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John R. Sutton

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John Raymond "Jack" Sutton (born 1949) is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1] Sutton specializes in organizations, the sociology of law, and crime and punishment. His research has established relationships between unemployment, economic inequality, social welfare, race, and incarceration in modern Western democracies.[2][3] In other work, including a number of frequently-cited articles, he uses quantitative analysis of complex networks to develop dynamic relational models of legal policies and management practices of employers in the United States.[4]

Education and career

Sutton received his BA in Literature and Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1971, his MA in Religion (Social Ethics) from the University of Southern California in 1973, and his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Davis in 1981.[5] He did postdoctoral work at the Organizations Research Training Program in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University from 1981 to 1983 and taught in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University from 1983 to 1988.[citation needed]

Sutton's first book, Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981, won the C. Wright Mills Award.[6] It is recognized for its rigorous and creative integration of theory, quantitative analysis, and primary research; it is considered, variously, as a corrective to aspects of Marx, Foucault, and Weber[7][8][9] and, at the same time, as having described previously unexplored features of the history of American legal institutions.[7][8][10] His textbook, Law/Society: Origins, Interactions, and Change, is also noted for the breadth of its theoretical scope[11] and the integration of that theory with empirical examples.[12][13] It filled a gap in the important but otherwise neglected subfield of Sociology of Law when it was written,[12][13] and it continues to be widely used in Sociology of Law and Legal Studies classes.

Sutton has been awarded numerous grants, including multiple National Science Foundation grants and a Lilly Endowment grant. He currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the areas of Sociology of Crime and Delinquency; Sociology of Law; The Structure and Dynamics of Organizations; and Race, Crime, and Punishment.[1]

Selected Bibliography

Books

  • Sutton, John R. (1988). Stubborn Children: Controlling Delinquency in the United States, 1640-1981. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520084520
  • Sutton, John R. (2001). Law/Society: Origins, Interactions, and Change. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. ISBN 978-0761987055

Articles and Essays (Sole Author)

Articles in Collaboration with Others

References

  1. ^ a b "Faculty Profiles: John Sutton - Sociology". University of California, Santa Barbara.
  2. ^ "Annual Report 1999" (PDF). The Institute for Social, Behavioral and Economic Research (ISBER).
  3. ^ "Broom Center for Demography - Profile: John Sutton". University of California, Santa Barbara.
  4. ^ Clifton D. Bryant, Dennis L. Peck, ed. (Nov 17, 2006). 21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook. SAGE Publications.
  5. ^ [1], Davis alumni page.
  6. ^ [2], C. Wright Mills page.
  7. ^ a b [3], Brownfield review.
  8. ^ a b [4], Mennel review.
  9. ^ [5], Grasmick review.
  10. ^ [6], Hawes review.
  11. ^ [7], ISA Handbook.
  12. ^ a b [8], Bates review.
  13. ^ a b [9], Sage reviews.

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