Danielle Lavin-Loucks

Education

• Ph.D. – Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington
• M.A. – Sociology, Indiana University-Bloomington
• B.A. – Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Contributions

Lavin-Loucks, Danielle and Kristine Levan. 2015. “Were You Drunk at the Time?: How Parole Boards Influence Neutralization Techniques in Parole Hearings.” Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice & Criminology 3(1): 61-86.

Lavin-Loucks, Danielle. 2014. Racial Profiling. In Gallagher, Charles and Cameron Lippard. (Eds.) Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Press.

Lavin-Loucks, Danielle. 2012. Seussiology. TRAILS (Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology). A journal of the American Sociological Association. Available at: http://trails.asanet.org

Taylor‐Greene, Helen, Katie Polzer and Danielle Lavin‐Loucks. 2006. “Prisoner Transition and Prisoner Reentry in Dallas, TX.” Williams Review, 1 (1): 38‐62. Lavin‐Loucks, Danielle. 2004. “An Overview of Conversation Analysis.” Encyclopedia of Social Measurement. California: Academic Press.

Interests

Areas of Specialization: Ethnography; Conversation Analysis; Criminology; Social Psychology; Corrections/Parole; Urban Education; College Access, Readiness, and Persistence

Courses Taught

• Introduction to Sociology
• Police in Society
• Criminal Justice Systems
• Penology
• Media and Crime
• Sociology of Law
• Medical Sociology
• Ethnography of Crime
• Crime Types
• Homicide and Capital Punishment
• Criminological Theory
• Internship in Criminal Justice
• Correlates of Crime
• Introduction to Criminology
• Sexual Diversity
• Qualitative Methods

Memberships

• American Sociological Association
• North Central Sociological Association
• Alpha Kappa Delta