@article{heimer_malone_de coster_2023, title={Trends in Women's Incarceration Rates in US Prisons and Jails: A Tale of Inequalities}, volume={6}, ISSN={["2572-4568"]}, DOI={10.1146/annurev-criminol-030421-041559}, abstractNote={Women's rates of imprisonment and incarceration in jails grew faster than men's rates during the prison boom in the United States. Even during the recent period of modest decline in incarceration, women's rates have decreased less than men's rates. The number of women in prisons and jails in the United States is now at a historic high. Yet research on mass incarceration most often ignores women's imprisonment and confinement in jails. This review examines trends in women's incarceration, highlighting important disparities for Black, Latina, and American Indian/Indigenous women. It contextualizes these trends in terms of the economic and social disadvantages of women prior to incarceration as well as inequalities that are created by women's incarceration for families, communities, and women themselves. The review concludes by calling for improved data on women's imprisonment and jail trends, particularly regarding race and ethnicity, as well as more research and theoretical development.}, journal={ANNUAL REVIEW OF CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Heimer, Karen and Malone, Sarah E. and De Coster, Stacy}, year={2023}, pages={85–106} }
 @article{de coster_heimer_2022, title={Techniques of Identity Talk in Reentering Mothers' Self-Narratives: (M)othering and Redemption Narratives}, volume={17}, ISSN={["1557-086X"]}, DOI={10.1177/1557085120983444}, abstractNote={ We examine how incarcerated women introduced themselves to a reentry program focused on reuniting them with their children. To communicate maternal worthiness, the women did not discuss their own past mothering but focused instead on their mothers’ mothering and on their future mothering. Our analysis uncovers two forms of identity talk women used to distance themselves from societal presumptions about their “bad” mothering: discussing shortcomings of their mothers in a process we call defensive (m)othering, and focusing on futures as good mothers through redemptive storytelling. These strategies reveal how women attempt to manage identities within structural, cultural, and situational constraints. }, number={1}, journal={FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Heimer, Karen}, year={2022}, month={Jan}, pages={3–25} }
 @article{de coster_heimer_sanchagrin_2021, title={Impoverished Single Mother Households and Violent Delinquency: Bonding, Negative, and Bridging Social Capital}, ISSN={["1552-8499"]}, DOI={10.1177/0044118X211017612}, abstractNote={ This paper develops an economic and social capital model linking single mothering in poverty to adolescent violence. Our model focuses on bonding social capital within parent-child relationships, negative social capital in delinquent peer groups, and bridging social capital residing in youths’ friendship networks. Our research is the first to consider that the family experiences of adolescents’ peers affect adolescent violence. We test hypotheses using the Add Health, finding that peer networks are a source of bridging social capital through which collective parenting helps explain youth violence as well as the links between family structural (dis)advantages and youth violence. }, journal={YOUTH & SOCIETY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Heimer, Karen and Sanchagrin, Kenneth}, year={2021}, month={May} }
 @article{de coster_heimer_2021, title={Unifying Theory and Research on Intimate Partner Violence: A Feminist Perspective}, volume={16}, ISSN={["1557-086X"]}, DOI={10.1177/1557085120987615}, abstractNote={This paper shows how theorizing gender as a social system and a situational accomplishment provides a broad perspective that helps to synthesize many strands of theoretical and empirical research on IPV. We first address generalist claims that gendered explanations of IPV are not necessary. We next present a unifying feminist theoretical framework to explain IPV experiences and discuss how this framework can be extended to consider how gender and race systems intersect to influence IPV. We call for future theoretical development and empirical research that takes seriously a variety of intersecting systems and dimensions of oppression.}, number={3}, journal={FEMINIST CRIMINOLOGY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Heimer, Karen}, year={2021}, month={Jul}, pages={286–303} }
 @article{de coster_lutz_2018, title={Reconsidering Labels and Primary Deviance: False Appraisals, Reflected Appraisals, and Delinquency Onset}, volume={55}, ISSN={["1552-731X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0022427818771437}, abstractNote={Objective:We assess Matsueda’s reflected appraisals model of delinquency across groups of previously delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents. We hypothesize that the reflected appraisals process, which entails incorporating informal appraisals by significant others into self-identities, differs across delinquent and nondelinquent adolescents.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Lutz, Jennifer}, year={2018}, month={Aug}, pages={609–648} }
 @article{de coster_2018, title={Sisters in crime revisited: bringing gender into criminology}, volume={29}, ISSN={["1745-9117"]}, DOI={10.1080/10511253.2018.1444961}, abstractNote={During a time when academics are judged by lines on vitas and citation counts, Sisters in Crime Revisited: Bringing Gender into Criminology is a reminder that intellectual legacies cannot be quanti...}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE EDUCATION}, author={De Coster, Stacy}, year={2018}, pages={313–316} }
 @article{de coster_heimer_2017, title={Choice within constraint: An explanation of crime at the intersections}, volume={21}, ISSN={["1461-7439"]}, DOI={10.1177/1362480616677494}, abstractNote={Intersectionalities have become central to theory and research on sex, gender and crime. Viewing crime through an intersectionalities lens allows us to move beyond deterministic views of the relationship between social structures and offending by emphasizing that structures of gender, race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality weave together to create a complex tapestry of opportunities and motivations that shape variation in crime and violence across groups and situations. In this essay, we propose a “choice within constraint” framework that focuses on how multiple, interlocking inequalities come together to shape micro-level interactions while also allowing room for agency in how people choose to respond to social and structural opportunities and constraints. More specifically, we cull insights from qualitative studies to build a framework emphasizing how individuals’ active engagement with intersecting cultural meanings of gender (masculinities and femininities) explain variability in decisions to offend across and within hierarchies of sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, and age.}, number={1}, journal={THEORETICAL CRIMINOLOGY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Heimer, Karen}, year={2017}, month={Feb}, pages={11–22} }
 @article{de coster_thompson_2017, title={Race and General Strain Theory: Microaggressions As Mundane Extreme Environmental Stresses}, volume={34}, ISSN={["1745-9109"]}, DOI={10.1080/07418825.2016.1236204}, abstractNote={This article spotlights racial microaggressions as relevant for understanding delinquency and the race gap in offending among middle-schoolers. In doing so, we draw on an emerging body of delinquency research rooted in general strain theory that demonstrates the emotional and behavioral tolls of face-to-face discrimination. We contend that this body of research has not established the full impact of racial microaggressions on delinquency because it has not considered that the specter of microaggressive encounters follows African American youth in particular from experience to experience. Specifically, we propose that racial microaggressions influence juvenile offending both directly—as previously documented—and by exacerbating the impact of co-occurring stressful events and experiences on negative emotions and delinquency. Using data collected at a southeastern middle-school, we find support for this proposition, empirically documenting that racial microaggressions interact with co-occurring stressful experiences in OLS models predicting delinquency.}, number={5}, journal={JUSTICE QUARTERLY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Thompson, Maxine S.}, year={2017}, pages={903–930} }
 @article{de coster_zito_2017, title={The Social Landscape of Intractable Offending Among African-American Males in Marginalized Contexts}, ISBN={["978-3-319-44122-1"]}, DOI={10.1007/978-3-319-44124-5_11}, journal={PREVENTING CRIME AND VIOLENCE}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Zito, Rena C.}, year={2017}, pages={113–122} }
 @article{zito_de coster_2016, title={Family Structure, Maternal Dating, and Sexual Debut: Extending the Conceptualization of Instability}, volume={45}, ISSN={["1573-6601"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10964-016-0457-7}, abstractNote={Family structure influences the risk of early onset of sexual intercourse. This study proposes that the family structures associated with risk-single-mother, step-parent, and cohabiting-influence early sexual debut due to family instability, including shifts in family structure and maternal dating, which can undermine parental control and transmit messages about the acceptability of nonmarital sex. Previous research has not considered maternal dating as a component of family instability, assuming single mothers who date and those who do not date experience comparable levels of family disruption and transmit similar messages about the acceptability of nonmarital sex. Hypotheses are assessed using logistic regression models predicting the odds of early onset of sexual intercourse among 9959 respondents (53 % female, 47 % male) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Respondents were ages 12-17 at the first wave of data collection and 18-26 at the third wave, when respondents reported the age at which they first had sexual intercourse. Results show that maternal dating is a source of family instability with repercussions for early sexual debut. Parental control and permissive attitudes towards teenage sex and pregnancy link at-risk family structures and maternal dating to early sexual initiation among females, though these variables do not fully explain family structure and maternal dating effects. Among males, the influence of maternal dating on early sexual debut is fully explained by the learning of permissive sexual attitudes.}, number={5}, journal={JOURNAL OF YOUTH AND ADOLESCENCE}, author={Zito, Rena Cornell and De Coster, Stacy}, year={2016}, month={May}, pages={1003–1019} }
 @article{brauer_de coster_2015, title={Social Relationships and Delinquency: Revisiting Parent and Peer Influence During Adolescence}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1552-8499"]}, DOI={10.1177/0044118x12467655}, abstractNote={Scholars interested in delinquency have focused much attention on the influence of parent and peer relationships. Prior research has assumed that parents control delinquency because they value convention, whereas peers promote delinquency because they value and model nonconvention. We argue that it is important to assess the normative and behavioral orientations of those to whom adolescents feel close to accurately model how relationships operate. Drawing on social control, social learning, and a prominent developmental perspective, we derive and test alternative hypotheses about the manner in which attachments to significant others and the normative and behavioral orientations of these others operate either independently or in tandem to influence delinquency. Empirical findings based on tobit regressions and National Youth Survey (NYS) data suggest that social learning theory is best equipped to explain peer influence; however, the developmental perspective appears more applicable to parent influence.}, number={3}, journal={YOUTH & SOCIETY}, author={Brauer, Jonathan R. and De Coster, Stacy}, year={2015}, month={May}, pages={374–394} }
 @article{de coster_zito_2013, title={MATERNAL ROLES AND ADOLESCENT DEPRESSION: CONDITIONS AND PROCESSES OF INFLUENCE}, volume={56}, ISSN={["1533-8673"]}, DOI={10.1525/sop.2012.56.1.1}, abstractNote={ This article explores the implications of maternal roles for adolescent depression by developing a theoretical model linking the gendered ideologies and work and family roles of mothers to the depression of their adolescent children. The model posits that incongruity between mothers' roles and their ideologies concerning maternal roles results in maternal distress, which influences their parenting in ways that ultimately affect adolescent depression. We test this model using data from the National Survey of Children and covariance structure analysis. The results support the theoretical arguments, demonstrating that incongruity between mothers' roles and ideologies influences family processes in ways relevant for understanding the depression of adolescents. }, number={1}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Zito, Rena Cornell}, year={2013}, pages={1–23} }
 @article{de coster_2012, title={Mothers' Work and Family Roles, Gender Ideologies, Distress, and Parenting}, volume={53}, ISSN={["1533-8525"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1533-8525.2012.01253.x}, abstractNote={This article develops a theoretical model that links the gendered ideologies and work and family roles of mothers to juvenile delinquency. I test the model using the National Survey of Children and covariance structure analysis. The results demonstrate that adolescents of mothers who are employed and hold nontraditional ideologies, as well as those whose mothers are homemakers and hold traditional ideologies, are less likely than others to be delinquent. This is because their mothers are not susceptible to distress, enabling them to foster emotional bonds with their children. Emotional bonds ultimately protect youths from delinquent peer associations and delinquency.}, number={4}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY}, author={De Coster, Stacy}, year={2012}, pages={585–609} }
 @misc{de coster_2012, title={The Paradox of Youth Violence}, volume={41}, DOI={10.1177/0094306112457769mm}, abstractNote={The Spectacular State explores the production of national identity in post-Soviet Uzbekistan. The main protagonists are the cultural elites involved in the elaboration of new state-sponsored mass-spectacle national holidays: Navro’z (Zoroastrian New Year) and Independence Day. The overall argument is that despite their aspirations to reinvigorate national identity, mass spectacle creators in Uzbekistan have reproduced much of the Soviet cultural production. National identity has been one of the most fraught questions in Central Asia, where nationality was a contradictory and complicated product of the Soviet rule. Although the category of nationality was initiated, produced, and imposed by the Soviet state in the 1920s, it eventually became a source of power and authority for local elites, including cultural producers. The collapse of the Soviet Union opened up possibilities for revising and reversing many understandings manufactured by the socialist regime. Yet, upon her arrival in Tashkent to conduct her research on the renegotiation of national identity in 1995, Laura Adams discovered that instead of embracing newly-found freedom to recover a more authentic history, most Uzbek intellectuals, especially cultural producers working with the state, avoided probing too far in this direction. Rather than entirely discarding the Soviet colonial legacies, they revised their history selectively. Whereas the ideological content of their cultural production shifted from socialism to nationalism, many of the previous cultural ‘‘forms’’ have remained. Similarly, the Uzbek government continued to employ cultural elites to implement the task of reinforcing its nation-building program, thus following the Soviet model of cultural production. The book consists of four chapters. The first chapter delineates the broad themes of national identity building, and the remaining chapters explore mass spectacle creation by distinguishing between three elements: form (Chapter Two), content (Chapter Three), and the mode of production (Chapter Four). The study is based on content analysis of two Olympic Games-style national holidays, interviews with cultural producers, and participation observation of festivals and behind-the-scenes preparation meetings. Although Adams provides a few references to viewers and their attitude toward the public holiday performances, her book does not offer an extended engagement with reception and consumption of these holidays. The comprehensive and multi-layered overview of the process of revising national identity in Uzbekistan is one of the book’s major accomplishments. For Adams, the production of national identity is not a selfevident and seamless production forced by the state but instead a dynamic, complex, and dialogical process of negotiation between various parties (intellectual factions, state officials, mass spectacle producers, etc.). Her account reveals the messy and often contradictory nature of national identity production and thus moves away from the tendency to reify the state and its policies. The book makes a significant contribution to studies of nationalism by suggesting that the production of national identity in Uzbekistan was centrally constituted by the consideration of the ‘‘international audience.’’ Although public holidays, studied by Adams, aimed at fostering national identification, the forms in which these celebrations are performed (including national dances and music) indicate the aspiration of cultural producers to be part of the international community. This kind of national production self-consciously oriented toward the international viewer has been the legacy of the Soviet nationalities policy where all cultural producers had to produce art ‘‘socialist in content, national in form.’’ Notwithstanding the difference in generations or genres,}, number={5}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={De Coster, S.}, year={2012}, pages={675–677} }
 @article{de coster_kort-butler_2006, title={How general is general strain theory? Assessing determinacy and indeterminacy across life domains}, volume={43}, ISSN={["1552-731X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0022427806291272}, abstractNote={This article explores how assumptions of determinacy and indeterminacy apply to general strain theory. Theories assuming determinacy assert that motivational conditions determine specific forms of deviant adaptations, whereas those assuming indeterminacy propose that a given social circumstance can predispose a person toward many forms of deviance. The authors propose that strain theory posits a strong tendency for the domains in which stresses occur to match those in which delinquency takes place. This is a source of determinacy. Drawing on stress spillover and aggression displacement arguments, the authors also discuss sources of indeterminacy—or domain crossover effects. The tendency toward domain matching that is tempered by stress spillover and aggression displacement is what the authors refer to as soft determinacy. The authors derive hypotheses from their soft determinacy argument and test them on a sample of middle school students. The results support the arguments and suggest that discussion of soft determinacy is worthy of further attention.}, number={4}, journal={JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Kort-Butler, Lisa}, year={2006}, month={Nov}, pages={297–325} }
 @article{de coster_heimer_wittrock_2006, title={Neighborhood disadvantage, social capital, street context, and youth violence}, volume={47}, ISSN={["0038-0253"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1533-8525.2006.00064.x}, abstractNote={This article integrates arguments from three perspectives on the relationship between communities and crime—constrained residential choices, social capital, and street context perspectives—to specify a conceptual model of community disadvantage and the violence of individual adolescents. Specifically, we propose that status characteristics (e.g., race, poverty, female headship) restrict the residential choices of families. Residence in extremely disadvantaged communities, in turn, increases the chances of violent behavior by youths by influencing the development and maintenance of community and family social capital, and by influencing the chances that youths are exposed to a criminogenic street context. We assess our conceptual model using community contextual and individual-level data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. Our findings suggest that individual or family status characteristics influence violence largely because of the communities in which disadvantaged persons and families reside. Although we find that community social capital does not predict individual violence, both family social capital and measures of an alternative street milieu are strong predictors of individual violence. Moreover, our street context variables appear to be more important than the social capital variables in explaining how community disadvantage affects violence.}, number={4}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY}, author={De Coster, Stacy and Heimer, Karen and Wittrock, Stacy M.}, year={2006}, pages={723–753} }
 @misc{de coster_2005, title={Depression and law violation: Gendered responses to gendered stresses}, volume={48}, ISSN={["1533-8673"]}, DOI={10.1525/sop.2005.48.2.155}, abstractNote={This article unites arguments from the sociology of mental health, criminology, and the sociology of gender to explore the role of gender in the stress process. The author proposes that gender acts upon the stress process in three ways. First, males and females may report exposure to different types of stresses. Second, males and females may be vulnerable to different types of stresses. Third, males and females may respond to stress in different ways—law violation versus depression. Arguments are tested about the relative importance of differential exposure versus differential vulnerability to various stresses for understanding the gender gaps in law violation and depression using the National Youth Survey, OLS regression, and Kessler's method for decomposing differences in exposure and vulnerability to stress. The results provide limited support for these arguments, suggesting that females report more exposure than do males to some communal stresses, whereas males report more exposure than do females to the agentic stresses included in this study. Vulnerability to these stresses also varies across gender, with females generally expressing greater vulnerability to communal stresses in the form of depression and males expressing greater vulnerability to agentic stresses in the form of law violation. Some deviations from this general pattern are discussed, and recommendations for future research follow.}, number={2}, journal={SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES}, author={De Coster, S}, year={2005}, pages={155–187} }
 @misc{de coster_2001, title={Being mentally ill: A sociological theory, 3rd edition}, volume={30}, number={1}, journal={Contemporary Sociology}, author={De Coster, S.}, year={2001}, pages={90–91} }