Day, Jacob C

Associate Professor

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Associate Professor, Sociology and Criminology , College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

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dayj@uncw.edu

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Academic Article
- When the Mean is Misleading: A Guide to Ordered Regression for Meaningfully Modeling Ordinal Outcomes. Journal of Quantitative Criminology. 2025-12-01
- Money in the bank: progressive problem shifts in criminological science. Theory and Society. 2025-10-01
- Do Employers “Walk the Talk” After All? An Illustration of Methods for Assessing Signals in Underpowered Designs. Sociological Methods & Research. 74:920-947. 2021-11-01
- Climbing the ladder or getting stuck: An optimal matching analysis of racial differences in college football coaches’ job-level career patterns. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 2018-02-01
- Transitions to the Top: Race, Segregation, and Promotions to Executive Positions in the College Football Coaching Profession. Work and Occupations. 42:408-446. 2015-11-01
- Coercion and Social Support Behind Bars. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 42:133-155. 2015-02-01
- Coercion and Social Support Behind Bars: Testing an Integrated Theory of Misconduct and Resistance in U.S. Prisons. Criminal Justice and Behavior. 42:133-155. 2015-02-01
- What Works for Whom? The Effects of Gender Responsive Programming on Girls and Boys in Secure Detention. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. 52:93-129. 2015-02-01
- Race, Gender, and the Invisible Hand of Social Capital. Sociology Compass. 4:532-543. 2010-07-01
- NOT SO FAST, MY FRIEND: SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE RACE DISPARITY IN PROMOTIONS AMONG COLLEGE FOOTBALL COACHES. Sociological Spectrum. 30:138-158. 2010-02-01
- Determining What Works for Girls in the Juvenile Justice System. Crime & Delinquency. 55:266-293. 2009-04-01
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- Advances in Corrections Research: Understanding How Prisons Continue to Influence Maladjustment -- Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward. Handbook on Moving Corrections and Sentencing Forward. 246-252. 2020-11-01
Document
- Are you afraid of colliders? -- https://reluctantcriminologists.com/blog-posts/%5B5%5D/colliders. . 2025-06-01
- Should More Criminologists ‘Build Stuff?’ -- https://reluctantcriminologists.com/. . 2025-06-01
- Trust Issues: Examining Near Duplicates in Survey Data -- https://reluctantcriminologists.com/blog-posts/%5B8%5D/dup-series/duplicates. . 2023-10-01
- Racial segregation and job promotion among coaches in American college football. Work in Progress: Short-form sociology on the economy, work. 2016-03-01
Report
- Kansas City Community Survey: Consulting Report. . 2025-06-01

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