University of Colorado Denver
School of Public Affairs
P.O. Box 173364 - Campus Box 142
Denver, CO 80217 - 3364
Phone: (303) 315 - 2813
Fax: (303) 315 - 2229
E-mail: Callie.Rennison@ucdenver.edu
Link to Curriculum Vitae
Areas of Interest: Nature, extent, and consequences of violent victimization with an emphasis on research methodology, quantitative analysis, and measurement. Substantively, much of her work examines violence against women, violence by gangs, violence against minority groups such as African Americans and Hispanics, reporting to the police and crime data.
Bio: Callie Marie Rennison earned her Ph.D. in 1997 in political science from the University of Houston, University Park. She received her B.S. in psychology, M.A. in sociology, and M.A. in political science from the same institution. Her articles have appeared in numerous journals including the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, Violence and Victims, and Violence Against Women.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Colorado – Denver, School of Public Affairs, she was on faculty in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri in St. Louis. And before that, Callie served as a Statistician in the Victimization Statistics Unit of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics in Washington, D.C. In addition, from 2004 to 2006 she was a Post-Doctorate Fellow with the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR).
Callie teaches a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses including Research Methods, Murder in America, Crime and the Media, Violence Against Women, Introduction to Criminal Justice, Victimology, and Women and Crime.
Recent Publications:
Bosick, Stacey, Rennison, Callie Marie, Gover, Angela & Dodge, Mary. (in press). Reporting Violence to the Police: Predictors through the Life Course. Journal of Criminal Justice.
Rennison, Callie Marie, Dragiewicz, Molly & DeKeseredy, Walter. (in press). Context matters: Violence against women and reporting to police in rural, suburban and urban areas. American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Jacques, Scott & Rennison, Callie Marie. (in press). Social distance and the severity of popular justice: Reflexive responses to violent victimization. Violence and Victims.
Rennison, Callie Marie & Dodge, Mary. (in press). Police impersonators: An exploration of the pretenses and pretenders. American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Rennison, Callie Marie, DeKeseredy, Walter & Dragiewicz, Molly. (in press). Intimate relationship status variation in sexual and physical assault: Urban, suburban, and rural trends. Feminist Criminology.
Hart, Timothy C. & Rennison, Callie Marie. (in press). Violent victimization of Hispanic students: Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey. Race and Justice.
Rennison, Callie Marie, DeKeseredy, Walter & Dragiewicz, Molly. (in press). Urban, suburban, and rural variations in separation/divorce sexual sssault: Results from the NCVS. Violence Against Women.
Rennison, Callie Marie, Gover, Angela, Bosick, Stacey & Dodge, Mary. (2011). Reporting violent victimization to the police: A focus on race/Hispanic origin of the victim among adolescents. The Open Family Studies Journal.
Carbone-Lopez, Kristin, Rennison, Callie Marie, Macmillan, Ross. (2011). Violence against against women: Transitioning from single to repeat-victimization status. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.
Rennison, Callie Marie, Jacques, Scott & Berg, Mark. (2011) Weapon lethality and social distance: An extension and test of Black's Principle. Justice Quarterly, 28(4).
Gover, Angela, Jennings, Wesley G., Park, MiRang, Tomsich, Elizabeth A., & Rennison Callie Marie. (2011). Comparing the influence of childhood maltreatment and self control on dating violence among college students in the United States and South Korea. Violence and Victims, 26(3).
Rennison, Callie Marie. (2010). An investigation into the structure underlying reporting violence to the police: A focus on Hispanic victims. Journal of Criminal Justice, 38(4).
Melde, Chris & Rennison, Callie Marie. (2010). Intimidation and Street Gangs: Understanding the Response of Victims and Bystanders to Perceived Gang Violence. Justice Quarterly, 27(5).
Rennison, Callie Marie. (2009). A new look at the gender gap in offending. Women & Criminal Justice, 19(3).
Rennison, Callie Marie & Melde, Chris. (2009). Exploring the use of victim surveys to study gang crime: Prospect and possibilities. Criminal Justice Review, 34(4).
Addington, Lynn & Rennison, Callie Marie. (2008). Rape co-occurrence: Do additional crimes affect victim reporting and police clearance of rape? Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24(2).
Melde, Chris & Callie Marie Rennison. (2008). The effect of gang perpetrated crime on the likelihood of victim injury. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 33(2).
Rennison, Callie Marie. (2007). Reporting to the police by Hispanic victims of violence. Violence and Victims, 22(6).
Rennison, Callie Marie & Michael Rand. (2007). Introduction to The National Crime Victimization Survey. In J.P. Lynch & L.A. Addington (Eds.), Understanding crime statistics: Revisiting the divergence of the NCVS and the UCR. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Rennison, Callie Marie & Mike Planty. (2006). Reassessing who contributed most to the decline in violence during the 1990s: A reminder that size DOES matter. Violence and Victims, 21(1).
Rand, Michael & Callie Marie Rennison. (2005). Bigger is not necessarily better: An analysis of violence against women estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey and the National Violence Against Women Survey. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 21(3).
Hart, Timothy C., Callie Marie Rennison, & Chris Gibson. (2005). Revisiting respondent 'fatigue bias' in the National Crime Victimization Survey. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 21(3).
Lauritsen, Janet L. & Rennison, Callie Marie. (2005). The role of race and ethnicity in violence against women. In K. Heimer & C. Kruttschnitt (Eds.)., Gender and crime: Patterns in victimizations and offending (pp. 303-322). New York, NY: New York University Press.
Rennison, Callie Marie & Mike Planty. (2003). Nonlethal intimate partner violence: Examining race, gender, and income patterns. Violence and Victims, 18(4).
Rennison, Callie Marie & Michael Rand. (2003). Non-lethal intimate partner violence against women: A comparison of three age cohorts. Violence Against Women, 9(12).