Jesse Wozniak

  • bio

    Graduate Student
    Contexts Graduate Student Board Member

    Theoretical Max: 234

    Office: 978 Social Sciences
    267 - 19th Ave South
    Minneapolis, MN 55455

    Phone: (612) 624-7326

    Email: jessewozniak@umn.edu

    Education
    B.A. Univeristy of Northern Iowa--Sociology
    Summa Cum Laude, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Honors Program
    Univeristy of Minnesota--Ph.D. candidate
    Program entered Fall 2005

    Interest Areas
    Critical Criminology, Political Sociology, Policing, Systems of Control, Social Movements, Marxist Theory

    Current Research

    An analysis of the (failed) attempt of a police weapons corporation to create a moral panic surrounding the quasi-medical concept Excited Delirium and its role in in-custody deaths. This project combines a content-analysis of all newspaper articles published surrounding Excited Delirium in the past 2 years as well as in-depth interviews with media, medical, and criminal justice populations to investigate how this attempted panic has thus far failed to materialize.

    Police weaponry and masculinity formation--an examination of how non-lethal weaponry is framed as a masculine alternative to standard firearms in order to successfully incorporate the hegemonic masculinity of the police culture into a for-profit marketing scheme. The paper produced from this project, currently titled "Real Men use Non-Lethals: Masculinity and the Framing of Police Weaponry" (draft available) was presented at the weekly department workshop series and will be out for review shortly.

    A summer Graduate Research Partnership Program (GRPP) award with Chris Uggen, extending Stark's (1968) theory of Police Riots to see how they develop or fail to develop in major protest situations, with an eye toward how this effects the democratic rights of those involved.

    The War on Drugs, focusing on how it is used as a mask for control of the underclass and division of working and underclass, and as a means for expanding the police force and other systems of repression

    Recent Publications
    Wozniak, Jesse and Chris Uggen. 2007. Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals To Masculinity In Marketing Police Weaponry. Feminist Criminology, forthcoming.

    Wozniak, Jesse. 2005. Winning the Battle of Seattle: State Response to Perceived Crisis. Illness, Crisis, & Loss 13(2): 129-145

    Other links
    My decidedly non-sociological blog

     October 11th, 2005

Department of Sociology - University of Minnesota
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