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Stephen Demuth
demuth@bgnet.bgsu.edu
(419)372-7260
Curriculum vita
Associate Professor of Sociology
Ph.D.,The Pennsylvania State University, 2000
Dr. Demuth studies the extent to which white, black, and Hispanic defendants receive different criminal sentences in state
and federal courts despite the existence of sentencing guidelines designed to structure judicial decision-making and reduce
unwarranted sentencing disparities. He is also conducting research that examines the impact of family structure on adolescent
delinquent behavior to identify the mechanisms through which living with a single parent increases delinquency, notably, whether
the effect is predominantly a function of parental absence or parental gender.
Recent Publications:
Williams, Marian R., Stephen Demuth, and Jefferson E. Holcomb. 2007. “Understanding the Influence of Victim Gender in Death
Penalty Cases: The Importance of Victim Race, Sex-Related Victimization, and Jury Decision Making.” Criminology 45:865-892.
Steffensmeier, Darrell and Stephen Demuth. 2006. “Does Gender Modify the Effects of Race-Ethnicity on Criminal Sanctioning?
Sentences for Male and Female White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 22:241-261.
Demuth, Stephen and Darrell Steffensmeier. 2004a. “Ethnicity Effects on Sentence Outcomes in Felony Cases: Comparisons among
White, Black, and Hispanic Defendants.” Social Science Quarterly 85:994-1011.
Holcomb, Jefferson E., Marian R. Williams, and Stephen Demuth. 2004. “White Female Victims and Death Penalty Disparity Research.”
Justice Quarterly 21:877-902.
Demuth, Stephen and Darrell Steffensmeier. 2004. "The Impact of Gender and Race-Ethnicity in the Pretrial Release Process."
Social Problems 51: 222-242.
Demuth, Stephen. 2004 “Understanding the Delinquency and Social Relationships of Loners.” Youth and Society.
Demuth, Stephen and Susan L Brown. 2004 “Family Structure, Family Processes, and Adolescent Delinquency: The Significance
of Parental Absence Versus Parental Gender.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
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