Ben Feldmeyer has been at the University of Tennessee since 2007. He received his
Ph.D. in Sociology from Penn State University in 2007. His research focuses on criminal
behavior and criminal sentencing and their intersection with race/ethnicity, social
class, social context, and other demographic groups (i.e. age and gender). His work pays
particular attention to the effects of structural conditions on violent offending across
race/ethnicity (particularly among Latinos) and addresses such questions as: (1) Do
structural conditions like poverty and disadvantage have similar effects on violence
across race/ethnicity and can these factors fully account for race/ethnic-crime
relationships, (2) How does segregation influence violence in black and Latino
communities, and (3) What effect (if any) does immigration have on crime? Dr. Feldmeyer’s
current projects include a study assessing the relationships between race/ethnic
population composition (% Black, % Hispanic), social structure, and community rates of
violence. Other projects include analyses identifying the effects of immigration and
immigrant isolation on community levels of crime (violence, drug/alcohol abuse, and
property offending), as well as a study examining the sources of Asian delinquency
relative to those of other race/ethnic groups.

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Racial/Ethnic Threat and Federal Sentencing (with Jeffery T. Ulmer), Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (2011)

This study examines whether federal sentencing decisions are influenced by the racial/ethnic composition of federal...

 

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Reassessing Trends in Black Violent Crime, 1980-2008: Sorting out the ‘Hispanic Effect’ in UCR Arrests, NCVS Offenders Estimates, and U.S. Prisoner Counts (with Darrell Steffensmeier, Casey T. Harris, and Jeffery T. Ulmer), Criminology (2011)

Recent studies suggest a decline in the relative Black effect on violent crime in recent...

 

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The Environmental Impact of Immigration: An Analysis of Immigration Effects on Air Pollution Levels (with Carmel Price), Population Research and Policy Review (2011)
 

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Scope and Conceptual Issues in Testing the Race-Crime Invariance Thesis: Black, White, and Hispanic Comparisons (with Darrell Steffensmeier, Jeffery T. Ulmer, and Casey T. Harris), Criminology (2010)

Our goal in this article is to contribute conceptually and empirically to assessments of the...

 

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Segregation and Violence: Comparing the Effects of Residential Segregation on Latino and Black Violence, The Sociological Quarterly (2010)

Racial/ethnic residential segregation has been shown to contribute to violence and have harmful consequences for...

 

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