Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

Evelyn Patterson Research Associate, Sociology and Crime, Law and Justice Department of Sociology & Crime, Law, and Justice The Pennsylvania State University 211 Oswald Tower University Park, PA 16802-6207 Office Phone: 814-867-2277 Email:ejp14@psu.edu

EDUCATION

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Criminology and Demography, August 2007
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, Demography, May 2004
B.A., Rice University, Statistics, January 2002

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Correctional Populations, Mortality, Mathematical Demography, Statistics

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Postdoctoral Fellow & Research Associate, Department of Sociology & Crime, Law, and Justice, The Pennsylvania State University, August 2007- Present

Statistical Consultant, The Sentencing Project, Washington D.C., May 2005 – August 2006
Responsible for developing a report that examined time served in prisons.  Utilized several data sets from the Bureau of Justice Statistics to program modules and create graphs in SAS.

Research Assistant, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 2001-2003
Conducted an analysis that examined prenatal syphilis and HIV screening rates in addition to an analysis that looked at levels of sexually transmitted infections in the Medicare population [over the course of three summers].

Research Assistant, Department of Sociology, Rice University, September 2000 – May 2002
Used SAS routines to examine the impact of immigration legislative changes on the method Mexican migrants choose to illegally or legally enter the United States.

Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, Rice University, May 2000 – August 2000
Created a module using C++ that allowed varying site transition probabilities for proteins and amino acids when estimating evolutionary changes in species.

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania, June 2005 – August 2005
Co-taught an introductory course in demography to junior and senior minority college students in effort to provide useful tools for their future academic endeavors and encourage underrepresented groups to enter demography related fields.

Teaching Assistant, Sociology Department, University of Pennsylvania, June 2004 – August 2004
Teaching assistant for an introductory course in demography.  Duties included preparing and teaching some lectures, holding review sessions, and grading assignments.

Tutor, Rice University, January 2001 – December 2001
Tutored statistics and mathematics to university students, e.g. elementary statistics, probability & statistics, calculus, differential equations.

Tutor, Mathematics Department, Georgia State University, September 1997 – June 1998
Tutored college students in statistics and mathematics.

pROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

School of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Fellowship, 2006-2007
American Society of Criminology Minority Fellow, 2006
U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Aging Trainee, 2002-2006
William Fontaine Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2002-2007
Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, 2000-2006
W. M. Keck Center for Interdisciplinary Bioscience Training Fellow, 2000

PROFESSIONAL SEMINARS AND PRESENTATIONS

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2007. “Demographic Dimensions for Predicting Release from Prison.” American
 Society of Criminology.  Atlanta, GA.

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2007. “Death Displaced.” American Sociological Association. New York, NY.

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2007. “An Analysis of Mortality in State Correctional Facilities, 1985-1998.”
Crime and Population Dynamics 2007 Summer Workshop. Queenstown, Maryland.

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2006. "Estimating Mean Length of Stay in Prison: Methods and Applications."
American Society of Criminology. Los Angeles, CA.

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2005. "The Interaction of Prison and the Life Course."  Fontaine Society 2005
Conference. Philadelphia, PA.

Patterson, Evelyn J. 2004. "Degrees of Freedom over the Life Course: A Demographic Analysis of
Time Spent Inside and Outside of the American Judicial System." American Society of
Criminology. Nashville, TN.

pUBLICATIONS

Donato, Katharine M. and Evelyn Patterson. 2004. “Women and Men at the Border: Undocumented Border Crossing,”  Pp. 111-30 in Jorge Durand and Douglas S. Massey (eds.), Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation.

Tao, G., E. Patterson, L. Lee, S. Sansom, S. Teran, and K. Irwin. 2005. “Prenatal Syphilis and HIV Screening of Commercially Insured Women.”  American Journal of Preventive Medicine 28:175-81.

Patterson, Evelyn. 2006. Review of Significant Cases in Corrections. By Craig Hemmens, Barbara
Belbot, and Katherine Bennett. (Los Angeles: Roxbury Publishing Company, 2004), Criminal
Justice Review 31(1):77-78.

Forthcoming, Donato, Katharine M., Evelyn Patterson, and Brandon Wagner. “Recent Patterns and Trends in the Cat and Mouse Game at the Mexico-U.S. Border.” (Revised and resubmitted, International Migration Review).

Patterson, Evelyn and Samuel Preston. “Estimating Mean Length of Stay in Prison:
Methods and Applications” forthcoming in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Patterson, Evelyn. “Quality of Data in Correctional Populationn, 1984-2000.” (under review in Journal of Quantitative Criminology).

Patterson, Evelyn. “An Analysis of Mortality in United States’ State Correctional Facilities, 1985-98.”
(in preparation).

Patterson, Evelyn. “Demographic Dimensions for Predicting Release from Prison: The Case of
California.” (in preparation)

Patterson, E., R. King, and M. Mauer. “Policy implication of increasing time served in prison.”
Washington, D.C.: The Sentencing Project. (in preparation).