Ben H Feldmeyer

Biography

Professor Feldmeyer received his B.S. in Psychology and Sociology from The Ohio State University in 2001 and his Ph.D. in Sociology from Penn State University in 2007. His research focuses on criminal behavior and criminal sentencing across demographic groups, social class, and social context. His work pays particular attention to the effects of structural conditions on violent offending across race/ethnicity and addresses such questions as: (1) What effect (if any) does immigration have on community levels of crime, and do these relationships vary across different social contexts and demographic groups? (2) How do factors like racial/ethnic segregation and concentrated disadvantage shape community levels of crime, and are these effects similar for Black, White, and Latino populations? (3) Have race/ethnic, gender, and age gaps in crime changed over time, and to what degree are these trends due to changes in enforcement versus changes in large-scale social forces? (4) How are racial/ethnic disparities in sentencing outcomes influenced by community context? His recent work has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, The Sociological Quarterly, Population Research and Policy Review, and Homicide Studies.

Research Interest

His recent work has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Social Problems, Social Science Research, Sociological Forum, The Sociological Quarterly, Population Research and Policy Review, and Homicide Studies.