This project funded graduate students to assist with the collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data specific to the grant proposal made by the CEA to the Strada Education
Category: Research
Dr. Dewey and Dr. VandeBerg win ORED Funding to Improve Prison Social Climate
This project will use participatory action research to accomplish three short-term objectives, with the long-term goal of using data collected to author a book, several articles, and major grant proposals
Dr. Susan Dewey Partners with Dance Key West
Susan Dewey partnered with the professional dance troupe Dance Key West to assist with writing performances based on her work co-authored with incarcerated women. Five company dancers created five solo
Dr. Lankford Publishes New Study on Fame-seeking Mass Shooters Worldwide
In his recent study, “The globalization of American mass shootings? An assessment of fame-seeking perpetrators and their influence worldwide”, Dr. Adam Lankford examined fame-seeking mass shooters worldwide who attacked from
Dr. VandeBerg Publishes Book on Women in Piracy
Drawing from an interdisciplinary body of research and data, Women of Piracy explores how women have been involved in, and impacted by, maritime piracy operations from the 16th century to present day
Dr. Gilmer and Dr. Dewey publish study on ransom piracy in Somalia.
Interactions between long-term hostages and their hostages takers is under theorized in criminology. Dr. Gilmer and Dr. Dewey explore testimonials by former Somali piracy hostages to better understand how hostages
Dr. Lankford publishes study on 2016 Dallas and Baton Rouge cop killers
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
What makes some states more sinful than others? Law? Culture?
Dr. Brittany Gilmer recently contributed to an article “2022’s Most Sinful States in America“, where Adam McCann ranks and compares sinfulness across the United States. What makes some states
UA Criminal Justice Professor Ranked No. 1 in U.S.
This article was originally published on the UA News site. University of Alabama criminology and criminal justice instructor Douglas Klutz has been named the No. 1 college professor in the United
Media and the Public Opinion of Torture
The article was originally published in the College of Arts and Science Desktop News. According to Dr. Erin Kearns, an assistant professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice