| Eric Baumer | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Fields: | Criminology |
| Workplaces: | University of Missouri-St. Louis, Florida State University, Penn State University |
| Alma Mater: | Truman State University, University of Missouri-St. Louis, State University of New York at Albany |
| Thesis Title: | Neighborhood disadvantage, neighborhood instability, and adolescent behavior: Premarital childbearing, dropping out of school, and delinquency |
| Thesis Url: | https://search.proquest.com/docview/304487143/ |
| Thesis Year: | 1998 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Steven Messner |
| Known For: | Research on recent crime trends in the United States and reporting crime to the police |
| Awards: | 2003 Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminology |
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Eric Paul Baumer is an American criminologist and Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Penn State University, where he is also head of the Department of Sociology and Criminology.[1] With Wayne Osgood and Rosemary Gartner, he is the co-editor of the Journal of Criminology, the official Journal of the American Society of Criminology (ASC). He was the vice president of the ASC from 2014 to 2015, and became an ASC fellow in 2016.[2]