Faculty Affiliate Robert D. Crutchfield, is a Professor and the Clarence and Elissa Schrag Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington  where he has been a winner of the university's Distinguished Teaching  Award. He served on the Washington State Juvenile Sentencing Commission  and is also a former juvenile probation officer, adult parole officer,  and a deputy editor of Criminology. He is a past Vice President of the American Society of Criminology and currently serves on the National  Academies' Committee on Law and Justice. His research focuses on labor markets and crime, and on racial and ethnic disparities in the administration of justice.

Sample Publications

• Crutchfield, R.D., Ross Matsueda, Kevin Drakulich, “Race, Labor Markets and Neighborhood Violence,”
  The Many Colors of Crime, edited by Ruth Peterson, Lauren Krivo, & John Hagan, NYU Press, NY
  (2006)
• Crutchfield, R.D., “Abandon Felon Disenfranchisement Policies.” Criminology & Public Policy, vol. 6,
  number 4 (November) 2007.
• Crutchfield, R.D. and David Pettinicchio. “Cultures of Inequality:’ Ethnicity, Immigration, Social Welfare,
  and Imprisonment.” The Annals of Political and Social Sciences. Volume 623, 2009.

Contact Information

Robert Crutchfield
Email: crutch@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://www.soc.washington.edu/people/faculty_detail.asp?UID=crutch
Bob Crutchfield's CV: [PDF]