D. Wayne Osgood is a Professor in the Crime, Law and Justice Program of the Department of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. He received his Ph.D in social psychology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1977. From 1977-1987 he held research positions at the Behavioral Research Institute (Boulder, Colorado), the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, and Father Flanagan's Boys Home. In 1987 he joined the sociology faculty of the university of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he remained until coming to Penn State in 1996. His research focuses on delinquency and other deviant behaviors of adolescence, such as alcohol and illicit drug use. Dr. Osgood's other research interests include the transition to adulthood, time use and deviance, criminal careers, routine activities, rural communities, evaluation of juvenile justice programs, and statistical methods.

Related Publications

Osgood, D. Wayne, Gretchen R. Ruth, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Janis E. Jacobs, and Bonnie L. Barber. In press. "Six Paths through the Transition to Adulthood, Their Predictors and Consequences." In On the Frontier of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., Ruben G. Rumbaut, and Richard A Settersten, Jr, Eds. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.