Ross Matsueda

 
Faculty Affiliate Ross Matsueda, is a Blumstein-Jordan Endowed Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, where he was previously Associate Chair of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences.  He began his career in the Badger State at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he taught in the Sociology Department for nearly ten years, moving from Assistant to Full Professor. He was also Professor and Chair of Sociology, and founding Director of the Center for Criminology and Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Iowa before joining the faculty at Washington. His research has extended and tested classical theories of crime, such as differential association, social control, and labeling. He has also examined the implications of rational choice theories and the thought of George Herbert Mead for theorizing about crime. His current research includes the Seattle Neighborhoods and Crime Project (a study of neighborhood social capital and codes of violence), Life Course Trajectories of Substance Use and Crime (a study of latent classes of trajectories and the effects of life course transitions on crime and drug use), Rational Choice and Deterrence (using panel data from the Denver Youth Survey), and Sibling Models of Child Behavior Problems. 
 

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Ross Matsueda
Email: matsueda@u.washington.edu
Homepage: http://faculty.washington.edu/matsueda/
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