Anne Nurse is a professor of sociology at The College of Wooster in Ohio. Her Ph.D. is from the University of California, Davis and she specializes in criminology, inequality, and research methods. She is the author of numerous articles in the areas of juvenile corrections and child sexual abuse prevention and wrote the books: Fatherhood Arrested: Parenting from Within the Juvenile Justice System and Locked Up, Locked Out: Young Men in the Juvenile Justice System (Vanderbilt University Press, 2002 and 2010). Additionally, Nurse is a co-author of the popular textbook Social Inequality: Forms, Causes, and Consequences (Routledge Press, 2022). Her most recent book, Confronting Child Sexual Abuse: Knowledge to Action is available open-access at the Lever Press website. Teaching about reproducible research is one of her passions. She is on the executive committee at Project Tier and published an article in Teaching Sociology about how to teach reproducibility through service learning.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor and Department Chair of Sociology and Anthropology, The College of Wooster

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