Jeffery Ulmer
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Jeffery Ulmer's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jeffery Todd Ulmer is a professor of sociology and criminology at Pennsylvania State University . He served as the associate head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology from 2013 to 2019. Education Ulmer received his B.A. from Susquehanna University in 1988, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Penn State in 1990 and 1993, respectively, all in sociology. He graduated from Springdale High School in Springdale, AR, in 1984.
Jeffery Ulmer's Published Works
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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)
- SENTENCING IN CONTEXT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS (2004) (548)
- Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research (2012) (333)
- COURT COMMUNITIES UNDER SENTENCING GUIDELINES: DILEMMAS OF FORMAL RATIONALITY AND SENTENCING DISPARITY (1996) (275)
- Social Worlds of Sentencing: Court Communities Under Sentencing Guidelines (1997) (273)
- THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF GUIDELINES CIRCUMVENTION: THE CASE OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS* (2008) (250)
- DOWNWARD DEPARTURES FOR SERIOUS VIOLENT OFFENDERS: LOCAL COURT “CORRECTIONS” TO PENNSYLVANIA'S SENTENCING GUIDELINES* (2002) (221)
- Age differences in sentencing (1995) (217)
- Sentencing disparity and departures from guidelines (1996) (187)
- Prosecutorial Discretion and the Imposition of Mandatory Minimum Sentences (2007) (173)
- Racial/Ethnic Threat and Federal Sentencing (2011) (169)
- VARIATION IN TRIAL PENALTIES AMONG SERIOUS VIOLENT OFFENSES (2006) (168)
- Trial Penalties in Federal Sentencing: Extra‐Guidelines Factors and District Variation (2010) (146)
- Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age on Criminal Punishment (2017) (144)
- FEAR OF CRIME AMONG KOREAN AMERICANS IN CHICAGO COMMUNITIES (2000) (122)
- Sentencing Guidelines: Lessons from Pennsylvania (2008) (116)
- Religion, Self Control, and Substance Use (2013) (108)
- The age and crime relationship: Social variation, social explanations (2014) (107)
- The use and transformation of formal decision-making criteria: Sentencing guidelines, organizational contexts, and case processing strategies (1998) (99)
- 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)
- The Localized Uses of Federal Sentencing Guidelines in Four U.S. District Courts: Evidence of Processual Order (2005) (80)
- THE RULES HAVE CHANGED‐SO PROCEED WITH CAUTION: A COMMENT ON ENGEN AND GAINEY'S METHOD FOR MODELING SENTENCING OUTCOMES UNDER GUIDELINES (2000) (78)
- Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic Comparisons* (2010) (78)
- Intermediate Sanctions: A Comparative Analysis of the Probability and Severity of Recidivism (2001) (77)
- Confessions of a Dying Thief: Understanding Criminal Careers and Illegal Enterprise (2005) (75)
- The “Liberation” of Federal Judges’ Discretion in the Wake of the Booker/Fanfan Decision: Is There Increased Disparity and Divergence between Courts? (2011) (72)
- Do Moral Communities Play A Role In Criminal Sentencing? Evidence from Pennsylvania (2008) (68)
- Disproportional Imprisonment of Black and Hispanic Males: Sentencing Discretion, Processing Outcomes, and Policy Structures (2016) (68)
- Religious Involvement and Dynamics of Marijuana Use: Initiation, Persistence, and Desistence (2012) (66)
- Sociology of Crime, Law and Deviance (2000) (65)
- Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Structural Disadvantage and Crime: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons. (2012) (63)
- Punishment and Politics: Evidence and Emulation in the Making of English Crime Control Policy (2005) (59)
- Are Blacks and Hispanics Disproportionately Incarcerated Relative to Their Arrests? Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality Between Arrest and Incarceration (2009) (57)
- Violent Criminal Acts and Actors Revisited (2000) (56)
- Explaining the Gaps in White, Black, and Hispanic Violence since 1990 (2016) (49)
- Race and the Religious Contexts of Violence: Linking Religion and White, Black, and Latino Violent Crime (2013) (48)
- Racial disparity in the wake of the Booker/Fanfan decision (2011) (48)
- Criminal Courts as Inhabited Institutions: Making Sense of Difference and Similarity in Sentencing (2019) (47)
- THE ORGANIZATION AND CONSEQUENCES OF SOCIAL PASTS IN CRIMINAL COURTS (1995) (40)
- Racial Disparity in the Wake of the Booker/Fanfan Decision: An Alternative Analysis to the USSC’s 2010 Report (2011) (40)
- Mythic Facts and Park's Pragmatism: On Predecessor-Selection and Theorizing in Human Ecology (1996) (38)
- Revisiting Stebbins: labeling and commitment to deviance (1994) (36)
- Social Worlds of Stripping: The Processual Orders of Exotic Dance (2009) (35)
- The Potential Contributions of Quantitative Research to Symbolic Interactionism (2003) (35)
- The Contributions of an Interactionist Approach to Research and Theory on Criminal Careers (1999) (32)
- Organizational Conformity and Punishment: Federal Court Communities and Judge-Initiated Guidelines Departures (2017) (31)
- Future Selves and Self-Control Motivation (2012) (28)
- Offenders on Offending: Learning About Crime from Criminals (2011) (26)
- 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)
- Commitment, Deviance, and Social Control (2000) (25)
- Occupational socialization and cynicism toward prison administration (1992) (24)
- 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)
- Federal Sentencing of Hispanic Defendants in Changing Immigrant Destinations (2019) (16)
- TRIAL JUDGES IN A RURAL COURT COMMUNITY (1994) (15)
- “Mighty Like A River”: The Black Protestant Church and Violence in Black Communities1 (2017) (15)
- Discretion and Disparity under Sentencing Guidelines Revisited: The Interrelationship between Structured Sentencing Alternatives and Guideline Decision-making (2020) (15)
- Drug Sentencing in South Korea: The Influence of Case-Processing and Social Status Factors in an Ethnically Homogeneous Context (2011) (14)
- Violent acts and violentization : assessing, applying, and developing Lonnie Athens' theories (2003) (12)
- Teenage Religiosity and Changes in Marijuana Use During the Transition to Adulthood (2010) (12)
- Punishment in Indian Country: Ironies of Federal Punishment of Native Americans (2018) (12)
- The Race of Defendants and Victims in Pennsylvania Death Penalty Decisions: 2000–2010 (2020) (11)
- Handbook on Punishment Decisions : Locations of Disparity (2017) (10)
- Expanding Our Understanding of Focal Concerns: Alternative Sentences, Race, and “Salvageability” (2021) (9)
- The role of juvenile adjudications in the disproportional incarceration of African-American and Hispanic defendants (2016) (9)
- Mismatch of Guidelines and Offender Danger and Blameworthiness Departures as Policy Signals from the Courts (2014) (8)
- Criminal Justice in Indian Country: A Theoretical and Empirical Agenda (2019) (8)
- Justice for the Poor: A Study of Criminal Defense Work (2006) (8)
- Mythic Facts and Herbert Blumer's Work on Race Relations: A Comment on Esposito and Murphy's Article (2001) (8)
- Demarginalizing Symbolic Interactionism: A Comment on “Interactionism's Place” (2003) (8)
- Beyond Disparity: Changes in Federal Sentencing After Booker and Gall? (2011) (7)
- A processual order approach to studying sentencing guidelines: contexts, activities, and consequences (1997) (7)
- The Stability of Case Processing and Sentencing Post-Booker (2010) (7)
- Is there No Place for Culture in a Sociology of Legal and Illegal Enterprise? (2006) (5)
- Capital Punishment Decisions in Pennsylvania: 2000-2010: Implications for Racial, Ethnic and Other Disparate Impacts (2017) (5)
- Taking Criminal Opportunity Seriously: An Actor-Centered Approach (2017) (5)
- Working Mothers and the Welfare State (review) (2008) (5)
- Geographic arbitrariness? County court variation in capital prosecution and sentencing in Pennsylvania (2020) (4)
- Special Issue: Policing and Minority Communities (2017) (4)
- Profane Concerns in Sacred Spaces: The Challenges and Consequences of Implementing Security Measures in Religious Congregations (2018) (4)
- Sentencing Policies and Practices in Pennsylvania (2015) (3)
- The Path of the Devil: Early Modern Witch Hunts. By Gary F. Jensen. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007. Pp. v+283. $87.00 (cloth); $29.95 (paper). (2009) (2)
- Disparities in Death Penalty Prosecution and Punishment (2019) (2)
- Race, Ethnicity, and Sentencing (2018) (2)
- The Extensive Legacy of Symbolic Interactionism in Criminology (2017) (2)
- The Black Child-Savers, Criminal Justice Discretion, and the Ghost of George Stinney, Jr. (2015) (2)
- Sentencing, Trends, and Disparities: Crime (2015) (1)
- Sam’s Narrative: Pathways Into and Out of Crime (2017) (1)
- Modeling Sentencing in U.S. Federal Courts: Competing Methods for Modeling Presumptive Sentencing Guidelines (2009) (1)
- Does Increased Discretion Lead to Increased Disparity? The Liberation of Sentencing Discretion After the Booker/Fanfan Decision (2009) (1)
- Special Issue: Prosecutorial Discretion (2018) (1)
- Back to Basics: A Critical Examination of the Focal Concerns Framework from the Perspective of Judges (2022) (1)
- Religious congregations and crime incidents: opportunity and bias (2020) (1)
- Social Variation, Social Explanations (2014) (1)
- Special Issue: New Theory and Research on Sentencing (2019) (1)
- Restrictive Intermediate Punishments and Recidivism in Pennsylvania (2004) (1)
- Commentary: Rewards and Rationales of Crime, and Images of Criminals (2017) (0)
- Confessions’ Data and Contributions (2017) (0)
- Legal, Socio-legal, and Extra-legal Factors on Sentencing for Drug Offenses in South Korea (2009) (0)
- Conceptual Themes and Tools (2017) (0)
- Commentary: “Moonlighting” Phase of Sam’s Criminal Career: Shifting Commitments to Crime versus Legitimacy (2017) (0)
- Parental Attachment Measure (2015) (0)
- Saufs Narrative: Saufs Burglary Career Escalates (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Criminal Capital for Illegal Enterprise (2017) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Running a Fencing Business (2017) (0)
- Commitment Portfolios: An Integrative Concept to Explain Continuity in Criminal Careers (2006) (0)
- Comment (2005) (0)
- Self-Control Index (2015) (0)
- Sentencing the "Other": Punishment of latinx defendants (2019) (0)
- Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld By Bruce A. Jacobs and Richard Wright Cambridge University Press, 2006. 154 pages. $19.99 (paper) (2007) (0)
- Sam Goodman: Homecoming and Farewell (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Doing Burglary (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Ebbs and Flows of Criminal Careers (2017) (0)
- The 2012 U.S.S.C. Booker Report’s Characterization of the Penn State Studies: Setting the Record Straight (2013) (0)
- Final Confessions: Sain Takes Stock (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Organized Crime and Racketeering (2017) (0)
- Book Review: Delisi, M. (2005). Career Criminals in Society. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pp. 196 (2008) (0)
- Consequential Distortions of Robert Park’s Theory of Human Ecology (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)
- Adolescents' Religious Involvement Measure (2015) (0)
- David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology (2022) (0)
- The Pennsylvania State University The Graduate School The College of the Liberal Arts THE ENTANGLEMENT OF FACT AND VALUE: EXPLORING THE AFFINITIES BETWEEN WEBER’S VERSTEHEN AND AMERICAN PRAGMATISM A Thesis in Sociology by (2010) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Social Organization of Theft and Criminal Enterprise (2017) (0)
- Mcclesky V . Kemp : How the U.S. Supreme Court Shut Down the Ability to Challenge Systemic Racism in the Death Penalty (2021) (0)
- Street Justice: Retaliation in the Criminal Underworld (review) (2008) (0)
- Saufs Narrative: Racketeerings Organized Crime, and the Mafia (2017) (0)
- Commentary: Trading in Stolen Goods (2017) (0)
- PISS-N-vinegar grad student (2017) (0)
- Court Communities as Social Worlds (1991) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Skills, Character, and Connections (2017) (0)
- Moral Communities and Violent Crime: Religious Contexts and Black, Hispanic, and White Violence Arrests (2010) (0)
- Confessions of a Dying Thief: A Tutorial on Differential Association (2017) (0)
- ASC Division on Corrections and Sentencing Award Winners 2012 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner (2012) (0)
- Racialized Victim Gender Differences in Capital Decision Making in Pennsylvania (2021) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Onset of Sam’s Criminal Career (2017) (0)
- Interactionist Utilizers in Criminology (2007) (0)
- Commentary: Social Organization of the Underworld: Stratification, Continuity, and Change (2017) (0)
- Prevalence and Cause of Sentencing Disparity Under The Federal Sentencing Guidelines (2008) (0)
- Sam’s Narrative: Continuity or Désistante After Saufs “Last Fall”? (2017) (0)
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