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

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS RECEIVED

COURSES TAUGHT

UNDERGRADUATE:

  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

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Ezell, Michael E and Emily E. Tanner-Smith. "The Relationship Between Criminal Offending and Homicide Victimization: An Application of the Lifestyle Theory of Victimization."

Ezell, Michael E. "Risk in the Tail of the Criminal Career: Do Chronic Youthful Offenders Continue to Pose a Threat?"

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

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.

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.*

Ezell, Michael E., and Kenneth C. Land. 2005. "Ordinary Least Squares." Pp. 943-950 in Encyclopedia of Social Measurement, edited by Kimberly Kempf-Leonard. San Diego: Academic Press.

Linz, Daniel, Kenneth C. Land, Jay R. Williams, Bryant Paul, and Michael E. Ezell. 2004. "Are Adult Dance Clubs Associated with Increases in Crime in Surrounding Areas? A Secondary Crime Effects Study in Charlotte, North Carolina." Law and Society Review 38: 69-104.*

Ezell, Michael E., Kenneth C. Land and Lawrence E. Cohen. 2003. "Modeling Multiple Failure Time Data: A Survey of Variance-Corrected Proportional Hazards Models with Empirical Applications to Arrest Data." Sociological Methodology 2003, 111-167.*

Taylor, Donald H., Gerda G. Fillenbaum, and Michael E. Ezell. 2002. "The Accuracy of Medicare Claims Data in Identifying Alzheimer's Disease." The Journal of Clinical Epidemiology 55: 929-937.*