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Sarah Shannon

Sarah K Shannon

612/624-7602
Sociology 1156 Social Science Building 267 - 19th Ave South
Curriculum Vitae

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • crime, punishment, and welfare
  • effects of crime control on communities and families
  • law/crime/deviance
  • criminological theory
  • reentry and the life course
  • spatial analysis
  • social policy
  • social work

Educational Background

  • MSW: University of Minnesota.
  • B.A.: Sociology, University of Iowa.

Publications

  • Uggen, Christopher, Sarah Shannon, and Jeff Manza. 2012. "State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010." Washington, DC: The Sentencing Project.
  • Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Christopher Uggen. 2011. "Imprisonment as a Political Institution in the United States." The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
  • Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts 10:44-50.
  • Shannon, Sarah S.K. (2010). "Dereliction of Duty: Training Schools for Delinquent Parents in the 1940s." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, 37:11-27.
  • Abrams, L.S., Shannon, S.K.S. & Sangalang, C. (2008). "Transition Services for Incarcerated Youth: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study." Child and Youth Services Review, 30: 522-535.
  • Shannon, S.K.S. & Abrams, L. (2007). "Juvenile Offenders as Fathers: Perceptions of Fatherhood, Crime and Becoming an Adult." Families in Society, 88:183-191.

Awards

  • Interdisciplinary Doctoral Fellowship, Minnesota Population Center & The Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2012 - 2013

Courses Taught

  • SOC 4102: Criminology
  • SOC 4108: Current Issues in Crime Control
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