Jeremy A Staff's Information
POSITION TITLE: Assistant Professor of Crime, Law and Justice
RESEARCH INTERESTS: Criminology; life course; stratification.
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| PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND EXPERIENCE:
2004-present Assistant Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice; Department of Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
2004-present Research Associate, Population Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University
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| HONORS, PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND FELLOWSHIPS:
2004 Sociology of Education's David Lee Stevenson Graduate
Student Paper Award (with Jennifer C. Lee)
2004 National Research Service Award (NRSA-NIMH), Mental Health and Adjustment in the Life Course
2007 Mentored Research Scientist Development Award in Population Research, National Institute of Child Health and Development
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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Uggen, C.
and
J.A. Staff
(2001).
"Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders."
Corrections Management Quarterly 5(4):1-16.
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Mortimer, J.T.
,
C. Harley
and
J.A. Staff
(2002).
"The Quality of Work and Youth Mental Health."
Work and Occupations 29(2):166-197.
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Mortimer, J.T.
,
J.A. Staff
and
S. Oesterle
(2003).
"Adolescent Work and the Early Socioeconomic Career." In
Mortimer, J.T.
and
M.J. Shanahan
(Eds.)
, Handbook of the Life Course.
New York:
Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers.
(pp. 437-464)
Staff, J.A.
and
C. Uggen
(2003).
"The Fruits of Good Work: Early Work Experiences and Adolescent Deviance."
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40(3):263-290.
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Uggen, C.
and
J.A. Staff
(2003).
"Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders." In
Krienert, J.L.
and
M.S. Fleisher
(Eds.)
, Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections.
Mortimer, J.T.
and
J.A. Staff
(2004).
"Early Work as a Source of Developmental Discontinuity during the Transition to Adulthood."
Development and Psychopathology 16(4):1047-1070.
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Staff, J.A.
,
J.T. Mortimer
and
C. Uggen
(2004).
"Work and Leisure in Adolescence." In
Steinberg, L.D.
and
R.M. Lerner
(Eds.)
, Handbook of Adolescent Psychology.
New York:
John Wiley and Sons.
(pp. 429-450)
Mortimer, J.T.
,
J.A. Staff
and
J.C. Lee
(2005).
"Agency and Structure in Educational Attainment and the Transition to Adulthood." In
Levy, R.
,
P. Ghisletta
,
J. Le Goff
,
D. Spini
and
E. Widmer
(Eds.)
, Towards an Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Life Course. Advances in Life Course Research, Vol. 10.
New York:
Elsevier.
(pp. 131-154)
Felson, R.B.
and
J.A. Staff
(2006).
"Explaining the Academic Performance-Delinquency Relationship."
Criminology 44(2):299-320.
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Lee, J.C.
and
J.A. Staff
(2007).
"When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Work Intensity on High School Dropout."
Sociology of Education 80(2):158-178.
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Staff, J.A.
and
J.T. Mortimer
(2007).
"Educational and Work Strategies from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Consequences for Educational Attainment."
Social Forces 85(3):1169-1194.
PMCID: PMC1858630??
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Mortimer, J.T.
,
M. Vuolo
,
J.A. Staff
,
S. Wakefield
and
W. Xie
(2008).
"Tracing the Timing of 'Career' Acquisition in a Contemporary Youth Cohort."
Work and Occupations 35(1):44-84.
PMCID: PMC2423322??
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Mortimer, J.T.
and
J.A. Staff
(2008).
"School to Work Transition." In
Carr, D.
(Ed.)
, Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, Vol. 2: Adulthood.
Farmington Hills, MI:
Macmillan Reference USA.
Siennick, S.E.
and
J.A. Staff
(2008).
"Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths."
Criminology 46(3):609-635.
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Staff, J.A.
and
D. Kreager
(2008).
"Too Cool for School? Peer Status, Violence, and High School Dropout."
Social Forces 87(1):445-471.
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Staff, J.A.
,
M.E. Patrick
,
E. Loken
and
J.L. Maggs
(2008).
"Teenage Alcohol Use and Educational Attainment."
Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs 69(6):848-858.
PMCID: PMC2583376??
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Staff, J.A.
and
J.T. Mortimer
(2008).
"Social Class Background and the School-to-Work Transition."
New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:55-69.
PMCID: PMC2302830??
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Kreager, D.
and
J.A. Staff
(2009).
"The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Peer Acceptance."
Social Psychology Quarterly 72(2):143-164.
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Staff, J.A.
,
E.E. Messersmith
and
J.E. Schulenberg
(2009).
"Adolescents and the World of Work." In
Lerner, R.M.
and
L.D. Steinberg
(Eds.)
, Handbook of Adolescent Psychology (3rd Ed.), Vol. 2.
New York:
John Wiley and Sons.
(pp. 270-313)
Staff, J.A.
and
J.T. Mortimer
(In Press).
"21st Century Adolescence in America." In
Hindman, H.D.
(Ed.)
, The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey.
New York:
M.E. Sharpe Inc..
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