Dr. Timothy Dickinson
Assistant Professor
- email: tedickinson@ua.edu
- phone (205) 348-3409
- office location Farrah Hall 412
Education
- Ph.D., Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis 2015
- M.A., Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis 2011
- B.S., Criminology & Criminal Justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis 2006
Research Areas
- Offender decision-making
- Offender identity work
Bio
Selected Publications
DiPietro, Stephanie, and Timothy Dickinson. (2021). “God is real”: Narratives of religiously motivated desistance. Criminology, 59: 645-670.
Dickinson, Timothy, and Scott Jacques. (2020). Drug control policy, normalization, and symbolic boundaries in Amsterdam’s coffeeshops. British Journal of Criminology 61: 22-40.
Topalli, Volkan, Timothy Dickinson, and Scott Jacques. (2020). Learning from criminals: Active offender research for criminology. Annual Review of Criminology 3: 189-215.
Dickinson, Timothy. (2019). Identity, situational elements, and responses to drug debt. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 57: 66-104.
Dickinson, Timothy, and Scott Jacques. (2019). Drug sellers’ neutralizations of guiltless drug sales and avoidance of “drug dealer” identities. International Journal of Drug Policy 73:16-23.
Dickinson, Timothy, and Richard Wright. (2017). The funny side of drug dealing: Risk, humor, and narrative identity. Criminology 55:691-720.
Dickinson, Timothy. (2017). Non-violent threats, promises, and deterrence among drug dealers. International Journal of Drug Policy 42:7-14.
Wright, Richard, Erdal Tekin, Volkan Topalli, Chandler McClellan, Timothy Dickinson, and Richard Rosenfeld. (2017). Less cash, less crime: Evidence from the Electronic Benefit Transfer Program. Journal of Law and Economics 60:361-383.
Dickinson, Timothy, and Richard Wright. (2015). Gossip, decision-making, and deterrence in drug markets. British Journal of Criminology 55:1263-1281.