M.J. BORGPage 1
MARIAN J. BORG
Associate Professor, Sociology
Department of Sociology10110 NW 51st Terrace
University of FloridaGainesville, FL 32653
P.O. Box 117330(386)418-8008
Gainesville, FL 32611-7330e-mail:
(352)294-7168
Academic Training:
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Ph.D. in Sociology, August 1994
University of Virginia
M.A. in Sociology, January 1989
University of Virginia
B.A. in Sociology, May 1987, with highest distinction
Research and Teaching Areas:
Social Control and Deviance, Criminology
Publications:
Kristin M. Tennyson, Marian J. Borg and Bryan Lee Miller
“ Mobilizing Law in Latin America: An Evaluation of Black’s Theory in Brazil.” Law and Social Inquiry
2013 38:322-341
Marian J. Borg and Michael L. Radelet
"On Botched Executions." In Peter Hodgkinson and William Schabas, editors, Routes to Abolition: The Law and Practice of the Death Penalty. 2004 New York: Cambridge University Press.
Gang Lee, Ronald Akers and Marian J. Borg
“Social Learning and Structural Factors in Adolescent Substance Use.” Western Criminology Review 2004 Volume 5
Karen F. Parker and Marian J. Borg
“Black’s Use of Law and Homicide Clearance Rates: Modeling the Use of Law in the Context of Urban Areas.” In R. Robin Miller, Sandra Browning and Rodney Coates, editors, For the Common Good: A Critical Examination of Law and Social Control. 2002 Carolina Academic Press.
Marian J. Borg and Karen F. Parker
“Mobilizing Law in Urban Areas: The Social Structure of Homicide Clearance Rates.”
Law and Society Review 2001 35:435-466.
Marian J. Borg
"Expressing Conflict, Neutralizing Blame and Making Concessions in Small Claims Mediation."
Law and Policy2000 22:115-141.
Michael L. Radelet and Marian J. Borg
"Recent Research on Capital Punishment: Changing the Nature of Contemporary Death Penalty Debates." Annual Review of Sociology 2000 Volume 26:43-61.
Publications (continued):
Wade C. Myers and Marian J. Borg
"Serial Offending Among Children and Adolescents." In Louis B. Schlesinger, editor, Serial Offenders: Current Thought, Recent Findings and Unusual Syndromes. 2000 FL: CRC Press.
Marian J. Borg
"Drug Testing in Organizations: Applying Horwitz's Theory of the Effectiveness of Social Control."
Deviant Behavior 2000 21:123-154.
Michael L. Radelet and Marian J. Borg
“Comment on Umbreit and Vos: Retributive versus Restorative Justice.” Homicide Studies: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal 2000 4:88-92.
Marian J. Borg
Book Review of America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction, edited by James R. Acker, Robert M. Bohm and Charles S. Lanier. Contemporary Sociology 1999 28:355.
Marian J. Borg
"Using Violence as Social Control: Applying A Theory of Conflict Management to Juvenile Disputes." University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy 1999 10:313-339.
Marian J. Borg
"The Effect of Vicarious Homicide Victimization on Support for Capital Punishment: A Test of Black's Theory of Law." Criminology 1998 36:537-568.
Marian J. Borg and Michael L. Radelet
"Botched Lethal Injections." Capital Report 1998 53:4-6.
Marian J. Borg
"The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness? Regional Variation in Support for Capital Punishment." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 1997 34:25-45.
Marian J. Borg and William P. Arnold, M.D.
"Social Monitoring as Social Control: The Case of Drug Testing in a Medical Workplace." Sociological Forum 1997 12:441-460.
Marian J. Borg
"The Structure of Social Monitoring in the Process of Social Control."
Deviant Behavior 1997 18:273-293.
Marian J. Borg
Book review of Crime and Public Policy: Putting Theory to Work, edited by Hugh D. Barlow. Social Forces 1997 76:348-350.
Marian J. Borg
"Conflict Management in the Modern World System." Sociological Forum 1992 7:261-282.
Steven E. Finkel, Thomas M. Guterbock and Marian J. Borg
"Race of Interviewer Effects in a Preelection Poll." Public Opinion Quarterly 1991 55:313-330.
Publications (continued):
Marian J. Borg
Book review of Child Abuse in the Deep South: Geographical Modifiers of Abuse Characteristics, by Lee W. Badger, et al. Criminal Justice Review 1990 15:260-262.
Charles L. Cappell, John P. Jarvis and Marian J. Borg
"Alternative Indigent Defense Systems." House Document #40:1-40. Richmond, Commonwealth of Virginia, 1989.
Professional Presentations and Invited Lectures:
“Imagining Justice: Cold Case Homicide Survivors’ Views on Punishment.” Ashley Wellman and Marian J. Borg. Western Society of Criminology, Vancouver, February 2016.
“Conceptualizing Bullying as Social Control.” M.E. Johnson and M. Borg. The Mid-South Sociological Association, Mobile, Alabama, November 2014.
“Applying a Theory of Conflict Management to Domestic Disputes.” (with Mari A. DeWees)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, California, November 2000.
"Applying Black's Theory of Law to City-Level Homicide Clearance Rates." (with Karen F. Parker)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, Canada, November 1999.
"Adolescent Violence as Conflict Management." Paper presented at the Juvenile Justice Symposium, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 1999.
"Restorative Justice in Theory and Practice: Victim-Offender Mediation Programs." Lecture for SYP4520/6520, Criminology, Department of Sociology, University of Florida, December 1998.
"Drug Testing in the American Workplace: A Test of Horwitz's Hypotheses Regarding the Effectiveness of Social Control." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Washington DC, November 1998.
"Theoretical Foundations of Restorative Justice." Lecture for CCJ4604, Criminological Theories, Center for Studies in Criminology and Law, University of Florida, April 1998.
"Botched Executions in the United States." (with Michael L. Radelet)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Diego, California, November 1997.
"The Effect of Vicarious Homicide Victimization on Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment." Paper
presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Toronto, Canada, August 1997.
"When Does Mediation Work? The Influence of Intimacy and Cultural Distance on Successful Mediation." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1996.
"The Influence of Social and Cultural Distance on Mediation."
Guest speaker. Annual Conference for Mediators and Arbitrators (sponsored by the Florida Dispute Resolution Center), Orlando, August 1996.
Professional Presentations (continued):
"Mediation in Florida's Civil Courts: Directions for Future Research."
Guest speaker. Florida Supreme Court Committee on Mediation and Arbitration Rules, Orlando, June 1996.
"Mediation as Social Control: Theoretical Background and Empirical Research."
Guest lecture for LAW6383, Mediation and Other Dispute Resolution Processes, Levin College of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 1996.
"Social Control in the South: The Southern Subculture of Punitiveness?"
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November 1995.
"The Social Context of Hate Crimes: The Influence of Social Structure on Racially-Motivated Criminal Behavior." (with John P. Jarvis)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Boston, November 1995.
"Monitoring and Social Control: Drug Testing in Anesthesiology Departments."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Sociological Society, Atlanta, April 1995.
"Monitoring in the Process of Social Control."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Miami, November 1994.
"Bias Motivated Criminal Behavior and the Dynamics of Social Control." (with John P. Jarvis)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, New Orleans, November 1992.
"Conflict Management in the Modern World System."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, November 1991.
"Race of Interviewer Effects, Social Desirability Bias, and the 1989 Virginia Gubernatorial Polls."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Public Opinion Research, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, May 1990.
"The Structure and Culture of Punitiveness in the South."
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Reno, November, 1989.
"Provision of Legal Services to Indigent Criminal Defendants: Problems in Building a Consensus."
(with Charles L. Cappell and John P. Jarvis)
Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Law and Society Association, Vail, June, 1988.
"The Southern Subculture of Violence."
Colloquium given at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, April, 1988.
Grants Awarded:
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
Research Award$7,000
Project Title:"Community Mobilization of Law: The Social Structure of Clearance Rates"
Funding Awarded:December 1998
Funding Period:January to December 1999
Project examines differences in homicide clearance rates across a sample of cities in the US. Research design involves data analysis of census-tract information and FBI crime statistics. Primary goal is to identify social structural characteristics of urban areas that may influence the ability of police to make arrests in homicide cases.
Grants (continued) :
Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida
Research Development Award$23,812
Project Title:"When Does Mediation Work? The Influence of Status, Intimacy and Cultural Distance on Successful Mediation."
Funding Awarded:February 1995
Funding Period:May 1995 to April 1997
Project examines factors affecting the use and success of mediation as a method of resolving conflicts. Research design includes collection of original data from observations of mediation sessions and face-to-face interviews with disputants and mediators. Primary goal is to identify characteristics in the relationships shared by disputants and mediators that may influence successful resolution of conflicts through mediation.
Division of Sponsored Research, University of Florida
Research Support Program for New Faculty$ 2,000
Funding Awarded: October 1994
Equipment award to support new faculty research. Funds used to purchase computer hardware and software for data collection in primary research areas.
Administrative Positions Held:
Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of Sociology & Law, Sociology Major Degree Program
Fall 2002 to present
Professional Awards and Recognition:
UF Online Education Excellence Award, 2016
Faculty Advisor of the Year Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2008
Faculty Teaching Award, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 1999
Faculty Teaching Award nomination, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2001
Professional Activities:
Reviewer for journals including, American Journal of Sociology, Criminology, Law and Society Review, Journal of Family Issues,Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Forum, Social Problems, Justice Quarterly, Homicide Studies, and Criminal Justice Review
Professional Affiliations:
American Sociological Association
American Society of Criminology