Recent Publications

2004. Steen, Sara and Mark Cohen. “Assessing the Public’s Demand for Hate Crime Penalties.” Justice Quarterly 21(1).

2004. Cohen, Mark, Roland Rust, Sara Steen, and Simon Tidd. “Willingness-to-Pay for Crime Control Programs.” Criminology 42(1): 89-110.

2002. Engen, Rodney L., Sara Steen, and George S. Bridges. “Race, Crime and Juvenile Justice: An Empirical Analysis of Research Methods and Findings.” Social Problems 49(2): 194-220.

2001. Steen, Sara. “Contested Portrayals: Medical and Legal Social Control of Juvenile Sex Offenders.” Sociological Quarterly 42(3): 325-350.

2000. Engen, Rodney L. and Sara Steen. “The Power to Punish: Discretion and Sentencing Reform in the War on Drugs.” American Journal of Sociology 105(5): 1357-1395.

1999. Steen, Sara, Chris Bader, and Charis Kubrin. “Rethinking the Graduate Seminar.” Teaching Sociology 27(2): 167-173.

1998. Bridges, George S. and Sara Steen. "Racial Disparities in Official Assessments of Juvenile Offenders: Attributional Stereotypes as Mediating Mechanisms." American Sociological Review 63(4): 554-570.