Dr. Holli Drummond - Assistant Professor of Sociology

PhD, University of Georgia - 2004 Research interests: Inequality and Criminology
E-mail: holli.drummond@wku.edu
Office: 111 Grise Hall
Phone: (270) 745-2259
Website: www.wku.edu/~holli.drummond

 

My research interests are in the area of criminology, with emphasis on juvenile delinquency, gender and crime, and communities and crime.  My current work is focused on explaining variation by gender and race/ethnicity in the social psychological processes leading to delinquency, and how these processes are shaped by community, school, and family contexts.  Theoretically, my research cuts across a number of disciplines (e.g., criminology, social psychology, social inequality, gender), and considers causal processes that operate on different levels of explanation.  I would like to work with graduate students interested in these areas in addition to those pursuing a quantitative research project.

I have a few projects underway and am in the process of developing my next project.  A paper co-authored with Ron Simons Leslie Gordon-Simons & Eric Stewart is being revised and resubmitted to The Journal of Marriage and the Family.  It examines interaction effects between parenting strategies and perceived racial discrimination on violent delinquency in a sample of African American males.  I am also preparing the first paper from my dissertation for submission to Justice Quarterly.  This paper focuses specifically on gender variation in the effects of different sources of strain on delinquency and depression.  In collaboration with Jerry Daday and Doug Smith, I would next like to focus on the structural context of rural crime and deviance in the South.