Jason S. Capps earned his BS from Missouri State (1997) before entering the University of Kansas in 1998. In 2001 he completed an honor’s Master’s Thesis entitled, Explaining Punitiveness: Authoritarianism, Social Dominance and Ambivalence. In 2005, Jason and Karl R. Kunkel wrote an entry ‘Private Prisons’ for the Encyclopedia of Prisons and Correctional Facilities (Sage Publications). Jason is a long-distance commuter PhD student—living and working in Seattle, WA. Mr. Capps is an adjunct professor of sociology, at Seattle University, and routinely teaches several undergraduate courses including: Sociological Perspectives, Politics and Society, and Sport and Society. Jason’s dissertation focuses on how individuals in society talk about, deal with, and make sense of ‘collateral damage’ incurred in war (specifically the Iraq conflict) and the criminal justice system (specifically DNA exonerations from death row). His areas of emphasis are social psychology, political sociology, crime, law and deviance, and sport sociology. In addition to his scholarly duties Jason is a high school football and basketball official in the Seattle/Puget Sound area.
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