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Ruth Peterson's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Delois Peterson is an American sociologist and criminologist known for her work on racial and ethnic inequality and crime. She earned her PhD in sociology from University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1983. Peterson is emerita professor of sociology at the Ohio State University, former director of the Criminal Justice Research Center , and former president of the American Society of Criminology . She is the namesake of the American Society of Criminology's Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity.

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Ruth Peterson's Published Works

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Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime (1996) (903)
Disadvantage and Neighborhood Violent Crime: Do Local Institutions Matter? (2000) (434)
Crime and Inequality (1996) (423)
Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide (2010) (399)
Racial Segregation and Black Urban Homicide (1993) (361)
Changing Conceptions of Race: Toward an Account of Anomalous Findings of Sentencing Research (1984) (338)
The Structural Context of Homicide: Accounting for Racial Differences in Process (2000) (321)
Segregation, Racial Structure, and Neighborhood Violent Crime1 (2009) (267)
Macrostructural Analyses of Race, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime: Recent Lessons and New Directions for Research (2005) (262)
Cultural Mechanisms and Killing Fields: A Revised Theory of Community-Level Racial Inequality (2006) (251)
Commercial Density, Residential Concentration, and Crime: Land Use Patterns and Violence in Neighborhood Context (2010) (221)
The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America (2006) (184)
NEW DIRECTIONS IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE (2007) (182)
Racial Segregation, the Concentration of Disadvantage, and Black and White Homicide Victimization (1999) (171)
The Impact of Gender-Based Family Roles on Criminal Sentencing (1991) (152)
Race, Segregation, and the Concentration of Disadvantage: 1980–1990 (1998) (151)
RACE AND ETHNIC REPRESENTATIONS OF LAWBREAKERS AND VICTIMS IN CRIME NEWS: A NATIONAL STUDY OF TELEVISION COVERAGE. (2010) (151)
Social Isolation of Disadvantage and Advantage: The Reproduction of Inequality in Urban Space (2013) (142)
Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood Violent Crime (2009) (95)
STRUCTURAL INEQUALITY AND HOMICIDE: AN ASSESSMENT OF THE BLACK‐WHITE GAP IN KILLINGS (2003) (89)
FELONY MURDER AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT: AN EXAMINATION OF THE DETERRENCE QUESTION (1991) (69)
Murder, Capital Punishment, and Deterrence: A Review of the Evidence and an Examination of Police Killings (1994) (57)
Rape and Dimensions of Gender Socioeconomic Inequality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (1992) (55)
THE CENTRAL PLACE OF RACE IN CRIME AND JUSTICE—THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY'S 2011 SUTHERLAND ADDRESS* (2012) (54)
8. Gender Inequality and Violence Against Women: The Case of Murder (1995) (48)
Beyond Participation: The Association Between School Extracurricular Activities and Involvement in Violence Across Generations of Immigration (2012) (43)
Structural influences on the killing of police: A comparison with general homicides (1988) (42)
Labor Market Conditions and Violent Crime among Youth and Adults (2004) (41)
Murder and Capital Punishment: A Monthly Time-Series Analysis of Execution Publicity (1989) (39)
The Many Colors of Crime (2022) (38)
Forcible rape, poverty, and economic inequality in U.S. metropolitan communities (1988) (29)
Differential Benefits? (2011) (28)
Patterns of local segregation: Do they matter for neighborhood crime? (2015) (27)
Legal Versus Extra–Legal Determinants of Juvenile Court Dispositions (1981) (27)
Reconceptualizing Sociogeographic Context for the Study of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction (2008) (27)
Discriminatory decision making at the legislative level (1985) (26)
1. Criminal Inequality in America: Patterns and Consequences (1995) (25)
Policies , Processes , and Decisions of the Criminal Justice System (2000) (25)
Police Killings and Capital Punishment: The Post-Furman Period (1987) (24)
Murder and Capital Punishment in the Evolving Context of the Post-Furman Era (1988) (23)
Youthful Offender Designations and Sentencing in the New York Criminal Courts (1988) (22)
INTERROGATING RACE, CRIME, AND JUSTICE IN A TIME OF UNEASE AND RACIAL TENSION (2017) (22)
Race, Residence, and Violent Crime: A Structure of Inequality (2009) (16)
Children's TV: The economics of exploitation : . New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1973. Pp. xi + 164, $7.95 (cloth) $1.95 (paper) (1974) (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)
Segregation and Race/Ethnic Inequality in Crime: New Directions (2017) (8)
Capital Punishment, Homicide, and Deterrence: An Assessment of the Evidence (1999) (8)
COLOR MATTERS (2018) (7)
Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance (2013) (6)
INEQUALITY IN CRIME ACROSS PLACE: EXPLORING THE ROLE OF SEGREGATION (2005) (5)
Community, Inequality and Crime (1999) (4)
Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement (2011) (4)
The Lingering Promise of a Structural Criminology@@@Structural Criminology. (1990) (3)
Crime, perceived criminal in justice, and electoral politics (2011) (2)
Chapter 18. Crime, Perceived Criminal Injustice, and Electoral Politics (2012) (2)
Segregation and Youth Criminal Violence (2001) (1)
Social Isolation, Residential Neighborhood Exposure, and Child Behavior Problems (2010) (1)
Introduction: Inequalities of race, ethnicity, and crime in America (2006) (1)
What's Criminology Got to Do with It? (1996) (1)
Introduction (2009) (0)
Toward industrial democracy: By Kunio Odaka. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1975. Pp. xv + 226, $15.00 (1976) (0)
Conclusion: A deeper understanding of race, ethnicity, crime, and criminal justice (2006) (0)
COLOR MATTERS race, Ethnicity, crime, and Justice in uncertain times (2018) (0)
Index to Volume 114 (2009) (0)
The economics of industry:. Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1974. Pp. xii + 426, $12.50 (1975) (0)
Beyond Participation: The Association Between School Extracurricular Activities and Involvement in Violence Across Generations of Immigration (2011) (0)
Violent Crime Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood (2012) (0)
On Becoming “A Teacher or Something”: An Autobiographical Review (2021) (0)

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