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

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According to Wikipedia, Steven Fredrick Messner is an American sociologist and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the sociology department at University at Albany, SUNY. Education Messner received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Princeton University.

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Crime and the American Dream (1993) (917)
STRUCTURAL COVARIATES OF U.S. COUNTY HOMICIDE RATES: INCORPORATING SPATIAL EFFECTS* (2001) (497)
Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory (1997) (466)
Social Capital and Homicide (2001) (440)
REASONS FOR REPORTING AND NOT REPORTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO THE POLICE (2002) (400)
The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis (1999) (377)
Regional and Racial Effects on the Urban Homicide Rate: The Subculture of Violence Revisited (1983) (304)
RACIAL INEQUALITY AND RACIALLY DISAGGREGATED HOMICIDE RATES: AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS* (1992) (274)
Poverty, Inequality, and the Urban Homicide Rate: Some Unexpected Findings (1982) (256)
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND LEVELS OF HOMICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS* (1986) (256)
Further Testing of Social Disorganization Theory: An Elaboration of Sampson and Groves's “Community Structure and Crime” (1999) (252)
The Sex Ratio, Family Disruption, and Rates of Violent Crime: The Paradox of Demographic Structure (1991) (243)
IMMIGRATION AND THE RECENT VIOLENT CRIME DROP IN THE UNITED STATES: A POOLED, CROSS‐SECTIONAL TIME‐SERIES ANALYSIS OF METROPOLITAN AREAS* (2009) (231)
Dimensions of Social Capital and Rates of Criminal Homicide (2004) (230)
Economic discrimination and societal homicide rates: further evidence on the cost of inequality. (1989) (221)
Explaining Spatial Variation in Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis1 (2003) (218)
Routine Leisure Activities and Rates of Crime: A Macro-Level Analysis (1987) (218)
THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF URBAN HOMICIDE: AN APPLICATION OF THE “ROUTINE ACTIVITIES” APPROACH (1985) (201)
Societal Development, Social Equality, and Homicide: A Cross-National Test of a Durkheimian Model (1982) (190)
THE VICTIM‐OFFENDER RELATIONSHIP AND CALLING THE POLICE IN ASSAULTS* (1999) (183)
Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime: Problems and Prospects. (1990) (169)
Crime and Demography: Multiple Linkages, Reciprocal Relations (2000) (154)
To kill or not to kill? Lethal outcomes in injurious attacks (1996) (147)
Individual, family background, and contextual explanations of racial and ethnic disparities in youths' exposure to violence. (2013) (142)
The control motive in intimate partner violence (2000) (141)
Contemporary Hate Crimes, Law Enforcement, and the Legacy of Racial Violence (2009) (139)
The Legacy of Lynching and Southern Homicide (2005) (138)
Neighborhood Context and the Gender Gap in Adolescent Violent Crime (2010) (137)
Gender Equality and Gendered Homicides (2002) (136)
Structural Determinants of Intergroup Association: Interracial Marriage and Crime (1986) (134)
The role of victim characteristics in the disposition of murder cases (2000) (125)
A Multilevel Analysis of the Risk of Household Burglary in the City of Tianjin, China (2007) (125)
A note on climate change adaptation for seaports: a challenge for global ports, a challenge for global society (2013) (121)
Crime and social control in a changing China (2003) (116)
Regional Differences in the Economic Correlates of the Urban Homicide Rate (1983) (116)
DISTINCTIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF ASSAULTS MOTIVATED BY BIAS (2004) (111)
SPATIAL ANALYSES OF HOMICIDE WITH AREAL DATA (2004) (111)
Proactive Policing and Robbery Rates Across U.S. Cities (2010) (106)
Reassessing the Cross-National Relationship Between Income Inequality and Homicide Rates: Implications of Data Quality Control in the Measurement of Income Distribution (2002) (106)
Explaining crime for a young adult population: An application of general strain theory (2005) (102)
Distrust of Government, the Vigilante Tradition, and Support for Capital Punishment (2006) (101)
The crime drop in comparative perspective: the impact of the economy and imprisonment on American and European burglary rates. (2009) (99)
Policing, drugs, and the homicide decline in New York City in the 1990s (2007) (96)
Institutions, Anomie, and Violent Crime: Clarifying and Elaborating Institutional-Anomie Theory (2008) (95)
DISENTANGLING THE EFFECTS OF GENDER AND INTIMACY ON VICTIM PRECIPITATION IN HOMICIDE (1998) (95)
THE SEX RATIO AND WOMEN'S INVOLVEMENT IN CRIME: A CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS (1987) (93)
NEIGHBORHOOD CONTEXT AND NONLINEAR PEER EFFECTS ON ADOLESCENT VIOLENT CRIME (2011) (89)
POVERTY, INFANT MORTALITY, AND HOMICIDE RATES IN CROSS-NATIONAL PERPSECTIVE: ASSESSMENTS OF CRITERION AND CONSTRUCT VALIDITY. (2010) (89)
Crime prevention in a communitarian society: Bang-jiao and tiao-jie in the people's Republic of China (1996) (88)
GUANXI AND FEAR OF CRIME IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN CHINA (2009) (85)
The SAGE Handbook of Criminological Research Methods (2011) (84)
ECONOMIC DEPRIVATION AND CHANGES IN HOMICIDE ARREST RATES FOR WHITE AND BLACK YOUTHS, 1967–1998: A NATIONAL TIME‐SERIES ANALYSIS* (2001) (84)
CHANGES IN POLICE NOTIFICATION FOR RAPE, 1973–2000* (2003) (83)
Economic Deprivation, Opportunity Structure, and Robbery Victimization: Intra- and Interracial Patterns (1986) (78)
Merton's “social structure and anomie”: The road not taken (1988) (74)
Risks of Criminal Victimization in Contemporary Urban China: An Application of Lifestyle/Routine Activities Theory (2007) (73)
Misdemeanor Policing, Physical Disorder, and Gun-related Homicide: A Spatial Analytic Test of “Broken-Windows” Theory (2009) (67)
DOES THE GENDER GAP IN DELINQUENCY VARY BY LEVEL OF PATRIARCHY? A CROSS‐NATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (2017) (67)
FAMILY DEVIANCE AND DELINQUENCY IN CHINA (1995) (64)
AN EXPLORATION OF THE DETERMINANTS OF REPORTING CRIME TO THE POLICE IN THE CITY OF TIANJIN, CHINA* (2008) (62)
School attachment and official delinquency status in the People's Republic of China (1996) (61)
An Institutional-Anomie Theory of Crime: Continuities and Elaborations in the Study of Social Structure and Anomie (2004) (59)
DIMENSIONS OF RACIAL INEQUALITY AND RATES OF VIOLENT CRIME (1987) (58)
Interracial homicide: A macrostructural-opportunity perspective (1992) (56)
Socio-Demographic Correlates of Fear of Crime and the Social Context of Contemporary Urban China (2009) (56)
A study of homicides in Manhattan, 1981. (1986) (53)
The Effects of Alternative Measures of Delinquent Peers on Self-Reported Delinquency (2000) (53)
The southern violence construct: A review of arguments, evidence, and the normative context (1989) (53)
Not ‘Islands, Entire of Themselves’: Exploring the Spatial Context of City-level Robbery Rates (2008) (51)
Locating the Vanguard in Rising and Falling Homicide Rates (2005) (49)
The social sources of homicide in different types of societies (1991) (48)
Television Violence and Violent Crime: An Aggregate Analysis (1986) (46)
MORALITY, MARKETS, AND THE ASC: 2011 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY (2012) (45)
Bicycle-Theft Victimization in Contemporary Urban China (2007) (41)
When West Meets East: Generalizing Theory and Expanding the Conceptual Toolkit of Criminology (2015) (40)
Modernization, Structural Characteristics, and Societal Rates of Crime: An Application of Blau's Macrosociological Theory (1986) (39)
The making of criminology revisited (2007) (39)
A critical review of recent literature on crime and criminal justice in China: research findings, challenges, and prospects (Introduction) (2008) (39)
A LOG-MULTIPLICATIVE ASSOCIATION MODEL FOR ALLOCATING HOMICIDES WITH UNKNOWN VICTIM/OFFENDER RELATIONSHIPS (2002) (38)
Exploring the consequences of erratic data reporting for cross-national research on homicide (1992) (37)
Institutional Anomie Theory: A Macro-sociological Explanation of Crime (2009) (37)
Class, Compliance Structures, and Delinquency: Assessing Integrated Structural-Marxist Theory (1990) (36)
The Relationship Between Gender Equality and Rates of Inter- and Intra-Sexual Lethal Violence: An Exploration of Functional Form (2013) (36)
Crime and the Economy (2013) (34)
Does fringe banking exacerbate neighborhood crime rates (2011) (34)
Acquaintance Robbery (2000) (33)
Research on cultural and socioeconomic factors in criminal violence. (1988) (32)
Understanding Cross-National Variation in Criminal Violence (2003) (32)
Investigating the effect of social changes on age-specific gun-related homicide rates in New York City during the 1990s. (2010) (31)
Perspectives On Crime And Deviance (2009) (31)
A Cautionary Note about the Use of Estimated Homicide Data for Cross-National Research (2017) (30)
Public Legal Education and Inmates' Perceptions of the Legitimacy of Official Punishment in China (1999) (30)
Gender and the Victim-Offender Relationship in Homicide: A Comparison of Finland and the United States (2001) (30)
Status, power, and sentencing in China (1998) (30)
The Heritage of Herding and Southern Homicide (2009) (30)
Social trust, firearm prevalence, and homicide. (2007) (29)
Assessing Changes in the Effect of Divorce Rates on Homicide Rates Across Large U.S. Cities, 1960-2000: Revisiting the Chicago School (2010) (29)
Understanding the devaluation of vulnerable groups: A novel application of Institutional Anomie Theory. (2015) (29)
The Present and Future of Institutional-Anomie Theory (2017) (28)
Race/Ethnic-Specific Homicide Rates in New York City (2011) (28)
GEOGRAPHICAL MOBILITY, GOVERNMENTAL ASSISTANCE TO THE POOR, AND RATES OF URBAN CRIME (1986) (27)
The "dark figure" and composite indexes of crime: Some empirical explorations of alternative data sources (1984) (26)
GENERAL ASSESSMENTS AND THRESHOLDS FOR CHRONIC OFFENDING: AN ENRICHED PARADIGM FOR EXPLAINING CRIME (2015) (25)
GANG CRIME AND ITS PUNISHMENT IN CHINA (1997) (25)
Climate change and sea level rise impacts at ports and a consistent methodology to evaluate vulnerability and risk (2013) (25)
MARKETIZED MENTALITY, COMPETITIVE/EGOISTIC SCHOOL CULTURE, AND DELINQUENT ATTITUDES AND BEHAVIOR: AN APPLICATION OF INSTITUTIONAL ANOMIE THEORY* (2018) (24)
Criminal victimization in contemporary China: a review of the evidence and challenges for future research (2008) (24)
Anomie, marketization, and prejudice toward purportedly unprofitable groups (2015) (24)
Addition by Subtraction? A Longitudinal Analysis of the Impact of Deportation Efforts on Violent Crime (2013) (23)
Culture of Honor: The Psychology of Violence in the South.Richard E. Nisbett , Dov Cohen (1997) (23)
Climate change-related impacts in the San Diego region by 2050 (2011) (23)
The Severity of Official Punishment for Delinquency and Change in Interpersonal Relations in Chinese Society (1994) (23)
Institutional imbalance, integration into Non-economic institutions, and a marketized mentality in Europe: A multilevel, partial elaboration of Institutional Anomie Theory (2016) (22)
Institutional Imbalance, Marketized Mentality, and the Justification of Instrumental Offenses: A Cross-National Application of Institutional Anomie Theory (2019) (21)
Social Institutions, Theory Development, and the Promise of Comparative Criminological Research (2014) (19)
Race, Gender, and Outcomes in First Degree Murder Cases (1999) (19)
Criminological Research in Contemporary China (2007) (18)
Community-Level Influences on Crime and Offending (2012) (18)
Structural Covariates of Violent Crime Rates in Germany: Exploratory Spatial Analyses of Kreise (2013) (18)
The Interchangeability of Homicide Data Sources (2002) (17)
Bonds to the Work Unit and Official Offense Status in Urban China (1999) (17)
Point blank against itself: Evidence and inference about guns, crime, and gun control (1995) (17)
Neighborhood Crime Control in a Changing China (2017) (16)
Social Institutions and Crime (2012) (16)
Alcohol and Crime in China (2000) (16)
Social Correlates of Delinquency for Youth in Need of Mental Health Services: Examining the Scope Conditions of Criminological Theories (2012) (15)
Cross-National Homicide Trends in the Latter Decades of the Twentieth Century: Losses and Gains in Institutional Control? (2011) (14)
NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL CONTROL AND PERCEPTIONS OF CRIME AND DISORDER IN CONTEMPORARY URBAN CHINA (2017) (13)
Her American Dream (2015) (12)
The Impact of Accession to the European Union on Homicide Rates in Eastern Europe (2016) (11)
Estimating Race-Specific Offending Rates: An Intercity Comparison of Arrest Data and Victim Reports (1988) (11)
Organization of Ownership and Workplace Theft in China (2000) (10)
Predictors of Interracial Homicide Victimization for Asian Americans: A Macrostructural Opportunity Perspective (1991) (9)
The Enduring Influence of Cohort Characteristics on Race-Specific Homicide Rates (2019) (9)
Economic Reform and Crime in Contemporary Urban China: Paradoxes of a Planned Transition (2008) (9)
Incorporating Unstructured Socializing Into the Study of Secondary Exposure to Community Violence (2014) (9)
Nonmarital Fertility and the Effects of Divorce Rates on Youth Suicide Rates (2006) (9)
Crime is Part of the Problem: Contexts of Lethal Violence in Finland and the USA (2000) (9)
News from the Editors (Editorial to Volume 12, 2018) (2018) (9)
The Crime Drop in Comparative Perspective (2012) (8)
The Normal Crime Rate, the Economy, and Mass Incarceration: An Institutional-Anomie Perspective on Crime-control Policy (2010) (7)
Segregation and racial disparities in post-stop outcomes: insights from New York City (2019) (7)
Prisons as Schools: Inmates’ Participation in Vocational and Academic Programs in Chinese Prisons (2019) (7)
Chronic Offenders in China (1997) (7)
Understanding the Relationship Between Relative Group Size and Hate Crime Rates: Linking Methods with Concepts (2019) (7)
Xenophobic and racially motivated crime in Belgium: exploratory spatial data analysis and spatial regressions of structural covariates (2018) (6)
Social Disorganization Theory in Contemporary China: a Review of the Evidence and Directions for Future Research (2020) (6)
Black Out-group Marriages and Hate Crime Rates: A Cross-sectional Analysis of U.S. Metropolitan Areas (2020) (6)
Revisiting the Quality and Use of Race-Specific Homicide Data (2014) (6)
What They Don’t Know Says A Lot: Residents’ Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China (2018) (6)
Institutional Anomie Theory: An Evolving Research Program (2019) (5)
The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research (2012) (5)
The influence of importation and deprivation factors on prison adaptation: Insights from Chinese prisons (2020) (5)
The Glass is at Least Half Full: Reflections on the Internationalization of Criminology (2021) (4)
Neighborhood Context and the Gender Gap in Violent Crime (2010) (4)
Understanding Cross-National Variation (2013) (4)
Point Blank and the evidence: A rejoinder to Gary Kleck (1995) (4)
Marketization and anti-immigrant attitudes in cross-national perspective. (2019) (4)
Blau's Theory of Occupational Differentiation (1980) (4)
Crime and the American Dream: An Institutional Analysis (2020) (3)
Predicting Re-Incarceration Status of Prisoners in Contemporary China: Applying Western Criminological Theories (2016) (3)
The Intellectual Origins of Institutional-Anomie Theory (2017) (3)
The “New Fiscal Criminology”: State-Level Changes in Crime Rates and the Structure of Tax Systems (2020) (3)
Editorial Remarks: Youth at Risk (2011) (3)
Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime: Problems and Prospects.@@@Social Control at the Margins: Toward a General Understanding of Deviance. (1991) (3)
The Lethality of Criminal Assault 1960-1999 (2002) (3)
The Origins, Nature, and Prospects of Institutional-Anomie Theory (2018) (3)
Breaking rules: The social and situational dynamics of young people's urban crime (2016) (3)
Membrane Concentrate Reuse By Controlled Blending (1999) (3)
The impact of accession to the European Union on suicide rates: A cross-national time-series analysis (2016) (3)
Investigating Production Mechanism of Fear of Crime in Urban Chinese Communities-Role of Social Disorder (2008) (3)
Football and homicide: searching for the subculture of violence. (1981) (2)
Comment on "Gaps and Glissandos: Inequality, Economic Development, and Social Mobility in 24 Countries" (1981) (2)
Structural Racism and Criminal Violence: An Analysis of State-Level Variation in Homicide (2021) (2)
Confronting the Challenges of Urbanization in China : Insights from Social Science Perspectives (2016) (2)
The Characteristics of Chinese Women’s Victimization in Sex Offenses (2013) (2)
Future Arctic shipping, black carbon emissions, and climate change (2020) (2)
Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide: An Analysis of Metropolitan Counties, 1980-2010 (2021) (2)
Durkheim and Individualism Revisited: Response to Chandler (1984) (1)
Group Threat, Same-Sex Marriage, and Hate Crime Based on Sexual Orientation (2020) (1)
Review Symposium: Respectable Citizens—Shady Practices: The Economic Morality of the Middle Classes (2021) (1)
Examining Change in Adolescent Street Efficacy and Its Association With Violent Outcomes (2016) (1)
Crime and Criminal Justice in Cities (2019) (1)
Guest Editorial: Methodological Issues in Longitudinal Analyses of Criminal Violence (2015) (1)
“Institutionalizing” Criminological Theory 1 (2017) (1)
Local Media in Global Conflict: Southeast Asian Newspapers and the Politics of Peace in (2014) (1)
Identifying a spatial scale for the analysis of residential burglary: An empirical framework based on point pattern analysis (2022) (1)
Institutional Anomie Theory Across Nation States (2019) (1)
Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder: Reply to Toshkov (2016) (1)
Examining the impact of socio-ecological variables on race-specific homicide rates in New York City (2010) (0)
Economic Cycles, the Welfare State, and Cross-National Homicide Rates, 1971-2002 (2007) (0)
Social Disorganization Theory in Contemporary China: a Review of the Evidence and Directions for Future Research (2019) (0)
Stop, Question, and Assess: Comments on Rosenfeld and Fornango (2014) (0)
DOES THE GENDER GAP IN DELINQUENCY VARY BY LEVEL OF PATRIARCHY A CROSSNATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS<link href="#crim12161-note-0001"/> (2017) (0)
Social Institutions, Theory Development, and the Promise of Comparative Criminological Research (2013) (0)
Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism (2022) (0)
Variation in Robbery Rates Across Districts in Germany: A Spatial Analysis (2011) (0)
The Exemplary Society: Human Improvement, Social Control, and the Dangers of Modernity in China, BÐ“Ñ‘rge (2008) (0)
Assessing Changes in the Effect of Divorce Rates on Violent Crime Rates Across Large U.S. Cities, 1960-2000 (2007) (0)
What They Don’t Know Says A Lot: Residents’ Knowledge of Neighborhood Crime in Contemporary China (2018) (0)
Collective Efficacy and Household Burglary in Contemporary Urban China: Preliminary Findings from the Tianjin Survey (2005) (0)
Policing, Drugs, and Declining Homicide Levels in New York City in the 1990's (2006) (0)
Innovation and Tradition (2017) (0)
Spatial Scale of Clustering of Residential Burglary and Its Dependence on Temporal Scale (2018) (0)
InvestigatingtheEffectofSocialChangeson Age-SpecificGun-RelatedHomicideRatesin NewYorkCityDuringthe1990s (2010) (0)
Secondary Exposure to Community Violence Measure (2014) (0)
Crime Reporting to the Police in Contemporary Urban China: An Assessment of Incident, Individual, and Neighborhood Effects (2006) (0)
Homicide Rates and European Union Enlargement: An Analysis of Ten Eastern European Countries (2013) (0)
Contents of Volume 108 (2002) (0)
Breaking rules: The social and situational dynamics of young people's urban crime (2014) (0)
Chinese Criminal Victimization Survey (2007) (0)
Editorial: Letter from the Editors (2012) (0)
A Macrostructural-Opportunity Perspective1 (1992) (0)
Korean Criminology: Juvenile Delinquency and Self-Control Theory (2017) (0)
When West Meets East: Generalizing Theory and Expanding the Conceptual Toolkit of Criminology (2014) (0)
SELF-CONTROL AND DELINQUENCY IN SOCIO-CULTURAL CONTEXT (2014) (0)
Exploring sources of heterogeneity in immigrant crime: Evidence from Norway (2022) (0)
The Cost of Racial Inequality Revisited: An Excursion in the Sociology of Knowledge (2018) (0)
Marketization and crime in contemporary China: Puzzles for criminological theorizing* (2022) (0)
Book Review: Murder and Penal Policy (1993) (0)
Anomie in Perspective (2009) (0)
Immigrant Threat, Political Articulation by Extreme Right Parties and Support for Capital Punishment: A Multilevel Analysis of European Countries (2022) (0)
Crime and the American Dream in a Nation of Immigrants (2021) (0)
In the spirit of Robert K. Merton (2007) (0)
Unstructured Socializing with Peers in the Absence of Responsible Authority Figures Measure (2014) (0)

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