Kirk Miller
Department of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
815.753.0303
January 2007
Education
2003 Ph.D. Sociology.
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC
Comprehensive Exams: Crime and Social Control
Social Inequality
1996 M.S. Sociology.
North Carolina State University; Raleigh, NC
1993 B.S. Sociology; B.A. Communications Studies.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University; Blacksburg, VA.
Professional Appointments
2003- Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
2002-2003 Instructor, Department of Sociology, Northern Illinois University
1998-2002 Project Director/Research Associate, Public Opinion Laboratory, Northern Illinois University
1998-2002 Visiting Instructor, Department of Sociology; Northern Illinois University
1997-1998 Provost’s Task Force on Multi-Cultural Curriculum Transformation, Assistant & Ad Hoc Task Force Member; Northern Illinois University
1997-1998 Research Consultant, Center for Governmental Studies, Northern Illinois University
1996 Research Assistant, Department of Sociology; NC State University
National Institute of Justice Grant (#5-721 7-NC-IJ) entitled Changing Patterns of Homicide and Social Policy in Three American Cities. Margaret A. Zahn and Katherine M. Jamieson, Principal Investigators.
Refereed Publications
Miller, Kirk. 2007. “Traversing the Spatial Divide? Gender, Place and Delinquency.” Feminist Criminology 2:xxx-xxx.
Miller, Kirk. 2007. “Racial Profiling and Postmodern Society: Police Responsiveness, Image Maintenance, and the Left Flank of Police Legitimacy.” Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 24:xxx-xxx.
Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald, Cynthia Pfaff Wright, Ronald Czaja and Kirk Miller. 2006. “Self-Reports of Police Speeding Stops by Race: Results from the North Carolina Reverse Record Check Survey.” Journal of Quantitative Criminology 22:279-297.
Non-Refereed Publications
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. 2007. “Criminology.” Pp 390-398 in Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. Clifton D. Bryant and Dennis L. Peck (eds.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Luckenbill, David F. and Kirk Miller. 2007. “Intellectual Property Piracy.” Pp xxx-xxx in Encyclopedia of Social Problems. (ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Under Review
“Racial Profiling and Pretextual Stops: Results from a Self-Report Survey.” Revise & Resubmit status at Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.
“Race, Cops, and Traffic Stops: Modeling Moving and Non-Moving Traffic Stops with Citizen Self-Reports.” Under review at Police Quarterly.
Work in Progress
“Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An Examination of Policy Adoption in Large Municipal Police Agencies.” To be submitted at Law & Society Review.
“Modern Racism, Old-fashioned Prejudice and Preference for Punishment.” Jacqueline Jebens and Kirk Miller. To be submitted at Deviant Behavior.
“The Global Diffusion of Law: The Case of Intellectual Property.” with David F. Luckenbill.
“One Nation, Under Surveillance: Examining the Diffusion of Surveillance Technology among Local Law Enforcement Agencies.” To be presented at the 2007 Society for the Study of Social Problems Annual Meeting, New York City, August 10-12, 2007.
Police Lethality: A National Analysis of Community and Organizational Factors.
The Diffusion of Anti-Profiling Legislation: A State Level Analysis.
Law Enforcement Agencies and Policing Hate Crime: Explaining Organizational Capacity to Respond to Hate Crimes.
Comparing Measures of Intellectual Creativity: Patent, Copyright, and Trademark. With David F. Luckenbill.
‘What’s the Relationship between Law and Creativity?’ Comparing Historical Data on Patent, Copyright, and Trademark Data.” With David F. Luckenbill.
“Making Bad Girls Good: The Gendering of Shame in Juvenile Probation.” With Kristen A.Myers. To be submitted to Youth & Society.
Book Reviews
Review of Deflem, Matthieu. 2004. Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation. Contemporary Sociology 33: 597-598.
Review of Walker, Jeffrey T. 2003. Policing and the Law. Criminal Justice Review 28:401-402.
Professional Presentations
2006 Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An Examination of Policy Variation in Large Municipal Police Agencies.” Kirk Miller; Society for the Study of Social Problems; Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
2005 “Making Bad Girls Good: The Gendering of Shame in Juvenile Probation.” Kirk Miller; Southern Sociological Society; Charlotte, NC.
2004 “The Diffusion of Law: National Responses to International Pressure to Protect Intellectual Property.” Kirk Miller and David F. Luckenbill; Society for the Study of Social Problems; San Francisco, CA.
2003 “Racial Profiling in Racial Profiling Research.” Kirk Miller; Southern Sociological Society; New Orleans, LA.
2002 Invited Presidential Poster Session “Predicting Police Traffic Stops: Integrating Self Reports and Community Data.” Kirk Miller and Matthew T. Zingraff; American Society of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
2001 “Cops and Stops: Race, Place and Social Control in North Carolina.” Kirk Miller, Donald TomaskovicDevey, and Matthew T. Zingraff; American Society of Criminology; Atlanta, GA.
2000 “Are All Hate Crimes Created Equal?” Kirk Miller and Kristen A. Myers; Southern Sociological Society ; New Orleans, LA.
1997 “Confronting the Obstacles of Internetbased Research: The Case of Computer Technology and Teaching.” Kirk Miller, Kristen A. Myers, Margaret Stiffler, and Joseph Flowers; Southern Sociological Society; New Orleans, LA.
1996 “Residential Segregation and Crime: Recursive Models of a Reciprocal Relationship.” Marcy MasonSchrock and Kirk Miller; American Society of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
1996 “An Ounce of Prevention: Addressing the Roots of Serious Crime.” Kirk Miller, Marino A. Bruce, Margaret A. Zahn, and Katherine M. Jamieson; American Society of Criminology; Chicago, IL.
1995 "Structural Context, Gender and Crime." Kirk Miller; American Society of Criminology; Boston, MA.
1995 "A Conceptual Examination of Social Threat and Social Control." Kirk Miller; Study of Social Problems; Washington, D.C.
Grant Writing
2005 “Law Enforcement Responses to Racial Profiling: An Examination of Policy Variation in Large Municipal Police Agencies.” submitted to the American Sociological Association/National Science Foundation Fund for the Advancement of the Discipline, Funds sought $7,500.
2002 Consumer Choice of Electrical Suppliers. Illinois Commerce Commission. $26,000 awarded.
2001 Race, Place, Cops and Stops. National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Funds sought $15,000.
Transportation Issues Survey of the Quad Cities Region. Bi-State Regional Commission. $26,400 awarded. With Barbara Burrell.
Mount Prospect, IL, Citizen Satisfaction Survey. Village of Mount Prospect, IL. Funds sought $45,000. With Barbara Burrell.
1999-2000 North Carolina Highway Traffic Survey. North Carolina Center for Crime and Justice subcontract from the National Institute of Justice. Funds awarded $90,000.
Northern Illinois University Supportive Professional Staff Professional Development Grant Summer ICPSR/Institute for Survey Research Techniques. Funds awarded $1,850.
GIRLS LINK. Process Research Evaluation. Cook County, IL Juvenile Justice Authority. Funds sought $77,896. With Jill McCorkel.
Courses Taught
Policing in a Democratic Society (400-level)
Gender and Crime (300-level)
Deviance in Society (300-level)
Criminology (200-level)
The Criminal Justice System (200-level)
Social Problems (200-level)
“SPSS How-to” One-week Short-Course
Professional Affiliations
American Association for Public Opinion Research
American Society of Criminology
American Sociological Association
Society for the Study of Social Problems
Southern Sociological Society
Sociologists for Women in Society
Alpha Kappa Delta, Sociology Honor Society
References
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Donald Tomaskovic-Devey
Chair and Professor of Sociology
University of Massachusetts
Amherst, MA
(413) 545-4070
Matthew T. Zingraff
Associate Dean for Research
College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
(703) 993-4769
David F. Luckenbill
Professor of Sociology
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
(815) 753-6428
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