Publications

Sarah Shannon. 2013. "Does Providing Publicly Funded Jobs to Hard-to-Employ People Reduce Crime and Drug Use?" Scholars Strategy Network. Cambridge, MA: Scholars Strategy Network.

Sarah Shannon and Chris Uggen. 2013. "Visualizing Punishment." The Society Pages.

Sarah Shannon and Sarah Lageson, 2013. "Discovering Desistance." The Society Pages.

Sarah Shannon. 2013. "Climate, Crime, and Coping Strategies, with Robert Agnew." The Society Pages.

Sarah Shannon. 2013. "American Poverty Governance As It Is and As It Might Be, with Joe Soss." The Society Pages.

Uggen, Christopher, Sarah Shannon, and Jeff Manza. 2012. "State-Level Estimates of Felon Disenfranchisement in the United States, 2010." Washington, DC: The Sentencing Project. PDF.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Christopher Uggen. 2012. "Imprisonment as a Political Institution in the United States."   The New Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology, edited by Kate Nash, Alan Scott, and Edwin Amenta. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. PDF. Copyright.

Nyseth, Hollie, Sarah Shannon, Kia Heise and Suzy McElrath. 2011. "Embedded Sociologists." Contexts 10:44-50. PDF. Copyright.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. 2010. "Dereliction of Duty: Training Schools for Delinquent Parents in
the 1940s." Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare 37:11-27. PDF. Copyright.

Discoveries and Reflected Appraisals. 2009-2011. Contexts, various issues.

Abrams, Laura.S., Sarah K.S. Shannon, and Cindy Sangalang. 2008. "Transition Services for Incarcerated Youth: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation Study." Child and Youth Services Review 30:522-535. PDF. Copyright.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. & Laura Abrams. 2007. "Juvenile Offenders as Fathers: Perceptions of Fatherhood, Crime and Becoming and Adult." Families in Society 88:183-191. PDF. Copyright.

Working Papers

Uggen, Christopher and Sarah K.S. Shannon. "Productive Addicts and Harm Reduction: How Work Reduces Crime - But Not Drug Use." Revise and resubmit at Social Problems.

Shannon, Sarah K.S., Christopher Uggen, Melissa Thompson, Jason Schnittker and Michael Massoglia. In Progress. "Growth in the U.S. Ex-Felon and Ex-Prisoner Population, 1948-2010." In preparation for Demography.

Shannon, Sarah K.S., Christopher Uggen, and D. Wayne  Osgood. Forthcoming 2012. "From Daddy’s Liquor Cabinet to Home Depot: Shifts in Leisure Activity in the Transition to Adulthood." Accepted for publication in Inside the Diverse Transitions to Adulthood: How Young Americans Understand and Navigate Their Lives edited by Doug Hartmann and Teresa Swartz. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Joshua Page. In Progress. "Bureaucrats Behind Bars: How Work Environment and Job Stress Affect Prison Officers' Attitudes Toward Prisoners."

Wakefield, Sara, Sarah K.S. Shannon and Christopher Uggen. In Progress. "A Survey and Analysis of Programs for Inmate Fathers: Basic Questions and Future Directions."  

Presentations

Sarah Shannon and Joshua Page. August 2011. “"Bureaucrats Behind Bars: How Work Environment and Job Stress Affect Prison Officers' Attitudes Toward Prisoners." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Las Vegas, NV.

Shannon, Sarah, Christopher Uggen, Melissa Thompson. (April 2011). "Growth in the U.S. Ex-Felon and Ex-Prisoner Population, 1948-2010." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. (2010, November). "Thinking About Re-entry From the Perspective of Chemical Health Clients."  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA.

Shannon, Sarah K.S. and Joshua Page. (2010, November). "Prison Officer Job Satisfaction and Attitudes Toward Rehabilitation." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA.

Uggen, C. and Shannon, S.K.S. (2010, August). A Basic Job Opportunity Reduces Crime - But Not Drug Use. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, August, 2010, Atlanta, GA.

Shannon, S.K.S., Wakefield, S. and Uggen, C. (2009, November). A survey and analysis of
programs for inmate fathers: Basic questions and future directions.  Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 2009. Philadelphia, PA.

Shannon, S.K.S. (2008, November). What sober people do: Perceptions of the transition to
adulthood for chemically dependent young adults. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, 2008. St. Louis, MO.

Shannon, S.K.S. (2007, November). Dereliction of duty: Training schools for delinquent parents
in the 1940s. Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 14-17, 2007. Atlanta, GA.

Shannon, S.K.S. & Abrams, L. (2006, November). Changing diapers, changing lives? Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November 1-4, 2006. Los Angeles, CA.

Shannon, S.K.S. & Abrams, L. (2006, August). Juvenile offenders as fathers: Perceptions of
fatherhood, crime, and becoming an adult. Paper presented at the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 10-12, 2006. Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Aguilar, J., Shannon, S. & Abrams, L.S. (2005, August). Rethinking risk: Subjectivity and
meaning in risk and delinquency. Paper presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, August 12-14, 2005. Philadelphia, PA.

Aguilar, J., Shannon, S. & Abrams, L.S. (2005, June). Rethinking risk: Subjectivity and meaning in risk and delinquency. Poster presented at Pathways to Resilience International Conference, June 15-17, 2005. Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.