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Affiliated Scholars and Researchers

Ronald Weitzer
  • Title
    • Research Associate
  • Division Social Sciences Division
  • Department
    • Sociology Department
  • Phone
    831-459-3516 (message)
  • Email
  • Website
  • Office Location
    • Rachel Carson College Academic Building, Rachel Carson College Academic Building, 235
  • Mail Stop Rachel Carson College Faculty Services
  • Mailing Address
    • 1156 High St
    • Santa Cruz CA 95064
  • Courses Senior Seminar: Sociology of Sex Work

Research Interests

Criminology; sex work; race & policing; human trafficking

Biography, Education and Training

  • Research Associate and Lecturer at UCSC 
  • Professor Emeritus of Sociology, George Washington University 
  • BA, Sociology, UC Santa Cruz
  • Phd, Sociology, UC Berkeley 
  • Expertise in criminology, gender, urban sociology, qualitative research methods
  • Current research: sex work, sex tourism, police-community relations, human trafficking
  • Books include: Transforming Settler States (1990), Policing Under Fire (1995), Race and Policing in America (2006), Legalizing Prostitution (2012), Sex For Sale, edited (2000, 2010, 2023), and Sex Tourism in Thailand (2023)

Honors, Awards and Grants

 

Sex Tourism in Thailand: Inside Asia's Premier Erotic Playground (NYU Press, 2023)

https://nyupress.org/9781479813407/sex-tourism-in-thailand/

OUTSTANDING BOOK AWARD  HONORABLE MENTION

Division of International Criminology

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY, 2024