BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
NAME
POSITION TITLE
E. Mark Warr
Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of
Texas at Austin
eRA COMMONS USER NAME
EDUCATION/TRAINING
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION
Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, WA
University of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
Univeristy of Arizona, Tuscon, AZ
DEGREE
MM/YY
BA
MA
PhD
05/1974
05/1976
08/1979
FIELD OF STUDY
Sociology, Psychology
Sociology
Sociology
A. PERSONAL STATEMENT
Mark Warr’s research concentrates on social reactions to crime, peer influence and group delinquency. His
recent publications include Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct (Cambridge
University Press, 2002), which won the 2005 Michael J. Hindelang Award from the American Society of
Criminology. A 2005 article in Criminology (“Making Delinquent Friends: Adult Supervision and Children’s
Affiliations”) looked at the process by which youth acquire delinquent friends, and a forthcoming article (“Peerresistant Youth? Religiosity and Peer Affiliations During Adolescence”) attempts to identify youth who are
steadfastly resistant to peer influence during their school years. Warr has also contributed chapters on peer
influence and delinquency to the Oxford Handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice (2011), the
Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory (2010), and the Handbook on Crime and Deviance (2009). His recent
works on social reactions to crime include an examination of altruistic fear (fear for others) in family
households (“Rethinking Social Reactions to Crime,” American Journal of Sociology, 2000) and an
assessment of the impact of fear on recent social trends in the U.S. (“Safe at Home: The Transition from
Public to Private Life in the United States, 1960-2000,” Contexts, 2009), including the rise of gated
communities, home-centered entertainment, and childhood obesity. Warr relies on the PRC for expert
assistance with computing, data management, and statistical methods and applications.
B. POSITIONS AND HONORS
Positions and Employment
1979-1981
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Washington State University, Pullman, WA
1980
Postdoctoral Fellow, The Center for Law and Justice, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1981-1986
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park,
PA
1986-Present Professor, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
1990-1991
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
2002-2003
Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
Honors, Other Experience, and Professional Memberships
1979-1981
NIMH Postdoctoral Fellow, Washington State University
1984-1993
Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly
1988
Invited Speaker, Problems in Analyzing Rape Incidents Using NCS Data, National Crime
Survey Conference. Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice,
and the American Statistical Association, Washington, DC
1988
Member, Second National Workshop on the Design and Use of the National Crime Survey.
Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice, Committee on Law
and Justice Statistics, and the American Statistical Association
1989-1991
Commissioned Author, Public Perceptions and Reactions to Violent Offending and
Victimization, Panel on the Control and Understanding of Violent Behavior, National
Academies of Science and the National Research Council
1990
Member, Workshop on the Design and Use of the National Crime Survey. Sponsored by the
Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice, Committee on Law and Justice
Statistics, and the American Statistical Association
1990
1990
1991
1994-1995
1994-1997
1995
1995-1996
1997
1998
1998-1999
1998-2000
1998-2003
1999
2000
2000-2002
2001
2002
2002
2002-2003
2004-Present
2006
2006
Present
Present
Present
Present
Invited Speaker, Criminological Data, Workshop on the Design and Use of the National Crime
Survey. Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice and the
American Statistical Association, Washington, DC
Speaker, Public Perceptions and Reactions to Violent Offending and Victimization,
Symposium on the Understanding and Control of Violent Behavior, National Academies of
Science, Destin, FL
Study Group on Estimating Rape Victimization in the United States, American Statistical
Association. Sponsored by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of Justice and the
American Statistical Association, Alexandria, VA
Faculty Research Assignment, Criminal Careers and Desistance from Crime, Faculty
Development Program, The University of Texas at Austin
Consultant, Technical Assistance and Support Program, National Institute of Justice, US
Department of Justice
Violence Advisory Board, NSF
Review Panel, National Institute of Justice
Division Chair, American Society of Criminology
Director, Criminology Area, American Sociological Association
Commissioned Author, Criminal Justice 2000, report to the National Institute of Justice
Editorial Board, American Sociological Review
Committee on Law and Justice Statistics, American Statistical Association (advisory
committee to US Department of Justice and other federal agencies)
Consultant, Measuring Public Perceptions of Appropriate Prison Sentences, (NIJ 1999-CEVX-0001), Mark Cohen, PI
Subcommittee on FBI Uniform Crime Reports, Bureau of Justice Statistics, US Department of
Justice and the American Statistical Association
Consulting Editor, American Journal of Sociology
Invited Speaker, Fear of Crime in the United States: Three Decades of Research, Ministry of
Justice, Canada
Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology, for Companions in Crime,
Cambridge University Press
Invited Speaker, The Role of Delinquent Peers during the Life Course, International
Conference on Criminological and Criminal Justice Research, University of Leiden, The
Netherlands
Chair, Selection Committee, Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award, American Society of
Criminology
Editorial Board, Criminology (also 1992-1996, 1998-2001)
Selection Committee, Outstanding Article Award, American Society of Criminology
Committee, Excellence in Reporting of Social Issues Award, American Sociological
Association
Grants and Contracts Committee, American Society of Criminology
Member: American Sociological Association, American Society of Criminology, Southwestern
Sociological Association, Southern Sociological Association
Ad Hoc Reviewer: American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Social
Forces, Social Problems, Criminology, Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Journal of
Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior,
Journal of Crime and Justice, Law and Society Review, Sociological Quarterly, Rural
Sociology, Public Opinion Quarterly
Ad Hoc Grant Reviewer: NSF, Social Science Research Council of Canada, Economic and
Social Research Council of Great Britain
C. SELECTED PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Warr, E.M. 2001. Age and Crime. In Encyclopedia of Criminology and Deviant Behavior. Volume II: Crime and
Juvenile Delinquency, D. Luckenbill and D. Peck (Eds), pp. 4-6. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge.
Warr, E.M. 2001. The Social Origins of Crime: Edwin Sutherland and the Theory of Differential Association. In
Explaining Criminals and Crime: Essays in Contemporary Criminological Theory, R. Paternoster and R.
Bachman (Eds), pp. 182-191. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.
Warr, E.M. 2001. Crime and Opportunity: A Theoretical Essay. In Advances in Criminological Theory. Volume
IX: The Process and Structure of Crime: Criminal Events and Crime Analysis, W. Laufer and F. Adler
(series Eds), pp.65-94. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers.
Warr, E.M. 2002. Fear of Crime. In Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, J. Dressler (Ed in Chief), pp. 684-686.
New York, NY: Macmillan Reference.
Warr, E.M. 2002. Public Opinion and Crime. In Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice, J. Dressler (Ed in Chief),
pp. 1277-1282. New York, NY: Macmillan Reference.
Warr, E.M. 2002. Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct. New York, NY: Cambridge
University Press. Reprinted 2003, 2004, 2005.
Warr, E.M. 2004. Peers, Crime and the Life Course. In Punishment, Places and Perpetrators: Developments
in Criminology and Criminal Justice Research, G. Bruinsma, H. Elffers and J de Keijser (Eds), pp. 260278. Devon, UK: Willan Publishing.
Warr, E.M. 2005. Culture and Violence in the United States. In The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior,
D. Flannery, A. Vazonsyi and I Waldman (Eds). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
Warr, E.M. 2005. Making Delinquent Friends: Adult Supervision and Children’s Affiliations. Criminology 43:77106.
Warr, E.M. 2006. El Miedo Al Delito En Los Estados Unidos: Lineas Para La Investigacion Y La Formulacion
De Politicas. Pp. 181-222 in Barberet, Rosemary and Jesus Barquin (eds.), Justicia Penal Siglo XXI: Una
Seleccion De Criminal Justice 2000. Traduccion de Mario Arroyo. Granada: Biblioteca Comares De
Ciencia Juridica.
Warr, E.M. 2007. The Tangled Web: Delinquency, Deception, and Attachment to Parents. Journal of Youth
and Adolescence 36:607-622.
Warr, E.M. 2009. Delinquent Peers and Delinquent Behavior. Pp. 383-404 in Krohn, Marvin, Alan Lizotte, and
Gina Penly (eds.), Handbook on Crime and Deviance. New York: Springer.
Warr, E.M. 2009. Safe at Home: The Transition from Public to Private Life in the United States, 1960-2000.
Contexts 8:46-51.
Warr, E. M. 2010. Peers and Delinquency. Pp. 694-699 in Cullen, Frank T. and Pamela Wilcox, Encyclopedia
of Criminological Theory. Los Angeles: Sage Publications.
Warr, E.M. 2011. The Social Side of Delinquent Behavior. Pp. 226-245 in Feld, Barry, Donna Bishop (eds.),
and Michael Tonry (series ed.), Oxford Handbook on Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
D. RESEARCH SUPPORT DURING THE LAST THREE YEARS
Ongoing Research Support:
None