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Paul E. Tracy, Ph.D.Professor of Criminology, Sociology, and Political Economy
| Professor Tracy is a
criminologist/sociologist who specializes in the study of criminal careers,
juvenile delinquency, and policy issues in the criminal and juvenile justice
systems. He holds a Ph.D in Sociology, with specialties
in Criminology and Research Methods, from the Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research interests focus on the measurement and analysis of juvenile delinquency careers, legal and policy issues in criminal and juvenile justice, prediction models of criminal careers, and drug prohibition policy.In particular, Dr. Tracy is a recognized expert in applying longitudinal research designs to the study of criminal careers. His study of the 1958 Philadelphia birth cohort (27,160 people), is the largest study of delinquency and crime in criminology, and is now in its 23rd year. The results of the Philadelphia study have been published as: Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts, (1990); Continuity and Discontinuity in Criminal Careers ; (1996), and Gender Differences in Criminal Careers (forthcoming, summer 2002). Dr. Tracy has also conducted a birth cohort project in San Juan, Puerto Rico (Delinquency in Puerto Rico: the 1970 Birth Cohort Study, 1990), and was also involved in a similar longitudinal study of delinquency in Wuhan Province, People's Republic of China.Dr. Tracy has published f ive books and numerous scholarly articles in the sociology and criminology literature. His publications have appeared in such journals as the American Sociological Review, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminology, Social Science Review, and Evaluation Research. He has a new book forthcoming in spring 2002, Decision-Making and Juvenile Justice: An Analysis of Racial and Ethnic Bias in Case Processing, and another that will be published in summer 2002, The Social Ecology of Juvenile Violence.Dr. Tracy's teaching interests concern the analysis of crime, criminals, and justice system policy. He teaches a roster of courses that focus on delinquency, criminology, juvenile and criminal justice, and drug policy. He is the Coordinator of the Crime and Justice Studies Program in the School of Social Sciences. |
| Office: GR 1.126 Phone: 972 - 883 - 2040 Email: ptracy@utdallas.edu |
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