MICHAEL EZELL
Ph.D. Duke University, 2002
TITLE: Assistant Professor
OFFICE:   312 Garland Hall
EMAIL:   mike.ezell@vanderbilt.edu
PHONE:   615-322-7536

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

 Gangs and Gang Behavior (Soc 115)
 Introductory Statistics (Soc 127)
 Research Practicum (Soc 212)
 Juvenile Delinquency (Soc 232)

GRADUATE:

  Multivariate Analysis I (Soc 311)
  Multivariate Analysis II (Soc 312)
  Survival/Event/Hazards Analysis (Soc 313)


RESEARCH INTERESTS

Crime, Law & Deviance
Juvenile Delinquency
Statistics
Research Methodology
Sociology of the Lifecourse
Aging/Demography

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Ezell, Michael E., and Lawrence E. Cohen.  2005.  Desisting From Crime: Continuity and Change in Long-term Crime Patterns of Serious Chronic Offenders. Oxford, UK; Oxford University Press.

Ezell, Michael E., and Emily E. Tanner-Smith.  2009. “Examining The Role of Lifestyle and Criminal History Variables on the Risk of Homicide Victimization.” Homicide Studies 13: 144-173.

Taylor, Donald H., Michael E. Ezell, Maragatha Kuchibhatla, Truls Ostbye, and Elizabeth C. Clipp. 2008.  “Identifying Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms for Women Caring for Their Husbands with Dementia.”  The Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 56: 322-327.

Ezell, Michael E.  2007.  “The Effect of Criminal History Variables on the Process of Desistance in Adulthood Among Serious Youthful Offenders.”  Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 23: 28-49.

Ezell, Michael E.  2007.  “Examining the Overall and Offense-Specific Criminal Career Lengths of a Sample of Serious Offenders.”  Crime & Delinquency 53: 3-37. 

Brown, Tony N., Emily E. Tanner-Smith, Chase Lesane-Brown, and Michael E. Ezell. 2007. “Child, Parent, and Situational Correlates of Familial Ethnic/Race Socialization: Findings from the 1998-99 ECLS-K.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 69: 14-25.

Bottcher, Jean B., and Michael E. Ezell. 2005. “The Effectiveness of Boot Camps: A Randomized Experiment with a Long-Term Follow-Up.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 42: 309-332

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Ezell, Michael E., Alex R. Piquero, and Kenneth C. Land.  “Examining the Presence of Within-Class Heterogeneity: The Finite Mixture Model and Long-term Outcomes.”

Ezell, Michael E., and David F. Greenberg. “The Distribution of Criminal Trajectories: Discrete or Continuous?”

Ezell, Michael E. “The Effect of Time Served on Subsequent Criminal Offending Among Latent Classes of Serious Youthful Offenders: Defiance, Deterrence, or Irrelevance?”