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Education
Ph.D., University of Cincinnati, 1998
Research & Specialization
- Crime and Juvenile Delinquency
- Drinking and Drugs
- Sexual Violence and Bystander Intervention
- Sociology of Social Problems
Awards
Outstanding Graduate Faculty Member 2014
University Professor 2012-13
Eric A Wagner Teaching Professor 2009-12
Courses Taught
- Soc 2000: Social Problems
- Soc 3600: Criminology
- Soc 3630: Juvenile Delinquency
- Soc 3640: Police and Society
- Soc 3600: Punishment and Society
- Soc 4950: Senior Capstone
- Soc 6030: Seminar in Crime and Deviance
Selected Publications
Rafferty, Rebecca and Thomas Vander Ven. In Press. “I Hate Everything About You: A Qualitative Examination of the Forms of Cyberbullying and Online Aggression in a College Sample.” Deviant Behavior .
Vander Ven, Thomas and Mark Colvin. 2013. "Crime and Coercion." In The Oxford Handbook of Criminological Theory , F. Cullen and P. Wilcox (eds.). Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press.
Vander Ven, Thomas. 2011. Getting Wasted: Why Students Drink Too Much and Party So Hard . New York: New York University Press.
Vander Ven, Thomas, and Patrick O' Brien. 2011. "The Morning After: The Definition and Management of Post-Intoxication Illness in a University Student Sample." The International Journal of Crime, Criminal Justice, and Law 4 (2).
Vander Ven, Thomas, and Jeffrey Beck. 2009. "Getting Drunk and Hooking Up: An Exploratory Study of the Relationship Between Alcohol Intoxication and Casual Coupling in a University Sample." Sociological Spectrum 29: 626-48.
Hoffman, Bruce, and Thomas Vander Ven. 2007. "Mother Blame and Delinquency Claims: Juvenile Delinquency and Maternal Responsibility in Expert Discourses." In Youth Violence and Delinquency Interventions , McShane and Williams (eds.). Praeger Publishing.
Vander Ven, Thomas. 2005. "The Community Construction of the Underage Drinker." Deviant Behavior 26: 129-49.
Vander Ven, Thomas and Francis T. Cullen. 2004. "The Impact of Maternal Employment on Serious Youth Crime: Do Working Conditions Matter?" Crime and Delinquency 50: 272- 91.
Vander Ven, Thomas. 2003. Working Mothers and Juvenile Delinquency . New York: LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC.
Vander Ven, Thomas, and Marikay Vander Ven. 2002. "Exploring Patterns of Mother-Blaming in Anorexia Scholarship: A Study in the Sociology of Knowledge". Human Studies .
Colvin, Mark, Cullen, Francis T., and Thomas Vander Ven. 2002. "Coercion, Social Support, and Crime: An Emerging Theoretical Consensus." Criminology 40:19-42.
Vander Ven, Thomas. 2002. "Don't Whine, Be Real, and Don't Chase the Benjamins: The Popular Music Critic as Moral Claimsmaker." Sociological Imagination 39:45-64.
Vander Ven, Thomas, Cullen, Francis T., Carrozza, Mark, and John Paul Wright. 2001. "Home Alone: The Impact of Maternal Employment on Delinquency." Social Problems 48: 236-57.
Applegate, B., F. Cullen, B. Fisher, and T. Vander Ven. 2000. "Forgiveness and Fundamentalism: Reconsidering the Relationship Between Correctional Attitudes and Religion." Criminology 38:719-54.
Fisher, B., C. Cobane, T. Vander Ven, and F. Cullen. 1999. "How Many Authors Does it Take to Publish an Article?: Trends in Political Science." PS: Politics and Political Science : 31: 847-56.
Vander Ven, Thomas. 1998. "Fear of Victimization and the Interactional Construction of Harassment in a Latino Neighborhood." Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 27:374-98.
Fisher, B., T. Vander Ven, Craig T. Cobane, Francis T. Cullen, and Nicolas Williams. 1998. "Trends in Multiple-Authored Articles in Criminology and Criminal Justice: A Comparative Disciplinary Analysis." Journal of Criminal Justice Education .