Patrick J Carr
Biographic Data
| ID | 124695 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick J Carr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick J |
| FAMILY NAME | Carr |
| SIGNATURE | CARR P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 390 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Longer than I Would've Originally Liked and Originally Thought: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession
While student loans play a large role in the financing of higher education, there has been relatively little qualitative work on how young adults understand their debt burdens and the debt's perceived future impact. We examine this topic utilizing a sample of 105 young people from working-, middle-, and upper middle-class backgrounds who experienced young adulthood during the Great Recession. While most respondents are accepting of debt at the ti…
Real Jobs and Redshirting
This chapter explores the employment experiences of the young people interviewed for a study in 2010. Though conditions were tough for everyone, the study of 20-somethings shows that not everyone experienced the same degree of economic pain. Specifically, those who were from what could be called “elite” backgrounds had an easier time getting jobs even during the recession and were additionally insulated from the worst effects of the downturn by h…
The Context for Legal Cynicism: Urban Young Women’s Experiences With Policing in Low-Income, High-Crime Neighborhoods
Research and public discourse on urban policing and the collateral consequences of mass incarceration often center on the experiences of young males, particularly young Black and brown men who live in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. Consequently, less is known about how young women are policed in these contexts; and whether their experiences and dispositions toward police vary across racial and ethnic groups. Drawing on 70 in-depth intervie…
The Sliding Scale of Snitching: A Qualitative Examination of Snitching in Three Philadelphia Communities
We conducted an in‐depth interview study with 77 young men in three moderate to high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia to hear their stories about community violence and relations with police. In this article, we have analyzed how Latino, African‐American, and white young men experience policing and how they discuss the guidelines around cooperation with the police and what they view as snitching. Contrary to popular perception, talking to the …
Citizens, community, and crime control: The problems and prospects for negotiated order
How do communities control crime, and what does this tell us about the problem of negotiating order at the local level? This article will draw on empirical research in two US cities to illustrate how social controls at the local level are negotiated between citizens and law enforcement, and how different structures of this arrangement arise because of contrasting contexts and different institutional imperatives. The article will showcase the evol…
Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Path to Renewal
In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the hollowing-out parts of America. Many nonmetropolitan counties in America have seen net out-migration for decades. While young people have always left small towns, the loss of this group comes at a time when opportunities for those who stay have been severely reduced. On…
Marriage Is More Than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults
Based on 424 qualitative interviews with a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of young people ranging in age from 21 to 38, the authors ponder the paradox of the evolving role for contemporary marriage within the developmental perspective of the transition to adulthood. The authors identify two groups: marriage naturalists and marriage planners. Naturalists comprise one fifth of the sample, are largely from rural Amer…
The problem with experimental criminology: A response to Sherman’s ‘Evidence and Liberty’
This article is a response to Sherman (2009) and argues that experimental criminology ought to clearly acknowledge the political aspect of much crime research, and expand the timeframe of research involvement in policy making if it is to bring the liberty promised. Failure to do so can lead to a fundamental misconception that experimental criminology is somehow divorced from the political realities that inscribe it, and to possible unintended con…
Forum on Gang Leader for a Day
This essay introduces a debate on Sudhir Venkatesh's book Gang Leader for a Day
Violent youths' responses to high levels of exposure to community violence: What violent events reveal about youth violence
Recent work on the relationship between adolescent violence and its outcomes has posited that aggression by adolescents who are exposed to violence can be viewed as an adaptive strategy that seeks to order dangerous and unpredictable environments. Using reports from 416 active violent youth, we analyze lifetime exposure to community violence and reported involvement in 780 violent events to investigate under what circumstances violence can be vie…
We Never Call the Cops and Here Is Why: A Qualitative Examination of Legal Cynicism in Three Philadelphia Neighborhoods
This article presents data from the completed first wave of a multiwave comparative study of crime, danger, and informal social control that focuses on youth living in three high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA ( N = 147). The study is a purposive sample of delinquent and nondelinquent young men and women in one predominantly African‐American, one predominantly Latino, and one predominantly white neighborhood, and researchers have complet…
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 – J.H. Laub and R.J. Sampson
Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order
An Introduction to Childhood Studies
Keep Me Informed: What Matters for Victims as they Navigate the Juvenile Criminal Justice System in Philadelphia
The New Parochialism: The Implications of the Beltway Case for Arguments Concerning Informal Social Control
This article presents a five‐year ethnographic study of informal social control in the Chicago neighborhood “Beltway,” where controls at the private and what has traditionally been known as the parochial level are weaker and less important than heretofore assumed. In addition, the parochial and the public arenas are inseparable from each other, not independent as others have argued. Instead, informal social control in Beltway is characterized by …
We Never Call the Cops and Here Is Why: A Qualitative Examination of Legal Cynicism in Three Philadelphia Neighborhoods
This article presents data from the completed first wave of a multiwave comparative study of crime, danger, and informal social control that focuses on youth living in three high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA ( N = 147). The study is a purposive sample of delinquent and nondelinquent young men and women in one predominantly African‐American, one predominantly Latino, and one predominantly white neighborhood, and researchers have complet…
The New Parochialism: The Implications of the Beltway Case for Arguments Concerning Informal Social Control
This article presents a five‐year ethnographic study of informal social control in the Chicago neighborhood “Beltway,” where controls at the private and what has traditionally been known as the parochial level are weaker and less important than heretofore assumed. In addition, the parochial and the public arenas are inseparable from each other, not independent as others have argued. Instead, informal social control in Beltway is characterized by …
Marriage Is More Than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults
Based on 424 qualitative interviews with a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of young people ranging in age from 21 to 38, the authors ponder the paradox of the evolving role for contemporary marriage within the developmental perspective of the transition to adulthood. The authors identify two groups: marriage naturalists and marriage planners. Naturalists comprise one fifth of the sample, are largely from rural Amer…
Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Path to Renewal
In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the hollowing-out parts of America. Many nonmetropolitan counties in America have seen net out-migration for decades. While young people have always left small towns, the loss of this group comes at a time when opportunities for those who stay have been severely reduced. On…
The Sliding Scale of Snitching: A Qualitative Examination of Snitching in Three Philadelphia Communities
We conducted an in‐depth interview study with 77 young men in three moderate to high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia to hear their stories about community violence and relations with police. In this article, we have analyzed how Latino, African‐American, and white young men experience policing and how they discuss the guidelines around cooperation with the police and what they view as snitching. Contrary to popular perception, talking to the …
The Context for Legal Cynicism: Urban Young Women’s Experiences With Policing in Low-Income, High-Crime Neighborhoods
Research and public discourse on urban policing and the collateral consequences of mass incarceration often center on the experiences of young males, particularly young Black and brown men who live in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. Consequently, less is known about how young women are policed in these contexts; and whether their experiences and dispositions toward police vary across racial and ethnic groups. Drawing on 70 in-depth intervie…
Violent youths' responses to high levels of exposure to community violence: What violent events reveal about youth violence
Recent work on the relationship between adolescent violence and its outcomes has posited that aggression by adolescents who are exposed to violence can be viewed as an adaptive strategy that seeks to order dangerous and unpredictable environments. Using reports from 416 active violent youth, we analyze lifetime exposure to community violence and reported involvement in 780 violent events to investigate under what circumstances violence can be vie…
Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order
Keep Me Informed: What Matters for Victims as they Navigate the Juvenile Criminal Justice System in Philadelphia
Citizens, community, and crime control: The problems and prospects for negotiated order
How do communities control crime, and what does this tell us about the problem of negotiating order at the local level? This article will draw on empirical research in two US cities to illustrate how social controls at the local level are negotiated between citizens and law enforcement, and how different structures of this arrangement arise because of contrasting contexts and different institutional imperatives. The article will showcase the evol…
Keep Me Informed: What Matters for Victims as they Navigate the Juvenile Criminal Justice System in Philadelphia
The New Parochialism: The Implications of the Beltway Case for Arguments Concerning Informal Social Control
This article presents a five‐year ethnographic study of informal social control in the Chicago neighborhood “Beltway,” where controls at the private and what has traditionally been known as the parochial level are weaker and less important than heretofore assumed. In addition, the parochial and the public arenas are inseparable from each other, not independent as others have argued. Instead, informal social control in Beltway is characterized by …
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 – J.H. Laub and R.J. Sampson
Wild Cowboys: Urban Marauders and the Forces of Order
An Introduction to Childhood Studies
We Never Call the Cops and Here Is Why: A Qualitative Examination of Legal Cynicism in Three Philadelphia Neighborhoods
This article presents data from the completed first wave of a multiwave comparative study of crime, danger, and informal social control that focuses on youth living in three high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia, PA ( N = 147). The study is a purposive sample of delinquent and nondelinquent young men and women in one predominantly African‐American, one predominantly Latino, and one predominantly white neighborhood, and researchers have complet…
Violent youths' responses to high levels of exposure to community violence: What violent events reveal about youth violence
Recent work on the relationship between adolescent violence and its outcomes has posited that aggression by adolescents who are exposed to violence can be viewed as an adaptive strategy that seeks to order dangerous and unpredictable environments. Using reports from 416 active violent youth, we analyze lifetime exposure to community violence and reported involvement in 780 violent events to investigate under what circumstances violence can be vie…
Forum on Gang Leader for a Day
This essay introduces a debate on Sudhir Venkatesh's book Gang Leader for a Day
The problem with experimental criminology: A response to Sherman’s ‘Evidence and Liberty’
This article is a response to Sherman (2009) and argues that experimental criminology ought to clearly acknowledge the political aspect of much crime research, and expand the timeframe of research involvement in policy making if it is to bring the liberty promised. Failure to do so can lead to a fundamental misconception that experimental criminology is somehow divorced from the political realities that inscribe it, and to possible unintended con…
Marriage Is More Than Being Together: The Meaning of Marriage for Young Adults
Based on 424 qualitative interviews with a racially, ethnically, and socio-economically diverse population of young people ranging in age from 21 to 38, the authors ponder the paradox of the evolving role for contemporary marriage within the developmental perspective of the transition to adulthood. The authors identify two groups: marriage naturalists and marriage planners. Naturalists comprise one fifth of the sample, are largely from rural Amer…
Citizens, community, and crime control: The problems and prospects for negotiated order
How do communities control crime, and what does this tell us about the problem of negotiating order at the local level? This article will draw on empirical research in two US cities to illustrate how social controls at the local level are negotiated between citizens and law enforcement, and how different structures of this arrangement arise because of contrasting contexts and different institutional imperatives. The article will showcase the evol…
Can Immigration Save Small-Town America? Hispanic Boomtowns and the Uneasy Path to Renewal
In the often polarized discussions over immigration, the point is sometimes missed that immigration often brings immediate and tangible benefits. Nowhere is this truer than in the hollowing-out parts of America. Many nonmetropolitan counties in America have seen net out-migration for decades. While young people have always left small towns, the loss of this group comes at a time when opportunities for those who stay have been severely reduced. On…
The Sliding Scale of Snitching: A Qualitative Examination of Snitching in Three Philadelphia Communities
We conducted an in‐depth interview study with 77 young men in three moderate to high‐crime neighborhoods in Philadelphia to hear their stories about community violence and relations with police. In this article, we have analyzed how Latino, African‐American, and white young men experience policing and how they discuss the guidelines around cooperation with the police and what they view as snitching. Contrary to popular perception, talking to the …
Real Jobs and Redshirting
This chapter explores the employment experiences of the young people interviewed for a study in 2010. Though conditions were tough for everyone, the study of 20-somethings shows that not everyone experienced the same degree of economic pain. Specifically, those who were from what could be called “elite” backgrounds had an easier time getting jobs even during the recession and were additionally insulated from the worst effects of the downturn by h…
The Context for Legal Cynicism: Urban Young Women’s Experiences With Policing in Low-Income, High-Crime Neighborhoods
Research and public discourse on urban policing and the collateral consequences of mass incarceration often center on the experiences of young males, particularly young Black and brown men who live in low-income, high-crime neighborhoods. Consequently, less is known about how young women are policed in these contexts; and whether their experiences and dispositions toward police vary across racial and ethnic groups. Drawing on 70 in-depth intervie…
Longer than I Would've Originally Liked and Originally Thought: Postsecondary Debt and Marriage Plans for Young Adults Coming of Age in the Great Recession
While student loans play a large role in the financing of higher education, there has been relatively little qualitative work on how young adults understand their debt burdens and the debt's perceived future impact. We examine this topic utilizing a sample of 105 young people from working-, middle-, and upper middle-class backgrounds who experienced young adulthood during the Great Recession. While most respondents are accepting of debt at the ti…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Politics (5 works)