Darrell Steffensmeier
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Darrell John Steffensmeier is an American criminologist and Liberal Arts Research Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Pennsylvania State University. Education After receiving his bachelor's degrees in philosophy and history from St. Ambrose University, Steffensmeier received his M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Iowa in 1970 and 1972, respectively.
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- The interaction of race, gender, and age in criminal sentencing: The punishment cost of being young, black, and male (1998) (1438)
- Gender and crime: Toward a gendered theory of female offending. (1996) (1044)
- Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts: Who is Punished More Harshly? (2000) (618)
- GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT DECISIONS (1993) (486)
- Age and the Distribution of Crime (1989) (385)
- ETHNICITY AND JUDGES' SENTENCING DECISIONS: HISPANIC‐BLACK‐WHITE COMPARISONS (2001) (372)
- Breaking and Entering: An Ethnographic Analysis of Burglary (1990) (337)
- An assessment of recent trends in girls' violence using diverse longitudinal sources: Is the gender gap closing? (2005) (335)
- Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race–ethnicity on Criminal Sanctioning? Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants (2006) (295)
- Economic Inequality, Family Disruption, and Urban Black Violence: Cities as Units of Stratification and Social Control (1994) (279)
- RACE AND PRISON VIOLENCE (1996) (241)
- GENDER, STRUCTURAL DISADVANTAGE, AND URBAN CRIME: DO MACROSOCIAL VARIABLES ALSO EXPLAIN FEMALE OFFENDING RATES?* (2000) (238)
- The Differing Effects of Economic Inequality on Black and White Rates of Violence (1992) (235)
- Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Large Urban Courts: Comparisons Among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants* (2004) (217)
- Age differences in sentencing (1995) (217)
- Assessing the Impact of the Women's Movement on Sex-Based Differences in the Handling of Adult Criminal Defendants (1980) (214)
- Organization Properties and Sex-Segregation in the Underworld: Building a Sociological Theory of Sex Differences in Crime (1983) (204)
- Sex Differences in Patterns of Adult Crime, 1965–77: A Review and Assessment (1980) (188)
- Youth, Underemployment, and Property Crime: Differential Effects of Job Availability and Job Quality on Juvenile and Young Adult Arrest Rates (1989) (177)
- Gender and Twenty-First-Century Corporate Crime: Female Involvement and the Gender Gap in Enron-Era Corporate Frauds (2013) (174)
- National trends in female arrests, 1960–1990: Assessment and recommendations for research (1993) (171)
- Women and Men Policymakers: Does the Judge's Gender Affect the Sentencing of Criminal Defendants? (1999) (165)
- Gender Gap Trends for Violent Crimes, 1980 to 2003 (2006) (162)
- The Impact of Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Pretrial Release Process (2004) (159)
- Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age on Criminal Punishment (2017) (144)
- Judges' Race and Judicial Decision Making: Do Black Judges Sentence Differently? (2001) (134)
- Crime and the Contemporary Woman: An Analysis of Changing Levels of Female Property Crime, 1960–75 (1978) (120)
- Development and Female Crime: A Cross-National Test of Alternative Explanations (1989) (115)
- TRENDS IN THE GENDER GAP IN VIOLENCE: REEVALUATING NCVS AND OTHER EVIDENCE* (2009) (111)
- The age and crime relationship: Social variation, social explanations (2014) (107)
- Institutional Sexism in the Underworld: A View From the Inside (1986) (107)
- TRENDS IN FEMALE DELINQUENCY (1980) (90)
- A Review and Assessment (2015) (90)
- Immigration Effects on Homicide Offending For Total and Race/Ethnicity-Disaggregated Populations (White, Black, and Latino) (2009) (88)
- REASSESSING TRENDS IN BLACK VIOLENT CRIME, 1980–2008: SORTING OUT THE “HISPANIC EFFECT” IN UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS ARRESTS, NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY OFFENDER ESTIMATES, AND U.S. PRISONER COUNTS* (2011) (87)
- Assessing Trends in Women's Violence via Data Triangulation: Arrests, Convictions, Incarcerations, & Victim Reports. (2009) (80)
- Making Sense of Recent U.S. Crime Trends, 1980 to 1996/1998: Age Composition Effects and Other Explanations (1999) (79)
- The Structural Sources of Urban Female Violence in the United States (2000) (79)
- Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic Comparisons* (2010) (78)
- The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds. (1986) (77)
- Violence by teenage girls: Trends and context (2011) (75)
- Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise (2005) (75)
- ON THE CAUSES OF “WHITE‐COLLAR” CRIME: AN ASSESSMENT OF HIRSCHI AND GOTTFREDSON'S CLAIMS (1989) (74)
- Comparing Incarcerated and Community-Dwelling Older Men's Health (2008) (72)
- Age, Gender, and Crime Across Three Historical Periods: 1935, 1960, and 1985 (1991) (70)
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Structural Disadvantage and Crime: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons. (2012) (63)
- Older men and older women in the arms of criminal law: offending patterns and sentencing outcomes. (2000) (62)
- Deviance and Respectability: An Observational Study of Reactions to Shoplifting (1973) (59)
- Is the Crime Rate Really Falling? An “Aging” U.S. Population and its Impact on the Nation's Crime Rate, 1980-1984 (1987) (59)
- Women, crime and society : By Eileen B. Leonard Longman, Inc. (19 West 44th Street, New York, New York 10038), 1982, 208 pp., hardcover—$18.00, softcover—$9.95 (1984) (57)
- Are Blacks and Hispanics Disproportionately Incarcerated Relative to Their Arrests? Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality Between Arrest and Incarceration (2009) (57)
- Sex differences in reactions to homosexuals: Research continuities and further developments∗ (1974) (53)
- Time-series analysis of the female percentage of arrests for property crimes, 1960–1985: A test of alternative explanations (1992) (53)
- Sex disparities in arrests by residence, race, and age: An assessment of the gender convergence/crime hypothesis (1988) (52)
- In their own words: older male prisoners' health beliefs and concerns for the future. (2007) (52)
- Cohort Size and Arrest Rates Over the Life Course: The Easterlin Hypothesis Reconsidered (1992) (51)
- Sex Differences in Urban Arrest Patterns, 1934-79 (1981) (51)
- Older Male Prisoners: Health Status, Self-Efficacy Beliefs, and Health-Promoting Behaviors (2006) (46)
- Relative Cohort Size and Youth Crime in the United States, 1953-1984 (1987) (45)
- Predictors of self-efficacy and self-rated health for older male inmates. (2011) (42)
- Gender and Serious Violence (2007) (40)
- AGE AND ITS RELATION TO CRIME IN TAIWAN AND THE UNITED STATES: INVARIANT, OR DOES CULTURAL CONTEXT MATTER?* (2017) (36)
- Did Crime Rise or Fall During the Reagan Presidency? The Effects of an “Aging” U.S. Population on the Nation's Crime Rate (1991) (33)
- Elder Crime: Patterns and Current Trends, 1980—2004 (2007) (32)
- Trends in girls' delinquency and the gender gap: Statistical assessment of diverse sources (2009) (32)
- Sex-based differences in the sentencing of adult criminal defendants: An empirical test and theoretical overview. (1982) (30)
- Racial/Ethnic Composition and Violence: Size-of-Place Variations in Percent Black and Percent Latino Effects on Violence Rates. (2013) (25)
- Black and White Control of Numbers Gambling: A Cultural Assets–Social Capital View (2006) (25)
- Older inmates' pursuit of good health: a focus group study. (2011) (24)
- The differential impact of criminal stigmatization on male and female felons (1980) (23)
- Explaining Female Offending (2001) (23)
- World War II and Its Effect on the Sex Differential in Arrests: An Empirical Test of the Sex-Role Equality and Crime Proposition* (1980) (23)
- Conceptual and theoretical issues in the study of deviance (1988) (22)
- Stability and Change in Girls’ Delinquency and the Gender Gap: Trends in Violence and Alcohol Offending Across Multiple Sources of Evidence (2012) (21)
- Trends in Female Violence, 1960–1977 (1979) (21)
- Gender and Arrests for Larceny, Fraud, Forgery, and Embezzlement: Conventional or Occupational Property Crime Offenders? (2015) (19)
- The Invention of the "New" Senior Citizen Criminal (1987) (18)
- Reassessing Trends in Black Violent Crime, 1980-2008: Sorting out the ‘Hispanic Effect’ in UCR Arrests, NCVS Offenders Estimates, and U.S. Prisoner Counts (2011) (18)
- Gendered Opportunities and Risk Preferencesfor Offending Across the Life Course (2017) (16)
- Confessions of a Dying Thief (2017) (15)
- Deviance and Respectability (1999) (15)
- Age–Crime Relation in India: Similarity or Divergence Vs. Hirschi/gottfredson Inverted J-shaped Projection? (2019) (11)
- Age and Crime in South Korea: Cross-National Challenge to Invariance Thesis (2020) (11)
- The Differential Detention/Jailing of Juveniles: A Comparison of Detention and Non-Detention Courts (1978) (9)
- Patterns and Trends in Elder Homicide Across Race and Ethnicity, 1985-2009 (2013) (7)
- Focal Concerns Theory as Conceptual Tool for Studying Intersectionality in Sentencing Disparities : Focus on Gender and Race Along With Age (2017) (6)
- Levels of Dogmatism and Attitudes toward Law and Order (1974) (6)
- Effects of Defendant's Sex and Age Status on Severity of Punishment: An Experimental Test (1979) (6)
- Advocates of Law and Order (1976) (5)
- Is there No Place for Culture in a Sociology of Legal and Illegal Enterprise? (2006) (5)
- Attitudes and Behavior toward Hippies: a Field Experiment Accompanied by Home Interviews* (1975) (5)
- Taking Criminal Opportunity Seriously: An Actor-Centered Approach (2017) (5)
- Defendant's Parental Status as Affecting Judges' Behavior: An Experimental Test (1978) (4)
- Levels of dogmatism and willingness to report "hippie" and "straight" shoplifters: a field experiment accompanied by home interview. (1975) (3)
- Flawed arrest “rates” and overlooked reliability problems in UCR arrest statistics: A comment on Wilson's “the masculinity of violent crime—Some second thoughts” (1983) (3)
- Immigration and Homicide: A Comparison Across Race/Ethnicity (2009) (3)
- Immigration and Violent Crime in California, 1980-2012: Contextualization by Temporal Period and Race/Ethnicity (2018) (3)
- Examining deviance experimentally: Selected readings (1975) (2)
- The Influence of Organizational Factors of Victim Store on Willingness to Report a Shoplifting Incident: A Field Experiment (1973) (2)
- Gender Variation in the Age-Crime Relation in Cross-National Context: Taiwan-US Comparison (2021) (1)
- ARE GIRLS MORE VIOLENT TODAY THAN A GENERATION AGO? PROBABLY NOT. ∗ (2006) (1)
- Sam’s Narrative: Pathways Into and Out of Crime (2017) (1)
- Focal Concerns Theory as Conceptual Tool for Studying Intersectionality in Sentencing Disparities (2017) (1)
- Patterns and Current Trends, 1980-2004 (2008) (1)
- Images of Man and Social Control: Correlates and Consequences (1979) (1)
- Crimes People Commit: Using Detailed Arrest Data to Study Patterns of Offending (2008) (0)
- The Age-Homicide Relationship Across Time: A Study of Taiwan (2006) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Social Organization of Theft and Criminal Enterprise (2017) (0)
- Saufs Narrative: Racketeerings Organized Crime, and the Mafia (2017) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Running a Fencing Business (2017) (0)
- Conceptual Themes and Tools (2017) (0)
- Sentencing and Gender: The Impact of Sentencing Guidelines on Gender Differences in Sentencing (1996) (0)
- Comparing Older Male Inmates' and Community-Dwelling Older Men's Health Self-Efficacy, Outcome Expectations, Health Motivation, and Health Behaviors (2011) (0)
- Gender Gap in Enron-Era Corporate Frauds Gender and Twenty-First-Century Corporate Crime : Female Involvement and the (2013) (0)
- Evaluating the Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Established and Emerging Immigrant Destination Comparisons (2013) (0)
- Older Male Prisoners' Health: Status, Beliefs, and Behaviors (2011) (0)
- Commentary: Rewards and Rationales of Crime, and Images of Criminals (2017) (0)
- 14. JUDGES' RACE AND JUDICIAL DECISION MAKING: DO BLACK JUDGES SENTENCE DIFFERENTLY? (2013) (0)
- Commentary: Doing Burglary (2017) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Skills, Character, and Connections (2017) (0)
- Gendered Opportunities and Risk Preferencesfor Offending Across the Life Course (2016) (0)
- Race/Ethnicity and Sentencing Decisions in Pennsylvania Revisited: Hispanic-Black-White Comparisons (2011) (0)
- Book Reviews : Women Guarding Men. Lynn Zimmer. University of Chicago Press. 264 pp., cloth (1987) (0)
- Gender and Violence: Trends in Adult Male and Female Violence, 1980-2004 (2009) (0)
- Gender, Crime, and Punishment.Kathleen Daly (1996) (0)
- Commitment Portfolios: An Integrative Concept to Explain Continuity in Criminal Careers (2006) (0)
- Sam Goodman: Homecoming and Farewell (2017) (0)
- Final Confessions: Sain Takes Stock (2017) (0)
- Confessions’ Data and Contributions (2017) (0)
- Judge, lawyer, victim, thief; by Nocole Hann Rafter and Elizabeth Stankl. Boston, Massachusetts: North Eastern Universtiy Press, 1982. $22.95 cloth, $10.95 paper (1984) (0)
- Examining the “Hispanic Effect” on the Macro-structural Predictors of White and Black Violence: What Happens When Hispanic Arrestees are Counted as White and Black? (2013) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Continuity or Désistante After Saufs “Last Fall”? (2017) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Onset of Sam’s Criminal Career (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Social Organization of the Underworld: Stratification, Continuity, and Change (2017) (0)
- The Health Status, Health Beliefs, and Health Behaviors of Older Men in Prison (2011) (0)
- Commentary: “Moonlighting” Phase of Sam’s Criminal Career: Shifting Commitments to Crime versus Legitimacy (2017) (0)
- Race/Ethnicity and Incarceration Decisions: Does How We Measure In/Out Matter? (2007) (0)
- Social Development and Female Crime Trends: Taiwan as an Example (2012) (0)
- Exploring the Ecological Effects of Immigration on White, Black, and Hispanic Violence, 1990-2000 (2010) (0)
- Sex Differences in Delinquency: An Analysis of Juvenile Court Statistics, 1970-76 (1979) (0)
- Commentary: Organized Crime and Racketeering (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Criminal Capital for Illegal Enterprise (2017) (0)
- 5. Age-Inequality and Property Crime: The Effects of Age-linked Stratification and Status-Attainment Processes on Patterns of Criminality Across the Life Course (1995) (0)
- Commentary: Trading in Stolen Goods (2017) (0)
- Financial Prominence and Financial Conditions: Risk Factors for 21st Century Corporate Financial Securities Fraud in the United States (2021) (0)
- Sentencing the Senior-Citizen Offender: Age Bias or Warranted Leniency? (2000) (0)
- Commentary: Ebbs and Flows of Criminal Careers (2017) (0)
- Saufs Narrative: Saufs Burglary Career Escalates (2017) (0)
- The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School College of the Liberal Arts MORE THAN JUST MONEY: HOW THE BAIL PROCESS CREATES UNINTENDED (2017) (0)
- Confessions of a Dying Thief: A Tutorial on Differential Association (2017) (0)
- Moral Communities and Violent Crime: Religious Contexts and Black, Hispanic, and White Violence Arrests (2010) (0)
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