Research Interests

• Juvenile Delinquency
• Juvenile Justice
• Race and Gender
• Evaluation Research
• Criminology
• Deviance
• Criminological Theory
• Reform Law

Selected Publications

• "Get-Tough Juvenile Justice Reforms: Deep End Juvenile Justice or Transfer to Adult Court?"
  (with Donna M. Bishop and Lonn Lanza-Kaduce) THE ANNALS. Vol. 564 (July, 1999): 167-184.
• "Juveniles in Criminal Court: Past and Current Research from Florida" (with Donna M. Bishop,
  Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, and Amir Marvasti) Ouinnipiac Law Journal, Vol. 18. No. 3., 1999: 573-596.
• "Consequences of Waiver" (with Donna M. Bishop) Chapter 7, pp. 227-276 in The Changing
  Borders of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal Court. Edited by Jeffery Fagan
  and Franklin R. Zimring. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
• "Juvenile Transfers to Criminal Court in Florida: The 1994 Reforms" (with Donna M. Bishop,
  Lonn Lanza-Kaduce, Jodi Lane and Henry George White) U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP
  Fact Sheet #22. June, 2001.
• "Adult Versus Juvenile Sanctions: Voices of Incarcerated Youths" (with Jodi Lane, Lonn
  Lanza-Kaduce, and Donna M. Bishop) Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 48, No. 3 (October), 2002:
  431-455

Courses Taught

Criminology
Deviance
Individual and Society
Introductory Sociology
Juvenile Delinquency
Seminar on Research Problems in Deviance
Social Problems
Sociological Theory
Criminological Theory
Seminar in the Sociology of Deviance
Juvenile Justice

Other Information

• Member, Alpha Kappa Delta
• Member, American Society of Criminology
• Member, Pi Gamma Mu
• Member, Southern Sociological Society

Degrees

• B.A., Sociology, Muskingum College, 1965.
• M.A., Sociology, Kent State University, 1967.
• Ph.D., Sociology, Southern Illinois University, 1973.