RECENT FACULTY PUBLICATIONS
2025
Iratzoqui, Amaia, Hajilou, Mehdi, James, Wesley, and Bennett, Jonathan. 2025. “The role of research centers on university campuses.” Journal of Policy Practice and Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42972-025-00116-4
Evans, Sara and Stephen Watts. 2025. "Trajectories of Alcohol Use over the Life Course in the Add Health." Journal of Developmental and Life Course Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-025-00269-6
Keith, Shelley, Scheuerman, Heather, & Smith, Ashley LeeAnn. 2025. Going viral: Investigating the short- and long-term traumatic effects of cyberbullying victimization on adolescents in schools. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001879
Washington, Gregory, Wrobel, Sharon, Iratzoqui, Amaia, Peterson, Christy, Barnes, Ebony, & Watson, Jerry. 2025. “Lifelong Initiative for Family Empowerment: Health Navigators Using Barbershop Spaces to Support Black Fathers.” Child Welfare 102(6), 153-173.
Koo, Doyun, Miriam Clark, Stephen Watts, and Abigail Chaffin. 2025. “Assessing intersectionality in parent-child contact, sex, race/ethnicity on prison misconduct.” Justice, Opportunities, and Rehabilitation. https://doi.org/10.1080/2997965X.2025.2480057
Cho, Minhae, Doyun Koo, Rachael Marie Rief, and Dennis Makau. 2025. "Patterns of Early Risk Factors for Juvenile Justice Outcomes in Youth with High-Incidence Disabilities." Crime & Delinquency. 00111287241313335.
Joo, Sung, Doyun Koo, and Stephen Watts. 2025. “Trajectories of Offending Among Asians in America: Examining US-Born/Non-US-Born Differences and the Effects of Social Control.” Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.” https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-025-00264-x
2024
McCuddy, Timothy, Austin Wyatt Sr., and Stephen Watts. 2024. "Adolescent Weapon Carrying Inside and Outside of School: The Impact of Experiences and Perceptions of Violence." American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-024-09763-x
Wright, Lauren, Brenda Savage, and Stephen Watts. 2024. “Sexuality Minority Status, Victimization, Mental Health, and Substance Use.” Substance Use & Misuse. DOI#: 10.1080/10826084.2024.2392522.
2023
Clark, Miriam, Stephen Watts, Timothy McCuddy, and Ellen McLeod. 2023. "Antecedents of Legal Cynicism Unpacked: The Impact of Parental Incarceration, Race, and ACEs on its Development." Journal of Criminal Jusitce, 88, 102116
Harrison, Caitlyn, and Amaia Iratzoqui. 2023. "Violence Against Children by Peers: Revictimization in Adulthood.” In Todd Shackelford (Ed)., Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence. Springer, Cham (Authors contributed equally)
Iratzoqui, Amaia, Angela Madden, and Danielle Fenimore. 2023. “Best Practice Recommendations: Domestic Violence.” Forthcoming in Todd Shackelford (Ed)., Encyclopedia of Domestic Violence.
Iratzoqui, Amaia. (2023, August 20). Guest column: Developing a coordinated community response to domestic violence. Memphis Local, Sports, Business & Food News | Daily Memphian.
McNeeley, Susan and Doyun Koo. "Comparing Risk Factors for Prison Victimization Between Foreign-Born and Native-Born Incarcerated People". Crime and Delinquency.
Scheuerman, Heather L. and Shelley Keith. “Power and the Restorative Process: An Examination of Gendered Interpersonal Dynamics in Restorative Justice Conferencing.” Invited Publication at Redaktion TOA-Magazin.
Scheuerman, Heather L. and Shelley Keith. 2022. “A Family Affair: The Effect of Criminal Justice Processing on Family Relationships.” Pp. 1-18 in the Justice System and the Family: Police, Courts, and Incarceration, Vol. 20. Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, edited by S. R. Maxwell and S. L. Blair. Emerlad Publishing Limited, Bingly
Watts, Stephen and Sara Evans. 2023. “Trajectories of Offending: Comparing US Born and Non-US Born Respondents in the Add Health.” American Journal of Criminal Justice. 48(3), 830-850
2022
Koo, Doyun, Ben Feldmeyer, and Bryan Holmes. 2022. "Citizenship and Sentencing: Assessing Intersectionality in National Origin and Legal Migration Status on Federal Sentencing Outcomes." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 59(2), 203-239.
Keith, Shelley and Heather L. Scheuerman. 2022. “How Does Sanctioning Context affect Moral Emotions and Conformity? An Examination of Criminal Identity Negotiation in Courts and Restorative Justice Conferences.” Deviant Behavior, 43(5), 525-542.
Strohacker, Emily, Stephen Watts, and Lauren Wright. 2022. “Socioeconomic Strain, Bullying Offending, and Negative Emotions: A Re-specification of GST.” Crime & Delinquency. DOI#: 10.1177/00111287221093326.
Wright, Lauren and Stephen Watts. 2022. “Black, White, and Read All Over: Exploring Racial Bias in Print Media Coverage of Serial Rape Cases.” Criminal Justice Review. DOI#: 10.1177/07340168221088573.
Scheuerman, Heather L. and Shelley Keith. 2022. “Experiencing Shame: How Does Gender Affect the Interpersonal Dynamics of Restorative Justice?” Feminist Criminology, 17(1), 116-138.
2021
Cohn, Ellen G., David P. Farrington, and Amaia Iratzoqui. 2021. “Changes in the most-cited scholars in 20 criminology and criminal justice journals between 1990 and 2015 and comparisons with the Asian Journal of Criminology.” Asian Journal of Criminology, 16, 279-292.
Scheuerman, Heather L., Talia Nicole Gilbert, Shelley Keith, and Karen Hegtvedt. 2021. “Discerning Justice: Clarifying the Role of Procedural and Interactional Justice in Restorative Conferencing.” Contemporary Justice Review: Issues in Criminal, Social, and Restorative Justice, 24(1), 4-23.
Strohacker, Emily, Lauren Wright, and Stephen Watts. 2021. “Gender, Bullying Victimization, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidality.” International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 65: 1123-1142.
Watts, Stephen, Sara Evans, Leslie Simons, and Ron Simons. 2021. “The Effect of Sexual Victimization on Attachment in Emerging Adulthood: An Analysis of an African-American Sample.” International Review of Victimology, 27: 111-124.
Watts, Stephen and Lauren Wright. 2021. “Military Combat, Mental Health, and Crime: A Preliminary Test of a General Strain Theory Model.” Criminal Justice Studies, 34: 202-214.