Ruth D. Peterson is an American sociologist and professor emerita at Ohio State University, where she directed the university's Criminal Justice Research Center. Her research examines racial and ethnic inequality in crime and criminal justice, including how community conditions shape the racial and spatial distribution of crime, work presented at length in her co-authored book Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide. She became the first African American president of the American Society of Criminology, received the society's Sutherland Award in 2011, and launched the Crime and Justice Summer Program to support minority scholars entering the field.
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Defining ContributionWork on racial and ethnic inequality and crime 1 Notable WorkDivergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide (2010) 2 Sources
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American sociologist and criminologist
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known for her work on racial and ethnic inequality and crime
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With Lauren J. Krivo, Peterson co-authored Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide (Russell Sage Foundation 2010).
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