Simon I. Singer

Position: Professor
Degree(s): Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
Areas of Research/Interest: Sociology of law, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice
Background:
Professor Singer's research focuses on delinquency and juvenile justice. He received the Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association for his book "Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform" (Cambridge University Press, 1996). His current research is on suburban crime and delinquency. He has been awarded grants from the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Currently, he is looking at the life course of juveniles incarcerated into adulthood.

Phone: 617.373.7446
Office: 400C Churchill Hall
Email: s.singer@neu.edu>
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Selected Publications:

Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform.1996. New York: Cambridge University Press. Reprinted paperback edition 1998. Winner of the Albert J. Reiss, Jr. Distinguished Scholar Award, American Sociological Association, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section, 1999 (Link)
"Victim Categories of Crime Revisited." Simon I. Singer. 2003. Robert Silverman, Terrence Thornberry, Bernard Cohen, Barry Krisberg (eds.) Crime and Justice at the Millennium: Essays by and in Honor of Marvin E. Wolfgang. Boston: Kluwer Academic (Link)
"Youth Policy and Juvenile Justice Systems in the Criminal Courts." Simon I. Singer. 2001. Jeffrey Fagan and Franklin Zimring (eds.) The Changing Border of Juvenile Justice: Waiver of Adolescents to the Criminal Court. Chicago: University of Chicago Press (Link)
"Juvenile Court and Its Systems of Juvenile Justice." Simon I. Singer. in Susan White (ed.).2000. Youth and Justice. New York: Plenum (Link)
"Incarcerating Juveniles into Adulthood: Organizational Fields of Knowledge and the Back End of Waiver." 2003. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 1:1-13 (Link)
"Youthful Offender Status and the Reproduction of Juvenile Justice Within Systems of Criminal Justice:The Case of William Shrubsall." 1999. Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal 17:107-123 (Link)