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Overview

Peggy C. Giordano is affiliated with Bowling Green State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, psychology, and health professions, with numerous contributions to subfields including sociology and political science, general health professions, clinical psychology, health, and social psychology.

The scholar's work addresses a variety of topics related to interpersonal and family dynamics, crime, and health. Key areas of focus include intimate partner and family violence, attachment and relationship dynamics, child abuse and trauma, family dynamics and relationships, crime patterns and interventions, homelessness and social issues, and criminal justice and corrections analysis.

Recent publications by Peggy C. Giordano highlight continuing engagement with these themes. Notable papers include:

  • Some cognitive transformations about the dynamics of desistance, 2022, published in Criminology & Public Policy
  • Continuing education: Toward a life-course perspective on social learning, 2020, published in Criminology
  • Relationship Dynamics Associated With Dating Violence Among Adolescents and Young Adults: A Feminist Post-Structural Analysis, 2021, published in Feminist Criminology

In addition to these, their frequent co-authors indicate collaborative research efforts with scholars such as Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, Angela M. Kaufman-Parks, Jennifer E. Copp, and Eric E. Sevareid.

Publication venues for their work demonstrate a diverse academic presence including:

  • Emerging Adulthood
  • Population Research and Policy Review
  • Vienna Yearbook of Population Research
  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • Criminology

The scope of Giordano's research further intersects with health and social issues, explored through empirical studies that examine factors such as childhood adversity and relationship violence.

Best Publications

  • Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation

    Peggy C. Giordano;Stephen A. Cernkovich;Jennifer L. Rudolph

  • FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND DELINQUENCY

    Stephen A. Cernkovich;Peggy C. Giordano

  • Relationships in Adolescence

    Peggy C. Giordano

  • School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency

    Stephen A. Cernkovich;Peggy C. Giordano

  • Friendships and Delinquency

    Peggy C. Giordano;Stephen A. Cernkovich;M. D. Pugh

  • Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo- Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change

    Peggy C. Giordano;Ryan D. Schroeder;Stephen A. Cernkovich

  • Hooking Up: The Relationship Contexts of “Nonrelationship” Sex

    Wendy D. Manning;Peggy C. Giordano;Monica A. Longmore

  • The relationship context of contraceptive use at first intercourse.

    Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore;Peggy C. Giordano

  • Gender and the Meanings of Adolescent Romantic Relationships: A Focus on Boys

    Peggy C. Giordano;Monica A. Longmore;Wendy D. Manning

  • CHANGES IN FRIENDSHIP RELATIONS OVER THE LIFE COURSE: IMPLICATIONS FOR DESISTANCE FROM CRIME

    Peggy C. Giordano;Stephen A. Cernkovich;Donna D. Holland

  • The Characteristics of Romantic Relationships Associated with Teen Dating Violence

    Peggy C. Giordano;Danielle A. Soto;Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore

  • The Changing Institution of Marriage: Adolescents’ Expectations to Cohabit and to Marry

    Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore;Peggy C. Giordano

  • The Age–IPV Curve: Changes in the Perpetration of Intimate Partner Violence During Adolescence and Young Adulthood

    Wendi L. Johnson;Peggy C. Giordano;Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore

  • ADOLESCENT ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS AND DELINQUENCY INVOLVEMENT

    Dana L. Haynie;Peggy C. Giordano;Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore

  • Legacies of Crime: A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

    Peggy C. Giordano

  • Preadolescent Parenting Strategies and Teens' Dating and Sexual Initiation: A Longitudinal Analysis

    Monica A. Longmore;Wendy D. Manning;Peggy C. Giordano

  • Adolescents involvement in non-romantic sexual activity.

    Wendy D. Manning;Monica A. Longmore;Peggy C. Giordano

  • A LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVE ON SPIRITUALITY AND DESISTANCE FROM CRIME

    Peggy C. Giordano;Monica A. Longmore;Ryan D. Schroeder;Patrick M. Seffrin

  • The family and peer relations of Black adolescents.

    Peggy C. Giordano;Stephen A. Cernkovich;Alfred DeMaris

  • Self-Esteem, Depressive Symptoms, and Adolescents' Sexual Onset:

    Monica A. Longmore;Wendy D. Manning;Peggy C. Giordano;Jennifer L. Rudolph

Frequent Co-Authors

Monica A. Longmore
Monica A. Longmore Bowling Green State University
Wendy D. Manning
Wendy D. Manning Bowling Green State University
Alfred DeMaris
Alfred DeMaris Bowling Green State University
Ann S. Masten
Ann S. Masten University of Minnesota
Terence P. Thornberry
Terence P. Thornberry University of Maryland, College Park
Christopher Uggen
Christopher Uggen University of Minnesota

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