Phone: 732-445-0977
Email: pcarr@sociology.rutgers.edu
Biographical Sketch
Patrick Carr is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, and is an Associate Member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on the Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago in 1998, and his research interests include communities and crime, informal social control, youth violence, and transitions to adulthood. He is the author of Clean Streets: Controlling Crime, Maintaining Order and Building Community Activism (2005, NYU Press) which examines the travails of a white working-class neighborhood as it deals with gangs, disorder and crime. He has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology and the International Review of Victimology on informal social control and victim rights, and he is currently working on several research projects. He is Principal Investigator of a multi-wave study of youth and crime control that examines the experiences of youth residing in three high-crime Philadelphia neighborhoods and is Principal Investigator, along with Maria Kefalas, on the Heartland Study, which is sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation’s Network on Transitions to Adulthood and Public Policy. The Heartland Study, which is part of a five site national study of transitions to adulthood, examines the subjective meanings of multiple transitions to adulthood - leaving home, entering and/or leaving school, finding employment, marriage, cohabitation, childbearing - and the variety of combinations and sequences in which they occur. He is co-editor along with Kefalas, Jennifer Holdaway, and Mary C. Waters, of Coming of Age in America, a book based on the comparative study of young adults. Carr is also currently conducting research on homeless youth in Philadelphia in a project sponsored by the William Penn Foundation. Carr, along with Mark Courtney, D. Wayne Osgood, Joe Richardson, and Chris Uggen, will begin a longitudinal study of at-risk youth as they transition to adulthood in 2006, with support from the MacArthur Foundation.