Professor, Sociology Department

Outstanding University Research Award Winner, 2008

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Courses

Social Inequality (SOC 3900, PJ 5000)

Perspectives on US Poverty (SOC 2950, PJ 5200)

Selected Publications

"The Impact of Mass Incarceration on Poverty," with Lance Hannon, Crime and Delinquency, forthcoming.

"Diversity, Racial Threat and Metropolitan Housing Segregation," with Lance Hannon, Social Forces, 88: 373-394 (2009).

"The Impact of State Minimum Wages on Child Poverty in Female-Headed Families," Journal of Poverty, 12: 155-174 (2008).

"A Comparison of Poverty Trends and Policy Impacts for Working Families Using Different Poverty Indexes," Journal of Economic and Social Measurement, 32: 129-148 (2007).

"Business Cycles and Street Crime," with Thomas Arvanites, Criminology, 44: 139-164 (2006).

“Racial Similarity in the Relationship Between Poverty and Homicide Rates: Comparing Retransformed Coefficients,” with Lance Hannon and Peter Knapp, Social Science Research, 34: 893-914 (2005).

“The Weak Effect of Imprisonment on Crime: 1971-1998,” with Thomas Arvanites, Social Science Quarterly, 83: 635-653 (2002).

“The Impact of Macroeconomic Performance on Alternative Poverty Measures,” Social Science Research, 31: 29-48 (2002).