Richard Arum is professor of sociology in New York University's Department of Sociology and professor of education at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
His professional biography at the N.Y.U. faculty profiles begins, "Arum's work explores the extent to which school characteristics, such as educational spending and racial segregation, contribute to inadequate youth socialization, crime, and subsequent imprisonment."
He is also Program Director of Educational Research at the Social Science Research Council, where he has directed the CLA Longitudinal Project [1] and successfully led efforts to organize educational stakeholders in New York City to create the Research Alliance for New York City Schools [2] (an entity loosely modeled after the Consortium on Chicago School Research)[3] that focuses on ongoing evaluation and assessment research to support public school improvement efforts.
"Schools and Communities: Ecological and Institutional Dimensions," Annual Review of Sociology 26:395-418 (2000)
"The Romance of College Attendance: Higher Education Stratification and Mate Selection," with Michelle Budig, Josipa Roksa, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 26/2:107-122 (2008)
"Law and Disorder in the Classroom," with Doreet Preiss, Education Next Fall 9/4:68-86 (2009)
On Criminology
"Educational Spending and Imprisonment Risk: The Role of Schools as Prison Gatekeepers," conference paper, with Gary LaFree (2009)
On Race and Crime
"The Effect of Racially Segregated Schools on African American and White Incarceration Rates, 1970 to 1990," with Gary LaFree, Criminology 44:1, 73-103 (2006)
Stratification in Higher Education: A Comparative Study editor with Yossi Shavit and Adam Gamoran (Palo Alto: Stanford University Press) (2007)
Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses with Josipa Roksa (Chicago: University of Chicago Press) (forthcoming 2010)
On School Discipline
Judging School Discipline: The Crisis of Moral Authority in American Schools with Irenee Beattie, Richard Pitt, Jennifer Thompson, Sandra Way (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press) (2003)
On Self-Employment
The Resurgence of Self-Employment: A Comparative Study of Self-Employment Dynamics and Social Inequality editor with Walter Mueller (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press) (2004)