 Crime and the contemporary woman: An analysis of changing levels of female property crime, 1960 - 75. Social Forces 57:566 - 584.*

86.   1978. Defendant’s parental status as affecting judge’s behavior: an experimental test. Psychological Reports 42:939 - 45.*

87.   1978. Changing patterns of fem ale c rime in rural America, 1962 - 75. Rural Sociology 43:87 - 102. (with Charlene Jordan)*

88.   1978. The differential detention/jailing of juveniles: A comparison of detention and non - detention counties. Pepperdine Law Review 5:795 - 807. (with John Kramer)

89.   1975. Attitudes and behavior toward hippies: a field experiment accompanied by home interviews. Sociological Quarterly 16:393 - 400. (with Renee Hoffman Steffensmeier)

90.   1973. The influence of organizational factors of victim store on willingness to report a shoplifting incident: A field Experiment. Sociological Focus 6:27 - 45. (with Robert M. Terry)

91.   1974. Sex differences in reactions to male and female homosexuals: research continuities and further developments. The Journal of Sex Research 10:52 - 67. (with Renee Hoffman Steffensmeier)*

92.   1973. Deviance and respectability: an observational study of reactions to shoplifting. Social Forces 51:417 - 426. (with Robert M. Terry)*

  Major Funded Grants (since 1990)

1.       Organized Crime in Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Crime Commission. 1990 - 91.

2.       Community - Risk Factors for Urban Violence. National Science Foundation (Law and Social Sciences Program). 1995 - 1996.

3.       “Effects of Race/Ethnicity on Sentencing of Criminal Defendants in Federal Courts.” U.S. Sentencing Commission. 1997 - 1998.

4.       Ethnicity Effects on Adjudication and Sentence Outcomes in Felony Cases: Comparisons Among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants. Bureau of Justice Statistics and American Statistical Association. 1998 - 2000.

5.       Modeling the Main, Interactive and Cumulative Effects of Gender and Ethnicity (white, black, Hispanic) on the Case Processing of Criminal Defendants in Large Urban Courts. National Science Foundation. 2000 - 2002.

6.       Race - Ethnicity, Census Places, and Violent Crime: Expanding the Racial Invariance Hypothesis to include white - Latino and black - Latino Comparisons. National Science Foundation. 2007 - 2010. Co - PI is Jeffery Ulmer.

7.       Factors influencing the health - promotion behaviors of older male inmates. National Institute of Aging. Co - PI is Susan Loeb, PSU School of Nursing.2007 - 2009.

8.       21st Century Corporate Financial Crime: Statistical Profile, Firm - and Executive Risk Factors, and Rich Database. National Institute of Justice. 2014 - 2016.