Department of Sociology & Crime, Law and Justice

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Jeremy Staff Assistant Professor of Crime, Law, and Justice and Sociology 1005 Oswald Tower Department of Sociology The Pennsylvania State University University Park, PA 16802 Office Phone: 814-865-4560 Fax: (814) 863-7216 jus25@psu.edu

EDUCATION   

Ph.D., University of Minnesota, August, 2004 

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS 

Criminology, Life Course Studies, Stratification 

rESEARCH GRANTS

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. “Early Work Experiences and the Transition to Adulthood.” 9/13/2007-8/31/2012. Principal Investigator.

Johann Jacobs Foundation. “The Role of Career Aspirations and Educational Expectations in the Process of Socioeconomic Attainment: Evidence from Two Recent Cohorts of Youth.” 9/01/2007-8/31/2008. Co-Principal Investigator.

National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. “How Childhood Factors Amplify Risks of Heavy Alcohol Use.” 4/01/2006-3/31/2007. Investigator.     

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS 

Winner of the 2004 Sociology of Education's David Lee Stevenson Graduate Student Paper Award (with Jennifer C. Lee)

National Research Service Award (NRSA-NIMH), “Mental Health and Adjustment in the Life Course.” (2002-2004) 

PUBLICATIONS 

Siennick, Sonja E. and Jeremy Staff. Forthcoming. “Explaining the Educational Deficits of Delinquent Youths.” Criminology.

Staff, Jeremy and Derek Kreager. Forthcoming. “Too Cool for School? Peer Status, Violence, and High School Dropout.” Social Forces.

Mortimer, Jeylan T., Michael Vuolo, Jeremy Staff, Sara Wakefield and Wanling Xie. 2008. “Tracing the Timing of ‘Career’ Acquisition in a Contemporary Youth Cohort.” Work and Occupations 35:44-84

Staff, Jeremy and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2008. “Social Class Background and the ‘School to Work’ Transition.” New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development 119:55-69.

Staff, Jeremy and Jeylan T. Mortimer. 2007. “Educational and Work Strategies from Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Consequences for Educational Attainment.” Social Forces 85:1169-1194.

Lee, Jennifer C. and Jeremy Staff. 2007. “When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Adolescent Work Intensity on High School Drop-out.” Sociology of Education 80:158-178.

Felson, Richard B. and Jeremy Staff. 2006. “Explaining the Academic Performance-Delinquency Relationship.” Criminology 44:299-319.

Mortimer, Jeylan T. and Jeremy Staff. 2004. “Early Work as a Source of Developmental Discontinuity during the Transition to Adulthood.” Development and Psychopathology 16:1047- 1070.

Staff, Jeremy and Christopher Uggen. 2003. "The Fruits of Good Work: Early Work Experiences and Adolescent Deviance." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40:263-290.

Mortimer, Jeylan T., Carolyn Harley, and Jeremy Staff. 2002. "Adolescent Work Quality and Mental Health." Work and Occupations 29:166-197.

Uggen, Christopher and Jeremy Staff. 2001. "Work as a Turning Point for Criminal Offenders." Corrections Management Quarterly 4:1-16.
Reprinted in Crime and Employment: Critical Issues in Crime Reduction for Corrections (2003), edited by Jessie L. Krienert and Mark S. Fleisher.