Bio: Associate Professor Paul B. Stretesky received his PhD in Criminology from Florida State University in 1997. Dr. Stretesky has published extensively in the areas of environmental crime and deviance, environmental regulation, and environmental justice. He is the co-author with Ronald Burns and Michael J. Lynch of Environmental Law Crime and Justice. In this book he examines the various ways criminologists can contribute to the study environmental problems while focusing on issues of race and class. In addition, he has published over 50 articles and book chapters on environmental issues and crime. His most prominent works include the study of the relationship between lead and homicide (with M.J. Lynch) published in the American Medical Association’s Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, and the relationship between race and lead exposure (with M.J. Lynch) published in the American Sociological Association’s Journal of Health and Social Behavior. He has recently completed an Environmental Protection Agency STAR grant that examined predictors of environmental self policing. Results of that work were published in the journal Criminology. His work on environmental justice encompasses both theoretical and empirical developments in the field, including an examination of the social causes and consequences of the distribution of environmental hazards as well as the relationship between carbon emissions and global trade. That research appears in a variety of journals including Social Problems, Social Science Quarterly, Social Science Research, Society and Natural Resources, British Journal of Criminology, and Journal of Black Studies.
Recent Publications:
BOOKS
Pogrebin, Mark, Paul B. Stretesky, and Prabha Unnithan. 2009. Guns, Violence, and Criminal Behavior: Accounts from the Inside. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers, pp. 155
Burns, Ronald G., Michael Lynch & Paul B. Stretesky. 2008. Environmental Law, Crime, and Justice: An Introduction. New York, NY: LFB Scholarly Publishing, pp. 298.
PEER REVIEWED ARTICLES
Michael J. Hogan, Michael A. Long, & Paul B. Stretesky. (in press). Campaign Contributions, Lobbying, and Post-Katrina Contracts. Disasters: The Journal of Disaster Studies, Policy and Management.
Paul B. Stretesky and Michael J. Lynch, Does self-policing reduce chemical emissions? The Social Science Journal. 46, 3: 459-473.
Stretesky, Paul B. & Michael J. Lynch. 2009. A Cross-National Study of the Association between Per Capita Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Exports to the United States. Social Science Research 38, 1: 239-250.
Stretesky, Paul B. 2009. National Case-Control Study of Homicide Offending and Methamphetamine Use. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 24, 6: 911-924.
Stretesky, Paul B. & Mark R. Pogrebin. 2007. Gang related gun violence: Socialization, identity and self. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 36:85-114.
Stretesky, Paul B. 2006. Corporate self-policing and the environment. Criminology, 44:671-708.
Stretesky, Paul B. & Jackie Gabriel. 2005. Self-policing and the environment: Predicting self-disclosure of Clean Air Act Violations under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Audit Policy. Society and Natural Resources, 18: 871-887.
Stretesky, Paul B. & Michael J. Hogan. 2005. Segregation and school disorder. Social Science Journal, 42: 405-420.
Stretesky, Paul B., Amie M. Schuck & Michael J. Hogan. 2004. Space matters: An analysis of poverty, poverty clustering, and violent crime. Justice Quarterly, 21:817-841.
Stretesky, Paul B., & Michael J. Lynch. 2004. The relationship between lead and crime. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45:214-229.
Lynch, Michael J., & Paul B. Stretesky. 2003. The meaning of green: Towards a clarification of the term green and its meaning for the development of a green criminology. Theoretical Criminology, 7:217-238.
Stretesky, Paul B., 2003. Environmental inequity and the distribution of air lead levels across U.S. counties: Implications for the production of racial inequality. Sociological Spectrum, 23:91-118.
Stretesky, Paul B., & Michael J. Lynch. 2002. Environmental hazards and school segregation in Hillsborough County Florida, 1987-1999. Sociological Quarterly, 43:553-573.
Stretesky, Paul B., & Michael Lynch. 2001. “The relationship between lead exposure and homicide.” Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 155:579-582
Lynch, Michael J., Paul B. Stretesky & Paul Hammond. 2000. Media coverage of chemical crimes, Hillsborough County, Florida, 1987-1997. British Journal of Criminology, 40:111-125.
Stretesky, Paul B., & Michael J. Hogan. 1998. Environmental justice: an analysis of superfund sites in Florida. Social Problems, 45: 268-287.