Janet Lauritsen

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Janet L. Lauritsen is the Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on the causes and consequences of victimization, the social and historical contexts of crime and victimization, and quantitative research methodologies. Her current research analyzes how correlates of violent victimization such as gender, race and ethnicity, and poverty status have changed in the U.S. over the past four decades. Recent publications cover topics on crime data and trends, gender inequality and violence against women, and the relationship between changing economic conditions and violent victimization. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the National Institute of Justice. Dr. Lauritsen recently served as Chair of the Panel on Modernizing the Nation’s Crime Statistics for the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies of Science. She is the co-editor of the journal, Criminology, and in 2013, was named fellow of the American Society of Criminology.

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Phone: 314-516-5427
Fax: 314-516-5048

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Education/Academic qualification

Sociology, PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana

… → 1989

Sociology, MA, University of Illinois at Urbana

… → 1984

Sociology, BA, University of Illinois at Urbana

… → 1982

Research Interests

  • Causes and Consequences of Victimization
  • Gender Crimes and Socialization
  • Longitudinal Data Collection & Analysis
  • Survey Design
  • National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
  • Area-Identified National Crime Victimization Survey (AI-NCVS)
  • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
  • Survey Weighted Regression Modeling
  • SPSS
  • STATA

Disciplines

  • Sociology
  • Criminology
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