Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice
211 Oswald Tower
The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: 814-865-2527
Fax: 814-863-7216
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Wayne Osgood
Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology
1002 Oswald Tower E-mail: wosgood@psu.edu |
EDUCATION
Ph.D., University of Colorado, Boulder, 1977
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Professor Osgood does research on a broad range of topics concerning delinquency and other problem behaviors during adolescence and early adulthood. His published research has addressed the generality of deviance, criminal careers, peer influence, sources of age differences, and the contribution of routine activities to offending. In addition to these topics concerning the causes of offending, he has conducted research on a variety of programs for juvenile offenders (including prevention, diversion, and residential programs), and he has written about statistical issues for the analysis of deviant behaviors and of longitudinal data.
Professor Osgood teaches substantive courses on juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, crime and the life course, and communities and crime. His methodological courses have included research methods in Crime, Law, and Justice, statistical models for non-experimental research, and multilevel regression models.
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
Member of the MacArthur Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood (1999 – present)
Member of the National Consortium on Violence Research (1997 – present)
Elected member of the executive council of the American Society of Criminology (2001 – 2003)
Secretary/treasurer (1984 – 1986) and elected council member of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues
Journal editorial board member: Criminology (1993, 1997 – present)
Criminal Justice and Behavior (1997 – 2000)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Criminology Advisory Board (1992 – present)
Journal of Quantitative Criminology (1997 – present)
Journal of Research on Adolescence (2000 – present)
Journal of Social Issues (1991 – 1995)
Social Psychology Quarterly (1997 – 1999).
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Osgood, D. Wayne, and Amy L. Anderson. Forthcoming. “Unstructured Socializing and Rates of Delinquency.” Criminology.
Osgood, D. Wayne, Barbara J. McMorris, and Maria T. Potenza. 2002. “Analyzing Multiple-item Measures of Crime and Deviance I: Item Response Theory Scaling.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18(3): 267-296.
Osgood, D. Wayne, Laura L. Finken, and Barbara J. McMorris. 2002. “Analyzing Multiple-item Measures of Crime and Deviance II: Tobit Regression Analysis of Transformed Scores.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18(4): 319-347.
Osgood, D. Wayne. 2000. “Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16(1): 21-43.
Osgood, D. Wayne, and Jeff M. Chambers. 2000. “Social Disorganization Outside the Metropolis: An Analysis of Rural Youth Violence.” Criminology 38(1): 81-115.
Osgood, D. Wayne, Janet K. Wilson, Jerald G. Bachman, Patrick M. O'Malley, and Lloyd D. Johnston. 1996. "Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior." American Sociological Review 61: 635-655.
Horney, Julie, D. Wayne Osgood, and Ineke Haen Marshall. 1995. "Criminal Careers in the Short-Term: Intra-Individual Variability in Crime and Its Relation to Local Life Circumstances." American Sociological Review 60:655-73.
Osgood, D. Wayne, and David C. Rowe. 1994. "Bridging Criminal Careers, Theory, and Policy Through Latent Variable Models of Individual Offending." Criminology 32(4): 517-554.
Booth, Alan, and D. Wayne Osgood. 1993. "The Influence of Testosterone on Deviance in Adulthood: Assessing and Explaining the Relationship." Criminology 31(1):93-117.
Rowe, David C., D. Wayne Osgood, and Alan W. Nicewander. 1990. "A Latent Trait Approach to Unifying Criminal Careers." Criminology 28(2):237-270.
Osgood, D. Wayne, Lloyd D. Johnston, Patrick M. O'Malley, and Jerald G. Bachman. 1988. "The Generality of Deviance in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood." American Sociological Review 53(1):81-93.
Rowe, David C., and D. Wayne Osgood. 1984. "Heredity and Sociological Theories of Delinquency: A Reconsideration." American Sociological Review 49(4):526-540.