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Faculty
J. Heith Copes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Justice Sciences
jhcopes@uab.edu
Heith Copes received the Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Tennessee in 2001. His research interests include criminal decision making, automobile theft, and white collar crime. Professor Copes teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses, including courses in criminological theory, research methods, and crime patterns. He was the 2005 recipient of the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching for the School of Socialand Behavioral Sciences.
Publications
Copes, H. and Patrick Williams. Forthcoming. “Techniques Of Affirmation: Deviant Behavior, Moral Commitment, And Resistant Subcultural Identity.” Deviant Behavior.
Slingerland, W., J.H. Copes, and J.J. Sloan III. 2006. "The Social Construction of Corporate Criminal Violence Revisited: An Examination of Two Nightclub Tragedies." Deviant Behavior 27:423-455.
Copes, H. and Michael Cherbonneau. 2006. “The Key to Auto Theft: Emerging Methods of Auto Theft from the Offenders’ Perspectives.” British Journal of Criminology 46:917-934.
Cherbonneau, Michael and H. Copes. 2006. “Drive It Like You Stole It: Auto Thieves and the Illusion of Normalcy.” British Journal of Criminology 46:193-211.
Williams, Patrick and H. Copes. 2005. “How Edge are You? Constructing Authentic Identities and Subcultural Boundaries in a Straightedge Internet Forum.” Symbolic Interaction 28:67-89.
Maruna, Shadd and H. Copes. 2005. “What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research?” Crime and Justice: An Annual Review of Research 32:221-320.
Copes, H. and Andy Hochstetler. 2003. “Situational Constructions of Masculinity Among Male Street Thieves.” Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 32:279-304.
Copes, H. 2003. “Streetlife and the Rewards of Auto Theft.” Deviant Behavior 24:309-332.
Copes, H. 2003. “Societal Attachments, Offending Frequency and Techniques of Neutralization.” Deviant Behavior 2:101-127.
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