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About Richard Rosenfeld

Richard Rosenfeld's research interests include the social sources of violent crime, crime statistics, and crime control policy. His current research focuses on explaining U.S. crime trends.

Dr. Rosenfeld served as President of the American Society of Criminology in 2010.

Positions

Present Founders Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis ‐ Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
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2007 - 2013 Curators Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis
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2011 National Associate, National Academy of Sciences
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2010 President, American Society of Criminology
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1984 - 1985 Post-doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University ‐ School of Urban and Public Affairs
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Curriculum Vitae

Disciplines

Research Interests

Grants

2016 - 2018 Evaluating the Law Enforcement, Prosecutor, and Court Response to Firearm-related Crimes in St. Louis
National Institute of Justice
$564,773
2013 - 2013 Evaluating a Researcher-practitioner Partnership and Field Experiement
National Institute of Justice
$123,928
2010 - 2011 Recidivism over Time and Space: An Analysis of Prisoners Released in 1983 and 1994
American Statistical Association
Colleague(s): Brian Oliver
$34,504
2010 - 2011 Understanding a Crime Drop in New York
Open Society Institute and Research Foundation of the City University of New York
$51,533
2008 - 2010 The Contextual Relationship between Individual Level Violence and Macro Level Economic Factors
Centers for Disease Control
2008 - 2010 The Influence of Respectability on Predation and Social Control
National Science Foundation
Colleague(s): Richard Wright
$180,943
2002 - 2007 Improving Crime Data
National Institute of Justice and Georgia State University
Colleague(s): Robert Friedmann
$772,092
2000 - 2001 Ethnic Succession and Changes in Homicide: Southeast Los Angeles, 1980-1999
National Consortium on Violence Research
Colleague(s): George Tita
$18,160
2000 - 2001 Gender and Social Networks in Lethal and Non-lethal Violence
National Institute of Justice and the National Consortium on Violence Research
$50,673
1999 - 2000 Social Capital and Homicide
National Consortium on Violence Research
Colleague(s): Steven F. Messner
$50,566
1998 - 2000 Partnership between the National Consortium on Violence Research and the National Institute of Justice
National Consortium on Violence Research and the National Institute of Justice
$98,340
1997 - 1999 The Effect of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide Rates
National Institute of Justice
Colleague(s): Daniel Nagin and Laura Dugan
$55,024
1997 - 1999 The Effects of Legal Advocacy on Intimate Partner Homicide Rates
National Institute of Justice
Colleague(s): Daniel Nagin and Laura Dugan
$55,024
1998 - 1998 Social Isolation, Structural Disadvantage, and Urban Homicide: Disentangling Race, Place, and Risk
National Consortium on Violence Research
$27,701
1997 - 1998 Analyzing the Youth Homicide Epidemic with Urban Spatial Data
National Consortium on Violence Research
Colleague(s): Ramiro Martinez and Victoria Brewer
$27,505
1995 - 1997 Collaborative Research on Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Urban Homicide
National Science Foundation
Colleague(s): Carol W. Kohfeld and John Sprague
$190,107
1995 - 1997 Consent to Search and Seize: An Evaluation of the St. Louis Firearm Suppression Program
National Institute of Justice
Colleague(s): Scott H. Decker and Bruce Jacobs
$326,554
1994 - 1996 Assault Crisis Teams: "Preventing Youth Violence through Monitoring, Mentoring, and Mediating
National Institute of Justice
Colleague(s): Scott H. Decker
$461,949
1993 - 1994 Alternative Indicators of Drug Abuse in American Cities: Comparing DUF, DAWN, and Arrest Indicators
National Institute of Justice
$30,000
1992 - 1994 Estimating Drug Use in Intermediate Population
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Role: Scott H. Decker
$366,839
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Honors and Awards

  • Edwin H. Sutherland Award, American Society of Criminology, 2017
  • Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Missouri, 2016
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2006
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1994
  • Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Service, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2013
  • Fulbright Scholar, 2016-2017

Courses

  • Violence in America
  • Contemporary Social Theory
  • Social Problems
  • Social Inequality
  • Race Relations and Minority Groups
  • Communities and Crime
  • Comparative Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Law and Social Control
  • Introduction to Policy Research
  • Corrections
  • The Nature of Punishment
  • The Nature of Crime
  • Violent Crime
  • Statistical Applications in Criminology and Criminal Justice
  • Foundations of Criminological Theory

Education

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1984 PhD, University of Oregon ‐ Department of Sociology
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1972 B.A., University of Oregon ‐ Department of Sociology
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Books (7)

Open Access Works (1)

Reports (3)

Articles and Book Contributions (104)