William Alex Pridemore

Ph.D., SUNY-Albany, 2000
Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Indiana University
Post-doctoral Fellow, Davis Center

Contact Information
Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies
625 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139
pridemor@fas.harvard.edu

Research Interests
Social structure and homicide/suicide, measurement and methodology, theoretical criminology.

Current Projects
The changing nature of violence during the Russian transition; social change, alcohol, and lethal violence in Russia.

Selected Publications
"Vodka and violence: Alcohol consumption and homicide rates in Russia." American Journal of Public Health, 92, 1921-1930 (2002).

"Measuring homicide in Russia: A comparison of estimates from the crime and vital statistics reporting systems." Social Science and Medicine, 57, 1343-54 (2003).

"Demographic, temporal, and spatial patterns of homicide rates in Russia." European Sociological Review, 19, 41-59 (2003).

With Spivak, A.L., "Patterns of suicide mortality in Russia." Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 33, 132-150 (2003).

With Shkolnikov, V.M. "Education and marriage as protective factors against homicide mortality: methodological and substantive findings from Moscow." Forthcoming in Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2004).