Jennifer Schwartz

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Jennifer Schwartz

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Jennifer Schwartz
Assistant Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Penn State, 2003

Office: 211 Wilson Hall
 
Washington State University
Sociology Department
P.O. Box 644020
Pullman, WA 99164-4020

Email: schwartj@wsu.edu

Phone: (509) 335-2657
Fax: (509) 335-6419

 

Department of Sociology | Washington State University | 11/30/2006
The unifying theme of my research is understanding how stratification and inequality impact level of crime and social control efforts. My research interests focus on identifying how position in the social structure (e.g., gender and race/ethnicity) interacts with structural features of communities (e.g., inequality, unemployment) to engender varying levels of crime and social control across place. I also have an interest in trends in crime and community sociology. My most current work examines how cross-community differences in family structure impact female and male levels of violence and also how changes in family structure have influenced trends in female and male violence.