Bradley R. E. Wright

Department of Sociology, U-2068 64 Willowbrook Road

University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268

Storrs, CT 06269 (860) 429-3901

(860) 486-3771 Bradley.wright@uconn.edu

(860) 486-6356 (fax)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. December, 1996. Sociology, University of Wisconsin‑Madison.

Major: Social Psychology, Methods and Statistics. Minor: Psychology.

M.S. 1992. Sociology, University of Wisconsin‑Madison.

[Full‑time employment from June 1986 - August 1989]

B.A. 1986. University of California at Davis.

Major: Cultural Anthropology. Minor: Pre‑Medicine.

POSITIONS HELD

2005- Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut.

1998- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Connecticut.

1998- Member, National Consortium on Violence Research.

1996-98 Postdoctoral Training Fellow, National Consortium of Violence Research, National Science Foundation.

1989-96 Research Assistant. Sociology, Psychology, and Social Work. University of Wisconsin.

1991-94 Teaching Assistant. Criminology and Social Psychology. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin.

1993, 94 Lecturer. Homelessness and Homeless Families. Department of Child and Family Studies.

1993 Student Intern, American Sociological Review. Review of submitted papers.

PUBLICATIONS

Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Ray Paternoster. 2004. "Does the Perceived Risk of Punishment Deter Criminally-Prone Individuals? Rational Choice, Self-Control, and Crime." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 41(2): 180-213.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2002. “Intelligence and Crime.” Invited entry in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, Revised Edition, edited by Joshua Dressler. Macmillan: New York.

Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil Silva. 2001. “The Effects of Social Ties on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity: A Life-Course Model of Interdependence.” Criminology 39(2): 321-348.

Baier, Colin and Bradley R. E. Wright. 2001. “'If You Love Me, Keep My Commandments': A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Religion on Crime.” Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency 38(1): 3-21. (Colin was one of my undergraduate students)

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2000. “Aggression and Unemployment, Mediation and Moderation.” Prevention and Treatment 3(34).

Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Low Self-Control, Social Bonds, and Crime: Social Causation, Social Selection, or Both?” Criminology 37(3): 479-514.

Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Richard Miech, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Reconsidering the Relationship between SES and Delinquency: Causation but Not Correlation.” Criminology 37(1): 175-194.

Reprinted:

· Juvenile Delinquency Readings, Second Edition, 2001, edited by Joseph G. Weis, Robert D. Crutchfield, and George S. Bridges. Boston: Pine Forge Press.

Miech, Richard, Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, Bradley R. E. Wright, and Phil Silva. 1999. “Low Socioeconomic Status and Mental Disorders: A Longitudinal Study of Selection and Causation during Young Adulthood.” American Journal of Sociology 104(4): 1096-1131.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 1998. “Behavioral Intentions and Opportunities among Homeless Individuals: An Extension of the Theory of Reasoned Action.” Social Psychological Quarterly 61(4): 271-286.

Wright, Bradley R. E., Avshalom Caspi, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1998. “Factors Associated with Doubled-Up Housing--A Common Precursor to Homelessness.” Social Service Review 72(1): 92-111.

Caspi, Avshalom, Bradley R. E. Wright, Terrie E. Moffitt, and Phil A. Silva. 1998. “Early Failure in the Labor Market: Childhood and Adolescent Predictors of Unemployment in the Transition to Adulthood.” American Sociological Review 63(3): 424-451.

Wong, Irene, Irving Piliavin, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 1998. “Residential Transitions among Homeless Families and Homeless Single Individuals: A Comparison Study.” Journal of Social Service Research. 24(2): 1-27.

Courtney, Mark E., Irving Piliavin, and Bradley R. E. Wright. 1997. “Transitions From and Returns to Out‑of‑Home Care.” Social Service Review 71(4): 652-667.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 1997. “Pathways Off the Streets: Homeless People and Their Use of Resources.” Focus (journal of the Institute for Research on Poverty) 19(1).

Piliavin, Irving, Bradley R. E. Wright, Robert D. Mare, and Alex H. Westerfelt. 1996 “Exits from and Returns to Homelessness.” Social Service Review 70(1): 33-57.

PAPERS IN PREPARATION

Wright, Bradley R. E. and David Weakliem. “In Search of Criminal Trajectories: A Monte Carlo Study of the Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Model.” Under review at Criminology.

Wright, Bradley R. E. "Reconsidering the Relationship between Race and Self-Reported Crime." In preparation for submission for Social Forces.

Ostertag, Steven, Bradley R. E. Wright, and Robert S. Broadhead. "Social Psychological Processes of Health Care Utilization by Injection Drug Users." (Steve is a graduate student). In preparation for submission for Journal of Drug Issues.

BOOK REVIEWS

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2000. Review of On the Self-Regulation of Behavior, by Charles S. Carver and Michael F. Scheier. Contemporary Sociology 29(2): 386-87.

TEACHING MATERIALS PUBLISHED

Wright, Bradley R. E. (Editor). 2002. A Reader in Criminology. An anthology of 200 criminology articles, each with abstract and pedagogy. In Boundaries: A Reader of Deviance, Crime, and Justice, Bradley R. E. Wright and Ralph McNeal (General Editors). Boston: Prentice Hall.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2001. "Understanding Crime." Essay in Boundaries: A Reader of Deviance, Crime, and Justice, Bradley R. E. Wright and Ralph McNeal (General Editors). Boston: Prentice Hall.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2001. "Explaining Crime." Essay in Boundaries: A Reader of Deviance, Crime, and Justice, Bradley R. E. Wright and Ralph McNeal (General Editors). Boston: Prentice Hall.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2001. "Varieties of Crime." Essay in Boundaries: A Reader of Deviance, Crime, and Justice, Bradley R. E. Wright and Ralph McNeal (General Editors). Boston: Prentice Hall.

Wright, Bradley R. E. 2001. "Social Reactions to Crime." Essay in Boundaries: A Reader of Deviance, Crime, and Justice, Bradley R. E. Wright and Ralph McNeal (General Editors). Boston: Prentice Hall.

PRESENTATIONS & MEETING ACTIVITIES

2003. Session Chair, "Age of Onset and Delinquency." American Society of Criminology, Denver.

2002. "Reconsidering the Relationship between Race and Self-Reported Criminal Behavior." American Society of Criminology Meetings, Chicago.

2001. “The Effects of Social Ties on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity. ” The Society for Research in Child Development Meetings, Minneapolis. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

2001. Session Chair, "Life Events and Crime: Processes of Selections and Causation." American Society of Criminology, Atlanta.

1999. “Reinterpreting the Positive Correlation between Youth Employment and Crime.” American Society of Criminology Meetings, Toronto. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1999. “Integrating Rational Choice and Criminal Propensity Theories of Crime.” American Sociological Association Meetings, Chicago. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1999. “Studying Recidivism among Connecticut Parolees.” The Summer Workshop of the National Consortium on Violence Research, Pittsburgh.

1998. “The Effects of Social Bonds on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity: A Life-Course Model of Interdependence.” American Society of Criminology Meetings, Washington D.C. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1998. “Low Self-Control, Social Bonds, and Crime: Social Causation, Social Selection, or Both.” American Sociological Association Meetings, San Francisco. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1997. “Reconsidering the Relationship between SES and Delinquency: Causation but Not Correlation.” American Society of Criminology Meetings, San Diego. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1996. “The Dynamic Status of State Lotteries as Deviance.” American Sociological Association Meetings, New York City. [With Josh Rossol, Irving Piliavin, and Michael Polakowski].

1995. “Doubled-Up Housing among Young Adults.” American Sociological Association Meetigns, Washington, D.C. [With Avshalom Caspi and Terrie Moffitt].

1995. “The Dynamics of Homelessness.” Midwest Sociological Society Meetings, Chicago.

1994. “Planning to Leave the Streets: An Application of the Theory of Reasoned Action.” American Sociological Association Meetings, Los Angeles.

1994. “Some Comments on Policies to Lessen the Prevalence of Homelessness.” Presented at the Russell Sage Foundation Conference on Homelessness, New York City. [With Irvin Garfinkel and Irving Piliavin].

1994. “The Homeless Self‑Concept.” American Sociological Association Meetings, Pittsburgh.

RESEARCH SUPPORT

(Direct Costs Listed)

1999-2000. "Studies of the Personal and Social Predictors of Criminal Behavior." National Institute of Mental Health, subcontracted from T. Moffitt, $15,791.

1999-2000. "The Effects of Rational-Choice Perceptions on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity." National Science Foundation, via the National Consortium on Violence Research, $7,744.

1999-2000. "The Effects of Rational-Choice Perceptions on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity: A Preliminary Study." University of Connecticut Graduate School, $12,573.

1997. Travel Grant. Developmental Program on Personality and Psychopathology, $1,200.

1995. "Pathways Out of Homelessness." U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Dissertation Grant, $15,000.

1995. Departmental Small Grant. Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin, $250.

CLASSES TAUGHT

Graduate Courses:

Social Psychological Explanations of Criminal Behavior (Sociology 305), scheduled Spring 2004.

Training Seminar in Sociological Research (Sociology 305), 1999 - 2002.

Research Methods in Sociology (Sociology 321), 2001.

Undergraduate Courses:

Social Psychology (Sociology 230), 2002, 2003.

Methods of Social Research (Sociology 205), 1999, 2000, 2002.

Juvenile Delinquency (Sociology 218W), 2000, 2002, 2003.

Deviant Behavior (Sociology 217W), 1998.

Homelessness and Homeless Families (Family Studies 219), 1993, 1994.

TEACHING INTERESTS

Crime & Delinquency Social Psychology Methods and Statistics

Homelessness Deviance Social Problems

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS

Graduate Advising

Casey Borch (Ph.D. committee)

Timothy Stablien (Ph.D. committee)

Steve Ostertag (M.A., Ph.D. committee)

Kirsten Hoffman (M.A. committee)

Elena Sher (M.A. committee)

Gordon Gaucht (M.A. committee)

Graduate Research Supervision and Independent Readings

Andrew Flowers, Fall 2002

Undergraduate Research

Emily Meanwell, University Scholar advisor 2003-4

Kimberly Neumann, directed study, 2004

Monica Foley, directed study, 2004

Justin Evanovich, directed study, 2004

Nicole Soloman, directed study, 2003-4

John Wesley Timko, directed study 2003

Mike Vuolo, honors advisor directed study 2002-2003

Gordon Gaucht, senior thesis advisor 2002-2003

Lyn Famiglietti, directed study, degree of distinction program 2003

Kimberly Perkins, directed study 2003

Gabriel Russo, directed study 2003.

Cristina Martin, directed study 2002

David Brzezinski, directed study 2002

Jason Engle, directed study 2002

Colin Baier, honors advisor, directed study (resulting paper published in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency), 2000-2001

David Orzechowicz, honors committee 2001

John DiVenere, directed study 2001

Maureen O'Connell, directed study 2000

Marie Garcia, directed study 2000

Todd Vicino, honors committee 1999

Melissa Chiappetta, directed study 1999

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Board, Criminology, 2003-2004.

Program Committee, American Society of Criminology, 2003 Meetings, Denver.

Chair, Student Paper Competition, American Sociological Association Section on Crime, Law, and Deviance, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

REVIEWS

Grants

National Science Foundation

Sociological Journals

American Sociological Review, Demography, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Rationality and Society, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Social Service Review, Social Science Quarterly, Sociological Perspectives

Speciality Journals

Criminology, Evaluation and Program Planning, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Western Criminology Review

UNIVERSITY AND COLLEGE SERVICE

Criminal Justice Minor Advisor, 2003-2004.

People's Bank Community Internship Awards Committee, 2003-2004.

Chancellor's Library Advisory Committee, 2002-2004.

Vice Provost's Multicultural Affairs Committee for Assessing Diversity, 2000-2001, 2001-2002.

Reviewer, UConn Research Foundation.

DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

Director, Undergraduate Program Committee, 2003-2004.

Departmental Hearing Officer, 2003-2004.

Graduate Program Committee, 1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003.

Undergraduate Program Committee, 2002-2003.

Junior Faculty Search Committee, 2001-2002.

Colloquia and Rituals Committee, chair, 2001-2002.

Space Committee, 2001-2002.

Fierberg Scholarship Committee, member and head, 1998-1999, 2000-2001.

Departmental Executive Committee, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

Portfolio Committee, 1998-1999, 1999-2000, 2000-2001.

Graduate Aid Committee, 1998-1999, 1999-2000.

COMMUNITY AND OUTREACH AFFILIATIONS

Connecticut Voices for Children (Connecticut researchers conducting work on children, adolescents, families, and communities), 2000-2001.

Research consultant, State of Connecticut, Department of Parole, 1999.

Opportunity Calls, A program to give homeless people in Madison access to telephone accounts, co-organizer, 1995.

Speaker, College for Kids, University of Wisconsin.

HONORS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS

Postdoctoral Training Fellowship, National Science Foundation, National Consortium on Violence Research, Carnegie Mellon University. 1996.

University of Wisconsin Dissertation Fellowship, 1995.

First Prize, American Sociological Association, Social Psychology Student Paper Award, 1994.

Distinction, Preliminary Examination on Sociological Methods, 1993.

Honorable Mention, American Sociological Association Section, Social Psychology Student Paper Award, 1992.