BOOKS

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Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2012. The Contexts Reader. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

 

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)

JOURNAL EDITING

Editor. American Sociological Association's Contexts. (co-editor with Douglas Hartmann).

2011. Contexts. (co-editor with Douglas Hartmann). Volume 10, Numbers 1-4.
2010. Contexts. (co-editor with Douglas Hartmann). Volume 9, Numbers 1-4.
2009. Contexts. (co-editor with Douglas Hartmann). Volume 8, Numbers 1-4.
2008. Contexts. (co-editor with Douglas Hartmann). Volume 7, Numbers 1-4.
American Sociological Association.

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.


JOURNAL ARTICLES


CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES

  • Alec Ewald and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “The Collateral Effects of Imprisonment on Prisoners, Their Families, and Communities.” Forthcoming in The Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections, edited by Joan Petersilia and Kevin Reitz. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen. 2011. “Incarceration as a Political Institution in the United States.” Prepared for The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. [pdf] [copyright]

  • Terence P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri Matsuda, and Ann S. Masten. 2011. “Theoretical Explanations for Offending during the Transition to Adulthood.” Forthcoming in volume on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Offending, edited by Rolf Loeber and David Farrington. New York: Oxford University Press.

  • Darren Wheelock, Christopher Uggen, and Heather Hlavka. 2011. “Employment Restrictions for Individuals with Felon Status and Racial Inequality in the Labor Market.” Forthcoming in Global Perspectives on Reentry, edited by Ikponwosa Omogieva Ekunwe and Richard S. Jones. Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press.

  • 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. [pdf] [copyright]

  • 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 and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Disenfranchisement and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 67-84 in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences, edited by Christopher Mele and Teresa Miller. New York: Routledge. [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, COMMENTARIES AND SHORT PIECES

TECHNICAL REPORTS AND WORKING PAPERS


 PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

  • Melissa Thompson and Christopher Uggen. “Social and Economic Predictors of Drug and Non-Drug Illegal Earnings.” [2nd revise and resubmit at Criminology]
  • Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. “Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” [2nd revise and resubmit at American Sociological Review]
  • 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 at The Sociological Quarterly]
  • Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. “Out and Down: The Effects of Incarceration on Psychiatric Disorders and Disability.” [2nd revise and resubmit at Journal of Health and Social Behavior]
  • Elaine Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. “Stigma, Strain, and Partisan Politics: Sources of Variation in Mental Health Parity Laws.” [revise and resubmit at Society and Mental Health]
  • Michael Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. “Music And Drugs: A Fixed Effects Analysis of Cultural Preferences and Substance Use in U.S. Radio Markets.” [under review]
  • Christopher Uggen and Sarah Shannon. "Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime – But Not Drug Use." [under review]
  • Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. “Having a Kid Changes Everything? The Effects of Parenthood on Subsequent Crime.”


WORK IN PROGRESS

  • “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.

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