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Citations
4160
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6545
National Ranking
3161

Overview

Jon R. Sorensen is affiliated with East Carolina University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Mathematics, with subfields including Sociology and Political Science as well as Statistics and Probability.

Their work addresses topics such as Crime Patterns and Interventions, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, and Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis.

Among the recent contributions to their field is the paper titled "Gang affiliation and prison violence: a comparison of matching analyses", published in 2024 in the Journal of Experimental Criminology. This publication has received citations reflecting its engagement within the academic community.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Abdullah Cihan and Thomas J. Reidy.

Their publications have appeared predominantly in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, highlighting a focus on experimental approaches to criminological studies.

  • Gang affiliation and prison violence: a comparison of matching analyses, 2024, Journal of Experimental Criminology

  • Abdullah Cihan
  • Thomas J. Reidy

  • Journal of Experimental Criminology

  • Social Sciences
  • Mathematics

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Statistics and Probability

  • Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
  • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis

Best Publications

  • Predictive Factors for Violent Misconduct in Close Custody

    Mark D. Cunningham;Jon R. Sorensen

  • An actuarial model for assessment of prison violence risk among maximum security inmates.

    Mark D. Cunningham;Jon R. Sorensen;Thomas J. Reidy

  • Juvenile Inmates in an Adult Prison System Rates of Disciplinary Misconduct and Violence

    Attapol Kuanliang;Jon R. Sorensen;Mark D. Cunningham

  • Conviction Offense and Prison Violence: A Comparative Study of Murderers and Other Offenders.

    Jon Sorensen;Mark D. Cunningham

  • Factors related to killings of felons by police officers: A test of the community violence and conflict hypotheses

    Jonathan R. Sorensen;James W. Marquart;Deon E. Brock

  • Youth Pathways to Placement: The Influence of Gender, Mental Health Need and Trauma on Confinement in the Juvenile Justice System

    Erin M. Espinosa;Jon R. Sorensen;Molly A. Lopez

  • Nothing to Lose? A Comparative Examination of Prison Misconduct Rates Among Life-Without-Parole and Other Long-Term High-Security Inmates

    Mark D. Cunningham;Jon R. Sorensen

  • The Effect of State Sentencing Policies on Incarceration Rates

    Jon Sorensen;Don Stemen

  • Actuarial models for assessing prison violence risk: revisions and extensions of the Risk Assessment Scale for Prison (RASP).

    Mark D. Cunningham;Jon R. Sorensen

  • Prosecutorial discretion in seeking death: An analysis of racial disparity in the pretrial stages of case processing in a midwestern county

    Jon Sorensen;Donald H. Wallace

  • Disproportionate Minority Confinement of Juveniles A National Examination of Black–White Disparity in Placements, 1997-2006

    Jaya Davis;Jon R. Sorensen

  • Serious assaults on prison staff: A descriptive analysis

    Jon R. Sorensen;Mark D. Cunningham;Mark P. Vigen;S.O. Woods

  • No Hope for Parole: Disciplinary Infractions among Death-Sentenced and Life-Without-Parole Inmates

    Jon Sorensen;Robert D. Wrinkle

  • An Assessment of Criminal Justice and Criminology Journal Prestige

    Jon Sorensen;Clete Snell;John J. Rodriguez

  • Patterns of Rule-Violating Behaviors and Adjustment to Incarceration among Murderers

    Jon Sorensen;Robert Wrinkle;April Gutierrez

  • Journal publications of Ph.D. graduates from American criminology and criminal justice programs

    Ellen G. Cohn;David P. Farrington;Jonathan R. Sorensen

  • America's Fear of Crime

    Bahram Haghighi;Jon Sorensen

  • Assertions of “Future Dangerousness” at Federal Capital Sentencing: Rates and Correlates of Subsequent Prison Misconduct and Violence

    Mark D. Cunningham;Thomas J. Reidy;Jon R. Sorensen

  • The institutional affiliations of authors in leading criminology and criminal justice journals

    Jon Sorensen;Rocky Pilgrim

  • Capital Punishment and Deterrence: Examining the Effect of Executions on Murder in Texas:

    Jon Sorensen;Robert Wrinkle;Victoria Brewer;James Marquart

  • Is death row obsolete? A decade of mainstreaming death-sentenced inmates in Missouri.

    Mark D. Cunningham;Thomas J. Reidy;Jon R. Sorensen

  • From Death to Life: Prison Behavior of Former Death Row Inmates in Indiana

    Thomas J. Reidy;Mark D. Cunningham;Jon R. Sorensen

Frequent Co-Authors

James W. Marquart
James W. Marquart The University of Texas at Dallas

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