Vanessa Barker
Assistant Professor
850-644-7650
vbarker@fsu.edu
Education
Ph.D. 2004, New York University; Sociology
B.A. Magna Cum Laude & Distinction in English & American Literature 1993, University of California, Santa Barbara
Courses Taught
- Law & Society
- Punishment & Society
- Criminology
- Qualitative Methods
- Crime & Punishment
Research Interests
- Sociology of punishment
- Comparative penal sanctions
- Historical sociology of crime control policy
- Political sociology
Select Publications
- Barker, Vanessa. 2006. “Deliberating Crime and Punishment: A Way Out of Get Tough Justice?” Criminology and Public Policy Vol 5. No 1.
- Barker, Vanessa. 2006. “Politics of Punishing: Building a State Governance Theory of American Imprisonment Variation.” Punishment & Society 8(1).
- Barker, Vanessa. 2007. The Politics of Pain: A Political Institutionalist Analysis of Crime Victim's Moral Protests. Law & Society Review 41(3).
- Barker, Vanessa. Forthcoming. The Politics of Imprisonment: How the Democratic Process Shapes the Way American Punishes Offenders. Under contract with Oxford University Press.
Grants and Awards
- Fellowship, Law & Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, 2006-2007
- American Scandinavian Foundation Research Grant, 2006
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