Gary Sweeten

Professor,

School of Criminology & Criminal Justice (CCJ)

Other ASU affiliations

Professor, Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions

gary.sweeten@asu.edu

411 N Central Ave Room 600 Mail Code 4420 PHOENIX, AZ 85004-0685
Mail code: 4420

Campus: Dtphx
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Long Bio

Gary Sweeten is an associate professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He received his doctorate in criminology and criminal justice in 2006 from the University of Maryland. His research interests include criminological theory, transitions to adulthood and quantitative methods, and his research has recently appeared in Criminology, Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, Criminology & Public Policy, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Education

Ph.D. Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland 2006

Curriculum Vitae

Publications

Gary Sweeten. Group-based trajectory models. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2014).
Callie Harbin Burt, Gary Sweeten and Ronald L. Simons. Self-Control through Emerging Adulthood: Instability, Multidimensionality, and Criminological Significance. Criminology (2014).
Scott H. Decker, David C. Pyrooz, Gary Sweeten and Richard K. Moule, Jr. Validating self-nomination in gang research: Assessing differences in gang embeddedness across non-, current, and former gang members. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2014).
Gary Sweeten. Group-Based Trajectory Models. Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice (2014).
David C. Pyrooz, Gary Sweeten, and Alex R. Piquero. Continuity and change in gang membership and gang embeddedness. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (2013).
Gary Sweeten, Alex R. Piquero, and Laurence Steinberg. Age and the explanation of crime, revisited. Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2013).
Gary Sweeten, David C. Pyrooz and Alex R. Piquero. Disengaging from gangs and desistance from crime. Justice Quarterly (2013).
Gary Sweeten. Scaling criminal offending. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2012).
Matthew Larson and Gary Sweeten. Breaking up is hard to do: Romantic dissolution, offending, and substance use during the transition to adulthood. Criminology (2012).
Paul Nieuwbeerta, Arjan A. J. Blokland, Alex R. Piquero and Gary Sweeten. A life course analysis of offense specialization across age. Introducing a new method for studying individual specialization over the life course. Journal of Quantitative Criminology (2011).
Gary Sweeten. Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub: Age-graded theory of informal social control. Encyclopedia of Criminological Theory (2010).
Robert Apel and Gary Sweeten. The impact of incarceration on employment during the transition to adulthood. Social Problems (2010).
Robert J. Apel and Gary Sweeten. Propensity score matching in criminology and criminal justice. Handbook of Quantitative Criminology (2010).
Gary Sweeten. Who Will Graduate? Disruption of High School Education by Arrest and Court Involvement. Justice Quarterly (2006).
Shawn Bushway, Gary Sweeten, David Wilson. Size Matters: Standard Errors in the Application of Hypothesis Significance Testing in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Journal of Experimental Criminology (2006).
. . Taking Stock: The Status of Criminological Theory. Advances in Criminological Theory (2005).

Research Activity

Decker,Scott Henderson*, Sweeten,Gary A, Young,Jacob. Revisiting Roxbury: Crime Gang Membership and the Life Course. NSF-SBE(9/1/2012 - 8/31/2015).
Sweeten,Gary A*. The Effect of Criminal Justice Involvement in the Transition to Young Adulthood. SUNY ALBANY(9/1/2007 - 5/31/2009).
Katz,Charles*, Decker,Scott Henderson, Fornango,Robert Jason, Rodriguez,Nancy, Saunders,Jessica, Sweeten,Gary A. AZ Criminal Justice Commission 08-003 PSN, Homicide and Recidivism Study. AZ CRIMINAL JUSTICE COMMISSION(7/1/2007 - 12/31/2009).

Courses

2025 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 525	Life-Course Criminology

2024 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology

2024 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology

2023 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 525	Life-Course Criminology

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 604	Regression Models
CRJ 425	Life-Course Criminology

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 504	Statistical Tools/Criminal Jus

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 494	Special Topics

2021 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 605	Quantitative Methods
CRJ 309	Criminology

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 604	Advanced Statistical Analysis

2020 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 303	Statistical Analysis
CRJ 502	Seminar in Criminology

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
CRJ 604	Advanced Statistical Analysis
CRJ 502	Seminar in Criminology

Service

Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Member (2006 - Present)
American Sociological Association, Member (2005 - Present)
American Society of Criminology, Member (2003 - Present)
American Society of Criminology Program Committee, Member (2007 - 2007)
Graduate Curriculum Committee, Member (2006 - 2007)
Criminology, Reviewer (2006 - 2006)