Deviance and
Social Control Seminar
2004-2005
The Deviance
and Social Control Seminar is a forum for graduate students and faculty
interested in issues related to law, crime, deviance, and social control to present
ongoing work in an informal and supportive setting. It meets every other Friday during the
academic year from Traditionally,
we have had presentations from faculty and graduate students within the area,
faculty from other departments, and occasionally researchers from other
universities. These presentations
range from informal research ideas presented within a workshop format, to works
in progress, and completed papers. Relevant
topics cover the range of deviance and control, including sociology of law,
social disorganization, labor markets and crime and incarceration, politics
of punishment and corrections, discretion and disparities in criminal and
juvenile justice, drugs and society, deterrence, theories of crime and
violence, urban neighborhoods and crime, and evaluating experimental
interventions. Past
presentations by outside researchers have included John Hagan, Graduate
students who participate in the seminar for the academic year may receive
three credits under Sociology 587, Topics in Deviance and Social Control
Seminar, during the Spring quarter. To
receive credit, students must attend regularly and present to the seminar a
short (10-15 minutes) talk on their research interests or projects at the end
of the Spring quarter. For more information, contact the seminar organizer, Ross L. Matsueda, 616-2432, matsueda@u.washington.edu. Schedule Fall 2004 Oct
15 Becky
Pettit Department of
Sociology “Black-White
Wage Inequality, Employment Rates, and Incarceration.”
Paper
available here Derek Kreager Department of Sociology “Unnecessary
Roughness: Youth Sports, Masculinity,
and Violence” Nov
12 Graduate
Student ASC Papers Department of
Sociology Erin
R. Powers “Crime and Local
Institutions: A Case Study” Jacob T.N. Young "Toward a
Framework of Interaction: Applying Structure to Interactional Theory in Criminology" Nov
26 Thanksgiving
Dec
3 Karen
Snedker “Does Neighborhood Context Matter? Evaluating
the Impact of Local Characteristics on Substance Abuse among Youth." Christopher Lyons Department of Sociology, "Social (Dis)Organization and Racially Motivated Crime in Jan
21 Alexes Harris Department of
Sociology, “Exploring the Context of Transferring Minors to Criminal Court” Feb
4 Lan Shi Department of
Economics, “Does
Oversight Reduce Policing? Evidence
from the Cincinnati Police Department after the April 2001 Riot." Paper
available at: http://faculty.washington.edu/lanshi/Research/policing_jan_28_05.pdf Feb
18 Bill
McCarthy Department of
Sociology, “The
Disutility of Danger: Perceptions
of Harm and the Decision to Offend.” Spring 2005 Apr
1 Naomi
D. Murakawa Department of
Political Science, "The
Raced Origins and Evolution of Street Crime." Apr
15 TBA Apr
29 Katherine
Beckett Department of
Sociology and Law, Societies, and Justice Program TBA May
13 Joachim
Savelsberg Department of
Sociology, TBA
(Punishment and Social Control) Jointly sponsored
with the Center for Western European Studies May
27 First-Year
Graduate Studnets Department of
Sociology Informal
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