#  Christopher Uggen: "Sexual Harassment and the Life Course" 

 



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 **December 11, 2017** 

 12:00PM - 01:45PM EST 

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 **Allison Dining Room**  



 

 



 

 **Christopher Uggen**, *Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law, University of Minnesota.*

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In December 2017, sexual harassment is commanding a degree of public attention not seen since the 1998 Clinton/Lewinsky case. In the ensuing two decades, my colleagues (Amy Blackstone and Heather McLaughlin) and I have undertaken a multi-method longitudinal study to address some of the key questions for science and policy: (1) how to conceptualize and measure harassment; (2) who is targeted and who mobilizes in response; (3) how different dimensions of “power” and legal consciousness structure these experiences; and (4) the long-term impact on mental health and career attainment.  After addressing these and related questions, I outline prospects for a criminology of harassment and harassers to advance knowledge and better inform institutional responses.  
  
**Background reading**  
Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. “[The Economic and Career Effects of Sexual Harassment on Working Women](http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0891243217704631).” ***Gender & Society*** (June 2017).

 Heather McLaughlin, Christopher Uggen, and Amy Blackstone. "[The Costs of Sexual Harrassment](https://gendersociety.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/the-cost-of-sexual-harassment/)." (Short *Gender & Society* blog post about the article)

 **About the speaker**

 Chris Uggen (pronounced You-Gun) is Regents Professor and Martindale Chair in Sociology and Law at the University of Minnesota. He studies crime, law, and deviance, firm in the belief that sound research can help build a more just and peaceful world.

 With Jeff Manza, he wrote [*Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy*](http://www.amazon.com/Locked-Out-Disenfranchisement-American-Democracy/dp/0195149327), and his [writing](http://www.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/research_publications.htm) on felon voting, work and crime, and harassment and discrimination is frequently cited in media such as the New York Times, The Economist,* and *NPR*. His research, teaching, and advising interests include crime and punishment, social and political inequality, and law and society.

 Current projects include a comparative study of reentry from different types of institutions, employment discrimination and criminal records, and crime and justice after genocide, and the health effects of incarceration. A forthcoming book, *Prisons and Health in the Age of Mass Incarceration,* co-authored with Jason Schnittker and Michael Massoglia, is due out from Oxford University Press in 2018.

 Uggen's outreach and engagement projects include editing [*Contexts*](http://www.contexts.org/) Magazine and [*The Society Pages*](http://thesocietypages.org/) (with Doug Hartmann) and [Public Criminologies](http://thesocietypages.org/pubcrim/) (with Michelle Inderbitzin). Away from work, Chris is a father, jogger, and blogger.

 **Learn more about Chris Uggen's work**  
[users.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/](http://users.soc.umn.edu/~uggen/)



 

 



 

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