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Sara Wakefield
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Assistant Professor
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Phone: 824-5134
Office: 2340 Social Ecology 2
SARA WAKEFIELD is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of California, Irvine. Her research interests focus on crime and incarceration effects on the family as well the influence of life course events on crime, mental health, and stratification. She is currently studying the effects of parental incarceration on children's mental health and the transition to parenthood among criminal offenders.
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Selected Publications
- Mortimer, Jeylan T., Michael C. Vuolo, Jeremy Staff, Sara Wakefield, and Wanling Xie. "Tracing the Timing of 'Career' Acquisition in a Contemporary Youth Cohort." 2008. Work and Occupations 35, 1: 44-84.
- Uggen, Christopher and Sara Wakefield. 2007. "What Have We Learned from Longitudinal Studies of Crime?" Pg. 189-218 in The Long View of Crime: A Synthesis of Longitudinal Research, edited by Akiva Liberman. New York: Springer.
- Uggen, Christopher and Sara Wakefield. 2005. "Young Adults Reentering the Community from the Criminal Justice System: The Challenge of Becoming an Adult." Pp. 114-144 in On Your Own without a Net: the Transition to Adulthood for Vulnerable Populations, edited by D. Wayne Osgood, Mike Foster, and Connie Flanagan. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
- Uggen, Christopher, Sara Wakefield, and Bruce Western. 2005. "Work and Family Perspectives on Reentry." Pp. 209-43 in Prisoner Reentry and Crime in America, edited by Jeremy Travis and Christy Visher. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
- Wakefield, Sara and Christopher Uggen. 2004. "The Declining Significance of Race in Federal Civil Rights Law: The Social Structure of Civil Rights Claims." Sociological Inquiry 74, 1: 128-157.
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