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Marjorie Zatz

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Marjorie Zatz's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Masters Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Santa Cruz

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According to Wikipedia, Marjorie Sue Zatz is an American sociologist and professor of sociology at the University of California, Merced, where she is also the Vice Provost and Graduate Dean. Education and career Zatz received her B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1977, where she majored in sociology and minored in Latin American studies. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Indiana University, Bloomington in 1979 and 1982, respectively. Her Ph.D. minor was Latin American studies. She joined the faculty of Arizona State University in 1982 as an assistant professor. On July 16, 2012, she began working at the National Science Foundation as the director of their Law and Social Sciences program. In 2014, she left the National Science Foundation and Arizona State University to join the University of California, Merced faculty.

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Marjorie Zatz's Published Works

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The Changing Forms of Racial/Ethnic Biases in Sentencing (1987) (289)
Criers, liars, and manipulators: Probation officers' views of girls (2004) (174)
Race, Ethnicity, and Determinate Sentencing (1984) (154)
The Convergence of Race , Ethnicity , Gender , and Class on Court Decisionmaking : Looking Toward the 21 st Century (2000) (153)
Chicano youth gangs and crime: the creation of a moral panic (1987) (147)
Immigration, Crime, and Victimization: Rhetoric and Reality (2012) (100)
“YOUTH IS ENMESHED IN A HIGHLY DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY SYSTEM”: EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP AMONG DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES, PARENTAL INCARCERATION, AND JUVENILE COURT DECISION MAKING* (2009) (98)
VOICES FROM THE BARRIO: CHICANO/A GANGS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITIES* (2000) (96)
Making Law the State, the Law, and Structural Contradictions (1995) (85)
Building with our hands : new directions in Chicana studies (1994) (74)
Punishing Immigrants: Policy, Politics, and Injustice (2012) (72)
Family and Residential Instability in the Context of Paternal and Maternal Incarceration (2011) (61)
Crime, time, and punishment: An exploration of selection bias in sentencing research (1985) (61)
Los Cholos: Legal Processing of Chicano Gang Members (1985) (55)
Pleas, priors, and prison: Racial/ethnic differences in sentencing (1985) (51)
Cultural Capital, Gender, and the Structural Transformation of Legal Practice (1991) (41)
Race, Ethnicity, Class, and Noncompliance with Juvenile Court Supervision (2009) (33)
Images of Color, Images of Crime: Readings (2006) (31)
The social organization of criminal justice processing: An event history analysis (1985) (27)
The Use and Abuse of Sentence Enhancement for Firearms Offenses in California (1986) (17)
Popular Justice in Revolutionary Nicaragua (1992) (16)
Court processing and sentencing of drinking drivers: Using new methodologies (1988) (15)
Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity in Studies of Crime and Criminal Justice (2006) (13)
The Limits of Discretion: Challenges and Dilemmas of Prosecutorial Discretion in Immigration Enforcement (2014) (12)
Girls’ Experiences With Violence (2012) (12)
Producing Legality: Law and Socialism in Cuba (1994) (8)
The Cuban Second Economy in Perspective (1990) (5)
MACHISMO AND CHICANO/A GANGS: SYMBOLIC RESISTANCE OR OPPRESSION? (1996) (5)
No Place For Girls To Go: How Juvenile Court Officials Respond to Substance Abuse Among Girls and Boys (2005) (4)
Immigration, Crime, and Justice: Rhetoric, Reality, and Ramifications of Recent U.S. Immigration Policies (2008) (2)
Comparative Deviance and C riminology (1981) (2)
Immigration Enforcement, Youth and Families: Policy in the Absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform (2014) (2)
Borders, crime and justice (2014) (2)
Vulnerable Youth: Collateral Consequences of Crime and Immigration Policies (2009) (1)
16. THE CONVERGENCE OF RACE, ETHNICITY, GENDER, AND CLASS ON COURT DECISIONMAKING: LOOKING TOWARD THE 21ST CENTURY (2013) (1)
Understanding immigration, crime and victimization in the United States (2014) (1)
Immigration Policy & Practice in the Absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Prosecutorial Discretion, Deferred Action, & Immigration Priorities (2013) (0)
CHAPTER 1. Introduction and Historical Context (2019) (0)
New Directions in the Study of Justice, Law, and Social Control (1990) (0)
CHAPTER 4. Families Torn Apart: Parental Detention and Deportation (2019) (0)
Legislative Inaction and Executive Action (2015) (0)
CHAPTER 6. Conclusions and Recommendations (2019) (0)
Book reviews (1984) (0)
Introduction and Historical Context (2015) (0)
At-Risk Girls' Experiences of Violence: A Pathways Perspective (2010) (0)
WORLD REFEREED AND DISTRIBUTED: Abstracted in Sociological Abstracts. There are over 150 academic subscribers including 15 libraries in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. (2011) (0)
Correspondence: 1991-1992 AWC Committees, Nominations, and Elections (2017) (0)
Comparative Deviance and Criminology (1981) (0)
Dreams and Nightmares (2019) (0)
No Good Options (2015) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Examining the Collateral Consequences of Parental Incarceration: A Review of Childrens Living Situation (2008) (0)
Book Review: U. S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820–1925 (1986) (0)
U.S. Immigration Law and the Control of Labor: 1820-1925. (1986) (0)
Vulnerable Youth: Collateral Consequences of U.S. Immigration Policies and Practices (2010) (0)
Correspondence, Committee. 1990-1999, includes Nominations and Elections, 1991-94 (2017) (0)
CHAPTER 3. Legislative Inaction and Executive Action Mixed Status Families, the Dreamer Movement, and DACA (2019) (0)
Gendered Theory, Gendered Practice? Has Feminist Theorizing about Crime and Delinquency Influenced Policy and Practice? (2011) (0)
CHAPTER 5. No Good Options: Unaccompanied Minors in the US Immigration System (2019) (0)
The Neglect of the “Family” in Juvenile Court Processes: Examining the Role of the Family and Race/Ethnicity in Juvenile Court Outcomes (2006) (0)
CHAPTER 2. Prosecutorial Discretion: A Mechanism for Balancing Competing Goals (2019) (0)

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