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1981
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951

Overview

Christopher Uggen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States and has an extensive publication record in social sciences, particularly focused on criminal justice and related fields.

Their main research fields include social sciences, with a strong emphasis on sociology and political science, contributing substantially to these areas across numerous publications. The subfields of their work extend to general health professions, law, political science and international relations, and gender studies.

In terms of specific research topics, Christopher Uggen's work addresses criminal justice and corrections analysis, homelessness and social issues, crime patterns and interventions, Middle East and Rwanda conflicts, sexual assault and victimization studies, law, economics, and judicial systems, as well as crime, illicit activities, and governance.

The following recent papers illustrate the breadth and focus of their research:

  • "The Broad Scope and Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence From Eight States," 2020, CrimRxiv
  • "Before and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?" 2021, Law & Social Inquiry
  • "Native Americans and Monetary Sanctions," 2022, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
  • "Felon history and change in U.S. employment rates," 2021, Social Science Research
  • "Toward a Criminology of Sexual Harassment," 2020, Annual Review of Criminology

Their frequent coauthors include Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, Robert Stewart, Veronica Horowitz, and Sarah Lageson.

Christopher Uggen regularly publishes in several venues, including CrimRxiv, Law & Social Inquiry, RSF The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Social Science Research, and Annual Review of Criminology.

In addition to journal articles, Uggen has contributed to book publications. Notably, a book titled "Beyond Bars" published by Policy Press appeared in 2023.

Best Publications

  • Work as a turning point in the life course of criminals: A duration model of age, employment, and recidivism

    Christopher Uggen

  • Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy

    Jeffrey Manza;Christopher Uggen

  • The endogeneity of legal regulation: Grievance procedures as rational myth

    Lauren B. Edelman;Christopher Uggen;Howard S. Erlanger

  • Incarceration and Stratification

    Sara Wakefield;Christopher Uggen

  • Democratic contraction? Political consequences of felon disenfranchisement in the United States

    Christopher Uggen;Jeff Manza

  • Sexual Harassment, Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power

    Heather McLaughlin;Christopher Uggen;Amy Blackstone

  • Citizenship, democracy, and the civic reintegration of criminal offenders

    Christopher Uggen;Jeff Manza;Melissa Thompson

  • Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance

    Christopher Uggen;Candace Kruttschnitt

  • ‘Less than the average citizen’: stigma, role transition and the civic reintegration of convicted felons

    Christopher Uggen;Jeffrey Manza;Angela Behrens

  • The edge of stigma: An experimental audit of the effects of low-level criminal records on employment

    Christopher Uggen;Mike Vuolo;Sarah Lageson;Ebony Ruhland

  • Ballot Manipulation and the "Menace of Negro Domination": Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 1850-2002

    Angela Behrens;Christopher Uggen;Jeff Manza

  • Sexual Harassment as a Gendered Expression of Power

    Christopher Uggen;Amy Blackstone

  • Predictors of desistance among sex offenders: The interaction of formal and informal social controls

    Candace Kruttschnitt;Christopher Uggen;Kelly Shelton

  • Ex-Offenders and the Conformist Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime

    Christopher Uggen

  • THE ECONOMIC AND CAREER EFFECTS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT ON WORKING WOMEN

    Heather McLaughlin;Christopher Uggen;Amy Blackstone

  • The Growth, Scope, and Spatial Distribution of People With Felony Records in the United States, 1948-2010.

    Sarah K. S. Shannon;Christopher Uggen;Jason Schnittker;Melissa Thompson

  • Out and down: incarceration and psychiatric disorders.

    Jason Schnittker;Michael Massoglia;Christopher Uggen

  • Settling down and aging out: Toward an interactionist theory of desistance and the transition to adulthood

    Michael Massoglia;Christopher Uggen

  • The Socioeconomic Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal Earnings

    Christopher Uggen;Melissa Thompson

  • Public Attitudes Toward Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States

    Jeff Manza;Clem Brooks;Christopher Uggen

  • Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice

    Christopher Uggen

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeff Manza
Jeff Manza New York University
Jeremy Staff
Jeremy Staff Pennsylvania State University
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
Terence P. Thornberry
Terence P. Thornberry University of Maryland, College Park
Peggy C. Giordano
Peggy C. Giordano Bowling Green State University
Candace Kruttschnitt
Candace Kruttschnitt University of Toronto
Jeylan T. Mortimer
Jeylan T. Mortimer University of Minnesota
Barbara J. McMorris
Barbara J. McMorris University of Minnesota
Bruce Western
Bruce Western Columbia University

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