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Christopher Lyons has recently had two papers accepted at Law and Society Review; one is in print and the other will be published in June 2010. He has also been invited to be a member of the Racial Democracy and Criminal Justice Network, which meets at Ohio State every June.

Aki Roberts and Christopher J. Lyons. 2009. “Victim-Offender Racial Dyads and Clearance of Lethal and Non-Lethal Assault.” Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (forthcoming)

Lyons, Christopher J. 2008. “Defending Turf: Racial Demographics and Hate Crime Against Blacks and Whites.” Social Forces 87(1): 357-385.

Lyons, Christopher J. 2008. “Individual Perceptions and the Social Construction of Hate Crime.” Social Science Journal 45(1): 107-131.

Lyons, Christopher J. 2007. “Community (Dis)Organization and Racially Motivated Crime.” American Journal of Sociology 113(3): 815-63.

Pettit, Becky and Christopher J. Lyons. 2007. “Status and the Stigma of Incarceration: The Labor Market Effects of Incarceration by Race, Class, and Criminal Involvement.” Pg. 203-226 in Barriers to Reentry? The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in post-Industrial America, edited by Shawn Bushway, Michael A. Stoll and David F. Weiman. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Lyons, Christopher J. 2006. “Stigma or Sympathy: Attributions of Fault to Hate Crime Victims and Offenders.” Social Psychology Quarterly 69(1): 39-59.

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