Faculty

William Alex Pridemore

Note: Professor Pridemore is currently on sabbatical until September 2012.

Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany, 2000

Professor of Criminal Justice
Associate Director, Consortium for Education and Social Science Research (CESSR)
Director, CESSR's Workshop in Methods (WIM)
Adjunct Professor of Sociology
Affiliate Faculty, Russian and East European Institute

Link to Dr. Pridemore's curriculum vitae
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William received his Ph.D. from SUNY-Albany in 2000. He is a professor in the Criminal Justice Department, and holds courtesy appointments as an Adjunct Professor in IU's Sociology Department and as an affiliate faculty member of IU's Russian and East European Institute. Professor Pridemore is also Associate Director of the Consortium for Education and Social Science Research (CESSR) and Director of CESSR’s Workshop in Methods. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research and spent a year as a Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. In 2008, Dr. Pridemore received the Junior Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco, and in 2009 he received IU's Trustees Teaching Award. He was Director of Graduate Studies in the Criminal Justice Department from 2008 to 2011. He is currently the American society of Criminology's liaison to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Professor Pridemore's main research interests include (1) the impact of social structure on homicide and suicide rates, (2) role of alcohol in violence and mortality, and (3) effects of social change, social structure, economic transition, and alcohol consumptionon homicide and suicide in Russia. Other research interests include crime in rural areas, the measurement of crime, and far right-wing culture and crime.

Dr. Pridemore's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation.  His research is interdisciplinary and has been published in leading journals in several disciplines, including criminology (Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly), public health and epidemiology (American Journal of Public Health, Addiction, European Journal of Public Health), and sociology (Social Forces, Social Science and Medicine, European Sociological Review). He also edited a volume on law, crime, and justice in transitional Russia, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield, and co-edited (with Marieke Liem) a volume on European homicide research published by Springer.

Recent Publications

Gruenewald, J.  & Pridemore, W.A. A comparison of ideologically motivated homicides from the new Extremist Crime Database and routine homicides from the Supplementary Homicide Reports using multiple imputation by chained equations to handle missing values. Forthcoming in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Pridemore, W.A. & Grubesic, T.H. Community organization moderates the effect of alcohol outlet density on violence. Forthcoming in British Journal of Sociology.

Pridemore, W.A. & Grubesic, T.H. Alcohol outlets and community levels of interpersonal violence: Spatial density, type of outlet, and seriousness of assault. Forthcoming in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

Pridemore, W.A. & Grubesic, T.H. A spatial analysis of the moderating effects of land use on the
association between alcohol outlet density and violence in urban areas. Forthcoming in Drug and Alcohol Review.

Kaylen, M., & Pridemore, W.A. (2011). A reassessment of the association between social disorganization and youth violence in rural areas. Social Science Quarterly, 92, 978-1001.

Pridemore, W.A. (2011). Poverty matters: A reassessment of the inequality-homicide relationship in cross-national studies. British Journal of Criminology, 51, 739-772.

Grubesic, T.H. & Pridemore, W.A. (2011). Using proximity analysis and spatial cluster detection to better understand the association between agglomerations of alcohol outlets and clusters of violence. International Journal of Health Geographics, 10, 30.

Spano, R., Pridemore, W.A., & Bolland, J. The impact of violent behavior and exposure to violence on initiation of gun carrying among poor, urban, minority youth: A two-wave longitudinal test. Forthcoming in Journal of Interpersonal Violence.

Aliverdinia, A. & Pridemore, W.A. Individual-level factors contributing to homelessness among adult males in Iran. Forthcoming in Sociological Spectrum.

Stickley, A. & Pridemore, W.A. (2010). The effects of binge drinking and social capital on violent victimization: Findings from Moscow. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 64, 902-907.

Pridemore, W.A., Tomkins, S., Eckhardt, K., Kiryanov, N., & Saburova, L.(2010). A case-control analysis of educational and marital status differentials in alcohol- and non-alcohol-related mortality among working-age Russian males. European Journal of Public Health, 20, 569-575.

Pridemore, W.A. & Trent, C.L.S. (2010). Do the invariant findings of Land, McCall, and Cohen generalize beyond the United States? A review of the cross-national literature on the structural covariates of homicide. Homicide Studies, 14¸296-335.

Kaylen, M.T. & Pridemore, W.A. (2010). Societal heavy drinking and suicide mortality among Russian youth. Contemporary Drug Problems, 37, 449-474.

Lysova, A. & Pridemore, W.A. (2010). Alcohol consumption in Russia: Patterns, policies, and public health. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 27, 425-447.

Pridemore, W.A., & Snowden, A. (2009). Reduction in suicide mortality following a new national alcohol policy: An interrupted time series analysis of Slovenia. American Journal of Public Health, 99, 915-920.

Aliverdinia, A. & Pridemore, W.A. (2009). Women’s fatalistic suicide in Iran: A partial test of Durkheim in an Islamic Republic. Violence Against Women, 15, 307-320.

Pridemore, W.A., Trahan, A., & Chamlin, M.B. (2009). No evidence of suicide increase following terrorist attacks in the United States: An interrupted time series analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 39, 659-670.

Gruenewald, J. & Pridemore, W.A. (2009). Stability and change in homicide victim, offender, and event characteristics in Chicago between 1900 and 2000. Homicide Studies, 13, 355-384.

Eckhardt, K. & Pridemore, W.A. (2009). Differences in male and female involvement in lethal violence in Russia. Journal of Criminal Justice, 37, 55-64.

Pridemore, W.A. (2008). A methodological addition to the cross-national empirical literature on social structure and homicide: A first test of the poverty-homicide thesis. Criminology, 46, 133-154.

Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., & Trahan, A. (2008). A test of competing hypotheses about homicide rates following terrorist attacks: An interrupted time series analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24, 381-396.

Pridemore, W.A. & Eckhardt, K. (2008). A comparison of victim, offender, and event characteristics of alcohol-and non-alcohol-related homicides. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 45, 227-255..

Andreev, E.M., Pridemore, W.A., Shkolnikov, V.M., & Antonova, O.I. 2008. An investigation of the growing number of deaths of unidentified people in Russia. European Journal of Public Health, 18, 252-257.

Aliverdinia, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2008. Women’s fatalistic suicide in Iran: A partial test of Durkheim in an Islamic Republic. Forthcoming in Violence Against Women.

Snowden, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2008. The 2003 Slovenian alcohol policy: Background, supporters, and opponents. Forthcoming in Contemporary Drug Problems, 35.

Pridemore, W.A. 2007. Change and stability in the characteristics of homicide victims, offenders, and incidents during rapid social change. British Journal of Criminology, 47, 331-345.

Stickley, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2007. The social structural correlates of homicide in late Tsarist Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 47, 80-99.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2007. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society. The Sociological Quarterly, 48, 229-251.

Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., & Cochran, J.K. 2007. An interrupted time series analysis of Durkheim’s social deregulation thesis: The case of the Russian Federation. Justice Quarterly, 24, 271-290.

Pridemore, W.A & Freilich, J.D. 2007. The impact of state laws protecting abortion clinics and reproductive rights: Deterrence, backlash, or neither? Law and Human Behavior, 31, 611-627.

Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. 2007. Interview mode effects on estimates of need for alcohol and drug treatment among welfare recipients: Evidence from a quasi-experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 3, 323-336.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2007. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society. The Sociological Quarterly, 48, 229-251.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2007. Female empowerment, paramilitary culture, and political crime: Covariates of abortion clinic attacks in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice, 35, 323-336.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2006. Democratization and political change as threats to collective sentiments: Testing Durkheim in Russia. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 605, 82-103.

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. 2006. A test of recent subcultural explanations of white violence in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice, 34, 1-16.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2006. Patterns of alcohol-related mortality in Russia. Journal of Drug Issues, 35, 229-248.

Pridemore, W.A. 2006. Heavy drinking and suicide mortality in Russia. Social Forces, 85, 413-430.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2006. Mismeasuring militias: The methodological limitations of state-level studies of paramilitary groups. Justice Quarterly, 23, 147-162.

Pridemore, W.A. & Chamlin, M.B. 2006. A time series analysis of the effects of heavy drinking on homicide and suicide rates in Russia, 1956-2002. Addiction, 101, 1719-1729.

Pridemore, W.A. 2006. An exploratory analysis of homicide victims, offenders, and events in Russia. International Criminal Justice Review, 16, 5-23.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social change, institutional anomie, and serious property crime in transitional Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 45, 81-97.

Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social structure and homicide in post-Soviet Russia. Social Science Research, 34, 732-756.

Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. 2005. Obtaining sensitive information from a wary population: A comparison of telephone and face-to-face surveys of welfare recipients in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 61, 976-984.

Pridemore, W.A. 2005. A cautionary note on using county-level crime and homicide data. Homicide Studies, 9, 256-268.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Poverty, socioeconomic change, institutional anomie, and homicide. Social Science Quarterly, 86, 1377-1398.

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. 2005. Gender equity, traditional masculine culture, and female homicide victimization. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 213-223.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social support and homicide in transitional Russia. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 561-572.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. A reassessment of state-level covariates of militia groups. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 527-546.

Pridemore, W.A. & Shkolnikov, V.M. 2004. Education and marriage as protective factors against homicide mortality: Methodological and substantive findings from Moscow. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20, 173-187.

Pridemore, W.A. 2004. Weekend effects on binge drinking and homicide mortality: Preliminary evidence for the social connection between alcohol and violence in Russia. Addiction, 99, 1034-1041.

Pridemore, W.A. 2004. Alcohol poisonings, drinking behavior, and violence in Russia: A reply to Rossow. Addiction, 99, 1356-1358.