Joel Mittleman
Biographic Data
| ID | 252124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joel Mittleman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joel |
| FAMILY NAME | Mittleman |
| SIGNATURE | MITTLEMAN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Notre Dame |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6353-7890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Peer victimization, parental abuse and attempted suicide among sexual and gender minority youth
Although a large body of research has analyzed how peer victimization shapes suicide risk for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth, few population-representative studies have examined the impact of the abuse they face from their parents. Analyzing the 2023 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, this study provides the first nationally representative evidence on how peer victimization and parental abuse combine to shape suicide risk among contempo…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Among LGBTQ+ High School Students
Objectives. To provide population-representative estimates of US high school students’ exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), separately by sexual orientation, gender identity, and 3 demographic moderators: sex assigned at birth, race/ethnicity, and age. Methods. Using data from the 2023 US National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 12 131), this cross-sectional study calculated descriptive statistics, estimated multivariable regressions…
Sexual Fluidity
For the first time ever, national censuses have begun asking adults to report their sexual orientations. However, because such surveys provide only cross-sectional snapshots of populations, these data obscure one key complexity: that sexuality can be fluid, with sexual self-identification evolving over time. Drawing on unique, restricted-use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health, the current study documents the prevalence, cor…
Stable and Shifting Sexualities among American High School Students, 2015 to 2021
In a context of widespread attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth, statistics on rising LGBTQ+ identification need to be addressed with precision and care. In this visualization, the author presents nationally representative sexuality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Using stacked horizontal bar graphs, the author summarizes American high school students' repo…
Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing
Although the policing of gendered embodiment is central to ethnographic accounts of sexual minority bullying, data limitations have prevented population-level analyses of how gender expression shapes bullying victimization. Using novel data on gender expression, I document the dynamics of gender policing in contemporary American high schools. Analyzing population-representative surveys from eight states and 10 school districts, I examine how stud…
Optimism and Obstacles
Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we estimate associations of paternal incarceration with three measures of teens' attitudes and expectations: (1) optimism about the future, (2) perceived importance of college graduation, and (3) perceived likelihood of college graduation. Results suggest that whereas optimism toward the future and the importance of college are resilient in the face of paternal incarceration, teens…
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap
Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality has been largely invisible as a population-level axis of academic inequality. Taking advantage of major recent data expansions, the current study establishes sexuality as a core dimension of educational stratification in the United States. First, I analyze lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults' college completion rates: overall, by race/ethnicity, and b…
Sexual Orientation and School Discipline
Sexual minorities’ risk for exclusionary discipline is a commonly cited indicator of the challenges that these students face. The current study addresses this issue by introducing a new data source for research on sexual minority students: the Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study. In this geographically diverse, population-based sample, I find that sexual minorities continue to face higher rates of discipline than their peers. However, …
A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspension and the Path to Juvenile Arrest
There is growing concern that suspensions trigger a ''downward spiral,'' redirecting children's trajectories away from school success and toward police contact. The current study tests this possibility, analyzing whether and in what ways childhood suspensions increase children's risk for juvenile arrests. Combining 15 years of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study with contextual information on neighborhoods and schools, I find…
A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspension and the Path to Juvenile Arrest
There is growing concern that suspensions trigger a ''downward spiral,'' redirecting children's trajectories away from school success and toward police contact. The current study tests this possibility, analyzing whether and in what ways childhood suspensions increase children's risk for juvenile arrests. Combining 15 years of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study with contextual information on neighborhoods and schools, I find…
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap
Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality has been largely invisible as a population-level axis of academic inequality. Taking advantage of major recent data expansions, the current study establishes sexuality as a core dimension of educational stratification in the United States. First, I analyze lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults' college completion rates: overall, by race/ethnicity, and b…
Sexual Fluidity
For the first time ever, national censuses have begun asking adults to report their sexual orientations. However, because such surveys provide only cross-sectional snapshots of populations, these data obscure one key complexity: that sexuality can be fluid, with sexual self-identification evolving over time. Drawing on unique, restricted-use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health, the current study documents the prevalence, cor…
Sexual Orientation and School Discipline
Sexual minorities’ risk for exclusionary discipline is a commonly cited indicator of the challenges that these students face. The current study addresses this issue by introducing a new data source for research on sexual minority students: the Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study. In this geographically diverse, population-based sample, I find that sexual minorities continue to face higher rates of discipline than their peers. However, …
Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing
Although the policing of gendered embodiment is central to ethnographic accounts of sexual minority bullying, data limitations have prevented population-level analyses of how gender expression shapes bullying victimization. Using novel data on gender expression, I document the dynamics of gender policing in contemporary American high schools. Analyzing population-representative surveys from eight states and 10 school districts, I examine how stud…
Optimism and Obstacles
Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we estimate associations of paternal incarceration with three measures of teens' attitudes and expectations: (1) optimism about the future, (2) perceived importance of college graduation, and (3) perceived likelihood of college graduation. Results suggest that whereas optimism toward the future and the importance of college are resilient in the face of paternal incarceration, teens…
Stable and Shifting Sexualities among American High School Students, 2015 to 2021
In a context of widespread attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth, statistics on rising LGBTQ+ identification need to be addressed with precision and care. In this visualization, the author presents nationally representative sexuality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Using stacked horizontal bar graphs, the author summarizes American high school students' repo…
Sexual Orientation and School Discipline
Sexual minorities’ risk for exclusionary discipline is a commonly cited indicator of the challenges that these students face. The current study addresses this issue by introducing a new data source for research on sexual minority students: the Fragile Families and Childhood Wellbeing Study. In this geographically diverse, population-based sample, I find that sexual minorities continue to face higher rates of discipline than their peers. However, …
A Downward Spiral? Childhood Suspension and the Path to Juvenile Arrest
There is growing concern that suspensions trigger a ''downward spiral,'' redirecting children's trajectories away from school success and toward police contact. The current study tests this possibility, analyzing whether and in what ways childhood suspensions increase children's risk for juvenile arrests. Combining 15 years of data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study with contextual information on neighborhoods and schools, I find…
Intersecting the Academic Gender Gap
Although gender is central to contemporary accounts of educational stratification, sexuality has been largely invisible as a population-level axis of academic inequality. Taking advantage of major recent data expansions, the current study establishes sexuality as a core dimension of educational stratification in the United States. First, I analyze lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adults' college completion rates: overall, by race/ethnicity, and b…
Sexual Fluidity
For the first time ever, national censuses have begun asking adults to report their sexual orientations. However, because such surveys provide only cross-sectional snapshots of populations, these data obscure one key complexity: that sexuality can be fluid, with sexual self-identification evolving over time. Drawing on unique, restricted-use data from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health, the current study documents the prevalence, cor…
Stable and Shifting Sexualities among American High School Students, 2015 to 2021
In a context of widespread attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) youth, statistics on rising LGBTQ+ identification need to be addressed with precision and care. In this visualization, the author presents nationally representative sexuality data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Youth Risk Behavior Survey. Using stacked horizontal bar graphs, the author summarizes American high school students' repo…
Homophobic Bullying as Gender Policing
Although the policing of gendered embodiment is central to ethnographic accounts of sexual minority bullying, data limitations have prevented population-level analyses of how gender expression shapes bullying victimization. Using novel data on gender expression, I document the dynamics of gender policing in contemporary American high schools. Analyzing population-representative surveys from eight states and 10 school districts, I examine how stud…
Optimism and Obstacles
Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, we estimate associations of paternal incarceration with three measures of teens' attitudes and expectations: (1) optimism about the future, (2) perceived importance of college graduation, and (3) perceived likelihood of college graduation. Results suggest that whereas optimism toward the future and the importance of college are resilient in the face of paternal incarceration, teens…
Peer victimization, parental abuse and attempted suicide among sexual and gender minority youth
Although a large body of research has analyzed how peer victimization shapes suicide risk for sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth, few population-representative studies have examined the impact of the abuse they face from their parents. Analyzing the 2023 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey, this study provides the first nationally representative evidence on how peer victimization and parental abuse combine to shape suicide risk among contempo…
Adverse Childhood Experiences Among LGBTQ+ High School Students
Objectives. To provide population-representative estimates of US high school students’ exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), separately by sexual orientation, gender identity, and 3 demographic moderators: sex assigned at birth, race/ethnicity, and age. Methods. Using data from the 2023 US National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (n = 12 131), this cross-sectional study calculated descriptive statistics, estimated multivariable regressions…
Psychology (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Demography (6 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (6 works) · Population (6 works) · Sexual orientation (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Human sexuality (5 works)