Valerie Jenness

Valerie Jenness publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Valerie Jenness D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Research.com Recognitions

• 2019 - Doris Wilkinson Faculty Leadership Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Irvine
• 2010 - Public Understanding of Sociology Award, American Sociological Association
• 2008 - Joseph B. Gittler Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems
• 2001 - Lee Founders Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems Irvine

Best Publications

• THE HOMOGENIZATION AND DIFFERENTIATION OF HATE CRIME LAW IN THE UNITED STATES, 1978 TO 1995: INNOVATION AND DIFFUSION IN THE CRIMINALIZATION OF BIGOTRY *

  Ryken Grattet;Valerie Jenness;Theodore R. Curry

  295
  Citations

• Agnes Goes to Prison Gender Authenticity, Transgender Inmates in Prisons for Men, and Pursuit of “The Real Deal”

  Valerie Jenness;Sarah Fenstermaker

  181
  Citations

• The Law-In-Between: The Effects of Organizational Perviousness on the Policing of Hate Crime

  Valerie Jenness;Ryken Grattet

  163
  Citations

• Hate Crimes: New Social Movements and the Politics of Violence

  Valerie Jenness;Kendal Broad

  158
  Citations

• Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy

  David S. Meyer;Valerie Jenness;Helen M. Ingram

  154
  Citations

• The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime

  Ryken Grattet;Valerie Jenness

  149
  Citations

• From Sex as Sin to Sex as Work: COYOTE and the Reorganization of Prostitution as a Social Problem

  Unknown

  148
  Citations

• Where the Margins Meet: A Demographic Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men’s Prisons

  Lori Sexton;Valerie Jenness;Jennifer Macy Sumner

  147
  Citations

• Social Movement Growth, Domain Expansion, and Framing Processes: The Gay/Lesbian Movement and Violence against Gays and Lesbians as a Social Problem

  Unknown

  125
  Citations

• Making it Work: The Prostitutes' Rights Movement in Perspective

  Joseph Gusfield;Valerie Jenness

  120
  Citations

• Making Work, Making Trouble: Prostitution as a Social Problem

  Unknown

  112
  Citations

• Explaining Criminalization: From Demography and Status Politics to Globalization and Modernization

  Valerie Jenness

  112
  Citations

• Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice

  Ryken Grattet;Valerie Jenness

  103
  Citations

• Challenges and opportunities for gender-affirming healthcare for transgender women in prison.

  Jae Sevelius;Valerie Jenness

  98
  Citations

• The Birth and Maturation of Hate Crime Policy in the United States

  Ryken Grattet;Valerie Jenness

  98
  Citations

• Managing Differences and Making Legislation: Social Movements and the Racialization, Sexualization, and Gendering of Federal Hate Crime Law in the U.S., 1985-1998

  Valerie Jenness

  75
  Citations

• Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context

  Valerie Jenness;Lori Sexton;Jennifer Macy Sumner

  70
  Citations

• From Policy to Prisoners to People: A “Soft Mixed Methods” Approach to Studying Transgender Prisoners:

  Valerie Jenness

  70
  Citations

• Prostitution: An International Handbook on Trends, Problems and Policies.

  Unknown

  69
  Citations

• Examining the Boundaries of Hate Crime Law: Disabilities and the "Dilemma of Difference"

  Unknown

  61
  Citations