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Valerie Jenness

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Valerie Jenness's Degrees

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

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According to Wikipedia, Valerie Jenness is an author, researcher, public policy advisor, and professor in the Department of Criminology, Law and Society and in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine . Jenness is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and prior to that, was a senior visiting scholar at the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Michigan. Jenness served as dean of the School of Social Ecology from 2009 to 2015 and chair of the Department of Criminology, Law and Society from 2001-2006. Jenness is credited with conducting the first systemic study of transgender women in men's prisons.

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THE HOMOGENIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF HATE CRIME LAW IN THE UNITED STATES, 1978 TO 1995: INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION IN THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BIGOTRY * (1998) (182)
From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem (1990) (165)
Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence (1997) (133)
Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence Against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem (1995) (122)
Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective (1993) (119)
Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement (2001) (115)
The Law-In-Between: The Effects of Organizational Perviousness on the Policing of Hate Crime (2005) (99)
The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime (2005) (91)
Explaining Criminalization: From Demography and Status Politics to Globalization and Modernization (2004) (78)
Agnes Goes to Prison (2014) (70)
Where the Margins Meet: A Demographic Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men’s Prisons (2010) (69)
Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy (2005) (64)
Examining the Boundaries of Hate Crime Law: Disabilities and the "Dilemma of Difference" (2001) (64)
Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice (2008) (62)
The Criminalization of Hate: A Comparison of Structural and Polity Influences on the Passage of “Bias-Crime” Legislation in the United States (1996) (61)
Violence in california correctional Facilities : an empirical examination of sexual assault (2007) (56)
The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States (2001) (53)
Managing Differences and Making Legislation: Social Movements and the Racialization, Sexualization, and Gendering of Federal Hate Crime Law in the U.S., 1985-1998 (1999) (52)
From Policy to Prisoners to People: A “Soft Mixed Methods” Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners (2010) (50)
ANTIVIOLENCE ACTIVISM AND THE (IN)VISIBILITY OF GENDER IN THE GAY/LESBIAN AND WOMEN'S MOVEMENTS (1994) (41)
Inside the Pyramid of Disputes: Naming Problems and Filing Grievances in California Prisons (2012) (40)
COMING OUT: Lesbian identities and the categorization problem (2002) (37)
Accomplishing the Difficult but Not Impossible (2010) (36)
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context (2019) (31)
Appealing to Justice (2014) (29)
Challenges and opportunities for gender-affirming healthcare for transgender women in prison. (2017) (29)
Gender Integration in Sex-Segregated U.S. Prisons: The Paradox of Transgender Correctional Policy (2014) (28)
The Hate Crime Canon and Beyond: A Critical Assessment (2001) (28)
Forty Years after Brownmiller (2016) (27)
To Charge or not to Charge?-That is the question: The pursuit of Strategic Advantage in Prosecutional Decision-Making Surrounding Hate Crime (2005) (25)
“It Depends on the Outcome”: Prisoners, Grievances, and Perceptions of Justice (2018) (24)
“We’re like community”: Collective identity and collective efficacy among transgender women in prisons for men (2016) (19)
The Emergence, Content, and Institutionalization of Hate Crime Law: How a Diverse Policy Community Produced a Modern Legal Fact (2007) (19)
Engendering Hate Crime Policy: Gender, the "Dilemma of Difference," and the Creation of Legal Subjects (2003) (18)
The Passage and Implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Legal Endogeneity and the Uncertain Road from Symbolic Law to Instrumental Effects (2011) (18)
Pluto, Prisons, and Plaintiffs: Notes on Systematic Back-Translation From an Embedded Researcher (2008) (14)
The Feminization of Transgender Women in Prisons for Men: How Prison as a Total Institution Shapes Gender (2020) (10)
Editors' Note: Taking a Look at Surveillance Studies (2007) (10)
Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement Concept to Law Enforcement Practice (2002) (9)
Pesticides, Prisoners, and Policy (2014) (9)
The social ecology of sexual victimization against transgender women who are incarcerated: A call for (more) research on modalities of housing and prison violence (2021) (7)
Violence Against Sexual and Gender Minorities (2014) (6)
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America.By Philip Jenkins. Yale University Press, 1998. 302 pp. Cloth, $30.00 (2001) (6)
Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination (2017) (5)
The Dilemma of Difference: Gender and Hate Crime Policy (2004) (4)
Prisoner Grievances, Rights, and the Culture of Control (2017) (4)
Passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act: Discursive Politics and the Reconstitution of Prison Rape in a Culture of Control (2007) (3)
Routing the Opposition (2017) (3)
An Empirical Examination of Sexual Assault (2007) (3)
RACE, GRIEVANCE SYSTEMS, AND PRISONERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF JUSTICE IN THREE CALIFORNIA PRISONS (2018) (3)
LGBT People in Prison: Management Strategies, Human Rights Violations, and Political Mobilization (2020) (2)
State and Development (2007) (2)
Making Welfare Work : Reconstructing Welfare for the Millennium (2018) (2)
The centrality of relationships in context: a comparison of factors that predict the sexual and non-sexual victimization of transgender women in prisons for men (2021) (2)
The Passage of the Prison Rape Elimination Act: An Analysis of the Reconfiguration of Sexual Citizenship for Prisoners (2006) (2)
Making Sense of Hatred (1999) (2)
Editors' Note: Thinking About “Natural” Disasters in Sociological Terms (2006) (2)
Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners From Policy to Prisoners to People: A ''Soft Mixed Methods'' (2010) (2)
Transgender Lives and Lifestyles (2011) (2)
Review Essay: Thinking about the past and envisioning the future: A Review Essay of Candace Kruttschnitt and Rosemary Gartner, Marking Time in the Golden State: Women’s Imprisonment in California (2011) (1)
Prostitution: An International Handbook on Trends, Problems, and Policies.Edited by Nanette J. Davis. Greenwood Press, 1993. 403 pp. $79.50 (1996) (1)
Advances in Sociological Thinking about Interaction: Ritual Chains, Institutional Talk, Cognition, Humor, and Laughter (2007) (1)
Anti-Gay and Lesbian Violence and its Discontents (2002) (1)
Lesbian Generations, Communities, and Lives: Continuities and Changes in Identities, Sexualities, and Narratives (1998) (1)
Editors' Note: Public Sociology: Looking Back and Forward (2008) (1)
The (pink) elephant in the room (2014) (1)
Gender and Sexuality as Methodological Confounds in the Study of Transgender Prisoners (2015) (1)
Gangs on the Inside: The Contours of Gang Membership and Violence in Prison (2009) (1)
Criminalization and Decriminalization (2003) (1)
Hate Crimes in the United States: The Transformation of Injured Persons into Victims and the Extension of Victim Status to Multiple Constituencies (2017) (1)
"The Great Divide or It's All the Same": Sexual Assault Among Male and Transgender Inmates (2009) (0)
Book Reviews (1999) (0)
Editors' Note: Lessons of Welfare Reform? (2008) (0)
Policing Hatred: Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, and Hate Crime. By Jeannine Bell. New York: New York University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+227. $38.00. (2003) (0)
Gendered Hate: Exploring Gender in Hate Crime Law (2012) (0)
Editors' Note: Religion and Society (2007) (0)
Editor's Note: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: A Challenge for Scholarship (2006) (0)
Engendering Hate Crime Law (2013) (0)
Is Labor on the Move Again? (2008) (0)
Sexual Deviance (0)
Naming, Blaming, and Claiming in an Uncommon Place of Law (2014) (0)
Editors' Note: Theory, History, Aplication, and Politics (2007) (0)
Editors' Note: Morality Battles: Looking Back to Look Forward (2006) (0)
Violence and Disrespect in California Prisons: What It’s All "About" (2010) (0)
Contemporary Antiviolence Against Women Campaigns (2018) (0)
Crimes of Dissent: Civil Obedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience (2010) (0)
Hate Crimes (2018) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Moral Panic: Changing Concepts of the Child Molester in Modern America (review) (2001) (0)
Thanks to the Referees (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (1994) (0)
Grievance Narratives as Frames of Meaning, Profiles of Power (2014) (0)
Feminism, Sexual Harassment, and the Atypical Case 1 (2018) (0)
Hate Crime as a Social Problem: Theoretical Implications (2018) (0)
Understanding the context for police avoidance: the impact of sexual identity, police legitimacy and legal cynicism on willingness to report hate crime (2023) (0)
Editors' Note: Pioneer Public Sociologist C. Wright Mills, 50 Years Later (2006) (0)
Editors' note (2006) (0)
Engendering Hate Crime Law (2012) (0)
Administrative Consistency, Downstream Consequences, and “Knuckleheads” (2014) (0)
“Narcissists,” “Liars,” Process, and Paper (2014) (0)
“Needles,” “Haystacks,” and “Dead Watchdogs” (2014) (0)
Book Reviews (1997) (0)
From Telegraph to Hypermedia Campaigns (2008) (0)
The Legitimacy of Law and the Majesty of the Mundane in Three California Prisons (2011) (0)
Discovering and Expanding the Domain (2018) (0)
Mobilization: Editor's note (2006) (0)
Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
Innovation and Diffusion of the Violence Against Women Act (2018) (0)
Editors' Note: The Politics of Immigration (2008) (0)
The Adams Center Presents: Valerie Jenness, Ph.D. (2012) (0)
Violence Among Inmates in California Prisons (2007) (0)
Editors' Note: U.S. Electoral Politics (2008) (0)
Editors' Note (2006) (0)
New Discourse on Violence and the Production of Hate Crime (2018) (0)
Framing the Problem (2018) (0)
Explaining Criminalization: From (2004) (0)
New from the American Sociological Association and The New Yorker's Cartoon Bank . . . . The Sociologist's Book of Cartoons (2008) (0)
Editors' Note: Taking a Look at Surveillance Studies (2007) (0)
Correlates of Drinking Under the Influence of Alcohol in Adolescence : A Secondary Data Analysis of 1992 National Health Behavior Survey (0)
Hate Crime Policing in California (2004) (0)
Book Review Too Queer: Essays From a Radical Life. By Victoria Brownworth. Firebrand Books, 1996, 261 pp. (1997) (0)
Title " It Depends on the Outcome " : Prisoners , Grievances , and Perceptions of Justice Permalink (2018) (0)
Editors' Note: Understanding Political Islam in a Post-9/11 World (2007) (0)
Selected Reading: Where the Margins Meet : A Demographic Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men’s Prisons (2017) (0)

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