Christopher J. Lyons
Professor
- Email:
- clyons@unm.edu
- Office:
- SSCI 1074
Education
PhD, Sociology, University of Washington (2006)
Research Interests
Crime, Law, and Social Control, Race and Ethnicity, Deviance and Social Control
Urban and Community Sociology, Hate CrimeResearch Statement:
I study violence and social control as powerful determinants of inequality. Two principal goals drive much of my work: 1) to better understand how social, economic, and political dimensions of structural racism shape ethno-racial disparities in community violence, and 2) to query the explicit or subtle ways that race and ethnicity structure the mobilization of socio-legal control.
Recent/Select Publications:
Christopher J Lyons, Noah Painter-Davis, and Drew Medaris. The Lynching Era and Contemporary Lethal Police Shootings in the South. Race and Justice. Forthcoming.
Christopher J. Lyons, María B. Vélez, and Lauren J. Krivo. 2022. “The Dynamic Racial Structure and Disparities in Neighborhood Crime Change”. Social Problems. Read here.
Lyons, Christopher J., María B. Vélez, and Wayne Santoro. 2013. “Immigration, Neighborhood Violence, and City Political Opportunities.” American Sociological Review 78(4): 604-32.
María B. Vélez, Christopher J. Lyons, and Blake Boursaw. 2012. “Neighborhood Housing Investments and Violent Crime in Seattle: 1981-2007,” Criminology 50(4): 1025-56.
Lyons, Christopher J. 2007. “Community (Dis)Organization and Racially Motivated Crime,” American Journal of Sociology 113(3): 815-63.
* Denotes graduate student coauthor
Courses:
Sociology of Deviance
Race, Class, and Crime
Drugs, Crime, and Social Control
Communities, Race, and Crime (graduate)
Crime, Law and Social Control (graduate)
