Faculty Biography - James Inverarity

Professor
Sociology Department
Western Washington University
Bellingham, WA 98225-9081
Arntzen Hall 502
Phone: (360) 650-3006
Fax: 360-650-7295
jimi@cc.wwu.edu

James Inverarity, Professor in the Sociology Department did his undergraduate work at the University of Michigan and received his Ph. D. in 1976 from Stanford. Before coming to Western in 1985 he taught at Reed College, UCLA and the University of Minnesota.

Professor Inverarity's work on the sociology of law began with a doctoral thesis on lynching in the American South. For the past decade he has published studies of how labor markets shape crime control policies. A related study examines how the extent of involvement by minority groups enhances the judgment of a crime's seriousness.

In addition to this research, Professor Inverarity is also revising Law and Society, a textbook coauthored with Barry Feld (University of Minnesota Law School) and Pat Lauderdale (Law Center, Arizona State). (First published in 1983; a Japanese edition appeared in 1994).