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  1. Criminology & Criminal Justice
  2. Faculty in the Media

In the Media

  • New Article Testing Plausible Mechanisms for the Contagion of Street Gang Violence by Dr. Matthew Valasik Published in Network Science
  • Dr. Dewey, Dr. VandeBerg, CCJ Masters Alum Oroz, and Dr. Lockwood-Roberts Publish Study on Prison Staff Responses to Media Representations of Their Work
  • Graduate Student Tori Stuecklen Inspects the State of the Juvenile Justice System In Relation to Social Control for Class Research

Faculty Spotlight

Dr. Adam Lankford recently published a study on the 2016 Dallas and Baton Rouge cop killers, who committed two of the worst targeted attacks on American police officers in recent history — within eleven days of each other.

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Dr. Kearn’s research highlighted by UA News

  • January 27th, 2020

Dr. Kearn’s Research

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Dr. Lankford quoted in The Montana Standard

  • August 28th, 2019

The Montana Standard cites Dr. Adam Lankford’s research in Don’t Stigmatize the mentally ill as they discuss the lack of mental health care professionals and services in rural states such

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Dr. Lankford’s research fuels discussion in The East Oregonian

  • August 28th, 2019

Renee Struthers article in The East Oregonian, titled “Face it, the root cause of this health crisis is guns”, Dr. Adam Lankford research is mentioned in the article as the

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Dr. Erin Kearns asks When do attacks get covered as terrorism and when are they attributed to mental illness?

  • August 12th, 2019

Dr. Erin Kearns, Ms. Allison E. Betus, and Dr. Anthony F. Lemieux expand on their previous research of “Why Do Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention Than Others” by

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Dr. Erin M. Kearns’s Research Asks Why Some Terrorist Attacks Receive More Media Attention that Others

  • January 25th, 2019

Dr. Erin Kearns, Ms. Allison E. Betus, and Dr. Anthony F. Lemieux investigate disparity in media reportage of terrorist attacks in a recent article appearing the journal Justice Quarterly. The

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Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein and Dr. Stephen J. Clipper Explore Racial Disparities in Home Foreclosure

  • January 25th, 2019

An article titled “Cumulative Disadvantage or Beating the Odds? Racial Disparities in Home Foreclosure by Neighbourhood Composition in the American Deep South” by Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein, Dr. Joseph Weber, Dr.

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Dr. Ariane Prohaska Considers Intersectional Approaches and Methodological Innovations in the Theorizing of Fat Oppression

  • January 25th, 2019

Research by Dr. Ariane Prohaska and Dr. Jeannine A. Gailey appears in the October 2018 issue of the journal Fat Studies. The abstract appears below. The full article is available at

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Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein Considers the “Pathologies of Power” in an Alabama Tuberculosis Outbreak

  • December 19th, 2018

An article titled “Sharecropper’s Tuberculosis: Pathologies of Power in a Fatal Outbreak” by Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein with co-authors Ms. Towanda Pettway and Dr. Joe Weber appears in the Journal Cross-Cultural

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Dr. Brittany Gilmer Explores the Intersections of Narratives, Media, and CJ Reform

  • December 19th, 2018

An article by Dr. Brittany Gilmer and  Caroline Comerford titled “Promoting pirate prisons: exploring the intersections of narratives, media, and criminal justice reform in East Africa” appears in the October

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Instructor Douglas Klutz Authors CJ Career Guide

  • September 6th, 2018

Douglas Klutz, who works as advising and internship director and as an instructor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, has written a comprehensive career guide for those interested

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