Faculty

William Alex Pridemore

Director of Graduate Studies
Professor
Ph.D., State University of New York, Albany, 2000

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William is Professor in the Criminal Justice Department, the Director of Graduate Studies, and an affiliate faculty member of the Russian and East European Institute. Professor Pridemore is also Associate Director of the Consortium for Education and Social Science Research (CESSR) and Director of CESSR’s Workshop in Methods. He received his Ph.D. from SUNY-Albany in 2000. He is a member of the National Consortium on Violence Research and spent a year as a Research Fellow at Harvard University in the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. In 2008, Dr. Pridemore received the Junior Scholar Award from the American Sociological Association's Section on Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco. His main research interest is the impact of social structure, economic transition, and alcohol consumption on homicide and suicide in Russia. Other research interests include far right-wing culture and crime and the measurement of crime.

Dr. Pridemore's research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, the National Institute of Justice, and the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation.  His research is interdisciplinary and has been published in leading journals in several disciplines, including criminology (Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly), public health (American Journal of Public Health, Addiction, European Journal of Public Health), and sociology (Social Forces, Social Science and Medicine, European Sociological Review). He also recently edited a volume on law, crime, and justice in transitional Russia, which was published by Rowman & Littlefield.

Recent Publications

Pridemore, W.A. 2008. A methodological addition to the cross-national empirical literature on social structure and homicide: A first test of the poverty-homicide thesis. Criminology, 46, 133-154.

Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., & Trahan, A. 2008. A test of competing hypotheses about homicide rates following terrorist attacks: An interrupted time series analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City. Forthcoming in Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Pridemore, W.A. & Eckhardt, K. (2008). A comparison of victim, offender, and event characteristics of alcohol-and non-alcohol-related homicides. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 45, 227-255.

Pridemore, W.A., & Snowden, A. Reduction in suicide mortality following a new national alcohol policy: An interrupted time series analysis of Slovenia. Forthcoming in American Journal of Public Health.

Andreev, E.M., Pridemore, W.A., Shkolnikov, V.M., & Antonova, O.I. 2008. An investigation of the growing number of deaths of unidentified people in Russia. European Journal of Public Health, 18, 252-257.

Aliverdinia, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2008. Women’s fatalistic suicide in Iran: A partial test of Durkheim in an Islamic Republic. Forthcoming in Violence Against Women.

Snowden, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2008. The 2003 Slovenian alcohol policy: Background, supporters, and opponents. Forthcoming in Contemporary Drug Problems, 35.

Pridemore, W.A. 2007. Change and stability in the characteristics of homicide victims, offenders, and incidents during rapid social change. British Journal of Criminology, 47, 331-345.

Stickley, A. & Pridemore, W.A. 2007. The social structural correlates of homicide in late Tsarist Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 47, 80-99.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2007. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society. The Sociological Quarterly, 48, 229-251.

Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., & Cochran, J.K. 2007. An interrupted time series analysis of Durkheim’s social deregulation thesis: The case of the Russian Federation. Justice Quarterly, 24, 271-290.

Pridemore, W.A & Freilich, J.D. 2007. The impact of state laws protecting abortion clinics and reproductive rights: Deterrence, backlash, or neither? Law and Human Behavior, 31, 611-627.

Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. 2007. Interview mode effects on estimates of need for alcohol and drug treatment among welfare recipients: Evidence from a quasi-experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 3, 323-336.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2007. Negative socioeconomic change and crime in a transitional society. The Sociological Quarterly, 48, 229-251.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2007. Female empowerment, paramilitary culture, and political crime: Covariates of abortion clinic attacks in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice, 35, 323-336.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2006. Democratization and political change as threats to collective sentiments: Testing Durkheim in Russia. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 605, 82-103.

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. 2006. A test of recent subcultural explanations of white violence in the United States. Journal of Criminal Justice, 34, 1-16.

Pridemore, W.A. & Kim, S.W. 2006. Patterns of alcohol-related mortality in Russia. Journal of Drug Issues, 35, 229-248.

Pridemore, W.A. 2006. Heavy drinking and suicide mortality in Russia. Social Forces, 85, 413-430.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2006. Mismeasuring militias: The methodological limitations of state-level studies of paramilitary groups. Justice Quarterly, 23, 147-162.

Pridemore, W.A. & Chamlin, M.B. 2006. A time series analysis of the effects of heavy drinking on homicide and suicide rates in Russia, 1956-2002. Addiction, 101, 1719-1729.

Pridemore, W.A. 2006. An exploratory analysis of homicide victims, offenders, and events in Russia. International Criminal Justice Review, 16, 5-23.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social change, institutional anomie, and serious property crime in transitional Russia. British Journal of Criminology, 45, 81-97.

Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social structure and homicide in post-Soviet Russia. Social Science Research, 34, 732-756.

Pridemore, W.A., Damphousse, K.R., & Moore, R.K. 2005. Obtaining sensitive information from a wary population: A comparison of telephone and face-to-face surveys of welfare recipients in the United States. Social Science & Medicine, 61, 976-984.

Pridemore, W.A. 2005. A cautionary note on using county-level crime and homicide data. Homicide Studies, 9, 256-268.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Poverty, socioeconomic change, institutional anomie, and homicide. Social Science Quarterly, 86, 1377-1398.

Pridemore, W.A. & Freilich, J.D. 2005. Gender equity, traditional masculine culture, and female homicide victimization. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 213-223.

Kim, S.W. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. Social support and homicide in transitional Russia. Journal of Criminal Justice, 33, 561-572.

Freilich, J.D. & Pridemore, W.A. 2005. A reassessment of state-level covariates of militia groups. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 23, 527-546.

Pridemore, W.A. & Shkolnikov, V.M. 2004. Education and marriage as protective factors against homicide mortality: Methodological and substantive findings from Moscow. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 20, 173-187.

Pridemore, W.A. 2004. Weekend effects on binge drinking and homicide mortality: Preliminary evidence for the social connection between alcohol and violence in Russia. Addiction, 99, 1034-1041.

Pridemore, W.A. 2004. Alcohol poisonings, drinking behavior, and violence in Russia: A reply to Rossow. Addiction, 99, 1356-1358.