EDITING
2008- Editor.
2008-2011. Contexts (with Douglas Hartmann). Volumes 7, 8, 9 and 10,
Numbers 1-4.
2011 American Sociological Association.
2008 Criminology and Public Policy. The Effect of Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders, Volume
7, Number 3. American Society of Criminology.
2005 Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. Special issue: Collateral Consequences of
Criminal Sanctions, Volume 21, Number 1.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
*On grant research where I am the principal investigator, I typically
assume last-author position on publications coauthored with students or junior
colleagues.
2025 Nobles, Allison,
Nicole Fox, Holly Nyseth Nzitatira, and Christopher
Uggen. Forthcoming. “The Highs and Lows of Women’s Experiences as Elected Lay
Judges on Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts.” Journal of Genocide Research [conditionally
accepted]
Christopher Uggen and Emma Lookner.
2025. “Disenfranchisement,
Reenfranchisement, and Crime.” Forthcoming in Democracy,
Governance, and Law, edited by Mathieu Deflem
and Derek Silva. Emerald.
Kathleen Powell,
Sarah Lageson, Nathan W. Link, Jordan M. Hyatt, Christopher Uggen, and Loni P.
Tabb. 2025. “The Intersection of Cannabis Legalization, Criminal Record Relief,
and Emerging Adulthood.” Forthcoming in Ohio State Journal of Criminal
Law.
Heather McLaughlin
and Christopher Uggen. Forthcoming. “Sexual
Harassment in the #MeToo Era.” Forthcoming in 5th edition of David Grusky’s Inequality reader with Nima Dahir
and Claire Daviss (Routledge).
2024 N. Jeanie Santaularia, Ryan Larson, Christopher Robertson, and
Christopher Uggen. 2024. “The Mental Health Consequences of
George Floyd’s Murder in Minneapolis in Black, Latine, and White Communities.” Forthcoming in American
Journal of Epidemiology.
Hannah Schwendeman, Veronica
Horowitz, Frank Edwards, Robert Stewart, Ryan Larson, and
Christopher Uggen. 2024. “My Right Arm
Should be ‘Debt’ and My Left Arm Should be ‘Felony’”: Dual Debt in the Child
Support and Criminal Legal Systems." Law
& Society Review 58:547-72.
Lind, Allison, Ryan P. Larson, Susan M. Mason, and
Christopher Uggen. 2024. “Carjacking and
Homicide in Minneapolis After the Police Killing of George Floyd: Evidence from
an Interrupted Time Series Analysis.” doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2024.117228 Social
Science and Medicine 358:1-19 (117228).
Veronica Horowitz, Robert Stewart, Ryan Larson, and
Christopher Uggen. 2024. “Fines, Fees, and
Families: Monetary Sanctions as Stigmatized Intergenerational Exchange.” Forthcoming
in The Sociological Quarterly 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2024.2333815
Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, Robert Stewart, and Molly
Hauf. 2024. Locked Out 2024: Four Million Denied Voting Rights
Due to a Felony Conviction. The Sentencing Project.
Christopher Uggen,
Robert Stewart, and Emma Lookner. 2024. “'U.S.
Disenfranchisement and Reenfranchisement Explained.” Pp. 96-114 in
Prisoners’ Vote: A Multidisciplinary and Comparative Perspective,
edited by Martine Herzog-Evans and Jerome Thomas. Routledge.
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy
Blackstone. 2024. “Sexual
Harassment, Gender and the Workplace.” Pp.
243-258 in Gender-Based Crime: Learning
through Experts and Cases,
edited by Kathleen Bogle (San Diego: Cognella).
2023 Uggen, Christopher,
Jason Schnittker, Mike Massoglia, and Sarah Shannon. 2023. “The Contingent Effect of Incarceration on State
Health Outcomes.” Social Science & Medicine – Population
Health 21: 1-10. DOI: 101322.
Hollie Nyseth Nzitatira,
Evelyn Gertz, and Christopher Uggen. 2023. “Judging
Genocide: Emotional Labor During Transitional Justice.”
Law & Social Inquiry 48(4), 1210-1231.
doi:10.1017/lsi.2022.69
Larson, Ryan P., N. Jeanie Santaularia,
and Christopher Uggen. 2023. “Temporal and
Spatial Shifts in Gun Violence, Before and After a Historic Police Killing in
Minneapolis.” Spatial
and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology 47:
1-14, 100602
Uggen, Christopher.
2023. “Partnerships in Public Sociology: Expanding Voting Rights for People
with Felony Convictions.” With companion essay from Nicole Porter of the
Sentencing Project. Berkeley Journal of Sociology 64: 71-85.
Hartmann, Douglas, Christopher Uggen, and Mahala MillerGS.. 2023. “There’s Research
on That: Translating and Sharing Sociology for Public Audiences.” Sociological Forum 38: 1106-1123. DOI: 10.1111/socf.12909
Uggen, Christopher, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon,
Robert Stewart, and Caleigh LuederUGS.
2023. “The
Denial of Voting Rights to People with Criminal Records.” Pages 73-85 in Beyond Bars: A Path Forward from 50
Years of Mass Incarceration in the United States, edited by Kristen Budd, David Lane, Glenn W. Muschert, and Jason Smith. Bristol, UK: Bristol University
Press (Policy Press).
2022 Horowitz, Veronica, Kimberly Spencer-Suarez,
Ryan Larson, Robert Stewart, Frank Edwards, Emmi Obara, and Christopher Uggen.
2022. “Dual
Debtors: Child Support and Criminal Financial Legal Obligations.”
Social Service Review 96(2):226-67.
Christopher
Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Robert Stewart. 2022. Locked Out 2022: Estimates of People Denied Voting
Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
Ryan
LarsonGS, Sarah Shannon, Aaron Sojourner,
and Christopher Uggen. 2022. “Felon History and Change in U.S.
Employment Rates.” Social Science Research
103:102649 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102649
Lesley SchneiderGS,
Mike Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, and Christopher Uggen 2022. “Before
and After Ban the Box: Who Complies with Anti-Discrimination Law?”
Law
& Social Inquiry 47(3):749-82.
Robert Stewart, Brieanna WattersGS,
Veronica Horowitz, Ryan LarsonGS, Brian
Sargent, and Christopher Uggen. 2022. “Native
Americans and Monetary Sanctions.”
RSF:
The
Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
8 (2):137-56.
Gabriela
KirkGS, Kristina Thompson, Beth M. Huebner,
Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Shannon. 2022. “Justice
by Geography: The Role of Monetary Sanctions Across Communities.” RSF:
The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences
8(1):200-20.
2021 Christopher Uggen, Ráchael A. Powers, Heather McLaughlin, and Amy Blackstone.
2021. “Toward a Criminology of Sexual
Harassment.” Annual Review of Criminology
4:33-51.
Hollie Nyseth Brehm,
Laura FrizzellGS, Christopher Uggen, Evelyn GertzGS.
2021. “Consequences of Judging
Transitional Justice Courts.” British Journal of Criminology 61:1169-1186.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab008
Shawn Bushway and
Christopher Uggen. 2021. “Fostering Desistance.”
Contexts 20: 34-39.
*
Revised version of “Fostering Desistance.”
2021. Pp. 47-57 in A Better Path
Forward for Criminal Justice. Report by the Brookings-AEI Working Group on
Criminal Justice Reform.
Veronica L. Horowitz, Emily R. GrebermanUGS,
Patrick E. NolanUGS, Jordan M. Hyatt,
Christopher Uggen, Synøve N. Andersen, and Steven Chanenson.
2021. “A
Comparative Perspective on Officer Wellness: American Reflections from
Norwegian Prisons.” in Criminal Justice
Studies: A Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society 34:477-97. DOI: 10.1080/1478601X.2021.2001231
*Reprinted 2022 and 2024 in Promoting Wellness and Resiliency in Correctional Officers, edited
by Hayden P. Smith. Routledge.
Jeanie SantaulariaGS,
Ryan LarsonGS, and Christopher Uggen.
2021. “Criminal
Punishment and Violent Injury in
Minnesota.” Injury Epidemiology 8:1-10.
Jordan M. Hyatt, Synøve
N. Andersen, Steven L. Chanenson, Veronica Horowitz, and
Christopher Uggen. 2021. “‘We Can Actually Do This’: Adapting
Scandinavian Correctional Culture in Pennsylvania.”
American
Criminal Law Review 58:1715-1746.
2020 Robert StewartGS, and Christopher Uggen. 2020. “Criminal Records and
College Admissions: A Modified Experimental Audit.” Criminology 58:156-88.
Hollie
Nyseth Brehm, Louisa RobertsGS,
Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascéne Gasanabo. 2020. “‘We Came to Realize We Are
Judges’: The Moral Careers of Elected Lay Jurists in Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts.” International Journal of
Transitional Justice 14:443-63.
Shannon,
Sarah, Beth M. Huebner, Alexes Harris, Karin Martin, Mary Pattillo, Becky
Pettit, Bryan Sykes, and Christopher Uggen. 2020. “The Broad Scope and
Variation of Monetary Sanctions: Evidence from Eight States.” UCLA Criminal
Justice Law Review 4:269-81.
Christopher
Uggen, Ryan LarsonGS, Sarah Shannon, and
Arleth Pulido-NavaUGS. 2020. Locked Out 2020: Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights Due
to a Felony Conviction. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
2019 Veronica HorowitzGS and Christopher Uggen. 2019. “Consistency and
Compensation in Mercy: Commutation in the Era of Mass Incarceration.” Social Forces 97:1205-1230.
2018 Emily BryantGS, Emily SchulzGS,
Hollie Nyseth Brehm, and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Techniques of
Neutralization and Identity Work among Genocide Perpetrators.” Social Problems 65:584-602.
Christopher
Uggen, Robert StewartGS, and Veronica HorowitzGS. 2018. “Why Not Minnesota? Norway,
Justice Reform, and 50-Labs Federalism.” Federal Sentencing Reporter 31:5-13.
Rachael
A. Woldoff and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Community and Crime: Now
More than Ever.”
City
& Community 17:939-944.
Hollie
Nyseth Brehm, Suzy McElrathGS, and
Christopher Uggen. 2018. “A Dynamic Life-Course
Approach to Genocide.”
Social
Currents 5:107-119.
Mike
Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. 2018. “To Match or Not to Match? Statistical
and Substantive Considerations in Audit Design and Analysis.” Pages 119-140 in Audit
Studies: Behind the Scenes with Theory, Method, and Nuance, edited by
Michael S. Gaddis. New York: Springer.
2017 Sarah Shannon, Christopher Uggen, Jason
Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, Melissa Thompson, and Sara Wakefield. 2017. “The Growth, Scope, and
Spatial Distribution of People with Felony Records in the United States,
1948-2010.”
Demography
54:1795-1818.
* Awarded a 2018
Outstanding Research Award from the Minnesota Population Center.
Heather
McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2017. “The Economic and Career
Effects of Sexual Harassment on Working Women.” Gender & Society 31:333-358.
Mike
Vuolo, Sarah Lageson, and Christopher Uggen. 2017. “Criminal Record Questions
in the Era of ‘Ban the Box’.” Criminology & Public Policy 16:139-165.
Mike
Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah Lageson. 2017. “Race, Recession, and
Social Closure in the Low Wage Labor Market.” Research in the Sociology of Work 30:141-183.
Christopher
Uggen and Ryan Larson. 2017. “Is the Public Getting
Smarter on Crime?”
Contexts
16:76-78. DOI
10.1177/1536504217742400.
Christopher
Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and D. Wayne Osgood. 2017. “From Daddy’s Liquor
Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to
Adulthood.”
Pages 165-189 in Crossings to Adulthood: How Diverse Young Americans Understand and
Navigate Their Lives, edited by Teresa Swartz, Douglas Hartmann, and
Ruben Rumbaut. Leiden: Brill.
Christopher
Uggen, Veronica HorowitzGS, and Robert StewartGS. 2017. “Public Criminology and
Criminologists with Records.” The Criminologist 42:3-7.
Ryan
LarsonGS and Christopher Uggen. 2017. “Felon
Disenfranchisement.”
In Encyclopedia
of Corrections, edited by
Kent R. Kerley. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. DOI: 10.1002/9781118845387.wbeoc053
2016 Hollie
Nyseth Brehm, Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascéne Gasanabo. 2016. “Age, Gender, and the Crime
of Crimes: Toward a Life-Course Theory of Genocide Participation.” Criminology 54: 713-43.
* Awarded the 2018 James F. Short Distinguished Article Award from the American
Sociological Association Crime, Law, and Deviance section.
Mike Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah LagesonGS. 2016. “Statistical
Power in Experimental Audit Studies: Cautions and Calculations for Matched
Tests with Nominal Outcomes." Sociological
Methods & Research 45:260-303.
Shelly
Schaefer and Christopher Uggen. 2016. “Blended Sentencing Laws
and the Punitive Turn in Juvenile Justice.” Law & Social Inquiry 41:435-63.
Christopher
Uggen. 2016. “Records, Relationships,
and Reentries: How Specific Punishment Conditions Affect Family Life.” ANNALS of the American Academy of
Political and Social Science 665:142-48.
Christopher
Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah Shannon. 2016. 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level Estimates of Felony
Disenfranchisement, 2016. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
* Awarded the 2018 Publication Award from the American Sociological Association
Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.
Christopher
Uggen & Lindsay BlahnikUGS. 2016.
"The Increasing Stickiness
of Public Labels."
Pages 222-43 in Global Perspectives on Desistance, edited by Joanna Shapland, Stephen Farrall, and Anthony Bottoms.
Routledge.
2015 Jason
Schnittker, Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and Suzy McElrathGS.
2015. “The Institutional Effects
of Incarceration: Spillovers from
Criminal Justice to Health Care." Milbank Quarterly 93:516-60
Veronica
HorowitzGS and Christopher Uggen. 2015. “Crime, Punishment, and
Politics.”
In Encyclopedia
of American Political Culture, edited
by Michael Shally-Jensen. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.
2014 Christopher Uggen and
Sarah ShannonGS. 2014. “Productive
Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime – But Not Drug Use." Social
Problems 61:105-30.
Christopher Uggen, Mike
Vuolo, Sarah LagesonGS, Ebony RuhlandGS, and Hilary WhithamGS.
2014. "The
Edge of Stigma: An Experimental Audit of the Effects of Low-Level Criminal
Records on Employment." Criminology 52:627-654.
Michael Vuolo, Christopher Uggen, and Sarah LagesonGS. 2014. “Taste Clusters of Music
and Drugs: Evidence from Three Analytic Levels.” British Journal of Sociology
65:520-54.
Hollie Nyseth BrehmGS,
Christopher Uggen, and Jean-Damascène Gasanabo. 2014. “Genocide, Justice, and
Rwanda’s Gacaca Courts.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 30:333-52.
Christopher Uggen and Suzy McElrathGS.
2014. “Six Social Sources of the
U.S. Crime Drop.” Pages 3-20 in Crime and the Punished, edited
by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.
Sarah ShannonGS
and Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Visualizing Punishment.” Pages 42-62 in Crime and
the Punished, edited
by Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.
2013 Sarah
Lageson and Christopher Uggen. 2013. “How Work Affects
Crime—And Crime Affects Work—Over The Life Course.” Pages 201-212 in
Handbook of Life-Course Criminology: Emerging Trends and Directions for Future
Research, edited by Chris L. Gibson and Marvin D. Krohn. New York:
Springer.
2012
Heather McLaughlinGS,
Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2012. “Sexual Harassment,
Workplace Authority, and the Paradox of Power.” American Sociological Review 77:625-47.
Ryan D. King, Michael
Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Employment and Exile:
U.S. Criminal Deportations, 1908-2005.” American Journal of Sociology
117:1786-1825. [authorship is alphabetical, reflecting
equal contributions]
Jason
Schnittker, Michael Massoglia, and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Out and Down:
Incarceration and Psychiatric Disorders.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior
53:448-64.
Melissa
Thompson and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Dealers, Thieves, and the
Common Determinants of Drug and Non-Drug Illegal Earnings.” Criminology 50:1057-87.
Elaine
Hernandez and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Institutions, Politics,
and Mental Health Parity.” Society and Mental Health
2:154-71.
Jason N. HouleGS, Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer,
Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. 2011. “The Psychological Impact
of Sexual Harassment during the Early Occupational Career.” Society and Mental Health
1:89-105.
Alec
Ewald and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “The Collateral Effects of
Imprisonment on Prisoners, Their Families, and Communities.” Pages 83-103 in The
Oxford Handbook on Sentencing and Corrections, edited by Joan
Petersilia and Kevin Reitz. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sarah
ShannonGS and Christopher Uggen. 2012. “Incarceration as a Political
Institution.”
Pages 214-225 in The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by
Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Terence
P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri MatsudaGS,
Ann S. Masten, Erik Bulten, and Andrea G. Donker.
2012. “Explanations for
Offending.”
Pages 47-85 in From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime: Criminal Careers, Justice
Policy, and Prevention, edited by Rolf Loeber and David Farrington. New
York: Oxford University Press
2011
Jason Schnittker, Michael Massoglia,
and Christopher Uggen. 2011. “Incarceration and the
Health of the African American Community.” Du Bois Review 8:133–41.
Darren
Wheelock, Christopher Uggen, and Heather Hlavka. 2011. “Employment Restrictions
for Individuals with Felon Status and Racial Inequality in the Labor Market.” Pages 278-307 in Global
Perspectives on Re-Entry, edited by Ikponwosa
O. Ekunwe and Richard S. Jones. Tampere, Finland:
Tampere University Press.
2010
Michael Massoglia and Christopher
Uggen. 2010. “Settling Down and Aging
Out: Toward an Interactionist Theory of Desistance and the Transition to
Adulthood.”
American
Journal of Sociology 116:543-82.
[authorship is alphabetical, reflecting equal
contributions]
Sara Wakefield
and Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Incarceration and
Stratification.”
Annual
Review of Sociology 36:387-46.
*Reprinted 2013 in Introduction to
Criminal Justice: A Sociological Perspective, edited by Charis Kubrin and Thomas Stucky. Stanford University Press.
Christopher
Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. “Public Criminologies.” Criminology and Public Policy 9:
725-750 [with introduction by Todd Clear and Policy Essay responses by Paul
Rock, Kenneth Land, Ian Loader and Richard Sparks, Michael Tonry, and Daniel
Mears, pp. 751-805].
Christopher
Uggen and Michelle Inderbitzin. 2010. "The Price and the
Promise of Citizenship: Extending the Vote to Nonincarcerated Felons." Pages 61-68 in Contemporary
Issues in Criminal Justice Policy: Policy Proposals From the American Society
of Criminology Conference, edited
by Natasha A. Frost, Joshua D. Freilich, and Todd R. Clear. Belmont, CA:
Cengage/Wadsworth.
2009
Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and
Heather McLaughlinGS. 2009. “Legal Consciousness and
Responses to Sexual Harassment.” Law & Society Review 43:631-68.
Teresa Swartz, Amy Blackstone, Christopher Uggen, and
Heather McLaughlinGS. 2009. “Welfare and Citizenship:
The Effects of Government Assistance on Voting Behavior.” The Sociological Quarterly 50:633-65.
Jesse WozniakGS and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Real Men Use Non-Lethals: Appeals to Masculinity in Marketing Police
Weaponry.”
Feminist
Criminology 4:274-93.
Christopher
Uggen and Chika ShinoharaGS. 2009. “Age, Gender, and Sekuhara in the United States and Japan.” The Sociological Quarterly
50:201-34.
Shelly
SchaeferGS and Christopher Uggen. 2009. “Juvenile Delinquency and
Desistance.”
Pages 423-430 in Handbook of Youth and Young Adulthood, edited by Andy Furlong.
Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Routledge.
Christopher
Uggen, Mischelle Van BrakleGS, and Heather
McLaughlinGS. 2009. “Punishment and Social
Exclusion: National Differences in Prisoner Disenfranchisement.” Pages 59-78 in Criminal
Disenfranchisement in an International Perspective, edited by Alec
Ewald and Brandon Rottinghaus. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
2008
Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Editorial Introduction: The Effect of
Criminal Background Checks on Hiring Ex-Offenders.” Criminology and Public Policy 7:367-370.
Heather HlavkaGS and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Does Stigmatizing Sex
Offenders Drive Down Reporting Rates? Perverse Effects and Unintended
Consequences”
Northern
Kentucky Law Review 35:347-371.
Heather
McLaughlinGS, Christopher Uggen, and Amy
Blackstone. 2008. “Social Class and
Workplace Harassment During the Transition to Adulthood.” New Directions for Child and
Adolescent Development 119:85-98. [invited]
Christopher
Uggen and Heather HlavkaGS. 2008. “No More Lame Pro-sems:
Professional Development Seminars in Sociology.” Pages 191-216 in Academic
Street Smarts: Informal Professionalization of Graduate Students,
edited by Ira Silver and David Shulman. New York: American Sociological
Association.
Darren
WheelockGS and Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Race, Poverty and
Punishment: The Impact of Criminal Sanctions on Racial, Ethnic, and
Socioeconomic Inequality.” Pages 261-292 in The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic
Disparities Persist, edited by Ann Chih Lin and David Harris. New York:
Russell Sage.
2007 Michael
Massoglia and Christopher Uggen. 2007. “Subjective Desistance and
the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23:90-103.
Christopher
Uggen. 2007. “Who We Punish: The
Carceral State.”
Social
Research 74: 467-469 and “Dirty Bombs and Garbage Cases.” Social Research 74:707-711
[invited, non-refereed]
Christopher
Uggen. 2007. “Thinking Experimentally.” Pages
181-189 in Christine J. Horne and Michael J. Lovaglia,
Experiments
in Criminology and Law: A Research Revolution. Lanham, MA: Rowman and
Littlefield.
Christopher
Uggen and Sara Wakefield.GS 2007. “What Have We Learned from
Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Employment and Crime?” Pages 189-218 in The
Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by
Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.
Michelle Inderbitzin, Kelly Fawcett, Christopher Uggen, and Kristin A. Bates. 2007. “'Revolutions May Go Backwards': The Persistence of Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Pages 37-53 in Kristin A. Bates and Richelle S. Swan (Eds.), Through the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2006 Christopher Uggen, Jeff Manza, and Melissa
Thompson. 2006. “Citizenship, Democracy,
and the Civic Reintegration of Criminal Offenders.” ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
605:281-310.
Angela BehrensUGS
and Christopher Uggen. 2006. “Felon Disenfranchisement.” Pages 582-585 in Paul
Finkelman (Ed.), Encyclopedia of American Civil Liberties. New York: Routledge.
2005 Christopher Uggen, Angela BehrensUGS, and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Criminal
Disenfranchisement.”
Annual Review
of Law and Social Science 1:307-322. [invited, non-refereed]
* Reprinted in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited
by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom
Publishing.
Christopher Uggen and Sara
WakefieldGS. 2005. “Young Adults Reentering
the Community from the Criminal Justice System: Challenges to Adulthood.” Pages 114-144 in On
Your Own Without a Net: The Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations,
edited by D. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, Constance Flanagan, and Gretchen
R. Ruth. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Christopher Uggen, Sara WakefieldGS, and Bruce Western. 2005. “Work
and Family Perspectives on Reentry.” Pages 209-243 in Prisoner Reentry and Crime in
America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press.
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2005. “Disenfranchisement
and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted Felons.” Pages 67-84 in Civil Penalties, Social
Consequences, edited by Christopher Mele and Teresa Miller. New York:
Routledge.
2004 Christopher Uggen and Amy BlackstoneGS. 2004. “Sexual Harassment as a
Gendered Expression of Power.” American Sociological Review 69:64-92.
Jeff Manza, Clem Brooks,
and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Public Attitudes toward
Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” Public Opinion Quarterly 68:276-87.
Christopher Uggen and Jeff
Manza. 2004. “Voting and Subsequent
Crime and Arrest: Evidence from a Community Sample.” Columbia Human Rights Law Review 36:193-215.
Jeff Manza and Christopher
Uggen. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy:
The Disenfranchisement of Nonincarcerated Felons in the United States.” Perspectives on Politics 2:491-505.
Sara WakefieldGS
and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The Declining Significance
of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Discrimination
Claims.” Sociological
Inquiry 74:128-57.
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2004. “Lost Voices: The
Civic and Political Views of Disenfranchised Felons.” Pages 165-204 in Imprisoning America: The
Social Effects of Mass Incarceration, edited by Mary Pattillo,
David Weiman, and Bruce Western. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.
Jeremy StaffGS,
Jeylan Mortimer, and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Work and Leisure in
Adolescence.”
Pages 429-450 in The Handbook of Adolescent Psychology, edited by Richard Lerner
and Laurence Steinberg. New York: John Wiley and Sons.
Christopher Uggen, Jeff
Manza, and Angela BehrensUGS. 2004. “Less than the Average
Citizen: Stigma, Role Transition, and the Civic Reintegration of Convicted
Felons.”
Pages 258-290 in After Crime and
Punishment: Pathways to Offender Reintegration, edited by Shadd
Maruna and Russ Immarigeon. Cullompton, Devon, UK:
Willan Publishing.
2003 Angela BehrensUGS,
Christopher Uggen, and Jeff Manza. 2003. “Ballot Manipulation and the
‘Menace of Negro Domination’: Racial Threat and Felon Disenfranchisement in the
United States, 1850-2002.” American Journal of Sociology 109:559-60.
* Reprinted 2006 in Crime
and Criminal Justice: International Library of Essays in Law & Society,
edited by William T. Lyons, Jr. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing.
Christopher Uggen and
Melissa ThompsonGS. 2003. “The Socioeconomic
Determinants of Ill-Gotten Gains: Within-Person Changes in Drug Use and Illegal
Earnings.”
American
Journal of Sociology 109:146-85.
Christopher Uggen, Jeff
Manza, and Angela BehrensUGS. 2003. “Felon Voting Rights and
the Disenfranchisement of African Americans.” Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Politics,
Culture, and Society 5:47-55.
* Reprinted 2007 in Racializing Justice, Disenfranchising
Lives, edited by Manning
Marable. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan).
Jeremy StaffGS
and Christopher Uggen. 2003. “The Fruits of Good Work:
Early Work Experiences and Adolescent Deviance.” Journal of Research in Crime and
Delinquency 40:263-90.
Christopher Uggen and
Michael MassogliaGS. 2003. “Desistance from Crime as
a Turning Point in the Life Course.” Pages 311-29 in Handbook of the Life Course,
edited by Jeylan T. Mortimer and Michael J. Shanahan. New York: Kluwer
Academic/Plenum.
Christopher Uggen. 2003. “Criminology and the
Sociology of Deviance.” The Criminologist 28: 1-5.
2002 Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza. 2002. “Democratic Contraction?
The Political Consequences of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States.” American Sociological Review 67:777-803.
* Reprinted in Crime, Inequality, and the State, edited by Mary E. Vogel (New York:
Routledge). Excerpted 2004, pp. 264-65 in Sociology: Exploring the
Architecture of Everyday Life (“Prisoners
and Presidents”)
by David M. Newman. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press; Excerpted
2003 in American
Sociological Association’s Footnotes (“Sociology News for the
Dinner Table”) 31:8; Excerpted 2003 in Contexts (“Discoveries”) 2:6.
Michael MassogliaGS and Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Life
Course Theories.” Pages 1008-12 in Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
2001 Christopher Uggen and Jeremy StaffGS. 2001. “Work as a Turning Point
for Criminal Offenders.” Corrections Management Quarterly 5:1-16.
* Reprinted 2004, Pp. 141-66 in Crime
and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections,
edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira
Press.
Christopher Uggen. 2001.
“Crime and Class.” Volume 5, pages 2906-10 in International Encyclopedia
of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, edited by Neil J. Smelser
and Paul B. Baltes. New York: Elsevier.
Christopher Uggen and
Melissa ThompsonGS. 2001. “Prevention:
Juveniles as Potential Offenders.” Pages 1152-55 in Encyclopedia of Crime
and Justice. New York: MacMillan.
2000 Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Work as a Turning Point in the Life Course
of Criminals: A Duration Model of Age, Employment, and Recidivism.” American
Sociological Review 65:529-46.
* Reprinted in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited
by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom
Publishing.
* Awarded International Society for
Criminology Junior Scholar Article Prize.
Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Class, Gender, and Arrest: An
Intergenerational Analysis of Workplace Power and Control.” Criminology
38:101-28.
Barbara McMorrisPD and Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Alcohol and Employment in
the Transition to Adulthood.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 41:276-94.
Elizabeth Chambliss and
Christopher Uggen. 2000. “Men and Women of Elite
Law Firms: Reevaluating Kanter’s Legacy.” Law and Social Inquiry 25:41-68.
* Reprinted 2009 in Rosabeth Moss Kanter,
edited by John C. Wood and Michael C. Wood, Routledge.
Candace Kruttschnitt, Christopher Uggen, and Kelly SheltonGS. 2000. “Predictors of Desistance
among Sex Offenders: The Interaction of Formal and Informal Social Controls.” Justice Quarterly 17:61-87.
Jessica HuirasUGS, Christopher Uggen, and Barbara McMorrisPD. 2000. “Career Jobs, Survival
Jobs, and Employee Deviance: A Social Investment Model of Workplace
Misconduct.”
The Sociological Quarterly 41:245-63.
1999 Lauren B. Edelman, Christopher Uggen, and
Howard S. Erlanger. 1999. “The Endogeneity of Legal
Regulation: Grievance Procedures as Rational Myth.” American Journal of
Sociology 105:406-54.
*Reprinted 2007 in The
Legal Lives of Private Organizations,
edited by Lauren B. Edelman and Mark C. Suchman, Ashgate.
Christopher Uggen and
Jennifer JanikulaUGS. 1999. “Volunteerism and Arrest
in the Transition to Adulthood.” Social Forces 78:331-62.
Christopher Uggen. 1999. “Ex-Offenders and the Conformist
Alternative: A Job Quality Model of Work and Crime.” Social Problems
46:127-51.
1998 Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. 1998. “Crime in the Breaking:
Gender Differences in Desistance.” Law and Society Review 32:401-28.
* Reprinted 2012 in Gender
and Crime, edited by Sandra Walklate, Routledge.
* Reprinted 2000 in The Termination of Criminal Careers,
edited by Stephen Farrall. International Library of Criminology and Criminal
Justice, Hampshire, UK: Ashgate.
Christopher Uggen and
Irving Piliavin. 1998. “Asymmetrical Causation
and Criminal Desistance.” Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology
88:1399-1422.
* Reprinted in Boundaries: Readings in Deviance, Crime, and Justice, edited
by B.R.E. Wright, Jr. and R.B. McNeal, Jr. Allyn & Bacon/Pearson Custom
Publishing.
* Excerpted 1998 in National
Institute of Justice NIJ Journal 237:20 (October).
1993 Christopher Uggen. 1993. “Beyond Calvin and Hobbes: Rationality and
Exchange in a Theory of Moralizing Shaming.” Law and Social Inquiry
18:513-16. A rejoinder to John Braithwaite’s “Pride in Criminological
Dissensus.”
Christopher Uggen. 1993. “Reintegrating Braithwaite: Shame and
Consensus in Criminological Theory.” Law and Social Inquiry 18:481-99.
An article-length review essay.
REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, AND OTHER SHORT PIECES
2021 Christopher Uggen. 2021.
“Ronald E. Anderson, 1941-2020.” Footnotes 49 (2), April-June.
Lisa Deaderick, exchange with Christopher Uggen and Sharyn Tejani. 2021.
“Increased power and support for workers can result in increased accountability
for sexual harassment.” San Diego Union-Tribune, August
22, 2021.
2018 Douglas Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.
2018. “Series Preface.” Pages xi-xv in Kyle Green and Sarah Lageson, editors. Give
Methods a Chance. New York: W.W. Norton.
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy
Blackstone. 2018. “When
Sexual Harassment is Used to Equalise Power.”
LSE
Business Review. London:
London School of Economics.
Sarah Shannon and Christopher Uggen. 2018. “Restoring the Vote to
those Convicted of a Felony Sentence is not Just the Right Thing to Do, it's
Good Social Science.” LSE United States Politics and Policy Blog. London: London School of Economics.
Amy Blackstone, Heather McLaughlin, and Christopher
Uggen. 2018. “Workplace
Sexual Harassment.” Pages 38-41 in Pathways Magazine, State of the Union 2018. Stanford Center on
Poverty and Inequality.
2016 Christopher Uggen. 2015-16. “Crime,
Punishment, and American Inequality.” Focus 32:1-6.
Christopher Uggen. 2016.
“The 2016 Election and the Vocation of Social Science.” In Speak for Sociology, a blog by the American Sociological
Association. December 2.
2015 Christopher Uggen. 2015. “Public
Criminology and the Social Media Echo Chamber.” Crime, Law & Deviance News,
Crime, Law & Deviance section of the American Sociological Association.
2014 Christopher Uggen. 2014. “Violence Against
Women is on the Decline – but We can Still Do More.” Pacific Standard. June 4, 2014. [originally appeared in Public Criminology and Sociological Images on TheSocietyPages].
Christopher Uggen. 2014.
“Should Drug Treatment Aim to End Use or Reduce Harm.” Pacific Standard. February 24, 2014. [originally
appeared in Public Criminology and Sociological Images on TheSocietyPages].
2013 Marc Mauer and Christopher Uggen. 2013. “The
Missing Black Voters.” Huffington Post. May 28, 2013.
2012 Christopher Uggen. 2012. “A Tragic
Distraction.” National Post (Canada).
December 21, p. A16. Originally appeared on TheSocietyPages. Reprinted in Pacific Standard, Vancouver Sun and elsewhere.
Christopher Uggen. 2012.
Crime
and the Great Recession. Stanford, CA: Stanford Center on Poverty and
Inequality. Reprinted as “The
Crime Wave that Wasn’t”
Pathways magazine, Fall 2012, pp. 14-18.
2011 Doug Hartmann and Christopher Uggen.
2008-2011. “From the Editors,” an introductory column in each quarterly issue
of Contexts.
2010 Christopher Uggen. 2010. “Law
enforcement death rate falling, not rising.” Minnpost. May 14.
Christopher Uggen. 2010.
“The
link between education and police use of force.”
Minnpost. April 28.
* Reprinted as “The Link Between Use of Force and Education” on PoliceLink.com
May, 2010.
2009 Chika Shinohara and Christopher Uggen. 2009.
"Sexual
Harassment: The Emergence of Legal Consciousness in Japan and the US."
The
Asia-Pacific Journal 31:2-09.
2008 Christopher Uggen. 2008. “Who
are the Outlaws? A Freakonomics Quorum,” The New York Times Online. October 16.
Christopher Uggen. 2008.
“Sociology
of Deviance in the Real World,” “Journaling
Interns -- Tell them to Write it All Down,”
and course syllabus. Pp. 91-97, 209-214, and 235-238 in Bruce Hoffman (ed.) Teaching
the Sociology of Deviance (6th
edition). Washington, D.C.: American Sociological Association.
2006 Christopher Uggen. 2006. “The
Disenfranchised of History … and Now.” The Wall Street Journal, September 2, p. A9, Letters section.
Christopher UggenGS and Mike Vuolo. 2006. “Getting
the Truth about Consequences.” Amici: Newsletter of the Sociology of Law
Section of the American Sociological Association 13:6-8.
2005 Christopher Uggen. 2005. “Editorial
Comment.” Guest editor for special issue on Collateral
Consequences of Criminal Sanctions. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 21:4-5.
Christopher
Uggen. 2005. “Public Criminologies and Sociological
Education.” Sociological Education award address. Sociograph 23 (1):7.
2004 Christopher Uggen. 2004. “Where
the Tough Guys Go.” Review of John H. Laub and Robert J.
Sampson’s Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives. Contexts 3:64-66.
Jeff
Manza and Christopher Uggen. 2004. “The
President Is Right: Ex-Felons Need Aid.”
Newsday, February 5, p. A33, Op-Ed
section.
* Reprinted
2004 under various titles, e.g., “Ex-cons Deserve a Chance to Right their
Lives.”
2003
Christopher Uggen and Jeff Manza.
2003. “They've
Paid Their Debt; Let Them Vote.”
Los Angeles Times, July 18,
p. B15, Op-Ed section.
* Reprinted
2003 under various titles.
2002
Christopher Uggen. 2002. “Crime and
Punishment to the Core.” Brief invited comment on
Bruce Western and Becky Pettit. Contexts 1:4.
MANUSCRIPTS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW
Horowitz, Veronica,
Steve L Chanenson, Christopher
Uggen, Hannah Nario-Lopez, Synøve N Andersen, Jordan M Hyatt. “Discouraging
Dignity: Linguistic Barriers to Transforming the Prison Environment.” [2nd
revise and resubmit]
Horowitz,
Veronica, Patrick Nolan, Christopher Uggen, Jordan Hyatt, and Synøve Andersen. “Considering
the Pervasiveness of the ‘Danger Imperative’ in Prisons: Perspectives from
Reform-Oriented Correctional Officers."
Uggen, Christopher, Carsyn Schneider, Robert
Stewart, and Ryan Larson. "Democratic expansion? Restoring the vote to
people on probation and parole in the United States, 1964–2024."
Larson, Ryan,
Robert Stewart, Veronica Horowitz, and Christopher Uggen. “The Racialized
Packaging of Punishment: An Instrumental Variables Approach to Confinement,
Surveillance, and Financial Extraction.”
POLICY REPORTS AND WORKING PAPERS
2024 Christopher Uggen, Ryan
Larson, Sarah Shannon, Robert Stewart, and Molly Hauf. 2024. Locked Out 2024: Four Million
Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. The Sentencing Project.
2022 Christopher
Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah Shannon, and Robert Stewart. 2022. Locked Out 2022:
Estimates of People Denied Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
2020 Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, Sarah
Shannon, and Arleth Pulido-Nava. 2020. Locked Out 2020: Estimates of People Denied
Voting Rights Due to a Felony Conviction. Washington,
DC: Sentencing Project.
Expert report in Schroeder v. Minnesota Secretary of State. 2020. [written on behalf of plaintiffs
seeking restoration of voting rights and supported by the American Civil
Liberties Union. 26 pages].
2017 Alexes Harris, Beth Huebner, Karin
Martin, Mary Pattillo, Becky Pettit, Sarah Shannon, Bryan Sykes, Chris Uggen,
April Fernandes. 2017. Monetary Sanctions in the Criminal Justice
System. Washington, DC:
Arnold Foundation.
2016 Christopher Uggen, Ryan Larson, and Sarah
Shannon. 2016. 6 Million Lost Voters: State-Level
Estimates of Felony Disenfranchisement, 2016. Washington,
DC: Sentencing Project.
* Awarded the 2018 Publication Award from the American Sociological Association
Section on Sociological Practice and Public Sociology.
*Report
cited in New York Times, Washington Post,
Quartz, Vox, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Florida Times-Union, Jackson Free Press, Albany Times-Union, Louisville
Courier-Journal, Daily Beast, The Grio, Richmond
Times-Dispatch, New Orleans Times Picayune and elsewhere.
2012 Christopher Uggen, Sarah Shannon, and
Jeff Manza. 2012. State-level Estimates of Felon
Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010.
Washington, DC: Sentencing Project.
*report cited in New York Times,
Washington Post, Slate, Mother Jones,
Philadelphia Inquirer,
Tampa Tribune, Tampa Bay Times, Florida
Sun-Sentinel, Louisville Courier-Journal, Daily Beast, The Grio,
Richmond Times-Dispatch, New Orleans Times Picayune and elsewhere.
Christopher
Uggen. 2012. Felon Disenfranchisement in Minnesota.
Christopher
Uggen and Suzy McElrath. 2012. Felon Disenfranchisement in Wisconsin.
1999 Christopher Uggen and Melissa ThompsonGS. 1999. National Institute of Justice Final
Report: Careers in Crime and Substance Use.
Christopher
Uggen, Irving Piliavin, and Ross Matsueda.
[publication status unknown]. “Jobs
Programs and Criminal Desistance.” Written for The Potential of Publicly Funded Jobs
Programs, edited by D. Lee Bawden and Robert Lerman. Washington D.C.:
Urban Institute Press.
