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Darrell J. Steffensmeier

Darrell J. Steffensmeier

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
16009
World Ranking
1342
National Ranking
626

Overview

Darrell J. Steffensmeier is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States and conducts research primarily within the field of social sciences. Their scholarly work spans several subfields, including sociology and political science, health, demography, experimental and cognitive psychology, and epidemiology.

The main research topics addressed by Steffensmeier cover a range of areas related to crime and social outcomes. These include:

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence
  • Intimate Partner and Family Violence
  • Homelessness and Social Issues
  • Corruption and Economic Development

Steffensmeier has contributed to several academic journals with multiple publications in venues such as:

  • Justice Quarterly
  • Asian Journal of Criminology
  • Journal of Criminal Justice
  • Annual Review of Criminology
  • Journal of Interpersonal Violence

The scholar has worked extensively with co-authors including Jennifer Schwartz, Jessie Slepicka, Yunmei Lu, Hua Zhong, and William J. Moser.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Steffensmeier include:

  • International and Historical Variation in the Age-Crime Curve, 2025, Annual Review of Criminology
  • Twenty-First Century Trends in Girls' Violence and the Gender Gap: Triangulated Findings from Official and Unofficial Longitudinal Sources, 2023, Journal of Interpersonal Violence
  • Gender Variation in the Age-Crime Relation in Cross-National Context: Taiwan-US Comparison, 2021, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

Steffensmeier's work contributes to understanding crime dynamics from both a temporal and a gendered perspective, incorporating comparative and longitudinal data methodologies. The research explores age-crime relationships across different contexts and evaluates trends in violent behaviors among youth, with implications for criminological theory and policy interventions.

Best Publications

  • The interaction of race, gender, and age in criminal sentencing: The punishment cost of being young, black, and male

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Jeffery Ulmer;John Kramer

  • Gender and crime: Toward a gendered theory of female offending.

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Emilie Andersen Allan

  • Ethnicity and Sentencing Outcomes in U.S. Federal Courts: Who is Punished More Harshly?

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Stephen Demuth

  • GENDER AND IMPRISONMENT DECISIONS

    Darrell Steffensmeier;John Kramer;Cathy Streifel

  • ETHNICITY AND JUDGES' SENTENCING DECISIONS: HISPANIC-BLACK-WHITE COMPARISONS

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Stephen Demuth

  • Age and the Distribution of Crime

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Emilie Andersen Allan;Miles D. Harer;Cathy Streifel

  • An assessment of recent trends in girls' violence using diverse longitudinal sources: Is the gender gap closing?

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Jennifer Schwartz;Hua Zhong;Jeffrey M. Ackerman

  • Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race–ethnicity on Criminal Sanctioning? Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Stephen Demuth

  • RACE AND PRISON VIOLENCE

    Miles D. Harer;Darrell J. Steffensmeier

  • Age differences in sentencing

    Darrell Steffensmeier;John Kramer;Jeffery Ulmer

  • Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Large Urban Courts: Comparisons Among White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants*

    Stephen Demuth;Darrell Steffensmeier

  • Economic Inequality, Family Disruption, and Urban Black Violence: Cities as Units of Stratification and Social Control

    Edward S. Shihadeh;Darrell J. Steffensmeier

  • The Differing Effects of Economic Inequality on Black and White Rates of Violence

    Miles D. Harer;Darrell J. Steffensmeier

  • Assessing the Impact of the Women's Movement on Sex-Based Differences in the Handling of Adult Criminal Defendants

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier

  • The Impact of Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Pretrial Release Process

    Stephen Demuth;Darrell Steffensmeier

  • Judges' Race and Judicial Decision Making: Do Black Judges Sentence Differently?

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Chester L. Britt

  • GENDER, STRUCTURAL DISADVANTAGE, AND URBAN CRIME: DO MACROSOCIAL VARIABLES ALSO EXPLAIN FEMALE OFFENDING RATES?*

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Dana Haynie

  • Gender and Twenty-first-Century Corporate Crime Female Involvement and the Gender Gap in Enron-Era Corporate Frauds

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Jennifer Schwartz;Michael Roche

  • Youth, Underemployment, and Property Crime: Differential Effects of Job Availability and Job Quality on Juvenile and Young Adult Arrest Rates

    Emilie Andersen Allan;Darrell J. Steffensmeier

  • National trends in female arrests, 1960–1990: Assessment and recommendations for research

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffery T. Ulmer
Jeffery T. Ulmer Pennsylvania State University
Merry Morash
Merry Morash Michigan State University
Terence P. Thornberry
Terence P. Thornberry University of Maryland, College Park
Jerry A. Jacobs
Jerry A. Jacobs University of Pennsylvania
Howard S. Becker
Howard S. Becker University of Washington
Candace Kruttschnitt
Candace Kruttschnitt University of Toronto
Meda Chesney-Lind
Meda Chesney-Lind University of Hawaii at Manoa

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