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Jeffery T. Ulmer publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffery T. Ulmer sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 127 publications — 29th percentile

29% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Jeffery T. Ulmer D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Jeffery T. Ulmer sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Jeffery T. Ulmer is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States, with a research focus primarily in social sciences and psychology. Their scholarly work spans various subfields including sociology and political science, clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, political science and international relations, as well as economics and econometrics.

Their research topics cover a range of areas with significant emphasis on criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, psychopathy, forensic psychiatry, and sexual offending. Additional topics addressed in their work include contemporary sociological theory and practice, the psychology of moral and emotional judgment, race, history, and American society, and political philosophy and ethics.

Ulmer has published extensively in well-established academic journals. Frequent venues for their work include:

  • Justice Quarterly
  • Symbolic Interaction
  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • Social Problems
  • Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Notable recent publications with their year of publication and venue are:

  • "Back to Basics: A Critical Examination of the Focal Concerns Framework from the Perspective of Judges," 2022, Justice Quarterly
  • "David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology," 2022, Symbolic Interaction
  • "Expanding Our Understanding of Focal Concerns: Alternative Sentences, Race, and "Salvageability"," 2021, Justice Quarterly
  • "Geographic arbitrariness? County court variation in capital prosecution and sentencing in Pennsylvania," 2020, Criminology & Public Policy
  • "Segregation and Group Threat: Specifying Hispanic-White Punishment Disparity," 2023, Social Problems

Ulmer collaborates frequently with a number of coauthors including Gary Zajac, Miranda A. Galvin, Eric Silver, Lily Hanrath, and Jason R. Silver, indicating a network of scholarly partnerships that contribute to their research output.

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

  • SENTENCING IN CONTEXT: A MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;Brian Johnson

  • Social Worlds of Sentencing: Court Communities Under Sentencing Guidelines

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • Recent Developments and New Directions in Sentencing Research

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • COURT COMMUNITIES UNDER SENTENCING GUIDELINES: DILEMMAS OF FORMAL RATIONALITY AND SENTENCING DISPARITY

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;John H. Kramer

  • THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF GUIDELINES CIRCUMVENTION: THE CASE OF FEDERAL DISTRICT COURTS*

    Brian D. Johnson;Jeffery T. Ulmer;John H. Kramer

  • DOWNWARD DEPARTURES FOR SERIOUS VIOLENT OFFENDERS: LOCAL COURT “CORRECTIONS” TO PENNSYLVANIA'S SENTENCING GUIDELINES*

    John H. Kramer;Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • Age differences in sentencing

    Darrell Steffensmeier;John Kramer;Jeffery Ulmer

  • Prosecutorial Discretion and the Imposition of Mandatory Minimum Sentences

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;Megan C. Kurlychek;John H. Kramer

  • Racial/Ethnic Threat and Federal Sentencing:

    Ben Feldmeyer;Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • VARIATION IN TRIAL PENALTIES AMONG SERIOUS VIOLENT OFFENSES

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;Mindy Wilson Bradley

  • Intersectionality of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Age on Criminal Punishment:

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Noah Painter-Davis;Jeffery Ulmer

  • Trial Penalties in Federal Sentencing: Extra‐Guidelines Factors and District Variation

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;James Eisenstein;Brian D. Johnson

  • Sentencing disparity and departures from guidelines

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  • Religion, Self Control, and Substance Use

    Scott A. Desmond;Jeffery T. Ulmer;Christopher D. Bader

  • Sentencing Guidelines: Lessons from Pennsylvania

    John H. Kramer;Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • FEAR OF CRIME AMONG KOREAN AMERICANS IN CHICAGO COMMUNITIES

    Min Sik Lee;Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • The use and transformation of formal decision-making criteria: Sentencing guidelines, organizational contexts, and case processing strategies

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;John H. Kramer

  • Criminal Courts as Inhabited Institutions: Making Sense of Difference and Similarity in Sentencing

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • Intermediate Sanctions: A Comparative Analysis of the Probability and Severity of Recidivism

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • SCOPE AND CONCEPTUAL ISSUES IN TESTING THE RACE–CRIME INVARIANCE THESIS: BLACK, WHITE, AND HISPANIC COMPARISONS*

    Darrell J. Steffensmeier;Jeffery T. Ulmer;Ben Feldmeyer;Casey T. Harris

  • REASSESSING TRENDS IN BLACK VIOLENT CRIME, 1980–2008: SORTING OUT THE “HISPANIC EFFECT” IN UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS ARRESTS, NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY OFFENDER ESTIMATES, AND U.S. PRISONER COUNTS*

    Darrell Steffensmeier;Ben Feldmeyer;Casey T. Harris;Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • The Localized Uses of Federal Sentencing Guidelines in Four U.S. District Courts: Evidence of Processual Order

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Structural Disadvantage and Crime: White, Black, and Hispanic Comparisons ∗

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;Casey T. Harris;Darrell Steffensmeier

  • THE RULES HAVE CHANGED‐SO PROCEED WITH CAUTION: A COMMENT ON ENGEN AND GAINEY'S METHOD FOR MODELING SENTENCING OUTCOMES UNDER GUIDELINES

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

  • The Potential Contributions of Quantitative Research to Symbolic Interactionism

    Jeffery T. Ulmer;Mindy S. Wilson

  • Offenders on Offending: Learning About Crime from Criminals:

    Jeffery T. Ulmer

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Darrell J. Steffensmeier Pennsylvania State University
Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson University of Maryland, College Park
Eric Silver
Eric Silver Pennsylvania State University

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