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

Associate Professor

Office: 124 Townshend
Phone: 614.292.5831
Email: bellair.1@sociology.osu.edu

CV: View my Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Ph.D.: State University of New York-Albany, 1995


Research Interests:

Crime in community context, race/ethnic differences in violence, life course criminology, hierarchical models. Current research examines the relationship between labor market conditions and parolee recidivism, measurement of and relationship between community organization and crime, and neighborhood effects on drug use and criminal behavior in the months preceding incarceration.


Recent Publications:

  • McNulty, Thomas L., and Paul E. Bellair. Forthcoming, 2003. "Structural Disadvantage, Social Capital, and Family Well-Being in the Explanation of Racial/Ethnic Differences in Adolescent Fighting" Justice Quarterly.
  • Bellair, Paul E., Vincent J. Roscigno, and Thomas L. McNulty. Forthcoming, 2003. ALinking Local Opportunity to Adolescent Attachment and Delinquency.@ Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
  • Bellair, Paul E., Vincent J. Roscigno, and Maria B. Vélez. 2002. AOccupational Structure, Social Learning, and Adolescent Violence.@ pp. 197-225 in Akers, Ron, and Gary Jensen’s (eds) Social Learning Theory: A Guide for the Twenty First Century (Volume 11 in the series Advances in Criminological Theory).
  • Markowitz, Fred, Paul E. Bellair, Allen E. Liska, Jianhong Liu. 2001. "Extending Social Disorganization Theory: Modeling the Relationship Between Cohesion, Disorder, and Fear.@ Criminology 39:293-320.
  • Bellair, Paul E. 2000. "Informal Surveillance and Street Crime: A Complex Relationship.@ Criminology 38:137-170.
  • Bellair, Paul E., and Vincent J. Roscigno. 2000. ALocal Labor Market Opportunity and Adolescent Delinquency.@ Social Forces 78:1509-1538.