Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

Lori Burrington Assistant Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice 904 Oswald Tower Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice The Pennsylvania State Univeristy University Park, PA 16802-6207 Office Pohne: (814) 867-2830 Fax: (814) 863-7216 Email: lam63@psu.edu CV

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Sociology, The Ohio State University, 2008

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Multilevel analyses of determinants of crime, deviance, and health risk behaviors ; Racial, ethnic, class, and gender disparities in health and problem behavior and Community social organization.        

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

Ohio State University:  Criminal Justice Research Center, seed grant for promotion of dissertation research, 2007
Summer Methods Training Award, 2003
The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi   University Fellow, 2001-2002

Columbus Bar Association: Columbus Bar Foundation Fellow

The University of Michigan: Honors Convocation, Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society

pROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS

Lori A. Burrington.  “Evaluating the Potential Protective Effects of Immigrant Status and Neighborhood Immigrant Concentration on the Likelihood of Adolescent Arrest.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA, November, 2007 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

Lori A. Burrington.  “Who You Are and Where You Live:  Status, Context, and Adolescent Problem Behavior.”  Paper presented at the Criminal Justice Research Center Seminar Series, May 2007, The Ohio State University (invited talk).

Lori A. Burrington.  “SES and Adolescent Problem Behavior:  A Re-Examination of the Middle-Status Conformity Hypothesis.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, CA, November, 2006 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning. “Contextual Determinants of Race Differences in Condom Use:  The Respective Roles of Concentrated Affluence and Family Planning Clinics.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Quebec, August, 2006 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

Lori A. Burrington.  “Sexual Activity of Affluent Adolescents:  The Differential Importance of Family Socialization and Social Bonds.”  Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles, CA, March-April, 2006 (peer-reviewed poster presentation).

Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning.  “Contextual Determinants of Race Differences in Condom Use:  The Respective Roles of Concentrated Affluence and Family Planning Clinics.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Philadelphia, PA, March-April, 2005 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

Christopher R. Browning and Lori A. Muccino.  “Adolescent Sexual Victimization:  Evaluating the Potential Protective Effects of Neighborhood Structure and Collective Efficacy.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Nashville, TN, November, 2004 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

Christopher R. Browning and Lori A. Muccino. “Spatial Contingencies in the Emergence of Adolescent Attitudes:  Racial Differences in Sexual and Fertility Norms.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 2004 (peer-reviewed roundtable).

Lori A. Muccino. “The Role of Sexual Socialization in the Development of Adolescent Sexual Self-Control.”  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Denver, CO, November, 2003 (peer-reviewed paper presentation).

SELECTED pUBLICATIONS

Burrington, Lori A.  “Racial Differences in Sexual Activity Among Affluent Adolescents:  A Relative Status Approach.”, Under Review

Burrington, Lori A., and Christopher R. Browning.  “Contextual Determinants of Race Differences in Contraceptive Use:  The Importance of Institutional Resources.”, Under Review

Burrington, Lori A.  “Evaluating the Potential Protective Effects of Immigrant Status and Neighborhood Immigrant Concentration on Adolescent Arrests.”, In Progress

Burrington, Lori A.  “Distinction and Deviance:  Immigrant Status, Neighborhood Affluence, and Violence.”, In Progress

Burrington, Lori A.  “’Knifing Off’ the Neighborhood:  Do the Effects of Collective Efficacy Wane in Later Adolescence?”, In Progress 

Browning, Christopher R., and Lori A. Burrington.  “Neighborhood, Age, and Adolescent Pregnancy:  Testing a Multilevel Age-Graded Theory of Collective Efficacy.”, In Progress 

McGrath, Joanna, Lori A. Burrington, and Christopher R. Browning.  “The Multi-level Effects of Religious Participation on Sexual Debut.”, In Progress 

Kwan, Mei-Po, Ruth D. Peterson, Christopher R, Browning, Lori A. Burrington, Catherine A. Calder, and Lauren J. Krivo.  2008.  “Reconceptualizing Sociogeographical Context for the Study of Drug Use, Abuse, and Addiction.”   Pp. 445-454 in Geography and Drug Addiction, edited by Yonette F. Thomas, Douglas Richardson and Ivan Cheung.  Berlin:  Springer.

Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning.  Forthcoming.  “Neighborhood Context:  Childhood and Adolescence.”  In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah Carr.  (Farmington Hills, MI:  Macmillan Reference USA).

Lori A. Burrington and Christopher R. Browning.  Forthcoming.  “Neighborhood Context:  Adulthood.”  In Encyclopedia of the Life Course and Human Development, edited by Deborah Carr. (Farmington Hills, MI:  Macmillan Reference USA).