Other research projects

One current research project involves the study of far right-wing culture and crime. This has resulted in a series of papers with Dr. Joshua Freilich, who is on the sociology faculty at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and who is the real brain behind this project. These papers include:

Pridemore, W.A & Freilich, J.D. (2006). The impact of state laws protecting abortion clinics and reproductive rights: Deterrence, backlash, or neither? Forthcoming in Mobilization .

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. (2005). Gender equity, traditional masculine culture, and female homicide victimization. Forthcoming in Journal of Criminal Justice .

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. State-level correlates of militia and patriot organizations: Political opportunities, backlash, and deprivation . Under first review.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. Mismeasuring militias: The methodological limitations of state-level studies of paramilitary groups . Under first review.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. Female empowerment, paramilitary culture, and political crime: Covariates of abortion clinic attacks in the United States . Under first review.

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. A test of recent subcultural explanations of white violence in the United States . Revised and resubmitted.

A second project includes research on survey methodology with Dr. Kelly Damphousse, who is on the sociology faculty at the University of Oklahoma. Papers resulting from this project include:

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 TANF recipients in the United States. Forthcoming in Social Science & Medicine .

Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. Effects of interview mode on estimates of need for alcohol and drug treatment among welfare recipients . Under first review.

A final project includes ongoing research with demographer Vladimir Shkolnikov, who is Head of the Data Laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (). Papers resulting from this project include:

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.

Chervyakov, V.V., Shkolnikov, V.M., Pridemore, W.A., & McKee, M. (2002). The changing nature of murder in Russia. Social Science and Medicine, 55, 1713-1724.

Pridemore, W.A. Contextual characteristics of homicide events in a transitional society . Under first review.