Crimeversation

Dr. Lyndsay Boggess is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on communities and crime, specifically how neighborhood change affects crime over time, and how changes in crime reciprocally affect neighborhood structure. She has conducted research on the housing market, gentrification and economic investment, and disorder and crime. Dr. Boggess’ recent work focuses on the effects of neighborhood structure on violent crime across different sub-groups such as race/ethnicity and sex, and examining offense patterns across geographic locations.

Dr. Tom Stucky is the Associate Dean at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Dr. Stucky discusses his research on the foreclosure-crime relationship and other studies related to communities and crime.  Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Stucky served as an Undercover Enforcement Agent in the Ohio Department of Liquor Control.

Dr. Eric Connolly is an assistant professor at the Sam Houston State University. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University. Dr. Connolly specializes in biosocial criminology. He is particularly interested in examining how genetic and environmental factors influence antisocial behavior at different stages of the life course. 

He currently serves as president of the Biosocial Criminology Association, an organization of researchers and practitioners devoted to understanding how biology and environment contribute to antisocial behavior. 

Dr. Andrea Glenn is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Alabama. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include psychopathy, callous/unemotional traits in youth, biologically- based prevention and intervention, hormones, and neuroethics. 

In this episode, we discuss the following articles with her. 

• Using biological factors to individualize interventions for youth with conduct problems: Current state and ethical issues. 
• Toward tailored interventions: Sympathetic and parasympathetic functioning predicts responses to an intervention for conduct problems delivered in two formats.
• Oxytocin receptor gene variant interacts with intervention delivery format in predicting intervention outcomes for youth with conduct problems.

Dr. J.C. Barnes is an Associate Professor at the University of Cincinnati in the School of Criminal Justice. He has two primary areas of research interest. First, his research seeks to identify how genetic and environmental factors combine to impact criminological phenomena. Second, he studies the offender decision-making process in order to gain insight into the way in which offenders choose their targets. Be sure to check out his book with co-author Kevin Beaver, Quantitative and behavioral genetics for social scientists, releasing in 2020! 

Dr. Noah Painter-Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from Pennsylvania State University. His research interests focus on race and ethnic differences in crime and punishment, and demography and crime. 

Michael J. Leiber, Ph.D., is a Professor in Criminology at the University of South Florida. He earned his doctorate in criminal justice from the State University of New York at Albany. His main research interests and publications lie in juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, and race/ethnicity. Over the last twenty years, he has also worked with the Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) as a consultant dealing with the overrepresentation of minority youth in the juvenile justice system.  

Recently, he has received the following recognitions:  Distinguished Research Alumni Award – University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice,  The Lifetime Achievement Award. Division on People of Color and Crime, American Society of Criminology for sustained  contributions to scholarship on race, crime and justice, and the W.E.B. Du Bois award for significant contributions to the field of racial and ethnic issues in criminology from the Western Society of Criminology.  He is acting as an Equal Protection Monitor of Memphis/Shelby County Juvenile Court in cooperation with the Department of Justice (DOJ).  Last, he is the editor of the Journal of Crime & Justice, a journal of the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association.

Dr. Jennifer Peck is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Central Florida. She received a dual BA in Criminal Justice and Sociology from the University at Albany (SUNY), and MA and PhD in Criminology from the University of South Florida. Her research interests focus on racial/ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, treatment of disadvantaged groups throughout juvenile court processing, and special populations in courts and corrections. Jen’s recent publications appear in Justice Quarterly, Law and Human Behavior, Crime & Delinquency, and Race and Justice: An International Journal. She is also a Co-Investigator on a NIJ funded study examining perceptions of school climate and safety in Brevard County, Florida.

Dr. Barry C. Feld is a one of the nation’s leading scholars of juvenile justice. He currently teaches criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts at the University of Minnesota Law School. 

The Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice(New York University Press, 2017). 

Kids, Cops, and Confessions: Inside the Interrogation Room (New York University Press, 2013) (recipient of the 2015 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences).

Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court (Oxford University Press, 1999) (recipient of the 2001 Outstanding Book Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2002 Michael J. Hindelang Outstanding Book Award from the American Society of Criminology).

Dr. Patrick Lowery, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice in the Wilder School at VCU, Virginia Commonwealth University. His research focuses primarily on socio-legal studies and the intersection of race and poverty in the juvenile justice system. Lowery earned a Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of South Carolina in 2016. Today we discuss socio-legal studies, racial and symbolic threat theory and some great job market advice!