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Professor Yoko Baba
DMH 237A
408-924-5334
Specialities: Criminology and Non-Conforming Behavior
Biography
Yoko Baba is a professor in the Department of Sociology
at San Jose State University. She joined the sociology department in
1990 after teaching at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi for three
year.
Dr. Baba received her Bachelor of Business Administration degree
from Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan in 1975. She received MS in
counseling from Pittsburg State University in Kansas (1979), MSW from
the University of Oklahoma (1981), and MA (1984) and Ph.D.(1987) in
sociology from the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Baba is a criminologist and taught courses in criminology,
youth offender, the prison community, victimology, non-conforming
behavior, seminar in advanced criminology, seminar in deviant
behavior, seminar in contemporary issues in criminology, seminar in
methods of social research, and seminar in research design. Her Current research involves Japanese-Brazilian migration and return migration.
Her research interests include juvenile delinquency, domestic
violence, and neighborhood safety and attachment. While on sabbatical
from SJSU, she conducted interviews with Vietnamese youths who had
been incarcerated in Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall and Sacramento
County Boys' Ranch. She investigated the role of Vietnamese gangs and
the impact of the mobility of these gangs in their community and
society. In addition, Dr. Asquith and she conducted
research on domestic violence in collaboration with Santa Clara
County Adult Probation Department. Their goal is to examine
recidivism rates among probationers over a period of time. She participated in the Domestic Violence Project at the Japanese Justice Ministry's Research and Training Institute in 2002-2003.
She presented a large number of articles at national and
regional professional meetings including the American Society of
Criminology, the American Sociological Association, the Pacific
Sociological Association, the Western Society of Criminology, and the
Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China, in 1995. She
also served as a panelist on numerous occasions on and off
campus.
She participated in the Minority Opportunity through School
Transformation (MOST) program by being a mentor for a sociology
student. She attended a three-day MOST workshop at the University of
Nebraska in 1996 and assisted a student in completing a research
project.
She is a journal reviewer in the following journal articles:
Criminology, Urban Affairs Quarterly, Social Problems, Policy
Studies Journal, Violence Against Women, the American
Journal of Criminal Justice, Violence and Victims and the Justice Professional.
Last Updated: May 08
