Former Criminal Justice Master’s student, Michael Melendez, and Professors Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein and Dr. Matthew Dolliver have co-authored an article titled “Mothers of Mass Shooters: Exploring Public Blame for the
Category: Research
Daniel Lockwood & Dr. Ariane Prohaska Investigate Police Attitudes Toward Domestic Violence
Dr. Prohaska and Daniel Lockwood, an alumnus of the Department of Criminal Justice, reviewed existing literature about police responses to intimate partner violence and the role officers’ gender plays in
Dr. Ida Johnson’s Research on Parolee Attitudes Appears in American Journal of Criminal Justice
Ida Johnson performed a qualitative analysis of parolee perceptions of their parole experience and their relationship with their parole officer using face to face interviews with sixty female parolees in a
Dr. Lankford Returns from Prolific Sabbatical
Dr. Adam Lankford spent the Fall 2015 semester focusing specifically on research. He returned having published a number of new articles. Among them are “Are There Reasons for Optimism in
Dolliver Examines European Drug Trafficking Through Socio-Cultural Lens
Dr. Diana Dolliver’s article, “Socio-Cultural Impacts on Drug Trafficking Trends in Europe,” applies socio-cultural criminological theory to the well-known global patterns of drug trafficking. Data for her impirical study were
Dr. Diana Dolliver Continues Scholarship on Tor Network with a Third Article
This article, entitled “A Rejoinder to Authors: Data Collection on Tor,” has, along with two previous, appeared in The International Journal of Drug Policy. Dr. Dolliver utilized webcrawling software to collect data
Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein & Dr. Matthew Dolliver Collaborate on Article about Families of Mass Shooters
Dr. Dolliver and Dr. Lichtenstein, both professors in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Alabama, examined blame attribution in popular media concerning the families of Dylan Klebold,
Brad Barber & Dr. Bronwen Lichtenstein’s Research in Attitudes about HIV Breaks New Ground
Dr. Lichtenstein, a faculty member in the University of Alabama’s Department of Criminal Justice, and Brad Barber, a graduate of the department’s Masters program, examined possible links between HIV criminalization and barriers to
Dr. Adam Lankford’s Research on Fame-Seeking Mass Shooters Cited by the Los Angeles Times
Dr. Adam Lankford’s research on fame-seeking mass shooters was recently cited by the Los Angeles Times. Dr. Lankford has been investigating this motive among mass killers for a number of
Student and Instructor Win Best Paper
Ms. Danielle Crimmins and Dr. Kate Siegfried-Spellar won best paper at the International Organization of Social Sciences and Behavioral Research (IOSSBR) conference. Ms. Crimmins was an undergraduate student in the Criminal Justice