Patrick Jackson
ProfessorCriminology & Criminal Justice Studies
Sonoma State University
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Phone: 707.664.2934
email: jackson@sonoma.edu
World wide web: http://www.sonoma.edu/ccjs/faculty/jackbio.shtml
M.A. & Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Davis
Prior appointments:
Administration of Justice Department
University of Missouri-St. Louis
UC Davis Sociology Department
Postdoctoral Fellow, Center on Administration of Criminal Justice
U C Davis School of
Law
Current Activities
Aside from teaching and CCJS Department Chair duties at Sonoma State University he is the founding Editor of the Western Criminology Review (and still helps out), the online scholarly criminology journal of the Western Society of Criminology, located at wcr.sonoma.edu/.
His published research includes diverse topics, such as an experimental study of parole supervision in the California Youth Authority (now a part of CDCR); a comparative study of the relative effectiveness of different forms of defense counsel on defendant outcomes; a comparative policy analysis of varied pretrial preventive detention strategies; a comparative study about the theory and practice of local jail confinement; an empirical study of the the varied implications of Sonoma County's new generation jail for policy and practice; a study of the moral panics in response to gangs in California in the 1980s; and a comparative study of the predictors of pretrial detention, plea bargaining and sentencing.
More recently he completed a study of a positive parenting curriculum for juvenile offenders in a local school district and county juvenile justice agency with funding from the California Youth Authority. He has also been continuing his longstanding research on arson and juvenile firesetting.
At present he is actively conducting field research in the field of animals and society and more specifically on the management of human and animal conflict in public settings. He has recently presented a paper on the topic of how humans manage conflict between animals and humans and is interested in the topic of the varied uses of animals to reduce recidivism and improve quality of life.
At SSU he teaches classes on juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice, research methods, criminology, media and crime, corrections, and the department's capstone course in CCJS. He also brings together web related materials on crime and criminal justice at The Redwood Highway, a listing of web sources related to a variety of crime topics, from the sensational to the more scholarly and mundane. A popular hit is SuperCell, California's crime control superhero, along with the Sonoma County Justice Profile. More recently he created the Pacific Crime Blog, an attempt to bring attention to crime issues distinctive to the Western Region of the U.S. and which may be of interest to SSU students.
In the local community he volunteers in local schools and plays music with and for varied local community groups.
