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Steven F. Messner is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a significant emphasis on sociology and political science. Their body of work spans various subfields including social psychology, general health professions, nature and landscape conservation, and astronomy and astrophysics.

The central themes in their research involve crime patterns and interventions, criminal justice and corrections analysis, as well as crime, illicit activities, and governance. Additional topics explored include homelessness and social issues, wildlife conservation and criminology analyses, social and intergroup psychology, and terrorism, counterterrorism, and political violence.

Messner has contributed to several notable publication venues. Frequent outlets for their research include Justice Quarterly, Criminology, The British Journal of Criminology, International Criminology, and the International Journal of Comparative Sociology.

Recent papers authored by Messner illustrate the scope and focus of their work:

  • The Glass is at Least Half Full: Reflections on the Internationalization of Criminology (2021, International Criminology)
  • Explaining when older persons are perceived as a burden: A cross-national analysis of ageism (2022, International Journal of Comparative Sociology)
  • The influence of importation and deprivation factors on prison adaptation: Insights from Chinese prisons (2020, International journal of law, crime and justice)
  • Structural Racism and Criminal Violence: An Analysis of State-Level Variation in Homicide (2021, Race and Justice)
  • Change in the Spatial Clustering of Poor Neighborhoods within U.S. Counties and Its Impact on Homicide: An Analysis of Metropolitan Counties, 1980-2010 (2021, Sociological Quarterly)

Collaboration is a component of their research activity, with frequent coauthors including Sylwia J. Piatkowska, Eric P. Baumer, Mohammed A. Alazawi, Shiguo Jiang, and Andreas Hövermann.

Best Publications

  • Crime and the American Dream

    Richard Rosenfeld;Steven F. Messner

  • Political Restraint of the Market and Levels of Criminal Homicide: A Cross-National Application of Institutional-Anomie Theory

    Steven F. Messner;Richard Rosenfeld

  • Social Capital and Homicide

    Richard Rosenfeld;Steven F. Messner;Eric P. Baumer

  • REASONS FOR REPORTING AND NOT REPORTING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO THE POLICE

    Richard B. Felson;Steven F. Messner;Anthony W. Hoskin;Glenn Deane

  • STRUCTURAL COVARIATES OF U.S. COUNTY HOMICIDE RATES: INCORPORATING SPATIAL EFFECTS*

    Robert D. Baller;Luc Anselin;Steven F. Messner;Glenn Deane

  • The Spatial Patterning of County Homicide Rates: An Application of Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis

    Steven F. Messner;Luc Anselin;Robert D. Baller;Darnell F. Hawkins

  • Poverty, Inequality, and the Urban Homicide Rate: Some Unexpected Findings

    Steven F. Messner

  • Further Testing of Social Disorganization Theory: An Elaboration of Sampson and Groves's “Community Structure and Crime”:

    Bonita M. Veysey;Steven F. Messner

  • ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND LEVELS OF HOMICIDE: AN ANALYSIS OF URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS*

    Steven F. Messner;Kenneth Tardiff

  • Regional and Racial Effects on the Urban Homicide Rate: The Subculture of Violence Revisited

    Steven F. Messner

  • RACIAL INEQUALITY AND RACIALLY DISAGGREGATED HOMICIDE RATES: AN ASSESSMENT OF ALTERNATIVE THEORETICAL EXPLANATIONS*

    Steven F. Messner;Reid M. Golden

  • Dimensions of Social Capital and Rates of Criminal Homicide

    Steven F. Messner;Eric P. Baumer;Richard Rosenfeld

  • IMMIGRATION AND THE RECENT VIOLENT CRIME DROP IN THE UNITED STATES: A POOLED, CROSS-SECTIONAL TIME-SERIES ANALYSIS OF METROPOLITAN AREAS*

    Jacob I. Stowell;Steven F. Messner;Kelly F. Mcgeever;Lawrence E. Raffalovich

  • The Sex Ratio, Family Disruption, and Rates of Violent Crime: The Paradox of Demographic Structure

    Steven F. Messner;Robert J. Sampson

  • Explaining spatial variation in support for capital punishment: A multilevel analysis

    Eric P. Baumer;Steven F. Messner;Richard Rosenfeld

  • Economic discrimination and societal homicide rates: further evidence on the cost of inequality.

    Steven F. Messner

  • Routine Leisure Activities and Rates of Crime: A Macro-Level Analysis

    Steven F. Messner;Judith R. Blau

  • THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF URBAN HOMICIDE: AN APPLICATION OF THE “ROUTINE ACTIVITIES” APPROACH

    Steven F. Messner;Kenneth Tardiff

  • THE VICTIM‐OFFENDER RELATIONSHIP AND CALLING THE POLICE IN ASSAULTS*

    Richard B. Felson;Steven F. Messner;Anthony Hoskin

  • Societal Development, Social Equality, and Homicide: A Cross-National Test of a Durkheimian Model

    Steven F. Messner

  • Theoretical Integration in the Study of Deviance and Crime: Problems and Prospects.

    David F. Greenberg;Steven F. Messner;Marvin D. Krohn;Allen E. Liska

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric P. Baumer
Eric P. Baumer Pennsylvania State University
Richard B. Felson
Richard B. Felson Pennsylvania State University
Scott J. South
Scott J. South University at Albany, State University of New York
Marvin D. Krohn
Marvin D. Krohn University of Florida
Magdalena Cerdá
Magdalena Cerdá New York University
Charis E. Kubrin
Charis E. Kubrin University of California, Irvine
Luc Anselin
Luc Anselin University of Chicago
Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson Harvard University
Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Gerd Bohner
Gerd Bohner Bielefeld University

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