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Townshend Hall

The Department of Sociology Address:

238 Townshend Hall
1885 Neil Avenue Mall
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: (614) 292.6681
Fax: (614) 292.6687

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David Jacobs

Professor

Office: 105 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.6685
Email: Jacobs.184@sociology.osu.edu

Web: View my web page

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: Vanderbilt, 1975


Research Interests:

Research interests include criminal justice outcomes such as the use of the death penalty and imprisonments, along with research in political sociology and economic inequality. Current projects include a study of who survives on death row, the determinants of state laws that help prosecutors obtain severe punishments for rape, the politics of union strength, and individual and political influences on differences in economic returns to education.


Recent Publications:

  • Jacobs, David and Amber Richardson. 2008. "Economic Inequality and Homicide from 1975 to 1995: A Cross-National Fixed-Effects Test." Homicide Studies, February 12: 28-45.
  • Jacobs, David, Zhenchao Qian, Jason Carmichael, and Stephanie Kent. 2007. "Who Survives on Death Row? An Individual and Contextual Analysis." American Sociological Review, August 72: 610-632.
  • Jacobs, David and Stephanie L. Kent. 2007. “The Determinants of Executions since 1951: How Politics, Protests, Public Opinion, and Social Divisions Shape Capital Punishment.” Social Problems, August 54: 297-318.
  • Jacobs, David and Daniel Tope. 2007. "The Politics of Resentment in the Post Civil-Rights Era: Minority Threat, Homicide, and Ideological Voting in Congress." American Journal of Sociology, March 112:1458-1494.
  • Jacobs, David and Benjamin Cornwell 2006 "Labor Markets and Organizations: A Screening Theory of Hiring Networks and Racially Homogeneous Employment." Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, Winter 25:39-55.
  • Jacobs, David and Marc Dixon. 2006. “The Politics of Labor-Management Relations: Detecting the Conditions that Affect Changes in Right-to-Work Laws.” Social Problems, Winter 53:118-139.