Stephen Cernkovich
scernko@bgnet.bgsu.edu
(419)372-2743
Curriculum vita

Professor of Sociology

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, 1975

Dr. Cernkovich's primary research area is juvenile delinquency, having concentrated particularly on the impact of family, peer and school factors on conforming and antisocial behavior. He also has conducted research on female delinquency and on chronic juvenile offenders. The focus of his latest work is the mapping of transitions to young adulthood-both successful and unsuccessful-of a sample of respondents who were differentially involved in antisocial behavior as adolescents.

Recent Publications:

Cernkovich, Stephen A. (2008). "The Many Colors of Crime: Inequalities of Race, Ethnicity, and Crime In America." Edited by Ruth D. Peterson, Lauren J. Krivo and John Hagan. Book review for American Journal of Sociology,114: 248-50.

Cernkovich, Stephen A., Nadine Lanctôt, & Peggy C. Giordano.  (2008). "Predicting adolescent and adult antisocial behavior among adjudicated delinquent females."  Crime and Delinquency, 53, 1-31.

Giordano, P.C., R.D. Schroeder and S.A. Cernkovich. (2007). "Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo-Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change." American Journal of Sociology, 112 (6): 1603–61.

Lanctôt, Nadine, Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Peggy C. Giordano.  (2007). “Delinquent Behavior, Official Delinquency and Gender: Consequences for Adulthood Functioning and Well-Being.”  Criminology, 45: 131-158.

Ryan Schroeder, Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich. (2007). “Drug Use and the Desistance Process.”  Criminology, 45: 191-222.

Giordano, Peggy C., Jill A. Deines and Stephen A. Cernkovich.  (2006).  “In and Out of Crime: A Life Course Perspective on Girls’ Delinquency.”  Pp. 17-40, in Karen Heimer and Candace Kruttschnitt (eds.), Gender and Crime: Patterns in Victimization and Offending.  New York: New York University Press.

Cernkovich, Stephen A. and Peggy C. Giordano.  (2005). “School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency." In  Joseph G. Weis (ed.), Sociology of Deviance.  Mason, OH: Thompson Custom Publishing.