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Janet Lauritsen

Criminal Justice

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Criminology

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#159

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Janet Lauritsen

Sociology

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#2403

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Janet Lauritsen's Degrees

PhD Criminology University of Missouri
Masters Sociology University of Missouri
Bachelors Sociology University of Missouri

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According to Wikipedia, Janet Lynn Lauritsen is an American criminologist and the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Education and career Dr. Lauritsen received her B.A. , M.A. , and Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After serving as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois , she joined the Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis as an Assistant Professor in 1990. She was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 1996 as well as to full Professor in 2002. In 2013, Dr. Lauritsen was named a Curators’ Distinguished Professor – the 13th in the university's history – in the nationally ranked Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice.

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Janet Lauritsen's Published Works

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THE LINK BETWEEN OFFENDING AND VICTIMIZATION AMONG ADOLESCENTS (1991) (764)
Deviant Lifestyles, Proximity to Crime, and the Offender-Victim Link in Personal Violence (1990) (544)
Violent victimization and offending: Individual-, situational-, and community-level risk factors. (1994) (543)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States (1997) (468)
Conventional and Delinquent Activities: Implications for the Prevention of Violent Victimization among Adolescents (1992) (279)
Repeat victimization among adolescents and young adults (1995) (232)
TRENDS IN THE GENDER GAP IN VIOLENT OFFENDING: NEW EVIDENCE FROM THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY* (2009) (231)
The Influence of Crack Cocaine on Robbery, Burglary, and Homicide Rates: A Cross-City, Longitudinal Analysis (1998) (211)
The Social Ecology of Violent Victimization: Individual and Contextual Effects in the NCVS (2001) (194)
Reporting crime to the police, 1973–2005: a multivariate analysis of long‐term trends in the National Crime Survey (NCS) and National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) (2010) (194)
PUTTING VIOLENCE IN ITS PLACE: THE INFLUENCE OF RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND PLACE ON THE RISK FOR VIOLENCE* (2001) (157)
The Age-Crime Debate: Assessing the Limits of Longitudinal Self-Report Data (1998) (144)
Neighborhood Disadvantage and the Nature of Violence (2003) (141)
Explaining Race and Gender Differences in Adolescent Sexual Behavior (1994) (129)
The interdependence of school violence with neighborhood and family conditions. (1998) (122)
The Gender Gap in Violent Victimization, 1973–2004 (2008) (115)
THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN (2004) (112)
Race, Ethnicity, and Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending (2000) (110)
Race, ethnicity, and serious juvenile offending. (1998) (109)
How families and communities influence youth victimization (2003) (89)
SIBLING RESEMBLANCE IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: FINDINGS FROM THE NATIONAL YOUTH SURVEY (1993) (80)
Violent victimization among males and economic conditions: The vulnerability of race and ethnic minorities (2010) (76)
Racial Context and Crime Reporting: A Test of Black’s Stratification Hypothesis (2012) (70)
THE NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY AND THE GENDER GAP IN OFFENDING: REDUX (2009) (67)
Violence Against Women in U.S. Metropolitan Areas: Changes in Women's Status and Risk, 1980–2004 (2012) (65)
When Choice of Data Matters: Analyses of U.S. Crime Trends, 1973–2012 (2016) (54)
The consistency of self-reported initiation of sexual activity. (1997) (52)
Breaking the bonds of membership: Leaving the gang. (1996) (52)
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Juvenile Offending. (2005) (45)
Race, Ethnicity, and Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending. Juvenile Justice Bulletin. (2000) (43)
Violent Criminal Behavior Over the Life Course: A Review of the Longitudinal and Comparative Research (1993) (41)
Telling a Similar Story Twice? NCVS/UCR Convergence in Serious Violent Crime Rates in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Places (1973–2010) (2016) (40)
Gender Differences in Risk Factors for Violent Victimization (2011) (34)
Methods for Counting High-Frequency Repeat Victimizations in the National Crime Victimization Survey. Technical Series Report. NCJ 237308. (2012) (34)
INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE IN U.S. METROPOLITAN AREAS: THE CONTEXTUAL INFLUENCES OF POLICE AND SOCIAL SERVICES* (2012) (32)
LIMITATIONS IN THE USE OF LONGITUDINAL SELF‐REPORT DATA: A COMMENT (1999) (29)
Modernizing Crime Statistics, Report 1: Defining and Classifying Crime (2016) (28)
Advances and Challenges in Empirical Studies of Victimization (2010) (27)
Violence and Economic Conditions in the United States, 1973-2011 (2014) (27)
Seasonal Variation in Violent Victimization: Opportunity and the Annual Rhythm of the School Calendar (2013) (26)
Victimization Trends and Correlates: Macro- and Microinfluences and New Directions for Research (2018) (22)
Violent Victimization Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations in the United States: Findings From the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2017-2018. (2020) (19)
Who Experiences Violent Victimization and Who Accesses Services? Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey for Expanding Our Reach (2019) (11)
Advancing the Usefulness of Research for Victims of Crime (2008) (11)
National Crime Victimization Surveys (2005) (11)
National and Local Trends in Serious Violence, Firearm Victimization, and Homicide (2019) (10)
Ensuring the Quality, Credibility, and Relevance of U.S. Justice Statistics: Panel to Review the Programs of the Bureau of Justice Statistics, National Research Council (2009) (10)
The Most Dangerous Crime Rankings (2008) (10)
Economic Conditions and Violent Victimization Trends among Youth (2013) (10)
Explaining Patterns of Offending across the Life Course: Comments on Interactional Theory and Recent Tests Based on the RYDS-RIS Data (2005) (8)
Social and Scientific Influences on the Measurement of Criminal Victimization (2005) (8)
THE ENDURING SIGNIFICANCE OF RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES IN MALE VIOLENT VICTIMIZATION, 1973–2010 (2018) (7)
Assessing problematic research: How can academic researchers help improve the quality of anti-crime program evaluations? (2006) (7)
Expanding Our Understanding of Crime: The National Academies Report on the Future of Crime Statistics and Measurement (2017) (6)
Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance (2013) (6)
Racial Context and Crime Reporting: A Test of Black’s Stratification Hypothesis (2011) (4)
Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement (2011) (4)
"Subpopulations at High Risk for Rape and Sexual Assault: What Does the NCVS Tell Us?" (2012) (3)
Using National Data to Inform Our Understanding of Family and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: A Review of a Decade of Innovation (2021) (3)
Who Experiences Violent Victimizationand Who Accesses Services? (2019) (2)
Review essay / Searching for a better understanding of race and ethnic differences in violent crime (2004) (1)
The Devil Is in the Details: Crime and Victimization Research with the National Crime Victimization Survey (2015) (1)
Violent Repeat Victimization: Prospects and Challenges for Research and Practice (Presentation Video) (2012) (1)
Victimization Patterns and Trends (2009) (1)
Crime Reporting in Chicago: A Comparison of Police and Victim Survey Data, 1999–2018 (2022) (1)
Lifelines and Risks: Pathways of Youth in Our Time.Robert B. Cairns , Beverley D. Cairns (1996) (0)
Rape and Sexual Assault (2011) (0)
CRIMINOLOGY REVIEWERS LIST (2015) (0)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Crime and Criminal Justice in the United States Author ( s ) : (2007) (0)
Insights from the NCVS Data for the Victim Assistance Field: Who Might We Be Missing? (2018) (0)
Adolescent sexual behavior and early childbearing: Empirical tests of social control and strain theories (1989) (0)
The future of crime data * (2023) (0)
Personal reflections on the impact of James F. Short, Jr. (2020) (0)
Is the Trouble Still Going On? Exploring Victims’ Accounts of Why Repeat Violent and Property Victimization Ends (2018) (0)
When Choice of Data Matters: Analyses of U.S. Crime Trends, 1973–2012 (2015) (0)
Special Issue—Crime and the Great Recession (2014) (0)
Telling a Similar Story Twice? NCVS/UCR Convergence in Serious Violent Crime Rates in Rural, Suburban, and Urban Places (1973–2010) (2015) (0)
Seasonal Variation in Violent Victimization: Opportunity and the Annual Rhythm of the School Calendar (2012) (0)
Seeing Black: Race, Crime and Third-Party Reporting (2009) (0)
Book Review:Overcoming the Odds: High Risk Children from Birth to Adulthood. Emmy E. Werner, Ruth S. Smith (1993) (0)
Public Policy and Prevention of Violence Against Women (2016) (0)

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