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Jeffrey Morenoff
Professor of Sociology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, Center Director, Population Studies Center, Research Professor, Population Studies Center, Research Professor, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research and Professor of Public Policy, Gerald R Ford School of Public Policy
University of Michigan
Education/Degree:
1 Psychology (University of Chicago)
About
Jeffrey Morenoff is a professor in the Department of Sociology, the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, and the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is also the director of the Population Studies Center at U-M. His research straddles the fields of sociology, demography, and criminology. One of his current lines of research examines the influence of the criminal justice system on the health and wellbeing of people with criminal records, including the challenges people face upon returning from prison to the community. Another line of research explores how neighborhood environments and the process of neighborhood change influence the health and wellbeing of neighborhood residents. In 2014, he was recognized in Thomson Reuters' list of Highly Cited Researchers 2014, Thomson Reuters, a distinction given to researchers whose work has been officially designated by Essential Science Indicators as ranking among the top 1% most cited for their subject field and year of publication.
Current Work
One strain of Dr. Morenoff's research focuses on the consequences of incarceration and the challenges former inmates face upon returning from prison to the community. He is the principle investigator of two large interrelated studies in this area. The first is a longitudinal study of prisoner reentry on a cohort of over 11,000 people released from Michigan prisons onto parole in 2003 and followed until 2012, based on administrative records collected from multiple state agencies. The second is a quasi-experimental study on the effects of incarceration on labor market outcomes, recidivism, and health, based on administrative records data on over 140,000 individuals convicted of felonies in Michigan between 2003 and 2006. Dr. Morenoff is also working on a collaborative longitudinal qualitative study of men and women before and after their release from prison, from which he and his team are writing a book, After Prison: Reentry, Reintegration, and Recidivism. Dr. Morenoff is also the principle investigator of the Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS), a research tool for Detroit area decision-makers that is unique in its scale (providing deep intel across the entire city); representativeness (leveraging state-of-the-art scientific methods); and continuity (engaging a consistent panel of respondents year after year).
Research Area Keyword(s)
Criminal justice, criminology, neighborhood change, neighborhood effects, Neighborhoods