Clayton A. Hartjen, Ph.D.

Title: Professor

Telephone: 973 353-5066

Office: Hill Hall 601

e-mail: hartjen@andromeda.rutgers.edu

Education

Ph.D. New York University, Department of Sociology 

Research Interests

Research interests include international and comparative criminology with special emphasis on juvenile delinquency/justice in India, criminological theory, corrections, and social control. Professor Hartjen is also a member of the faculty of the Graduate School of Criminal Justice at Rutgers Newark and the Editor of the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Current Research Projects

Professor Hartjen is currently writing a book titled Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: A Global Perspective which synthesizes and summarizes the research and theory on these topics from countries around the world.

Representative Recent Publications

Delinquency and Juvenile Justice: An International Bibliography (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2004) with S. Priyadarsini.

"Gender, Peers and Delinquency: A Study of Boys and Girls in Rural France," Youth and Society (2003) with S. Priyadarsini. pp., 387-414.

  “Exploring the Etiology of Delinquency Across Country and Gender,” Journal of  Crime and Justice (1999) with Sesha Kethineni. pp., 55-90

“Investigating Youth-Crime and Justice Around the World, ”in Hans-Dieter Schwind (ed.) Essays in Honor ofDr. Hans Joachim Schneider, (Walter de Gruyter & Co., 1998).pp., 523-538.

“The Criminality of Women and Girls in India,”International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice. (1997), pp., 37-69.

Comparative Delinquency: India and the United States 

(New York New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1996) with Sesha Kethineni {Distinguished book award recipient 1997}

  “Culture, Gender and Delinquency: A Study of Youths in the United States and India,” in Dean G. Rojak and Gary F. Jensen (eds.), Exploring Delinquency: Causes and Control (Los Angeles Cal.: Roxbury, 1996) pp., 69-79 with Sesharajani Kethineni.

“Legal Change and Juvenile Justice in India,”International Criminal Justice Review. (1995), pp., 1-16.

"Culture, Gender, and Delinquency: A Study of Youths in India and the United States," Women And Criminal Justice (1993) with Sesharajani Kethineni, pp.,37-69

"Delinquency in Comparative Perspective: India," International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, (Fall, 1992) with Sesharajani Kethineni, pp., 317-328

Correctional Theory and Practice (Chicago, Ill.:Nelson Hall, 1992) ed. with Edward E. Rhine

Crime and Development: Some Observations on Women and Children in India," International Annals of Criminology, 24:1 (Annee, 1986), pp., 39-57