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Links to recent press releases about Dr. Pridemore's research
William is an Associate Professor in the Criminal Justice Department and an affiliate faculty member of the Russian and East European Institute. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY-Albany in 2000. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research and spent a year as a Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His main research interest is the impact of social structure, economic transition, and alcohol consumption on homicide and suicide in Russia. Other research interests include far right-wing culture and crime and the measurement of crime.
Dr. Pridemore's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation. His research is interdisciplinary and has been published in leading journals in several disciplines, including criminology (Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly), public health (American Journal of Public Health, Addiction), and sociology (Social Forces, Social Science and Medicine, European Sociological Review). He also recently edited a volume on law, crime, and justice in transitional Russia, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield.
Recent Publications
Pridemore, W.A. 2008. A first test of the poverty-homicide hypothesis at the cross-national level. Forthcoming in Criminology.
Pridemore, W.A. & Eckhardt, K. 2008. A comparison of the characteristics of alcohol- and non-alcohol-related homicides.
Forthcoming in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 45.
Pridemore, W.A & Freilich, J.D. 2007. The impact of state laws protecting abortion clinics and reproductive rights: Deterrence, backlash, or neither? Forthcoming in Law and Human Behavior, 31.
Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. 2007. Interview mode effects on estimates of need for alcohol and drug treatment among welfare recipients: Evidence from a quasi-experiment. Forthcoming in Journal of Experimental Criminology, 3.
Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., & Cochran, J.K. 2007. An interrupted time series analysis of Durkheim’s social deregulation thesis: The case of the Russian Federation. Justice Quarterly, 24, 271-290.
Pridemore, W.A. 2006. Heavy drinking and suicide mortality in Russia.
Social Forces, 85, 413-430.
Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. (2006). Mismeasuring militias: The methodological limitations of state-level studies of paramilitary groups. Justice Quarterly, 23, 147-162.
Pridemore, W.A. & Chamlin, M.B. 2006. A time series analysis of the effects of heavy drinking on homicide and suicide rates in Russia, 1956-2002. Addiction, 101, 1719-1729.
Pridemore, W.A. 2007. Change and stability in the characteristics of homicide victims, offenders, and incidents during rapid social change.
British Journal of Criminology, 47, 331-345.
Stickley, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2007. The social structural correlates of homicide in late Tsarist Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 47, 80-99.
Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. (2006). Democratization and political change as threats to collective sentiments: Testing Durkheim in Russia. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 605, 82-103.
Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. (2006). A test of recent subcultural explanations of white violence in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice, 34, 1-16.
Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. (2006). Patterns of alcohol-related mortality in Russia. Journal of Drug Issues, 35, 229-248.
Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2007. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society. The Sociological Quarterly, 48, 229-251.
Pridemore, W.A. (2006). An exploratory analysis of homicide victims, offenders, and events in Russia. International Criminal Justice Review, 16, 5-23.
Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Social change, institutional anomie, and serious property crime in transitional Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 45, 81-97.
Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Social structure and homicide in post-Soviet Russia. Social Science Research, 34, 732-756.
Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. (2005). Obtaining sensitive information from a wary population: A comparison of telephone and face-to-face surveys of welfare recipients in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 61, 976-984.
Pridemore, W.A. (2005). A cautionary note on using county-level crime and homicide data. Homicide Studies, 9, 256-268.
Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Poverty, socioeconomic change, institutional anomie, and homicide. Social Science Quarterly, 86, 1377-1398.
Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. (2005). Gender equity, traditional masculine culture, and female homicide victimization. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 213-223.
Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Social support and homicide in transitional Russia. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 561-572.
Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). A reassessment of state-level covariates of militia groups. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 527-546.
Pridemore, W.A. & Shkolnikov, V.M. (2004). Education and marriage as protective factors against homicide mortality: Methodological and substantive findings from Moscow. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20, 173-187.
Pridemore, W.A. (2004). Weekend effects on binge drinking and homicide mortality: Preliminary evidence for the social connection between alcohol and violence in Russia. Addiction, 99, 1034-1041.
Pridemore, W.A. (2004). Alcohol poisonings, drinking behavior, and violence in Russia: A reply to Rossow. Addiction, 99, 1356-1358.