Research Interests

• Law
• Deviance
• Public Policy
• Social Conflict
• Organizations
  
• Governance, Judicial Decision Making
• Law Enforcement
• Public Policy, Intergroup Violence & Conflict

Publications

• Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2001 [2004 Paperback edition]. Making Hate a Crime: From Social Movement to Law Enforcement. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
  - Paperback edition with a new foreward published in 2004.
  - Award for Outstanding Scholarship. 2002. Society for the Study of Social Problems, Crime and Delinquency Section.
  - Finalist. 2002. Aaron Wildavsky Book Award for Best Policy Book in 2000-2001, Policy Studies Organization.

Professional Articles

• Grattet, Ryken. Forthcoming. “The Urban Ecology of Bias Crime: A Study of Disorganized and Defended Neighborhoods.” Social Problems
• Grattet, Ryken and Valerie Jenness. Forthcoming. “Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice.” Social Forces.
• Grattet, Ryken and Valerie Jenness. 2005. “The Reconstitution of Law in Local Settings: Agency Discretion, Ambiguity, and a Surplus of Law in the Policing of Hate Crime.” Law & Society Review 39 (4): 893-941.
  - Article Prize, 2007, American Sociological Association, Sociology of Law Section.
• Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2005. “The Law in Between: The Effects of Organizational Perviousness on the Policing of Hate Crime,” Social Problems 52 (3): 337-359.
• Grattet, Ryken. 2005. “The Policy Nexus: Professional Networks and the Formulation and Adoption of Worker’s Compensation Reforms.” Pp. 177-206 in David Meyer, Valerie Jenness, and Helen Ingram (eds.) in Routing the Opposition: Social Movements, Public Policy, and Democracy. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Policy Publications

• Grattet, Ryken, Jesse Jannetta, and Jeff Lin. 2006. Evidence-based Practices in Corrections: A Training Manual for the California Program Assessment Procedure. University of California, Irvine, Center for Evidence-based Corrections and the Office of Research, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
• Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2004. “Hate Crime Policy: Context and Content.” Campus Law Enforcement Journal 34(5): 22-32. (The trade magazine of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators).
• Jenness, Valerie and Ryken Grattet. 2004. “Policing Hate Crime in California,” A CPRC Policy Report. California Policy Research Center.
  - Excerpted as a CPRC Policy Brief, Vol. 16 (6), October 2004.
• Grattet, Ryken. 2004.“Making the Most of General Orders” Police Chief LXX (2, February): 63-66. (The trade magazine of the International Association of Chiefs of Police).