Research Interests: Inequalities in social control Sentencing guidelines and reforms Criminal justice responses to drug offenders Criminology Medicalization of deviance

Recent Publications:

(In press). Steen, Sara and Mark Cohen. "Assessing the Public's Demand for Hate Crime Penalties." Will appear in March, 2004 edition of Justice
Quarterly.

2004. Cohen, Mark, Roland Rust, Sara Steen, and Simon Tidd. "Willingness-to- Pay for Crime Control Programs." Criminology 42(1): 89-110.

2002. Engen, Rodney L., Sara Steen, and George S. Bridges. "Race, Crime and Juvenile Justice: An Empirical Analysis of Research Methods and Findings."
Social Problems 49(2): 194-220.

2001. Steen, Sara. "Contested Portrayals: Medical and Legal Social Control of Juvenile Sex Offenders." Sociological Quarterly 42(3): 325-350.

2000. Engen, Rodney L. and Sara Steen. "The Power to Punish: Discretion and Sentencing Reform in the War on Drugs." American Journal of Sociology 105(5): 1357-1395.

1999. Steen, Sara, Chris Bader, and Charis Kubrin. "Rethinking the Graduate Seminar." Teaching Sociology 27(2): 167-173.

1998. Bridges, George S. and Sara Steen. "Racial Disparities in Official Assessments of Juvenile Offenders: Attributional Stereotypes as Mediating Mechanisms." American Sociological Review 63(4): 554-570.