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Criminal Justice
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| Steven John Stack |
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Professor |
| Office# |
3258 Faculty/Administration Building |
| Research Area |
Interdisciplinary Analysis Of Suicidal Behavior & Attitudes; Sociology Of Deviant Behavior; Death Penalty/Homicide |
| Phone |
(313) 577-4782 |
| E-Mail |
aa1051@wayne.edu |
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Education Ph.D., University of Connecticut, 1976
Research Productivity Dr. Stack is one of our University's most prolific social science research authors. He has published 220 research articles and chapters covering areas such as socio-economic predictors of suicide, the effect of executions on homicide rates, the political economy of global income inequality, sociology of research productivity, religiosity, divorce, and deviant sexual behavior. (To see Dr. Stack's list of publications, click the link to his vita) One of the world's foremost experts in the area of suicidology, Dr. Stack has authored or co-authored over 110 articles on the subject of suicide alone. He is the author of 184 journal articles, 36 book chapters, 33 book reviews, and over 265 conference paper presentations. These include articles in highly prestigious journals including the American Sociological Review, J of Health & Social Behavior, J. of Marriage & Family, Social Forces, Sociological Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Criminology. He served as the plenary speaker for the World Health Organization's Conference on Injury Prevention & Control (2002). As of 2005, Dr. Stack's work had received 1,859 citations according to data in the Social Sciences Citations Index (ISI, online), making him the most highly cited professor in the College's Social Science Division.
Research Awards His research on suicide and homicide has been supported grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, Guggenheim Foundation, and Barber Fund for Legal Research. He received the Edwin Schneidman Award for excellence in research on suicide (1985), and the Louis Dublin Award for lifetime contributions to suicide research (2003), both from the American Association of Suicidology. He was awarded the Wayne State Board of Governor's Distinguished Faculty Fellowship (2004) for sustained contributions to research. In September 2004 he was selected from 4,000 nominees (with James Gundlach of Auburn University) to receive the Ig Nobel Prize in Medicine at Harvard University for his work on musical subcultures and suicide. He also holds a site license from the National Science Foundation to analyze their database on research productivity among 32,000 scientists.
Teaching Though his research keeps him quite busy, Dr. Stack does not neglect his students. He regularly teaches undergraduates courses and graduate seminars in deviant behavior and social control. He has co-authored 15 papers with students and has chaired several Ph.D. committees. He has also written six instructor manuals, test item manuals and/or study guides over the years. In addition, Dr. Stack was a recipient of two National Science Foundation grants on the integration of computer applications in instruction. He has published articles on pedagogical issues in such journals as J. of Criminal Justice Education, Research in Higher Education, and Teaching Sociology.
Professional Service In addition to his research and teaching, Dr. Stack serves as a grant referee for the National Science Foundation's sociology and political science programs, Israeli Science Foundation, and National Institute of Mental Health. He has served as the Secretary of the American Association of Suicidology (1996-1998) and President of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society (1984-85). He serves as Associate Editor of Archives of Suicide Research (1993-presnt) and is on the Editorial Board of Suicide and Life Threatening Behavior (1981 -present). He was nominated for the President of the International Academy for Suicide Research in 1999, and for editor of Archives of Suicide Research in 2005.
Media Coverage His research has attracted considerable attention from the mass media including coverage in Associated Press-Worldstream, BBC radio, Life Magazine, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Psychology Today, television's "Entertainment Tonight," Time, The Times (London), US NEWS & World Report, USA Today, the Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post.
Other Positions His teaching appointments over the years also include positions in sociology departments at University of Michigan, Alma College, Indiana University, Penn State University, and Auburn University.
Hobbies Dr. Stack enjoys climbing mountains.
View Dr. Stack's Curriculum Vitae (Vitae)
Selected Highly Cited Publications
*1978 "Suicide: A Comparative Analysis." Social Forces, 57 (DECEMBER): 644-653 (58 citations).
*1980 "The Effect of Marital Dissolution on Suicide." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 42(FEBRUARY): 83-92 (81 citations).
*1982 "Suicide: A Decade Review of the Sociological Literature." Deviant Behavior, 4(Fall): 41-66. (87 cites)
*1983 "The Effect of Religious Commitment on Suicide: A Cross- National Analysis." Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 24(December): 362-374(64 citations).
*1987 "Celebrities and Suicide: A Taxonomy & Analysis, 1948-83," American Sociological Review, 52(JUNE):401-413 (55 citations).
*1990 "The Impact of Divorce on Suicide: New Micro Level Data: A Test of Two Theories, 1959-1979." Journal of Marriage and the Family, 52: (February): 119-127 (51 citations).
*1998 (with Ross Eshleman) "Marital Status and Happiness: A Comparative Analysis." Journal of Marriage and the Family. 60 (MAY): 527-536. (38 citations)
* pdf file available online http://www.lib.wayne.edu- electronic journals.
Courses Taught
CRJ/SOC 4800, Sociology of Deviant Behavior
CRJ/SOC 7050/7060, Seminar in Deviant Behavior
CRJ 4000, Criminological Theory
CRJ 4860, Research Methods
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