Tara D. Warner

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Tara D. Warner

  • Position: Associate Professor of Criminal Justice
    University of Alabama at Birmingham
  • Phone: 205-934- 8503
  • Email: twarner2@uab.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2012

Dr. Warner’s research interests include a line of research using Add Health to explore the social/emotional/and behavioral consequences of violent victimization.

Recent Publications:

Warner, Tara D., Lindsay Leban, Danielle A. Pester, and Jeffery T. Walker. “Broadening Adverse Childhood Experiences: Conventional and Community Adversity.” Journal of Youth and Adolescence (forthcoming).

Warner, Tara D. 2022. “Always at the Ready: Fears, Threats, and Unsafe Gun Storage in Households with Children.” Violence and Victims, 37(4): 441-458.

Warner, Tara D. and David. F. Warner. 2022. “Violent Victimization and Adolescents’ Attitudes toward Romantic Relationships and Sexual Activity.” Journal of Interpersonal Violence, https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211072173 .

Warner, Tara D. and Trent Steidley. 2021. “Some Fear, More Loathing? Threats and Anxieties Shaping Protective Gun Ownership and Gun Carry in the U.S.” 2021. Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2021.1997787.

Warner, Tara D, Tara Leigh Tober, Tristan Bridges, and David F. Warner. 2021. “To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the U.S.” Sociological Perspectives Special Issue: A Sociology of Firearms in the 21st Century, 65(1):97-118.

Warner, Tara D. and Shawn Ratcliff. 2021. “Unpacking Identity: Who Sees Guns as Important, Essential, and Empowering (and Why)?” Sociological Inquiry: Special Issue: Guns and Society (forthcoming).

Warner, Tara D. and Trent Steidley. “Some Fear, More Loathing? Threats and Anxieties Shaping Protective Gun Ownership and Gun Carry in the U.S.” 2021. Journal of Crime and Justice, https://doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2021.1997787.

Warner, Tara D., Tara Leigh Tober, Tristan Bridges, and David F. Warner. 2021. “To Provide or Protect? Masculinity, Economic Precarity, and Protective Gun Ownership in the U.S.” Sociological Perspectives Special Issue: A Sociology of Firearms in the 21st Century, https://doi.org/10.1177/0731121421998406.

Hill, Terrence, Benjamin Dowd-Arrow, Amy Burdette, and Tara D. Warner. 2020. “Gun Ownership and Life Satisfaction in the United States.” Social Science Quarterly, 101(5):2121-2136.

Warner, Tara D. 2020. “Fear, Anxiety, and Expectation: Gender Differences in Openness to Future Gun Ownership.” Violence and Gender, 7:11-18.

Warner, Tara D. and Courtney Thrash. 2020. “A Matter of Degree? Fear, Anxiety, and Protective Gun Ownership in the United States.” Social Science Quarterly, 101:285-308.

Updated: 02/22/2024 11:17AM