Research Summary:Robert Crutchfield is a professor and the chair of sociology at the University of Washington. In recent years he has continued his research on labor market patterns and the distribution of employment and criminal behavior. This research has three components. The first has been aggregate analyses of census tract indicators of the distribution of employment and types of jobs (with control and intervening variables) as predictors of violent crime rates. These analyses have used census data and local police department data. The second component has focused on individual labor market experience and criminal behavior. These analyses have used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). The third component combines elements of the first two by studying individual labor market experience within the geographic context where respondents of the NLSY reside. In the two components of this research using individual level data there are separate theoretical models for young adults and for children (under eighteen years of age). The juvenile models include analyses of school performance indicators as endogenous variables through which the labor market experience of parents and adults in the local area effect involvement in juvenile delinquency.
Professor Crutchfield’s other work includes studies of racial disparity in criminal justice processing. A paper (with Rodney Engen of North Carolina State University, Randy Gainey of Old Dominion University and Joseph Weis of the University of Washington) examining prosecutorial discretion is in review at Criminology. Papers on suburbanization and inner-city delinquency (with Paul Jargowsky, University of Texas-Dallas), inner-city crime (with Charis Kubrin, George Washington University), and violent crime (with Tim Wadsworth, University of New Mexico), will appear shortly in edited volumes.
Recent Publications:- Crutchfield, R. D., (2008), Imprisonment, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, William A. Darrity, J., 3, Macmillian Reference, Detriot.
- Crutchfield, R. D.; Bridges, G. S.; Weis, J. G.; Kubrin, C. (ed), (2008), Crime: Readings, SAGE-Pine Forest Press, Thousand Oaks, California.
- Crutchfield, R. D., (2007), ABANDON FELON DISENFRANCHISEMENT POLICIES, CRIMINOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY, 6: 4, 707-715.
- Crutchfield, R. D., (2006), They Bring You Up to do Like Your Daddy Done : Stratification Theory, Employment, and Crime, Sociological Theory and Criminological Research : Views from Europe and the United States, Deflem, M., Elsevier JAI, Amsterdam ; Oxford.
- Crutchfield, R. D.; Matsueda, R.; Drakulich, K., (2006), Race, Labor Markets and Neighborhood Violence, The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime in America, Peterson, R. D.; Krivo, L. J.; Hagan, J., New York University Press, New York.
- Crutchfield, R. D.; Wadsworth, T.; Groninger, H.; Drakulich, K., (2006), Final Report for: “Labor Force Participation, Labor Markets, and Crime.”, National Institute of Justice.
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Ph.D. 1980, Vanderbilt University. Criminology, stratification, racial inequality.
