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Dan Mears

Dan Mears

Dan Mears

Associate Professor
850-644-7376
dmears@fsu.edu

Education

Ph.D. 1998, University of Texas at Austin; Sociology
M.A. 1995, University of Texas at Austin; Sociology
B.A. 1988 Haverford College; Sociology

Courses Taught

  • Corrections
  • Crime Policy Evaluation
  • Criminal Justice and Public Policy
  • Juvenile Justice Policy and Practice
  • Juvenile Justice System
  • Prisoner Reentry

Research Interests

  • Crime and delinquency
  • Juvenile and criminal justice
  • Crime theory
  • Public policy and opinion
  • Drugs
  • Domestic violence
  • Immigration
  • Mental health
  • Religion
  • Sentencing, corrections, and reentry

Select Publications

  • Mears, Daniel P., Carter Hay, Marc Gertz, and Christina Mancini. 2007. "Public Opinion and the Foundation of the Juvenile Court." Criminology. 45(1)223-258.
  • Mears, Daniel P., Michelle L. Scott, and Avinash S. Bhati. 2007. “Opportunity Theory and Agricultural Crime Victimization.” Rural Sociology. 72(2)151-184.
  • Mears, Daniel P., and Avinash S. Bhati. “No Community Is an Island: The Effects of Resource Deprivation on Urban Violence in Spatially and Socially Proximate Communities.” Criminology 44(3):509-548.
  • Mears, Daniel P., Caterina G. Roman, Ashley Wolff, and Janeen Buck. 2006. “Faith-Based Efforts to Improve Prisoner Reentry: Assessing the Logic and Evidence.” Journal of Criminal Justice 34(4).
  • Mears, Daniel P. 2001. “The Immigration-Crime Nexus: Toward an Analytic Framework for Assessing and Guiding Theory, Research, and Policy.” Sociological Perspectives 44(1):1-19.
  • Mears, Daniel P., and Samuel H. Field. 2000. “Theorizing Sanctioning in a Criminalized Juvenile Court.” Criminology 38(4):983-1020.
  • Mears, Daniel P. 1998. “The Sociology of Sentencing: Reconceptualizing Decisionmaking Processes and Outcomes.” Law and Society Review 32(3):667-724.
  • Mears, Daniel P., Matthew Ploeger, and Mark Warr. 1998. “Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 35(3):251-266.

Grants

  • An Evaluation of the ACTION Agricultural Crime Prevention Initiative. Principal Investigator. Sponsor: National Institute of Justice ($447,040, #2003-DD-BX-1017), 2004-2006.
  • The Past, Present, and Future of Juvenile Justice: Assessing the Policy Options. Principal Investigator, with Jeffrey A. Butts (University of Chicago) and Christy A. Visher (The Urban Institute). Sponsor: National Institute of Justice ($258,068, #2005-IJ-CX-0039), 2005-2007.
  • Florida Department of Corrections Public Opinion Survey—Phase II (Analysis and Report). Principal Investigator. Sponsor: Florida Department of Corrections ($15,449, FSU ID #017643), 2006.
  • Florida Department of Corrections Public Opinion Survey—Phase I (Survey). Principal Investigator. Sponsor: Florida Department of Corrections ($7,568, FSU ID #017643), 2005-2006.
 
 
 

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