PUBLICATIONS
(GS=Graduate Student, UGS=Undergraduate Student, PD=Postdoc Coauthor)

 

BOOKS

 

2022      Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. Under contract. Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration. New York: Oxford University Press. [research monograph]

 

 

 

 

2019       Heather McLaughlin and Kyle Green, with Christopher Uggen, editors. 2019. Engaging Helen Hacker: Collected Works and Reflections of a Feminist Pioneer. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Libraries. [edited volume]

 

 

2016       Lisa Wade, Douglas Hartmann, and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2016. Assigned: Life with Gender. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

2015      Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2015. Getting Culture. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

 

2015       Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2015. Owned. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

 

2014       Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2014. Color Lines and Racial Angles. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

 

2014       Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2014. Crime and the Punished. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

 

2013      Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen, editors. 2013. The Social Side of Politics. New York: W.W. Norton. [edited volume]

 

 

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

2006    Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy. 2006, 2008. New York: Oxford University Press. [research monograph]

               * Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2006); Finalist, C. Wright Mills Award (2006)


 

 


 

EDITING

2010-     Editor and Publisher. 2010-Now. The Society Pages (with Douglas Hartmann).

 

2018      Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson, editors. Give Methods a Chance. New York: W.W. Norton. Series editors, Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.

 

2008-    Editor.  2008-2011. Contexts (with Douglas Hartmann). Volumes 7, 8, 9 and 10, Numbers 1-4.

2011       American Sociological Association.

2008     Criminology and Public Policy. The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders, Volume 7, Number 3. American Society of Criminology.

2005      Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Special issue: Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions, Volume 21, Number 1.

 

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

2021       Christopher Uggen, Ráchael A. Powers, Heather McLaughlin, and Amy Blackstone. 2021.  Toward a Criminology of Sexual Harassment.” Annual Review of Criminology 4:33-51

Lesley Schneider, Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, and Christopher Uggen 2021. “Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?” Forthcoming in Law & Social Inquiry.

Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Evelyn GertzGS, Christopher Uggen, and Laura FrizzellGS. 2021. “Consequences of Judging Transitional Justice Courts.” Forthcoming in British Journal of Criminology.

Robert Stewart, Brieanna WattersGS, Veronica Horowitz, Ryan Larson, Brian Sargent, and Christopher Uggen. “Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions.” Forthcoming in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Jeanie SantaulariaGS, Ryan LarsonGS, and Christopher Uggen. 2021. “Criminal Punishment, Child Abuse, and Violent Injury in Minnesota.” Injury Epidemiology 8:1-10.

Jordan M. Hyatt, Synøve N. Andersen, Steven L. Chanenson, Veronica Horowitz, and Christopher Uggen. 2021. “‘We Can Actually Do This’: Adapting Scandinavian Correctional Culture in Pennsylvania.” Forthcoming in American Criminal Law Review.

Gabriela KirkGS, Kristina Thompson, Beth M. Huebner, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Shannon. “Justice By Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities.” Forthcoming in RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences.

Heather McLaughlin and Christopher Uggen. 2021. “Sexual Harassment in the #MeToo Era.” Forthcoming in 5th edition of David Grusky’s Inequality reader with Nima Dahir and Claire Daviss (Routledge).

Shawn Bushway and Christopher Uggen. 2021. “Fostering Desistance.” Pp. 47-57 in A Better Path Forward for Criminal Justice.  Report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on Criminal Justice Reform.

2020     Robert StewartGS, and Christopher Uggen. 2020. “Criminal Records and College Admissions: A Modified Experimental Audit.” Criminology 58:156-88.

Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Louisa RobertsGS, Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascéne Gasanabo. 2020. “‘We Came to Realize We Are Judges’: The Moral Careers of Elected Lay Jurists in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts.” International Journal of Transitional Justice 14:443-63.

Shannon, Sarah, Beth M. Huebner, Alexes Harris, Karin Martin, Mary Pattillo, Becky Pettit, Bryan Sykes, and Christopher Uggen. 2020. “The Broad Scope and Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence from Eight States.” UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review 4:269-81.

Christopher Uggen, Ryan LarsonGS, Sarah Shannon, and Arleth Pulido-NavaUGS. 2020. Locked Out 2020: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.

2019       Veronica HorowitzGS and Christopher Uggen. 2019. “Consistency and Compensation in Mercy: Commutation in the Era of Mass Incarceration.” Social Forces 97:1205-1230.

2018      Emily BryantGS, Emily SchulzGS, Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Techniques of Neutralization and Identity Work among Genocide Perpetrators.” Social Problems 65:584-602.

Christopher Uggen, Robert StewartGS, and Veronica HorowitzGS. 2018. “Why Not Minnesota? Norway, Justice Reform, and 50-Labs Federalism.” Federal Sentencing Reporter 31:5-13.

Rachael A. Woldoff and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Community and Crime: Now More than Ever.” City & Community 17:939-944. 

Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Suzy McElrathGS, and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “A Dynamic Life-Course Approach to Genocide.” Social Currents 5:107-119.

Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. 2018. “To Match or Not to Match? Statistical and Substantive Considerations in Audit Design and Analysis.” Pages 119-140 in Audit Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, edited by Michael S. Gaddis. New York: Springer.

2017       Sarah Shannon, Christopher Uggen, Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, Melissa Thompson, and Sara Wakefield. 2017. “The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People with Felony Records in the United States, 1948-2010.” Demography 54:1795-1818.

* Awarded a 2018 Outstanding Research Award from the Minnesota Population Center.

Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2017. “The Economic and Career Effects of Sexual Harassment on Working Women.” Gender & Society 31:333-358.

Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, and Christopher Uggen. 2017. “Criminal Record Questions in the Era of ‘Ban the Box’.” Criminology & Public Policy 16:139-165.

Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. 2017. “Race, Recession, and Social Closure in the Low Wage Labor Market.” Research in the Sociology of Work 30:141-183.

Christopher Uggen and Ryan Larson. 2017. “Is the Public Getting Smarter on Crime?” Contexts 16:76-78. DOI 10.1177/1536504217742400.

Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and D. Wayne Osgood. 2017. “From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood.” Pages 165-189 in Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives, edited by Teresa Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and Ruben Rumbaut. Leiden: Brill.

Christopher Uggen, Veronica HorowitzGS, and Robert StewartGS. 2017. “Public Criminology and Criminologists with Records.” The Criminologist 42:3-7.

Ryan LarsonGS and Christopher Uggen. 2017. “Felon Disenfranchisement.” In Encyclopedia of Corrections, edited by Kent R. Kerley. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118845387.wbeoc053

2016       Hollie Nyseth Brehm, Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascéne Gasanabo. 2016. “Age, Gender, and the Crime of Crimes: Toward a Life-Course Theory of Genocide Participation.” Criminology 54: 713-43.
* Awarded the 2018 James F. Short Distinguished Article Award from the American Sociological Association Crime, Law, and Deviance section.

Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah LagesonGS. 2016. “Statistical Power in Experimental Audit Studies: Cautions and Calculations for Matched Tests with Nominal Outcomes." Sociological Methods & Research 45:260-303.

Shelly Schaefer and Christopher Uggen. 2016. “Blended Sentencing Laws and the Punitive Turn in Juvenile Justice.” Law & Social Inquiry 41:435-63.

Christopher Uggen. 2016. “Records, Relationships, and Reentries: How Specific Punishment Conditions Affect Family Life.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 665:142-48.

Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon. 2016. 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
* Awarded the 2018 Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.

Christopher Uggen & Lindsay BlahnikUGS. 2016. "The Increasing Stickiness of Public Labels." Pages 222-43 in Global Perspectives on Desistance, edited by Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall, and Anthony Bottoms. Routledge.

2015      Jason Schnittker, Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and Suzy McElrathGS. 2015. “The Institutional Effects of Incarceration:  Spillovers from Criminal Justice to Health Care." Milbank Quarterly 93:516-60

Veronica HorowitzGS and Christopher Uggen. 2015. “Crime, Punishment, and Politics.” In Encyclopedia of American Political Culture, edited by Michael Shally-Jensen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.

2014       Christopher Uggen and Sarah ShannonGS. 2014. “Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime – But Not Drug Use." Social Problems 61:105-30.

Christopher Uggen, Mike Vuolo, Sarah LagesonGS, Ebony RuhlandGS, and Hilary WhithamGS. 2014. "The Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal Records on Employment." Criminology 52:627-654.

Michael Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah LagesonGS. 2014. “Taste Clusters of Music and Drugs: Evidence from Three Analytic Levels.  British Journal of Sociology 65:520-54.

Sarah LagesonGS,  Mike Vuolo, and Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Legal Ambiguity in Managerial Assessments of Criminal Records.Law & Social Inquiry 40:175-204.
Christopher Uggen and Suzy McElrathGS. 2014. “Parental Incarceration: What we Know and Where we Need to Go.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 104:597-604.
Hollie Nyseth BrehmGS, Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascène Gasanabo. 2014. “Genocide, Justice, and Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 30:333-52.
Christopher Uggen and Robert StewartGS. 2014-2015. “Piling On: Collateral Consequences and Community Supervision.” Minnesota Law Review 99:1871-1910
Amy Blackstone, Jason N. Houle, and Christopher Uggen. 2014. “’I Didn’t Recognize it as a Bad Experience until I was Much Older”: Age, Experience, and Workers’ Perceptions of Sexual Harassment.” Sociological Spectrum 34:314-37.
Christopher Uggen and Suzy McElrathGS. 2014. “Six Social Sources of the U.S. Crime Drop.” Pages 3-20 in Crime and the Punished, edited by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.
Sarah ShannonGS and Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Visualizing Punishment.” Pages 42-62 in Crime and the Punished, edited by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.

2013      Sarah Lageson and Christopher Uggen. 2013. “How Work Affects Crime—And Crime Affects Work—Over The Life Course.” Pages 201-212 in Handbook of Life-Course Criminology: Emerging Trends and Directions for Future Research, edited by Chris L. Gibson and Marvin D. Krohn. New York: Springer.

2012      Heather McLaughlinGS, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” American Sociological Review 77:625-47.

Ryan D. King, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Employment and Exile: U.S. Criminal Deportations, 1908-2005.” American Journal of Sociology 117:1786-1825. [authorship is alphabetical, reflecting equal contributions]

Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Out and Down: Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 53:448-64.

Melissa Thompson and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Dealers, Thieves, and the Common Determinants of Drug and Non-Drug Illegal Earnings.” Criminology 50:1057-87.

Elaine Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Institutions, Politics, and Mental Health Parity.” Society and Mental Health 2:154-71.

Jason N. HouleGS, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2011. “The Psychological Impact of Sexual Harassment during the Early Occupational Career.” Society and Mental Health 1:89-105.

Alec Ewald and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “The Collateral Effects of Imprisonment on Prisoners, Their Families, and Communities.” Pages 83-103 in The Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections, edited by Joan Petersilia and Kevin Reitz. New York: Oxford University Press.

Sarah ShannonGS and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Incarceration as a Political Institution.” Pages 214-225 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

Terence P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri MatsudaGS, Ann S. Masten, Erik Bulten, and Andrea G. Donker. 2012. “Explanations for Offending.” Pages 47-85 in From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention, edited by Rolf Loeber and David Farrington. New York: Oxford University Press

2011       Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2011. “Incarceration and the Health of the African American Community.” Du Bois Review 8:133–41.

Darren Wheelock, Christopher Uggen, and Heather Hlavka. 2011. “Employment Restrictions for Individuals with Felon Status and Racial Inequality in the Labor Market.” Pages 278-307 in Global Perspectives on Re-Entry, edited by Ikponwosa O. Ekunwe and Richard S. Jones. Tampere, Finland: Tampere University Press.

2010      Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Settling Down and Aging Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology 116:543-82. [authorship is alphabetical, reflecting equal contributions]

Sara Wakefield and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Incarceration and Stratification.” Annual Review of Sociology 36:387-46.
*Reprinted 2013 in Introduction to Criminal Justice: A Sociological Perspective, edited by Charis Kubrin and Thomas Stucky. Stanford University Press.

Christopher Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. “Public Criminologies.” Criminology and Public Policy 9: 725-750 [with introduction by Todd Clear and Policy Essay responses by Paul Rock, Kenneth Land, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks, Michael Tonry, and Daniel Mears, pp. 751-805].

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.

2009     Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlinGS. 2009. “Legal Consciousness and Responses to Sexual Harassment.” Law & Society Review 43:631-68.

Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and Heather McLaughlinGS. 2009. “Welfare and Citizenship: The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-65.

Jesse WozniakGS and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police Weaponry.” Feminist Criminology 4:274-93.

Christopher Uggen and Chika ShinoharaGS. 2009. “Age, Gender, and Sekuhara in the United States and Japan.” The Sociological Quarterly 50:201-34.

Shelly SchaeferGS and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Juvenile Delinquency and Desistance.” Pages 423-430 in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by Andy Furlong. Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.

Christopher Uggen, Mischelle Van BrakleGS, and Heather McLaughlinGS. 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.

2008     Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Editorial Introduction: The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.” Criminology and Public Policy 7:367-370.

Heather HlavkaGS and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended Consequences” Northern Kentucky Law Review 35:347-371.

Heather McLaughlinGS, 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]

Christopher Uggen and Heather HlavkaGS. 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.

Darren WheelockGS and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Race, Poverty and Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Inequality.” Pages 261-292 in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist, edited by Ann Chih Lin and David Harris. New York: Russell Sage.

2007      Michael Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103.

Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Who We Punish: The Carceral State.” Social Research 74: 467-469 and “Dirty Bombs and Garbage Cases.” Social Research 74:707-711 [invited, non-refereed]

Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Thinking Experimentally.” Pages 181-189 in Christine J. Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia, Experiments in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution. Lanham, MA: Rowman and Littlefield.

Christopher Uggen and Sara Wakefield.GS 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.

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 Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan (Eds.), Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.

2006     Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa Thompson. 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy, and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 605:281-310.

Angela BehrensUGS and Christopher Uggen. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement.” Pages 582-585 in Paul Finkelman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.

2005      Christopher Uggen, Angela BehrensUGS, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal Disenfranchisement.” Annual Review of Law and Social Science 1:307-322. [invited, non-refereed]
* Reprinted 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.

Christopher Uggen and Sara WakefieldGS. 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.

Christopher Uggen, Sara WakefieldGS, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

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.

2004      Christopher Uggen and Amy BlackstoneGS. 2004. “Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power.” American Sociological Review 69:64-92.

Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Public Attitudes toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 68:276-87.

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.

Jeff Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy: The Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics 2:491-505.

Sara WakefieldGS and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Discrimination Claims.” Sociological Inquiry 74:128-57.

Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Lost Voices: The Civic and Political Views of Disenfranchised 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.

Jeremy StaffGS, 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 BehrensUGS. 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.

2003      Angela BehrensUGS, 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 109:559-60.
* 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 ThompsonGS. 2003. “The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings.” American Journal of Sociology 109:146-85.

Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Angela BehrensUGS. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics, Culture, and Society 5:47-55.
* Reprinted 2007 in Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising Lives, edited by Manning Marable. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).

Jeremy StaffGS and Christopher Uggen. 2003. “The Fruits of Good Work: Early Work Experiences and Adolescent Deviance.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-90.  

Christopher Uggen and Michael MassogliaGS. 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: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Christopher Uggen. 2003. “Criminology and the Sociology of Deviance.” The Criminologist 28: 1-5.

2002     Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2002. “Democratic Contraction? The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” American Sociological Review 67:777-803.
* Reprinted in Crime, Inequality, and the State, edited by Mary E. Vogel (New York: Routledge). Excerpted
2004, pp. 264-65 in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life (“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.

Michael MassogliaGS and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

2001      Christopher Uggen and Jeremy StaffGS. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16.
* 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. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

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.

Christopher Uggen and Melissa ThompsonGS. 2001. “Prevention: Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. New York: MacMillan.

2000      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.
* Reprinted 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.

Barbara McMorrisPD and Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Alcohol and Employment in the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41:276-94.

Elizabeth Chambliss and Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Men and Women of Elite Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter’s Legacy.” Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68.
* Reprinted 2009 in Rosabeth Moss Kanter, edited by John C. Wood and Michael C. Wood,  Routledge.

Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly SheltonGS. 2000. “Predictors of Desistance among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls.” Justice Quarterly 17:61-87.

Jessica HuirasUGS, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorrisPD. 2000. “Career Jobs, Survival Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace Misconduct.” The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63.

1999       Lauren B. Edelman, Christopher Uggen, and Howard S. Erlanger. 1999. “The Endogeneity of Legal Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth.” American Journal of Sociology 105:406-54.
*Reprinted 2007 in The Legal Lives of Private Organizations, edited by Lauren B. Edelman and Mark C. Suchman, Ashgate.

Christopher Uggen and Jennifer JanikulaUGS. 1999. “Volunteerism and Arrest in the Transition to Adulthood.” Social Forces 78:331-62.

Christopher Uggen. 1999. “Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime.” Social Problems 46:127-51.

1998       Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. 1998. “Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance.” Law and Society Review 32:401-28.
* Reprinted 2012 in Gender and Crime, edited by Sandra Walklate, Routledge.
* Reprinted
2000 in The Termination of Criminal Careers, edited by Stephen Farrall. 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.
* Reprinted 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.
* Excerpted 1998 in National Institute of Justice NIJ Journal 237:20 (October).

1993       Christopher Uggen. 1993. “Beyond Calvin and Hobbes: Rationality and Exchange in a Theory of Moralizing Shaming.” Law and Social Inquiry 18:513-16. A rejoinder to John Braithwaite’s “Pride in Criminological Dissensus.”

Christopher Uggen. 1993. “Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and Consensus in Criminological Theory.” Law and Social Inquiry 18:481-99. An article-length review essay.

 

REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, AND OTHER SHORT PIECES

2018      Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Series Preface.” Pages xi-xv in Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson, editors. Give Methods a Chance. New York: W.W. Norton.

2018      Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2018. “When Sexual Harassment is Used to Equalise Power.” LSE Business Review. London: London School of Economics.

2018      Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Restoring the Vote to those Convicted of a Felony Sentence is not Just the Right Thing to Do, it's Good Social Science.” LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog. London: London School of Economics.

2018      Amy Blackstone, Heather McLaughlin, and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Workplace Sexual Harassment.” Pages 38-41 in Pathways Magazine, State of the Union 2018. Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality.

2016      Christopher Uggen. 2015-16. “Crime, Punishment, and American Inequality.” Focus 32:1-6.

Christopher Uggen. 2016. “The 2016 Election and the Vocation of Social Science.” In Speak for Sociology, a blog by the American Sociological Association. December 2.

2015      Christopher Uggen. 2015. “Public Criminology and the Social Media Echo Chamber.” Crime, Law & Deviance News, Crime, Law & Deviance section of the American Sociological Association.

2014      Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Violence Against Women is on the Decline – but We can Still Do More.” Pacific Standard. June 4, 2014. [originally appeared in Public Criminology and Sociological Images on TheSocietyPages].

Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Should Drug Treatment Aim to End Use or Reduce Harm.” Pacific Standard. February 24, 2014. [originally appeared in Public Criminology and Sociological Images on TheSocietyPages].

2013      Marc Mauer and Christopher Uggen. 2013. “The Missing Black Voters.” Huffington Post. May 28, 2013.

2012      Christopher Uggen. 2012. “A Tragic Distraction.” National Post (Canada). December 21, p. A16. Originally appeared on TheSocietyPages. Reprinted in Pacific Standard, Vancouver Sun and elsewhere.

Christopher Uggen. 2012. Crime and the Great Recession. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Reprinted as “The Crime Wave that Wasn’t” Pathways magazine, Fall 2012, pp. 14-18.

2011       Doug Hartmann and Christopher Uggen. 2008-2011. “From the Editors,” an introductory column in each quarterly issue of Contexts.

2010      Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Law enforcement death rate falling, not rising.” Minnpost. May 14.

Christopher Uggen. 2010. “The link between education and police use of force.” Minnpost. April 28.
* Reprinted as “The Link Between Use of Force and Education” on PoliceLink.com May, 2010.

2009     Chika Shinohara and Christopher Uggen. 2009. "Sexual Harassment: The Emergence of Legal Consciousness in Japan and the US." The Asia-Pacific Journal 31:2-09.

2008     Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Who are the Outlaws? A Freakonomics Quorum,” The 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.

2006      Christopher Uggen. 2006. “The Disenfranchised of History … and Now.” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, p. A9, Letters section.

Christopher UggenGS 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.

2005      Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Editorial Comment.” Guest editor for special issue on Collateral Consequences of Criminal Sanctions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21:4-5.

Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological Education.” Sociological Education award address. Sociograph 23 (1):7.

2004      Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Where the Tough Guys Go.” Review of John H. Laub and Robert J. 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.”

2003      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.

2002     Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Crime and Punishment to the Core.” Brief invited comment on Bruce Western and Becky Pettit. Contexts 1:4.

MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Uggen, Christopher, Jason Schnittker, Mike Massoglia, and Sarah Shannon. “The Contingent Effect of Incarceration on State Health Outcomes.” [revise and resubmit]

Larson, Ryan, Sarah Shannon, Aaron Sojourner, and Christopher Uggen. “Felon History and Change in U.S. Employment Rates.” [revise and resubmit]

Nyseth Brehm, Hollie, Evelyn Gertz, and Christopher Uggen. “Judging Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice.” [under first review]

Horowitz, Veronica, Kimberly Spencer-Suarez, Ryan Larson, Robert Stewart, Frank Edwards, Emmi Obara, and Christopher Uggen. “Dual Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Financial Legal Obligations.”[under first review]

Horowitz, Veronica L., Emily R. Greberman, Patrick E. Nolan, Jordan M. Hyatt, Christopher Uggen, Synøve N. Andersen, and Steven Chanenson. “A Comparative Perspective on Officer Wellness: American Reflections from Norwegian Prisons.” [under first review]

TECHNICAL REPORTS AND WORKING PAPERS

2020      Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Arleth Pulido-Nava. 2020. Locked Out 2020: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.

                Expert report in Schroeder v. Minnesota Secretary of State. 2020. [written on behalf of plaintiffs seeking restoration of voting rights and supported by the American Civil Liberties Union. 26 pages].

2017       Alexes Harris, Beth Huebner, Karin Martin, Mary Pattillo, Becky Pettit, Sarah Shannon, Bryan Sykes, Chris Uggen, April Fernandes. 2017. Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Justice System. Washington, DC: Arnold Foundation.

2016       Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon. 2016. 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
* Awarded the 2018 Publication Award from the American Sociological Association Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.

*Report cited in New York Times, Washington Post, Quartz, Vox, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Florida Times-Union, Jackson Free Press, Albany Times-Union, Louisville Courier-Journal, Daily Beast, The Grio, Richmond Times-Dispatch, New Orleans Times Picayune and elsewhere.

2012       Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and Jeff Manza. 2012. State-level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
*report cited in New York Times, Washington Post,
Slate, Mother Jones, Philadelphia Inquirer, Tampa Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Florida Sun-Sentinel, Louisville Courier-Journal, Daily Beast, The Grio, Richmond Times-Dispatch, New Orleans Times Picayune and elsewhere.

Christopher Uggen. 2012. Felon Disenfranchisement in Minnesota.

Christopher Uggen and Suzy McElrath. 2012. Felon Disenfranchisement in Wisconsin.

1999       Christopher Uggen and Melissa ThompsonGS. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.

Christopher Uggen, Irving Piliavin, and Ross Matsueda. [publication 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.

WORK IN PROGRESS

·         “Voting and the Civic Reintegration of Former Prisoners” with Shelly Schaefer.

·         “A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions” with Sarah Shannon and Sara Wakefield.

·         “Having a Kid Changes Everything? The Effects of Parenthood on Subsequent Crime.” with Sara Wakefield.