Jarrett Thibodeaux

Jarrett Thibodeaux received his B.A. in Sociology from the University of California-Irvine in 2006 and his M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 2009. He is currently a PhD candidate in the department. His major research interests include crime, law, and deviance, economic sociology, food deserts/food environment, historical methods, quantitative methods, social problems, theory, and urban sociology. His dissertation examines the city and industry causes of food deserts.

Representative Publications

Forthcoming. Thibodeaux, Jarrett. City Racial Composition as a Predictor of African American Food Deserts. Urban Studies

Forthcoming. Thibodeaux, Jarrett. A Historical Era of Food Deserts: Changes in the Correlates of Urban Supermarket Location, 1970-1990. Social Currents

2014. Thibodeaux, Jarrett. Three Versions of Constructionism and their Reliance on Social Conditions in Social Problems Research. Sociology. 48 (4). p. 829-37.

2013. Thibodeaux, Jarrett. Student Perceptions of Safety in Same Race High Schools. Journal of School Violence. 12 (4). p. 378-394.

2013. Gary Jensen and Jarrett Thibodeaux. The Gang Problem: Fabricated Panics or Real Temporal Patterns? Homicide Studies. 17 (3). p. 275-290.