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I received my PhD in sociology from McMaster University in 2010.
In 2009 I joined Wilfrid Laurier University as an assistant professor in the Contemporary Studies program. In 2011, I joined the Department of Criminology. Prior to coming to Laurier, I taught as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at McMaster University.
My primary academic interests are in social constructionist and symbolic interactionist theory. I'm particularly interested in how claims-makers convince the public to view certain acts as criminal or problematic.
Christensen, Tony. "Look Away: How the Social Constructionist Approach to Social Problems Channels Attention Away from the Marginalized." The American Sociologist. (2019)
Sanders, Carrie. B., Tony Christensen & Crystal Weston. “Constructing Crime in a Database: Big Data and the Mangle of Social Problems Work.” Qualitative Sociology Review. (2015)
Eaton, Judy & Tony Christensen. “Closure and its myths: Victims’ families, the death penalty, and the closure argument.” International Review of Victimology. (2014)
Christensen, Tony. “No path to paradise: Deconstructing the promise of public sociology.” The American Sociologist. (2013)
Adorjan, Michael, Tony Christensen, Benjamin Kelly & Dorothy Pawluch. “Stockholm syndrome as vernacular resource.” The Sociological Quarterly. (2012)
Christensen, Tony. “Presumed guilty: Constructing deviance & deviants through techniques of neutralization.” Deviant Behavior. (2010)
CC290: Theories of Crime I
CC327: Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice
CC327: Statistics in Criminology and Criminal Justice