Research with students

Updated: January 4, 2005

Sang-Weon Kim finished his dissertation, which was chaired by Dr. Pridemore, for the University of Oklahoma in November 2003. It was entitled Anomie, institutions, and crime: The role of social institutions in the relationship between socioeconomic change and crime in Russia . During the 2003-2004 academic year he was a post-doc at Harvard University on Dr. Pridemore's NIH/NIAAA grant ( Social structure, alcohol, and lethal violence in Russia ). The two worked on several conference presentations and article manuscripts during that period, which are listed below.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Social change, institutional anomie, and serious property crime in transitional Russia. Forthcoming in British Journal of Criminology .

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. (2005). Poverty, social change, institutional anomie, and homicide. Forthcoming in Social Science Quarterly .

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. Social support and homicide in the context of a rapidly changing society . Under first review.

Pridemore, W.A., & Kim, S.W. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society . Under first review.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. Communism and crime: Political change and homicide in Russia . Manuscript in progress.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. Patterns of alcohol-related mortality in Russia . Manuscript in progress.

Other research on Russia carried out with graduate students that has resulted in peer-reviewed publications or manuscripts under review or in progress include papers on homicide, suicide, the Russian army, consumer culture, and ecumenism, as well on corruption in Ukraine:

Pridemore, W.A. & Spivak, A.L. (2003). Patterns of suicide mortality in Russia. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 33, 132-150.

Spivak, A.L. & Pridemore, W.A. (2004). Conscription and reform in the post-Soviet Russian army. Problems of Post-Communism, 51 (6), 33-43.

Markovskaya, A.A., Pridemore, W.A., & Nakajima, C. (2003). Laws without teeth: An overview of the problems associated with corruption in Ukraine. Crime, Law, and Social Change, 39 , 193-213.

Treadwell, A. & Pridemore, W.A. (2004). Purchasing power: Consumer empowerment and adaptation to the free market in Russia. Journal of Consumer Policy, 27 , 451-474.

Hoffmann, T. & Pridemore, W.A. (2004). Esau's birthright and Jacob's pottage: A brief look at Orthodox-Methodist ecumenism in Russia during two periods of the 20 th century. Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization, 12 , 465-479.

Stickley, A. & Pridemore, W.A. The structural covariates of homicide in early 20 th century Russia . Manuscript in progress.