books
Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2006. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press.
Paperback edition (2008)
Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2006)
Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award (2006)journals
Co-editor. 2007-2010. American Sociological Association's Contexts. (with Doug Hartmann).
Guest editor. 2008. Criminology and Public Policy.The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.
Guest editor. 2005. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Special issue: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions, Volume 21, No. 1.
Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Forthcoming in American Journal of Sociology.
Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Incarceration and Stratification.” Forthcoming in Annual Review of Sociology.
Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment.” Law & Society Review 43:631-68.
Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-65.
Jesse Wozniak and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry." Forthcoming in Feminist Criminology 4:274-93. [pdf] [copyright]
Christopher Uggen and Chika Shinohara. 2009. “Sexual Harassment Comes of Age: A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan."The Sociological Quarterly. 50:201-34. [pdf] [copyright]
Heather Hlavka and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences” Northern Kentucky Law Review 35:347-69. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Editorial Introduction: The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.” Criminology and Public Policy 7:367-370. [pdf] [copyright]
- Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2008. “Social Class and Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:85-98. [invited]. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Who We Punish: The Carceral State.”Social Research 74: 467-469 [pdf] [copyright] and “Dirty Bombs and Garbage Cases.” Social Research 74: 707-711. [invited, non-refereed] [pdf] [copyright]
- Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson, 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605:281-310. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen, Angela Behrens, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal Disenfranchisement.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:307-322. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Voting and Subsequent Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 36:193-215. [pdf] [copyright]
- Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics 2:491-505. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Amy Blackstone. 2004. "Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power." American Sociological Review 69:64-92. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Public Attitudes Toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 68:276-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2004. "The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Employment Discrimination Claims." Sociological Inquiry 74:128-57. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:47-55. [pdf] [copyright]
- Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the ‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-605. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2006 in Crime and Criminal Justice: International Library of Essays in Law & Society, edited by William T. Lyons, Jr. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
- Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2003. "The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings." American Journal of Sociology 109:146-85. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Jeremy Staff and Christopher Uggen. 2003. "The Fruits of Good Work: Job Quality and Adolescent Deviance." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-90. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2002. "Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States." American Sociological Review 67:777-803.[abstract] [pdf] [ASA] [NYT] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2006 in Crime, Inequality, and the State, edited by Mary E. Vogel (New York: Routledge). Excerpted 2004, pp. 264-65 in Sociology (“Prisoners and Presidents”) by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press; Excerpted 2003 in American Sociological Association’s Footnotes (“Sociology News for the Dinner Table”) 31:8; Excerpted 2003 in Contexts (“Discoveries”) 2:6.
- Christopher Uggen and Jeremy Staff. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2004, Pp. 141-66 in Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections, edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher. Rowman and Littlefield.
- Barbara McMorris and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Alcohol and Employment in the Transition to Adulthood." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41:276-94. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism." American Sociological Review 65:529-46. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom Publishing.
- Awarded International Society for Criminology Junior Scholar Article Prize.
- Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Class, Gender, and Arrest: An Intergenerational Analysis of Workplace Power and Control." Criminology 38:101-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Jessica Huiras, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorris. 2000. "Career Jobs, Survival Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace Misconduct." The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly Shelton. 2000. "Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls." Justice Quarterly 17:61-87. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Elizabeth Chambliss and Christopher Uggen. 2000. "Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter's Legacy." Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Lauren Edelman, Christopher Uggen, and Howard Erlanger. 1999. "The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth." American Journal of Sociology 105:406-54. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Jennifer Janikula. 1999. "Volunteerism and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood." Social Forces 78:331-62. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen. 1999. "Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime." Social Problems 46:127-51. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. 1998. "Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance." Law and Society Review 32:401-28. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2000 in The Termination of Criminal Careers, edited by Stephen Farrall. 2000. International Library of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
- Christopher Uggen and Irving Piliavin. 1998. "Asymmetrical Causation and Criminal Desistance." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 88:1399-1422. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Reprinted 2002, 2004, 2006 in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice.
- Excerpted in National Institute of Justice NIJ Journal 237:20 (October).
- Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and Consensus in Criminological Theory." Law and Social Inquiry 18:481-500. [pdf] [copyright] [An article-length review essay]
- Christopher Uggen. 1993. "Beyond Calvin and Hobbes: Rationality and Exchange in a Theory of Moralizing Shaming." Law and Social Inquiry 18:513-16. [pdf] [copyright] [A rejoinder to John Braithwaite's "Pride in Criminological Dissensus"]
book chapters and encyclopedia entries
- Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and D. Wayne Osgood. “From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Conditionally accepted for forthcoming volume, edited by Teresa Swartz, Doug Hartmann, and Ruben Rumbaut.
- Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. "The Price and the Promise of Citizenship: Extending the Vote to Nonincarcerated Felons." Pages 61-68 in Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals From the American Society of Criminology Conference, edited by Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear. Belmont, CA: Cengage/Wadsworth.
- Shelly Schaefer and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance.” Forthcoming in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by Andy Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
- Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van Brakle, and Heather McLaughlin. 2009. “Punishment and Social Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner Disenfranchisement.” Pages 59-78 in Criminal Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, edited by Alec Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Heather Hlavka. 2008. “No More Lame Pro-sems: Professional Development Seminars in Sociology.” Pages 191-216 in Academic Street Smarts: Informal Professionalization of Graduate Students, edited by Ira Silver and David Shulman. New York: American Sociological Association. [pdf] [copyright]
- Darren Wheelock and Christopher Uggen. 2008. "Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality." Pp. 261-292 in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by David Harris and Ann Chih Lin. New York: Russell Sage.
- Uggen, Christopher. 2008. “Thinking Experimentally.” Pages 181-189 in Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution. Christine J. Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield.
- Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen, and Kristin A. Bates. 2007. "'Revolutions May Go Backwards': The Persistence of Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States." Pages 37-53 in Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, edited by Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
- Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2007. “What Have We Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Employment and Crime?” Pages 189-218 in The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.
- Angela Behrens, Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement." Pages 582-585 in Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.
- Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield. 2005. “Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: Challenges to Adulthood.” Pages 114-144 in On Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen R. Ruth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen, Sara Wakefield, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Public Safety in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disfranchised Felons.” Pages 165-204 in Imprisoning America: The Social Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited by Mary Pattillo, David Weiman, and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. [pdf] [copyright]
- Jeremy Staff, Jeylan Mortimer, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Work and Leisure in Adolescence.” Pages 429-450 in The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, edited by Richard Lerner and Laurence Steinberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
- Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela Behrens. 2004. “Less than the Average Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 258-290 in After Crime and Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration, edited by Shadd Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. Cullompton, Devon, UK: Willan Publishing. [abstract] [pdf] [copyright]
- Christopher Uggen and Michael Massoglia. 2003. “Desistance from Crime as a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Pages 311-29 in Handbook of the Life Course, edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan. New York: Plenum Publishing. [abstract]
- Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. [abstract]
- Christopher Uggen. 2001. “Crime and Class.” Volume 5, pages 2906-10 in International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes. New York: Elsevier. [abstract]
- Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 2001. “Prevention: Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: MacMillan. [abstract]
reviews, commentary, and short pieces
Doug Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. 2008-. "From the Editors," an introductory column in each quarterly issue of Contexts.
Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Who are the Outlaws? A Freakonomics Quorum,” New York Times Online. October 16.
- Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Sociology of Deviance in the Real World,” “Journaling Interns -- Tell them to Write it All Down,” and course syllabus. Pp. 91-97, 209-214, and 235-238 in Bruce Hoffman (ed.) Teaching the Sociology of Deviance (6th Edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
- Christopher Uggen. 2006. “The Disenfranchised of History … and Now.” Wall Street Journal, September 2, p. A9, Letters section.
- Christopher Uggen and Mike Vuolo. 2006. “Getting the Truth about Consequences.” Amici: Newsletter of the Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association 13:6-8.
- Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Editorial Comment.” Guest editor for special issue on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions. Forthcoming in Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice.
- Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociological Education award address. Sociograph 23 (1): 7.
- Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Where Tough Guys Go.” Review of Laub and Sampson’s Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Contexts 3: 64-66.
- Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The President Is Right: Ex-Felons Need Aid.” Newsday, February 5, p. A33, Op-Ed section.
- Reprinted 2004 under various titles, e.g., "Ex-cons Deserve a Chance to Right their Lives."
- Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2003. “They've Paid Their Debt; Let Them Vote.” Los Angeles Times, July 18, p. B15, Op-Ed section.
- Reprinted 2003 under various titles.
- Christopher Uggen. 2003. “Criminology and the Sociology of Deviance.” The Criminologist 28:1-5. [pdf]
- Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Crime and Punishment to the Core.” Brief invited comment on Western and Pettit. Contexts 1:4.
technical reports and working papers
- Christopher Uggen. 2009. Felon Disenfranchisement in Minnesota.
- Christopher Uggen and Melissa Thompson. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.
- Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin, and Ross Matsueda. [publication date and status unknown]. "Jobs Programs and Criminal Desistance." Written for The Potential of Publicly Funded Jobs Programs, edited by D. Lee Bawden and Robert Lerman. Washington D.C.: Urban Institute Press.
- Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Desistance from Crime as a Separate Facet of the Transition to Adulthood." [revise and resubmit]
- Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. "Public Criminologies." [revise and resubmit]
- Amy Blackstone, Jason N. Houle, and Christopher Uggen. “’At the time, I thought it was Great’: Sexual Harassment and the Transition to Adulthood.” [revise and resubmit]
- Melissa Thompson and Christopher Uggen. “Social and Economic Predictors of Drug and Non-Drug Illegal Earnings.” [revise and resubmit]
- Elaine Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. “Stigma, Strain, and Partisan Politics: Sources of Variation in Mental Health Parity Laws.”
- Jason N. Houle, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment During the Early Occupational Career.”
- Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. “Having a Kid Changes Everything? The Effects of Parenthood on Subsequent Crime.”
work in progress
- “Incarceration and Stratification” (with Sara Wakefield). In preparation for Annual Review of Sociology.
- “Music And Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in U.S. Radio Markets” with Mike Vuolo (draft available).
- “Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners” with Shelly Schaefer (draft available).
- “A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions” with Sarah Shannon and Sara Wakefield.
(Please email uggen001@umn.edu for reprints or "preprints")
research
writing
grants
felon
voting