KIRK MILLER
Department of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
815.753.0303
kmiller7@niu.edu
August 2008
EDUCATION
2003
Ph.D. Sociology.
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC
Chair: Matthew T. Zingraff
Comprehensive Exams:
Crime and Social Control
Social Inequality
1996
M.S. Sociology.
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC
Chair: Gary D. Hill
1993
B.S. Sociology; B.A. Communications Studies.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Blacksburg, VA.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2008Associate Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
2003-2008
Assistant Professor of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
2002-2003
Instructor, Sociology, Northern Illinois University
1998-2002
Project Director, Public Opinion Laboratory, Northern Illinois University
1998-2002
Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology; Northern Illinois University
1997-1998
Provost’s Task Force on Multi-Cultural Curriculum Transformation,
Assistant & Ad Hoc Task Force Member; Northern Illinois University
1997-1998
Research Consultant, Center for Governmental Studies, Northern Illinois
University
1996
Research Assistant, Department of Sociology; NC State University
National Institute of Justice Grant (#5-721 7-NC-IJ) entitled Changing
Patterns of Homicide and Social Policy in Three American Cities.
Margaret A. Zahn and Katherine M. Jamieson, Principal Investigators.
REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Miller, Kirk. Accepted, Forthcoming. “Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling:
An Examination of Policy Adoption in Large Law Enforcement Agencies.” Crime and
Delinquency.
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. Forthcoming, 2008. “Policing Intellectual
Property Piracy: A Study in Corporate Crime Control.” Journal of Crime and Justice.
Miller, Kirk. 2008. “Police Stops, Pretext and Racial Profiling: Explaining Warning
and Ticket Stops Using Citizen Self-Reports.” Ethnicity in Criminal Justice 6: 123-149.
Miller, Kirk. 2007. “Racial Profiling and Postmodern Society: Police Responsiveness,
Image Maintenance, and the Left Flank of Police Legitimacy.” Journal of Contemporary
Criminal Justice 24: 248-262.
Miller, Kirk. 2007. “Traversing the Spatial Divide? Gender, Place and Delinquency.”
Feminist Criminology 2:202-222.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Cynthia Pfaff Wright, Ronald Czaja and Kirk Miller.
2006. “Self-Reports of Police Speeding Stops by Race: Results from the North Carolina
Reverse Record Check Survey.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 22:279-297.
UNDER REVIEW
Miller, Kirk. “Race, Driving, and Traffic Stops: Modeling Moving and Non-Moving
Traffic Stops with Citizen Self-Reports.” Journal of Criminal Justice.
NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Markowitz, Fred E. and Kirk Miller. 2008. “Tragedy at Northern Illinois University.”
Footnotes
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. 2007. “Criminology.” Pp 390-398 in Handbook
of 21st Century Sociology. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (eds.). Thousand Oaks,
CA: Sage.
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. 2008. “Intellectual Property Piracy.” in
Encyclopedia of Social Problems. Vincent Parillo (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Deflem, Matthieu. 2004. Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of
International Police Cooperation. Contemporary Sociology 33: 597-598.
Review of Walker, Jeffrey T. 2003. Policing and the Law. Criminal Justice Review
28:401-402.
PAPERS IN PROGRESS
Miller, Kirk. “Does Racial Profiling Policy Influence Police Behavior? An Analysis of
Organizational Controls on Traffic Stop Disparities.” Law & Society Review
Miller, Kirk, Katherine Karpf and Keenan Ballo. “Turning the Cameras on Cops: An
Agency-level Analysis of Patrol Video Cameras as a Mechanism of Police
Accountability.” Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management.
Miller, Kirk, Keenan Ballo and Katherine Karpf. “Watching the Watchers: Patrol
Video Technology, Worker Surveillance and the Politics of the Police Work
Environment.” Surveillance and Society.
Miller, Kirk. “Explaining the Institutionalization of the Homeland Security Function
among Large Local Law Enforcement Agencies in the Age of Terror.” Journal of
Criminal Justice
Miller, Kirk and David F. Luckenbill. “The Global Diffusion of Law: The Case of
Intellectual Property.”
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. “Investigating Piracy: The PIs of IP theft or…
The Private Eyes of Corporate Crime Control.”
Miller, Kirk and David F. Luckenbill. “International Intellectual Property Piracy: A
Cross-national Analysis of Piracy.”
Jackie Jebens and Kirk Miller. “Modern Racism, Old-fashioned Prejudice and
Preference for Punishment.” Deviant Behavior
Miller, Kirk. “Law Enforcement Agency Responses to Research Requests: An Analysis
of Electronic and Mail Modes in Illinois.”
Miller, Kirk. “Self-Reports of Speeding: Respondent Race and Survey Context Effects
on Speeding Behavior and Traffic Stops.”
Miller, Kirk. “State-Media Crime: The Case of Hurricane Katrina as a New Form of
State-Corporate Crime?”
Miller, Kirk. “Dora the Explorer, Stuck at the Border: The Media and Immigration
Narratives in an Animated Children’s Series.”
GRANT WRITING
2008
Miller, Kirk. “Turning the Cops on Cameras.” Undergraduate Research
and Artistry Program. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, NIU. $200.
2007
Miller, Kirk. “Explaining the Diffusion of Surveillance Technology
among Local Law Enforcement Agencies.” American Statistical
Association, Bureau of Justice Statistics Statistical Methodological
Research Program 2007 Small Grants for Analysis of Data from Bureau of
Justice Statistics. Funds sought $37,306.
Miller, Kirk. “Do Profiling Policies Reduce Racial Disparity in Police
Traffic Stops?” Illinois Criminal Justice Information Authority
Researcher Initiated Grant Program. Funds sought $56,253.
2005
Miller, Kirk. “Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An
Examination of Policy Variation in Large Municipal Police Agencies.”
NIU Graduate School Summer Research and Artistry . Approximately
$5000 awarded.
Miller, Kirk. “Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An
Examination of Policy Variation in Large Municipal Police Agencies.”
Submitted to the American Sociological Association/National Science
Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, Funds sought
$7,500.
2002
Miller, Kirk. Consumer Choice of Electrical Suppliers. Illinois
Commerce Commission. $26,000 awarded.
2001
Miller, Kirk. Race, Place, Cops and Stops. National Institute of Justice
Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Funds sought $15,000.
Miller, Kirk and Barbara Burrell. Transportation Issues Survey of the
Quad Cities Region. Bi-State Regional Commission. $26,400 awarded.
Miller, Kirk and Barbara Burrell. Mount Prospect, IL, Citizen
Satisfaction Survey. Village of Mount Prospect, IL. Funds sought
$45,000.
1999-2000
Miller, Kirk. North Carolina Highway Traffic Survey. North Carolina
Center for Crime and Justice subcontract from the National Institute of
Justice. $90,000 awarded.
Northern Illinois University Supportive Professional Staff Professional
Development Grant Summer ICPSR/Institute for Survey Research
Techniques. $1,850 awarded.
Jill McCorkel and Kirk Miller.GIRLS LINK. Process Research
Evaluation. Cook County, IL Juvenile Justice Authority. Funds sought
$77,896.
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2008
Explaining Piracy: A Routine Activities Analysis. David F. Luckenbill
and Kirk Miller; American Society of Criminology; November 12-15; St.
Louis, MO.
Race, Police, and Policy: Do Racial Profiling Policies Reduce Disparities
in Police Traffic Stops? Kirk Miller; American Society of Criminology;
November 12-15; St. Louis, MO.
2007
One Nation, Under Surveillance. Kirk Miller; Society for the Study of
Social Problems; August 10; New York, New York.
Racial Profiling, Miscegenation, and the Policing of Inter-racial Relations.
Association of Black Sociologists. August 8-10; New York, New York.
2006
Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An Examination of
Policy Variation in Large Municipal Police Agencies.” Kirk Miller;
Society for the Study of Social Problems; Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2005
“Making Bad Girls Good: The Gendering of Shame in Juvenile
Probation.” Kirk Miller; Southern Sociological Society; Charlotte, NC.
2004
“The Diffusion of Law: National Responses to International Pressure to
Protect Intellectual Property.” Kirk Miller and David F. Luckenbill;
Society for the Study of Social Problems; San Francisco, CA.
2003
“Racial Profiling in Racial Profiling Research.” Kirk Miller; Southern
Sociological Society; New Orleans, LA.
2002
Invited Presidential Poster Session “Predicting Police Traffic Stops:
Integrating Self Reports and Community Data.” Kirk Miller and Matthew
T. Zingraff; American Society of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
2001
“Cops and Stops: Race, Place and Social Control in North Carolina.” Kirk
Miller, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, and Matthew T. Zingraff; American
Society of Criminology; Atlanta, GA.
2000
“Are All Hate Crimes Created Equal?” Kirk Miller and Kristen A. Myers;
Southern Sociological Society; New Orleans, LA.
1997
“Confronting the Obstacles of Internet-based Research: The Case of
Computer Technology and Teaching.” Kirk Miller, Kristen A. Myers,
Margaret Stiffler, and Joseph Flowers; Southern Sociological Society;
New Orleans, LA.
1996
“Residential Segregation and Crime: Recursive Models of a Reciprocal
Relationship.” Marcy Mason-Schrock and Kirk Miller; American Society
of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
1996
“An Ounce of Prevention: Addressing the Roots of Serious Crime.” Kirk
Miller, Marino A. Bruce, Margaret A. Zahn, and Katherine M. Jamieson;
American Society of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
1995
"Structural Context, Gender and Crime." Kirk Miller; American Society of
Criminology; Boston, MA.
1995
"A Conceptual Examination of Social Threat and Social Control." Kirk
Miller; Study of Social Problems; Washington, D.C.
COURSES TAUGHT
Gender and Crime (400-level)
Law and Society (400-level)
Policing in a Democratic Society (400-level)
Sociological Inquiry (300-level)
Deviance in Society (300-level)
Criminology (200-level)
Criminal Justice System (200-level)
Social Problems (200-level)
Introduction to Sociology (100-level)
“SPSS How-to” One-week Short-Course
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Society of Criminology
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Southern Sociological Society
Sociologists for Women in Society
Alpha Kappa Delta, International Sociology Honor Society
REFERENCES
Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Chair and Professor of Sociology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
(413) 545-4070
tomaskovic-devey@soc.umass.edu
Matthew T. Zingraff
Associate Dean for Research
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
(703) 993-4769
zingraff@gmu.edu
David F. Luckenbill
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-6428
dfl@niu.edu