Website                            http://faculty.washington.edu/matsueda/courses/587/web587.htm

 

 

Time & Location             Mondays 5:30-720pm in 409 Savery Hall

 

 

Instructor                         Ross L. Matsueda          matsueda@uw.edu                                                       

 

 

Office Hours                         227 Savery Hall, Friday 12:45-2pm and by appointment

 

 

Required Book                Sampson, Robert J. Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, Chapter 6 (pp. 121-148).

 

 

 

Readings                          Nagin, Daniel S. 1998.  “Criminal Deterrence Research at the Outset of the Twenty-First Century.”  Pp. 1-42 in Crime and Justice: A Review of Research, Vol. 23, edited by Michael Tonry.  Chicago: University of Chicago.

 

McCarthy, Bill.  2002.  “New Economics of Sociological Criminology.”  Annual Review of Sociology 28:417-42.

 

Tonry, Michael. 2008. “Learning from the Limitations of Deterrence Research.” Crime and Justice 37:279-311

 

Matsueda, Ross L., Derek A. Kreager, and David Huizinga.  2006. “Deterring Delinquents:  A Rational Choice Model of Theft and Violence.”  American Sociological Review 71:95-122.

 

Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub. 1990. "Crime and Deviance over the Life Course:  The Salience of Adult Social Bonds."  American Sociological Review 55:609-27.

 

Laub, John H., and Robert J. Sampson. 2006. Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives:  Delinquent Boys to Age 70.  Cambridge, MA:  Harvard., Chapters 3, 6, 7, 9 & 10.

 

Giordano, Peggy C., Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Jennifer L. Rudolph. 2002. “Gender, Crime, and Desistance:  Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation.”  American Journal of Sociology 107:990-1064.

 

Sampson, Robert J., and William J. Wilson. 1994. "Race, Crime and Urban Inequality."  In Crime and Inequality.  Edited by J. Hagan and R. Peterson. Stanford:  Stanford University Press.

 

Small, Mario Luis. 2002. “Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project” American Journal of Sociology 108:1-54.

 

Krivo, Lauren J., and Ruth D. Peterson.  1996.  “Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime.”  Social Forces 75:619-48.

 

Wilson and Kelling. 1982. “Broken Windows:  The Police and Neighborhood Safety.”

 

Keizer, Kees, Siegwart Lindenberg, and Linda Steg. 2008. "The Spreading of Disorder." Science 322:1681-1685.

 

Anderson, Elijah. 1998.  “The Social Ecology of Youth Violence.”  Pp. 79-104 in Youth Violence.  Edited by M. Tonry and M.H. Moore.  Chicago:  University of Chicago Press.

 

 

Seminar Paper                    Write a two page book review of Peterson and Krivo’s (2010) Divergent Social Worlds.  Due date:  March 1, 2013.  For more details click here.

 

 

Memos                              Writing a précis

 

                                                      Notes on writing a research article

 

                                                     

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