Begin the main content of this page.
Sociology 'Event History'
3:00pm - 4:00pm, West Dining Room, 2nd Floor, Faculty Club
ABSTRACT Robert Groves was nominated to be Director of the U.S. Census Bureau by President Obama in April 2009 and assumed the position in July 2009 after Senate confirmation. Groves is an eminent survey methodologist. For over three decades he held positions at the University of Michigan, including Director of the Survey Research Center. He has a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan.
Sociology Brownbag Series:
- 01/20/2006: Occupational Specific Capital and the Mobility of Low Wage Workers
(Ted Mouw, University of North Carolina)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 01/27/2006: The Well-being and Social Participation of New Fathers
(Chris Knoester, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 02/10/2006: Taking on the 'Second Shift': Gender and the Time Allocations and Time Pressures of U.S. Parents
(Melissa Milkie, University of Maryland)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 02/24/2006: The End of Gay Identity Politics or the Europeanization of the American Gay
(Steven Seidman, SUNY-Albany)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 04/14/2006: Social Control and Adolescent Desistance from Delinquency: Embracing the Life Course Perspective
(David Maimon and Ben Gibbs, Sociology, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 04/21/2006: An Attempt to Integrate Structure, Diffusion, Ideology, and Rioting.
(Daniel Myers, Notre Dame)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 04/28/2006: Labor Market Opportunity and Race Discrimination in Employment
(Lisette Garcia, Sociology, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 05/05/2006: Discrimination in Low Wage Labor Markets
(Devah Pager, Princeton University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 05/12/2006: Distinction and the Construction of Occupational Boundaries: The Case of Air Traffic Control
(Diana Vaughan, Columbia University)
12:30 - 1:30 P.M., 385 Bricker Hall - 05/26/2006: NO BROWNBAG THIS WEEK!
( It will be rescheduled for a future date.)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 09/29/2006: Rethinking Moderation: The Politics of Participation in the Middle East
(Professor Jillian Schwedler, University of Maryland)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 10/13/2006: The Politics of Union Decline
(Dan Tope, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 10/20/2006: Power and the Processes of Sexual Harassment in Rental Housing
(Griff Tester, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 10/27/2006: Terrorism and the Road to Civil War
(Kristopher Robison, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 11/03/2006: Gender Differences in the Patterns and Consequences of Long-Term Illness: A Cross-National Comparison of Sweden and Poland
(Rachel Lovell, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 11/17/2006: Curious About Carmen?
(Rob Feldmann, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 01/12/2007: Title TBA
(Michael Emerson, Rice University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 01/26/2007: Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt
(Ching Kwan Lee, U of Michigan/Princeton Institute for Advanced Study)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 02/23/2007: Getting The Papers You Want
(Presented by FTAD)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 03/09/2007: Neighborhood Effects and Inter-Organizational Networks: The Case of Childcare Centers
(Mario Small, University of Chicago)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 385 Bricker Hall - 04/20/2007: To Protect and Serve: Two Modes of Regulating Service Labor in the New Economy
(Dr. Jeff Sallaz, University of Arizona)
12:30 - 1:30pm, 385 Bricker Hall - 10/05/2007: Status, Distinction, and Deviance: Considering the Variable Importance of Neighborhood Effects
(Lori Burrington, Sociology Ph.D. Candidate @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 385 Bricker Hall - 10/12/2007: Double Barriers and Strategic Opportunities: Minority Women's Political Representation Cross-Nationally
(Melanie Hughes, Sociology Ph.D. Candidate @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 385 Bricker Hall - 10/26/2007: Intergenerational Transmission of Social Capital and Its Meaning for Offending
(Harald Weiss, Sociology Ph.D. Candidate @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 385 Bricker Hall - 11/09/2007: Why Megachurches?
(Mark Chaves, Professor of Sociology, Religion, and Divinity @ Duke University)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 385 Bricker Hall - 11/17/2007: Why Targets of Collective Violence Matter
(Andrew Martin, Assistant Professor of Sociology @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 385 Bricker Hall - 01/25/2008: Immigration, National Identity, and the Good Society.
(Rhys H. Williams, University of Cincinnati)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 02/15/2008: The Social Ecology of Public Space: Street Activity and Violence in Urban Neighborhoods
(Chris Browning, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 02/22/2008: The Economic Impact of Cohabitation Dissolution Versus Marital Disolution in Fragile Families
(Claire Kamp Dush, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 04/04/2008: Eat, Drink, and be Marry(ied)? Marital Status, Marital Transitions, and Body Mass
(Debra Umberson, University of Texas)
12:30P - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 04/25/2008: The Organization of Denial: Conservative Think Tanks and Environmental Skepticism
(Riley Dunlap, Oklahoma State)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 05/02/2008: On teaching: Title to be announced
(Charles Petranek, Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 05/09/2008: Back with a Vengeance: the Reemergence of a Biological Conceptualization of Race in Research on Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health
(Reanne Frank, Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 05/23/2008: The San Francisco Same-Sex Weddings Protests: the Political Significance of Cultural Tactics
(Verta A. Taylor, UC Santa Barbara)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 05/30/2008: Historical Townshend Hall
(Tim Curry, Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker - 10/17/2008: Disposable Workers: Race, Gender, and Firing Discrimination
(Reggie Byron (Ph.D. Candidate, OSU Sociology))
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker Hall - 11/21/2008: The Sociospatial Context of Cardiovascular Risk: Neighborhood Stressors, Social Cohesion, and Blood Pressure
(Chris Browning, OSU Sociology)
12:30 - 1:30P, 385 Bricker Hall - 12/05/2008: Roundtable Discussion
(Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale University)
2:30 - 3:30P, 243 Journalism - 01/16/2009: Modeling Occupational Careers in a Turbulent Economy: Analyses of the Polish Panel Survey Data, 1988-2008
(Kazimierz M. Slomczynski and Irina Tomescu-Dubrow)
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 01/23/2009: Faeries, Bears, and Leathermen: Bodies in History
(Peter Hennen (OSU Newark Campus))
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 01/30/2009: Historicizing Muslim Exceptionalism: Islamic Modernism versus Fundamentalism
(Mansoor Moaddel (Eastern Michigan University))
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 02/20/2009: Title TBA
(Rory McVeigh (Notre Dame))
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 03/13/2009: Title TBA
(Tasleem Padamsee (Post-Doc at OSU))
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/09/2009: The Impact of Marriage Restriction Amendments on LGBT Community Well-Being
(Professors Ellen Riggle and Sharon Rostosky )
4:00 - 5:00P, 311 Denney - 04/17/2009: The Roots of Gender Inequality: Biological, Social - or Biosocial?
(Joan Huber, Professor Emeritus, OSU Sociology)
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 JournalismABSTRACT Scholars agree that women’s secondary status has been universal for all of human history but there is no consensus as to why. The dispute is most heated between the so-called “narrow” evolutionary psychologists (EPs) and social constructionists (SCs): Are the roots of gender inequality biological or social? Narrow EPs think that all humans form macro-social structures around gender owing to sex differences in bio-behavioral predispositions that represent adaptations to Pleistocene ecology 1.8 million to 10,000 years ago. However, EP hypotheses are untestable, for little is known about human preferences then. SCs reject behavioral universals and see institutions and roles as purely social constructions. Yet, both camps focus only on statistical sex differences and ignore the categorical ones which, in humans, are solely of reproduction: No man can bear or child or (till after the 1880s) feed it the only safe food it could digest. Until science revolutionized infant feeding, women nursed infants every 15 minutes on average for two years then less often for another two, a nearly continuous cycle of pregnancy and lactation that barred them from warfare, politics, and law-making. Only in the twentieth century did they massively enter the public arena and men (carefully), the domestic arena. Human sex differences are much the same, but science has profoundly altered their social consequences. Thus human societies are bio-social.
- 05/08/2009: Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Suburbanization in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970 to 2000
(Jeffrey M. Timberlake, University of Cincinnati)
12:30 - 1:30P, 35 Psychology BuildingABSTRACT This research examines trends from 1970 to 2000 in rates of suburbanization in American metropolitan areas across four large racial and ethnic groups. I investigate the extent to which group variation in suburbanization rates is related to the socioeconomic characteristics of groups and to the relative supply of housing in the suburbs, controlling for suburban shares of employment and affordable housing. I found some association between 2000 levels of suburbanization and group-level acculturation and socioeconomic status; however, these effects were largely attenuated by controls for suburban housing stock. I also found that changes in measures of spatial assimilation did not explain much of the variation in changes in minority suburbanization from 1970 to 2000. Suburban housing supply was strongly associated with 2000 levels of suburbanization; however, these effects were largely attenuated by controlling for the suburban share of employment and affordable housing. Finally, I found large effects of change in suburban housing supply on change in group suburbanization rates. These effects were much weaker for blacks relative to the other groups, and not nearly as attenuated by the suburban control variables as in the analysis of variation in 2000 suburbanization rates. I conclude that minority suburbanization has been driven primarily by a national-level trend toward suburbanization, but that this trend has operated somewhat differently for members of different racial and ethnic groups.
- 05/22/2009: Why Young Women Don’t Pursue Engineering
(Jill Bystydzienski, OSU Women’s Studies)
12:30 - 1:30P, 243 JournalismABSTRACT Professor Bystydzienski will discuss a 3 year NSF-funded research and intervention project she is conducting with colleagues from the University of Colorado-Boulder and Iowa State University. The project involves 130 high school girls with strong academic records in mathematics and science at 7 high schools in 3 states (Colorado, Iowa and Ohio) who took part in an after-school program to explore career possibilities in engineering. The preliminary findings contrast with recent claims in the media that young women know about engineering and choose not to pursue it because they “don’t want to,” and that federal policies to support their participation are no longer necessary and even harmful. The findings indicate that even interested young women are unlikely to pursue engineering in the U.S. because their college and career choices are deeply affected by overlapping educational, social and ideological processes that ignore or discourage engineering, thereby making actual choice moot.
- 10/08/2009: Cohabitation and Remarriage in Later Life: The Role of Financial Resources for Repartnering Among the Elderly
(Jonathan Vespa)
12:30pm - 1:30pm, 243 Journalism Building
IPR Seminar Series:
- 01/03/2006: Title TBA (Chulhee Lee, Economics, SNU, Korea)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 01/10/2006: Does Family Planning Increase Dowries?
(Raj Arunachalam, UC, Berkeley)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 01/17/2006: For Better or for Worse? The Consequences of Marriage and Cohabitation for the Health and Well-Being of Single Mothers
(Kristi Williams, Sociology, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 243 Journalism Building - 01/31/2006: Title TBA
(Kendra McSweeney, Geography, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 02/14/2006: Title TBA
(Kathryn Yount, Sociology, Emory University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 02/28/2006: The Conditional Frailty Model & an Analysis of Child Welfare Data
(Jan Box-Steffensmeir, Political Science, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 03/28/2006: PAA Student Presentations *12:30 - 2:00 p.m.*
(IPR Affiliated Graduate Students)
12:30 - 2:00 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 04/04/2006: Title TBA
(Audrey Light, Economics, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 04/18/2006: Title TBA
(Dana Haynie, Sociology, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 05/02/2006: Title TBA
(William Clark, Geography, UCLA)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 05/16/2006: Title TBA
(Seth Sanders, Economics, University of Maryland)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., Room 251 Journalism Building - 09/26/2006: Social and Behavioral Science Funding from NIH: Perspectives from NICHD
(Dr. Rebecca Clark, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 10/03/2006: Human Subject Review Process
(Karen Hale and Judith Neidig, Office of Responsible Research Practices, Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 10/24/2006: Title TBA
(Julie Zissimopoulos, RAND Economics)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 10/31/2006: Title TBA
(David Murray, Department of Public Health, Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 11/07/2006: Forced Migration of Ethnic Minorities and Transnationalism: Turkish and Kurdish Immigrants
( Ibrahim Sirkeci, European Business School of London, Department of Geography)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 11/14/2006: Title TBA
( David Barker, University of Southhampton, Epidemiology)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 11/21/2006: Title TBA
(Dr. David Weir, Department of Economics, University of Michigan)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 01/09/2007: When Father Doesn't Know Best: Parents’ Management and Control of Money and Children’s Food Insecurity
(Catherine T. Kenney, UIUC)
12:30 - 1:30 p.m., 243 Journalism Building - 03/27/2007: PAA Practice Presentations
(IPR Graduate Students)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 04/10/2007: The Role of Population in Integrated Environmental Modeling and Decision Support
(Dr. Patricia Gober, Department of Geography, Arizona State University)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 04/17/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. Rick Steckel, Department of Economics, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 05/08/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. John Casterline, Department of Sociology, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 05/15/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. Bo Lu, Department of Biostatistics, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 05/29/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. Lung-fei Lee, Department of Economics, OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 pm, 243 Journalism Building - 09/25/2007: Meet and Greet
(Dr. Randy Olsen and Dr. Elizabeth Cooksey)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 10/09/2007: Fare Thee Well: Human Capital and African American Migration Before 1910
(Dr. Trevon Logan, Dept. of Economics @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 10/16/2007: The Impact of Social and Economic Policy on the Family Structure Experiences
(Dr. David Blau, Dept. of Sociology @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 10/30/2007: Neighborhood Context, Time Use, and Children's Health
(Dr. Rachel Dwyer and Dr. Liana Sayer, Dept. of Sociology @ OSU)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 11/06/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. Tasha Synder, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 11/20/2007: Changes in Contraceptive Method Mix 1980-2005 – What Does it Matter for International Health Policy?
(Dr. Eric Seiber, The Ohio State University)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 11/27/2007: Title TBA
(Dr. Eric Fong, Dept. of Geography, University of Toronto)
12:30 - 1:30 PM, 243 Journalism - 01/08/2008: Population Aging, Intergenerational Flows, and the Economy: Introducing Age in National Income Accounts
(Andrew Mason - Economics and Population Studies, University of Hawaii)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 01/29/2008: Title TBA
(Hans-Peter Kohler - Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 02/05/2008: Title TBA
(Margaret Levenstein - Executive Director, Michigan Census Research Data Center)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 02/19/2008: The Growing Female Advantage in U.S. Higher Education: What do we know? What do we need to know?
(Claudia Buchmann, The Ohio State University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 02/26/2008: Title TBA
(John Weeks - Geography, San Diego State University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 03/04/2008: Expectations, Networks and Interventions: Research on HIV/AIDS in Malawi
(Hans-Peter Kohler, Sociology, University of Pennsylvania)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 03/25/2008: Introduction to Implementing Instrumental Variables Estimators
(Patricia B. Reagan, Economics, The Ohio State University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/01/2008: Rethinking Transnationalism: The Cross-Border Dimension
(Roger Waldinger - Sociology, UCLA)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/04/2008: Health Disparities Working Group Meeting - Title TBA
(Debra Umberson, University of Texas)
10:30 - 11:30A, 243 Journalism - 04/08/2008: Divorce as Risky Behavior
(Audrey Light, Economics, The Ohio State University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/15/2008: PAA Practice Session
(IPR Student Affiliates)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/22/2008: Insights from a Sequential Hazard Model of Sexual Initiation and Premarital First Births
(Lawrence Wu - Sociology, New York University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/25/2008: Propensity Score Matching Working Group Meeting: Title TBA
(Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin)
11:30A - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/29/2008: Methods Workshop - Models on Social Interactions with Discrete Choice
(Lung-fei Lee, Economics, The Ohio State University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 04/30/2008: Social Interactions Working Group Group Meeting: Title TBA
(Peter Hovmand, Michigan State University)
11:30A - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 05/06/2008: Methods Workshop - Modeling Independent Choices
(Elizabeth Bruch, Robert Wood Johnson Fellow, U of Michigan)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 05/09/2008: PSM Working Group: Using Propensity Scores and Full Matching to Examine the Relationship between Adolescent Drug Use and Adult Outcomes
(Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
11:00A - 1:00P, 243 Journalism - 05/13/2008: Title TBA
(Susan Greenhalgh - Anthropology, University of California at Irvine)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 05/20/2008: Fundamental Cause Theory and the Social Shaping of Population Health
(Bruce G. Link - Epidemiology and Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University)
12:00 - 1:30P, 243 Journalism - 11/23/2009:
(Dr. Robert M. Groves, Director, US Census)
1:30 - 2:30, Faculty Club Grand BallroomABSTRACT An Overview of the 2010 Decennial Census
Criminal Justice Research Center (CJRC):
- 01/27/2006: Juvenile Delinquents Grown Up: A 50-year Follow-up Study of 500 Adolescent Offenders. (John Laub, Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice,University of Maryland)
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., 243 Journalism Building - 02/10/2006: Welfare Reform and Intimate Partner Violence
(Samuel Myers, University of Minnesota)
12:00 - 1:30 p.m., Page Hall, Room 130 - 02/24/2006: Survival on death row (Specific title to be announced)
(David Jacobs and Zhenchao Qian, The Ohio State University)
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., 243 Journalism Building - 09/29/2006: We Never Call the Cops and Here is Why: A Qualitative Examination of Legal Cynicism in Three Philadelphia Neighborhoods
(Patrick Carr, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University)
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Journalism 243 - 10/27/2006: On Perceptions of Justice, specific title tba
(Richard Brooks, Associate Professor of Law, Yale University)
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Journalism 243 - 11/17/2006: Featured Speaker Excellence in Justice Symposium on Gender Responsive Strategies for Female Offenders
(Barbara Bloom, Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Sonoma State University)
9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m., Location TBA - 01/12/2007: Title TBA
(Steven F. Messner, SUNY-Albany)
9:00 - 10:30 a.m., 243 Journalism Building - 09/21/2007: Reading, ‘Riting,’ and Rules: How Contemporary School Discipline Shapes the School Social Climate
(Aaron Kupchick, University of Delaware)
9:00 - 10:30 am, 243 Journalism - 10/26/2007: Excellence in Justice Keynote Speaker
(Alan Murray, Professor of Geography @ OSU)
9:00 - 10:30 am, 130 Page Hall - 11/30/2007: Violent Youths’ Responses to High Levels of Exposure to Community Violence: What Violent Events Reveal about Youth Violence
(Deanna Wilkinson (Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science @ OSU)
9:00 - 10:30 am, 243 Journalism - 04/02/2008: CJRC Reckless Lecture: Legitimacy and Criminal Justice: The Benefits of Self-Regulation
(Tom Tyler, )
6:30pm - 9:00pm, Barrister ClubABSTRACT See http://cjrc.osu.edu/reckless2009.html for details.
- 04/07/2008: Walter C. Reckless and Simon Dinitz Memorial Lecture: In Defense of Victim Impact Statements
(Paul Cassell, University of Utah)
6:30P - 8:00P, The Barrister Club, OSU - 04/25/2008: Inter- and Intra-group Interactions: Everyday Violent Crime–An Expression of Group Conflict or Social Disorganization?
(John Hipp, University of California-Irvine)
9:00 - 10:30A, 243 Journalism - 05/09/2008: The Intergenerational Transmission of Social Capital and Its Meaning for Delinquency
(Harry Weiss, Ohio State University)
9:00 - 10:30A, 243 Journalism - 06/06/2008: Institute for Excellence in Justice Symposium: Family and Corrections: The Role of Family during Incarceration and Reentry
(Creasie Finney Hairston, University of Illinois at Chicago)
9:00 - 10:30A, TBA - 09/26/2008: Does Spatial Location Explain the Connection Between Race-Ethnic Composition and Neighborhood Violence?
(Ruth Peterson & Laurie Krivo (Sociology/CJRC, The Ohio State University))
9:00A - 10:30A, 243 Journalism - 10/24/2008: Institute for Excellence in Justice Symposium on 'Entries and Exits: Contrasting Pathways to Community Reentry'
(Featured Speaker: Chris Uggen (Sociology, University of Minnesota))
9:00A - 10:30A, 100A Hale Center - 12/04/2008: From Affirmative Action to Diversity: The New Black Middle Class
(Dr. Elijah Anderson, Yale University)
3:30 - 5:00P, 140 Pfahl Hall - 12/05/2008: Violence and the Inner City
(Elijah Anderson (Sociology, Yale University))
9:00A - 10:30A, Frank W. Hale Black Cultural Center, Room 100A, OSU - 01/15/2009: Human Trafficking -- in Ohio? An Evidence-Based Analysis
(Jeremy Wilson, Michigan State University)
9:00am - 10:20am, 217 Journalism, OSU - 10/30/2009: Re-conceptualizing Victim Recantation in Domestic Violence Cases
(Amy Bonomi, The Ohio State University)
9:00am - !0:20am, 217 Journalism, OSUABSTRACT Prosecutors struggle with high levels of victim recantation in domestic violence cases. For years prosecutors and advocates believed that victims recanted because perpetrators overtly threatened and coerced them. However, this perspective offers an incomplete picture because it neglects other complex interpersonal dynamics influencing the victim's decision-making process. We use concepts from family systems and attachment theories to re-conceptualize recantation a complicated bi-directional, interpersonal process grounded in the intimacy needs of both partners. Specifically, recantation serves to alleviate both the victim and perpetrator's fears of being without each other, and also ensures that the victim and perpetrator will have future opportunities for working out their intimacy needs - even if working out these needs involves violence to do so. Significantly, this approach to recantation need not oppose the dominant approach, which prioritizes the coercive influence of the perpetrator but may, in fact, help to further explain that influence by situating it within a more comprehensive and complex interpersonal dynamic. Transcripts of telephone conversations of couples taped over the length of the perpetrator's jail stay at the King County Detention Facility in Seattle, Washington will be used to illustrate this re-conceptualization of recantation. Presenter's Academic Biography: Amy Bonomi (Ph.D. and M.P.H. University of Washington, 2004) is Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science. Her current research focuses on the long-term health impacts of domestic violence, teen dating violence, and child abuse; processes associated with victim recantation in court-involved domestic violence cases; and legal and health interventions to reduce the occurrence of domestic violence. She is an associate faculty member in Ohio State University's Sexuality Studies Program and the Women's Studies Department.
- 12/04/2009: The Social Organization of Racially Motivated Crime in Chicago Communities
(Christopher Lyons, University of New Mexico)
9:00am - 10:20am, Room 217 Journalism BuildingABSTRACT Interest in “hate” crime continues to grow; yet we still know little about the etiology of racially motivated crime. This project joins a long tradition of Chicago-style research by focusing on the role of social organization in explaining variation in hate crimes against blacks and whites across Chicago communities. Drawing on six years of police reports, 1990 and 2000 census data, and survey data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), I examine the relationship between racially motivated crimes against blacks and whites and community-level economic conditions, racial demographics, conventional crime rates, and social capital. I evaluate alternative hypotheses about the social organization of racial hate crime derived from social disorganization, resource competition, macrostructural opportunity, and defended communities perspectives. Multivariate negative binomial analyses controlling for spatial autocorrelation suggest different patterns for antiblack and antiwhite hate crimes. Consistent with an extended defended communities perspective, antiblack hate crimes, in contrast to general forms of crime, are more likely in relatively organized, racially homogenous (white) communities with high levels of informal social control. Conversely, antiwhite incidents appear more numerous in racially heterogeneous and traditionally disorganized communities, especially those characterized by residential instability and high robbery rates. I offer some speculation for the different patterns by victim race, and discuss the implications of the results for criminological theory and research. Coffee, bagels and refreshments are being served
