Susan F Sharp
Biographic Data
| ID | 237203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susan F Sharp |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susan F |
| FAMILY NAME | Sharp |
| SIGNATURE | SHARP S F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners
Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma—and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration nationwide. The culmination of over a decade of original research, Mean Lives, Mean Laws exposes a Kafkaesque criminal…
Broken Hearts and Battered Lives: Adverse and Abusive Life Histories and Externalized Responses to Anger as Pathways to Illicit Drug Use Among Incarcerated Women
Most incarcerated women suffer from adverse and abusive life histories, including adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as sexual, physical, emotional abuse, and neglect, and intimate partner violence (IPV). In addition, many have difficulties regulating their anger expression and most participate in illicit drug use. Although many have offered explanations for these relationships, the current study is among the first to utilize an integrate…
Feminist Criminology and Gender Studies
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Disjuncture Between Aspirations and Expectations/Perceived Outcomes: Strain and Academic Deviance in the United States and Japan
Using comparable self-reported survey data collected among college students in the United States (n = 502) and Japan (n = 441), this study examines a paradox of higher academic deviance among otherwise more conforming Japanese youth while revisiting the debate concerning the disjuncture between aspirations and expectations/perceived outcomes in Agnew's general strain theory (GST). Confirming the paradox, our results indicate that Japanese student…
Childhood adversity and substance use of women prisoners: A general strain theory approach
Attitude Transference and Deviant Behavior: A Comparative Study in Japan and the United States
Attitude transference is the term that has come to be used to refer to a key process by which one's personal attitudes approving or disapproving of certain behavior reflect those of his or her primary groups and in turn affect his or her conforming or deviant behavior. Cross-cultural comparisons on this and other issues afforded by previous studies, however, have been limited primarily to examining findings that have used different samples and in…
Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies among College Students in Japan and the United States
It is a worldwide stereotype that Japanese, compared to Americans, are oriented more toward collectivism. But this stereotypical notion of more collectivism among Japanese, which typically stems from a view that individualism and collectivism stand at opposite ends of a continuum, has been filled with dashed empirical findings, especially in a sample of college students. In the current study, following the view that individualism and collectivism…
Bond to Society, Collectivism, and Conformity: A Comparative Study of Japanese and American College Students
An argument is developed that the purported collectivism in Japanese society generates stronger social bonds in Japan than in the more individualistic United States, which might then explain the lower level of deviance often found in Japan. We test this using survey data from samples of Japanese and American college students on measures of deviance and social bonds. Results indicate that Japanese students engage in significantly less deviance tha…
Gender and Deviance: A Comparison of College Students in Japan and the United States
Although evidence abounds in American criminology that young males are more prone to deviance than females, relatively little is known about the magnitude of the gender gap in deviance across cultures. Drawing on the literature concerning "risk taking" in power-control theory and on theory and research concerning cultural variability in "uncertainty avoidance," we offer a rationale for predicting that the gender differences in levels of deviance …
This is a man’s world … or least that’s how it looks in the journals
Disentangling Strain, Personal Attributes, Affective Response and Deviance: A Gendered Analysis
Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes co…
Race Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents
Rising adolescent suicide rates have prompted scholars and practitioners to identify predictive strains. Resulting profiles of suicidal adolescents often assume that a single model is applicable to all adolescent subgroups. Although scholars have repeatedly suggested that suicidal processes may vary for Blacks and Whites, few researchers have examined race differences in suicidal correlates. No studies have tested for process differences by race …
It's a Family Affair: Incarcerated Women and Their Families
In the United States, incarceration rates are increasing at an alarming rate. In particular, the incarceration of women is increasing. Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in the nation, and drug offenders comprise a significant proportion of these female inmates. Placing large numbers of women in prison may have serious implications not only for the women but also for their families, particularly their children. We surveyed 144 …
Gender Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents
The Professional Ex- Revisited: Cessation or Continuation of a Deviant Career
An ongoing question is whether participation in deviance is fluid or stable. In a 1991 article, Brown introduced the concept of the "professional ex-," an individual who uses former deviant status as a springboard into a counseling career. The professional ex- thus exits a deviant career, transforming it into a legitimate status. In the current article, the authors present a different perspective, grounded in self-control theory. The 1990s substa…
Relationships with children and aids-risk behaviors among female IDUs
This study utilizes in‐depth interviews of female injecting drug users (IDUs) supplemented by analyses of a large national data set to explore the association between the strength of the social bond and participation in a health‐related form of deviance: AIDS risk behaviors. The theoretical framework extends social control theory by examining the effects of further weakening of the social bond in an already deviant population. Risk behaviors are …
Adamchak's ideal family size and family background: A research note
This study was an attempt to further investigate Adamchak's (1977) findings that women whose mothers had been employed around the time the respondent was sixteen had a higher ideal family size than those women whose mothers had not worked. During the research, it was discovered that the Adamchak results were not replicable. However, it was also noted that different ways of handling the response category of “As many as you want” (children) produce…
Disentangling Strain, Personal Attributes, Affective Response and Deviance: A Gendered Analysis
Childhood adversity and substance use of women prisoners: A general strain theory approach
Race Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents
Rising adolescent suicide rates have prompted scholars and practitioners to identify predictive strains. Resulting profiles of suicidal adolescents often assume that a single model is applicable to all adolescent subgroups. Although scholars have repeatedly suggested that suicidal processes may vary for Blacks and Whites, few researchers have examined race differences in suicidal correlates. No studies have tested for process differences by race …
Bond to Society, Collectivism, and Conformity: A Comparative Study of Japanese and American College Students
An argument is developed that the purported collectivism in Japanese society generates stronger social bonds in Japan than in the more individualistic United States, which might then explain the lower level of deviance often found in Japan. We test this using survey data from samples of Japanese and American college students on measures of deviance and social bonds. Results indicate that Japanese students engage in significantly less deviance tha…
Gender and Deviance: A Comparison of College Students in Japan and the United States
Although evidence abounds in American criminology that young males are more prone to deviance than females, relatively little is known about the magnitude of the gender gap in deviance across cultures. Drawing on the literature concerning "risk taking" in power-control theory and on theory and research concerning cultural variability in "uncertainty avoidance," we offer a rationale for predicting that the gender differences in levels of deviance …
Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies among College Students in Japan and the United States
It is a worldwide stereotype that Japanese, compared to Americans, are oriented more toward collectivism. But this stereotypical notion of more collectivism among Japanese, which typically stems from a view that individualism and collectivism stand at opposite ends of a continuum, has been filled with dashed empirical findings, especially in a sample of college students. In the current study, following the view that individualism and collectivism…
Gender Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents
The Professional Ex- Revisited: Cessation or Continuation of a Deviant Career
An ongoing question is whether participation in deviance is fluid or stable. In a 1991 article, Brown introduced the concept of the "professional ex-," an individual who uses former deviant status as a springboard into a counseling career. The professional ex- thus exits a deviant career, transforming it into a legitimate status. In the current article, the authors present a different perspective, grounded in self-control theory. The 1990s substa…
Attitude Transference and Deviant Behavior: A Comparative Study in Japan and the United States
Attitude transference is the term that has come to be used to refer to a key process by which one's personal attitudes approving or disapproving of certain behavior reflect those of his or her primary groups and in turn affect his or her conforming or deviant behavior. Cross-cultural comparisons on this and other issues afforded by previous studies, however, have been limited primarily to examining findings that have used different samples and in…
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Disjuncture Between Aspirations and Expectations/Perceived Outcomes: Strain and Academic Deviance in the United States and Japan
Using comparable self-reported survey data collected among college students in the United States (n = 502) and Japan (n = 441), this study examines a paradox of higher academic deviance among otherwise more conforming Japanese youth while revisiting the debate concerning the disjuncture between aspirations and expectations/perceived outcomes in Agnew's general strain theory (GST). Confirming the paradox, our results indicate that Japanese student…
Adamchak's ideal family size and family background: A research note
This study was an attempt to further investigate Adamchak's (1977) findings that women whose mothers had been employed around the time the respondent was sixteen had a higher ideal family size than those women whose mothers had not worked. During the research, it was discovered that the Adamchak results were not replicable. However, it was also noted that different ways of handling the response category of “As many as you want” (children) produce…
Relationships with children and aids-risk behaviors among female IDUs
This study utilizes in‐depth interviews of female injecting drug users (IDUs) supplemented by analyses of a large national data set to explore the association between the strength of the social bond and participation in a health‐related form of deviance: AIDS risk behaviors. The theoretical framework extends social control theory by examining the effects of further weakening of the social bond in an already deviant population. Risk behaviors are …
It's a Family Affair: Incarcerated Women and Their Families
In the United States, incarceration rates are increasing at an alarming rate. In particular, the incarceration of women is increasing. Oklahoma has the highest rate of female incarceration in the nation, and drug offenders comprise a significant proportion of these female inmates. Placing large numbers of women in prison may have serious implications not only for the women but also for their families, particularly their children. We surveyed 144 …
Gender Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior Among Adolescents
The Professional Ex- Revisited: Cessation or Continuation of a Deviant Career
An ongoing question is whether participation in deviance is fluid or stable. In a 1991 article, Brown introduced the concept of the "professional ex-," an individual who uses former deviant status as a springboard into a counseling career. The professional ex- thus exits a deviant career, transforming it into a legitimate status. In the current article, the authors present a different perspective, grounded in self-control theory. The 1990s substa…
Race Differences in Strains Associated with Suicidal Behavior among Adolescents
Rising adolescent suicide rates have prompted scholars and practitioners to identify predictive strains. Resulting profiles of suicidal adolescents often assume that a single model is applicable to all adolescent subgroups. Although scholars have repeatedly suggested that suicidal processes may vary for Blacks and Whites, few researchers have examined race differences in suicidal correlates. No studies have tested for process differences by race …
Women in Prison: Gender and Social Control
It is old news that the conditions and policies of women's prisons are different from those of incarcerated men. Less evident, however, is how gender differences shape those policies, and how gender identity and roles shape women's adaptation and resistance to prison culture and control. Women in Prison explores how the gender-based attitudes that women bring to prison frame how they respond to the prison environment—and how gender stereotypes co…
Disentangling Strain, Personal Attributes, Affective Response and Deviance: A Gendered Analysis
This is a man’s world … or least that’s how it looks in the journals
Gender and Deviance: A Comparison of College Students in Japan and the United States
Although evidence abounds in American criminology that young males are more prone to deviance than females, relatively little is known about the magnitude of the gender gap in deviance across cultures. Drawing on the literature concerning "risk taking" in power-control theory and on theory and research concerning cultural variability in "uncertainty avoidance," we offer a rationale for predicting that the gender differences in levels of deviance …
Bond to Society, Collectivism, and Conformity: A Comparative Study of Japanese and American College Students
An argument is developed that the purported collectivism in Japanese society generates stronger social bonds in Japan than in the more individualistic United States, which might then explain the lower level of deviance often found in Japan. We test this using survey data from samples of Japanese and American college students on measures of deviance and social bonds. Results indicate that Japanese students engage in significantly less deviance tha…
Differences in Individualistic and Collectivistic Tendencies among College Students in Japan and the United States
It is a worldwide stereotype that Japanese, compared to Americans, are oriented more toward collectivism. But this stereotypical notion of more collectivism among Japanese, which typically stems from a view that individualism and collectivism stand at opposite ends of a continuum, has been filled with dashed empirical findings, especially in a sample of college students. In the current study, following the view that individualism and collectivism…
Attitude Transference and Deviant Behavior: A Comparative Study in Japan and the United States
Attitude transference is the term that has come to be used to refer to a key process by which one's personal attitudes approving or disapproving of certain behavior reflect those of his or her primary groups and in turn affect his or her conforming or deviant behavior. Cross-cultural comparisons on this and other issues afforded by previous studies, however, have been limited primarily to examining findings that have used different samples and in…
Childhood adversity and substance use of women prisoners: A general strain theory approach
Feminist Criminology and Gender Studies
A Cross-Cultural Examination of the Disjuncture Between Aspirations and Expectations/Perceived Outcomes: Strain and Academic Deviance in the United States and Japan
Using comparable self-reported survey data collected among college students in the United States (n = 502) and Japan (n = 441), this study examines a paradox of higher academic deviance among otherwise more conforming Japanese youth while revisiting the debate concerning the disjuncture between aspirations and expectations/perceived outcomes in Agnew's general strain theory (GST). Confirming the paradox, our results indicate that Japanese student…
Broken Hearts and Battered Lives: Adverse and Abusive Life Histories and Externalized Responses to Anger as Pathways to Illicit Drug Use Among Incarcerated Women
Most incarcerated women suffer from adverse and abusive life histories, including adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), such as sexual, physical, emotional abuse, and neglect, and intimate partner violence (IPV). In addition, many have difficulties regulating their anger expression and most participate in illicit drug use. Although many have offered explanations for these relationships, the current study is among the first to utilize an integrate…
Mean Lives, Mean Laws: Oklahoma's Women Prisoners
Oklahoma has long held the dubious honor of having the highest female incarceration rate in the country, nearly twice the national average. In this compelling new book, sociologist Susan Sharp sets out to discover just what has gone so wrong in the state of Oklahoma—and what that might tell us about trends in female incarceration nationwide. The culmination of over a decade of original research, Mean Lives, Mean Laws exposes a Kafkaesque criminal…
Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Criminology (7 works) · Deviance (statistics (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works)