Christopher Uggen

Christopher J. Uggen is an American criminologist and sociologist who holds the Martindale Chair in Sociology and a Regents professorship at the University of Minnesota. He is best known for research on public criminology, desistance from crime over the life course, and the collateral consequences of a criminal conviction, including a widely cited 2003 study written with Jeff Manza arguing that felon disenfranchisement was large enough to have altered the outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election. Their later work found that former felons in Ohio who voted in the 1996 election were substantially less likely to reoffend in the following four years, evidence Uggen has used to argue that civic participation itself supports desistance. He has also published research on workplace sexual harassment and employer discrimination against people with felony records. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/