Mark Hansel
Professor of Sociology

Interests

• Criminology, Penology
• Deviance
• Sociology of Law
• Statistics and Research Methodology
• Crime seriousness
• Sociology of Sexual Assault

Classes taught

• Punishment and Correcions
• Probation and Parole
• Law and Society
• Sociology of Sexual Assault
• Criminology
• Community Corrections
• Sociology of the Criminal Court
• Sociology of Law Enforcement
• Social Deviance,
• Social Statistics,
• Research Methodology

Publications

• 1997 Book review of ``Child Survivors and Perpetrators of Sexual Abuse'' edited by Max Hunter. Criminal Justice Review
• 1994 "Social Claims, Ownership, Metaphor and Cross-sex Relations: Why Women are Property" Great Plains Sociologist Vol 7(1):14-40.
• 1992 Book Review of "Treating Sex Offenders in Correctional Institutions And Outpatient Clinics, A Guide to Clinical Practice" by William E. Prendergast (New York, The Haworth Press, 1991, 233 pp.) in Journal of Criminal Justice (Dec).
• 1990 "Measuring Crime Seriousness: Lessons from the National Survey of Crime Severity."British Journal of Criminology 31(1):72-85 (Authors are: David Parton, Mark Hansel and John Stratton).
• 1987 "Citizen Crime Stereotypes -- Normative Consensus Revisited." Criminology 25(3):455-485.}
• 1983 What is a Crime? NY: Cambridge. Low level reader used in prisons for adult new literates. (Adult content, 5th grade reading level.)
• 1981 "Ecological Context and Urban Crime: A Further Exploration," Urban Affairs Quarterly 17(1):37-54 (Authors are: John Farley and Mark Hansel).
• 1980 Book Review of Multidimensional Scaling by M. Wish and J. Kruskal Contemporary Sociology.
• 1974 "A follow-up Evaluation of Iowa's Community Alcoholism Centers, Final Project Report," Iowa City, Iowa. (Harold Mulford, principal author)

Presentations

• 1996 "Constructing Outsiders as Violent, Reclaiming the Focused-Group Interview," presented at the Midwest Society of Sociology, Chicago, Ill, April 3-6, 1996. (With Denis Stead)
• 1995 "Systamatic Differences Among Respondents to the National Survey of Crime Severity" presented at the Midwest Society of Sociology, Chicago, Ill, April 6-9, 1995. (With Denis Stead)
• 1994 "Defining and Measuring Consensus." Presented at the Midwest Sociological Association, St. Louis, Mo. Marcy 10-13, 1994. (With Denis Stead)
• 1993 "The Righteous rhetoric of the Anti-abortion Movement: Nostalgia for Lost Hegemony" Presented at Midwest Sociological Society session on Audiovisual Recordings, Chicago, Ill, April 7-10, 1993.
• 1993 "Ideology and the Analysis of Rape" Presented at the Midwest Sociological Society session on Sexual Assault, Chicago, Ill, April 7-10, 1993.
• 1992 "Anti-Abortion Protest Coverage and the Rhetoric of Legitimation." Paper delivered at the Midwest Sociological Society session on "Mediated Communications," April 1992, St. Louis, Ill.
• 1991 "Sociology of Sexual Aggression." Presented at the American Society of Criminology annual meetings, San Francisco, CA. (With John Stratton)
• 1989 "Retribution, Incapacitation, and Sentencin Guidelines: Common Sense Fizzles Again." Presented to the Criminology and Criminal Justice Session at the Midwest Sociological Association, St. Louis, MO. April 1989. (With Patricia Cleary, MSU Senior)
• 1988 "Sociological Analysis of Rape." Paper presented to the Midwest Sociological Association, Minneapolis, MN. April 1988
• 1988 "The proposition, 'women are property' is ideology." Paper presented to the American Association of Criminology. Chicago, Ill. November 1988.
• 1987 "Conditionality of Crime Seriousness Judgments." Mimeo, Moorhead State University.
• 1980 "Rape: Its Social Meaning," presented at the Tri-College Social and Behavioral Science Convention, Moorhead, MN. (With Virginia Lawson)
• 1980 "Determinate Sentencing: Panacea or Doublespeak," Presented to Unitarian Fellowship, Fargo, ND.
• 1978a "Perceptions of Crime, a Comparison of Approaches," presented at the Midwest Sociological Association Meetings, Omaha, NE. (With Virginia Lawson)
• 1978b "Thinking about the Mad and the Bad," presented at the Tri- College Anthropology and Sociology Convention. (with Richard Smart)
• 1976 "Development of a Measure of Unacceptable Drinking Behavior: The Implications of Taking Symbolic Interactionism Seriously." Presented at the North Central Sociological Society Meetings, Louisville, KY. (With Kit Christensen, MSU Senior)
• 1976a "How are Crimes Perceived? A Multidimensional Analysis," presented at the Tri-College Anthropology and Sociology Convention, Fargo, ND
• 1975c "Theoretical and Methodological Criteria for Judging the Validity of Measures of Inmate Social Roles," presented at the Midwest Sociological Association meetings, Chicago, April, 1975
• 1975a "Multidimensional representations of Perceptions of Social Structure, Some questions regarding Reliability and Validity," presented at the Psychometric Society meetings, Iowa City, Iowa, May, 1975.