• PROSECUTION AND SENTENCING OF WHITE COLLAR CRIME IN FEDERAL COURT: UNDERSTANDING PATHS AND PROCESSES 

  Galvin, Miranda A (2018)

  The question of whether ‘white collar’ crimes are treated more leniently by society dates to the first use of the phrase by Edwin Sutherland in 1939. One of the most important ways in which this leniency may manifest is ...

• DECONSTRUCTING THE MONOLITHIC EFFECT OF EMPLOYMENT ON CRIME: THE ROLE OF HETEROGENEITY IN JOB QUALITY 

  Jaynes, Chae (2018)

  Theorists and policy makers alike have relied on the overly parsimonious assumption that any employment should deter crime at the individual-level. Drawing on rational choice and dual labor market theories, the present ...

• MINDING THE GAP: AN EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF EVIDENCE-BASED SENTENCING ON SOCIAL INEQUALITY 

  Richardson, Rebecca (2018)

  Social inequality has been a popular topic of inquiry in the criminal sentencing literature for decades, but the effects of innovations like evidence-based sentencing on inequality have not been investigated. Evidence-based ...

• UNDERSTANDING CODE OF THE STREET ATTITUDE UPDATING: IMPLICATIONS FOR POLICE PERCEPTIONS, RACE, AND GEOGRAPHIC CONTEXT 

  Safer-Lichtenstein, Aaron (2018)

  Elijah Anderson’s 1999 Code of the Street thesis posited that individuals might develop and espouse subcultural attitudes supporting violence and aggression in response to feelings of marginalization and isolation. Despite ...

• Framing Imprisonment as a Turning Point in the Lives of Criminally-Involved Adults 

  Frisch, Nicole (2018)

  Turning points, or life events that trigger dramatic and sustained changes in behavior, are a central focus of life course criminology. Most empirical work in this domain focuses on positive turning points that decrease ...

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