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University of Nebraska Omaha
School of Criminology & Criminal Justice
CrimRxiv Consortium, Founding Member
UNO’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice is a nationally recognized leader in criminological research and education. Their faculty advance science through research on the etiology of criminal behavior and the development of effective, efficient policies and practices in the criminal justice system. Their signature areas of excellence include Victimology, Corrections, Policing and Terrorism, and Biosocial Criminology. Follow them on Twitter at @UNOSCCJ.
Published: Aug 15, 2024
A sample of 1,247 adults from two Ukrainian cities was analyzed to understand how exposure to the Donbas war in 2017 influenced decision-making related to violent behaviors among civilians. The study seeks to: (a) evaluate perceived rewards and costs as mediators between war ...
Published: Aug 07, 2024
For this project, we conducted multi-pronged formative research on insider threats in U.S. law enforcement. Our main objective was to better understand current policies and procedures to screen for and identify insider threats in the hiring process and among active officers.
Published: Mar 25, 2024
Nebraska’s LB 896, signed into law by the governor on April 19, 2022, called for the NebraskaDepartment of Correctional Services (NDCS) to evaluate the quality of clinical and non-clinicalprograms funded by the department. In 2023, the Nebraska Center for Justice Research ...
Published: Mar 18, 2024
Juvenile and family law uniquely require interdisciplinary education and experience to balance children's and families' legal rights with their best interests. Clinical legal education provides third-year law students with advanced and applied experience in a specific area of ...
Published: Feb 27, 2024
It is well-established that unstructured unsupervised socializing with peers (UUS) motivates deviance while in that specific context. In this article, we extend this situational view by arguing that repeated UUS may also gradually shape adolescents’ norms and decision making ...
Published: Feb 20, 2024
The University of Nebraska at Omaha School of Criminology and Criminal Justice (UNO SCCJ) invites applications for a tenure-track assistant or early associate professor position to begin August 19, 2024. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. in Criminology, Criminal Justice, or a ...
Published: Feb 13, 2024
Many U.S. cities witnessed both de-policing and increased crime in 2020, yet whether the former contributed to the latter remains unclear. Indeed, much of what is known about the effects of proactive policing on crime comes from studies that evaluated highly focused ...
Published: Feb 05, 2024
We analyzed police shootings in Canada (except Québec) between 2017 and 2019. Drawing upon media reports and information provided by police oversight agencies, we attempted to identify all incidents where on-duty police officers discharged their firearm with the intent to ...
Published: Feb 01, 2024
This report and research brief provide an examination of the causes and contributors of prison crowding in the State of Nebraska. Several recommendations are provided to the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services and the Nebraska State Legislature.
Published: Jan 24, 2024
This analysis reproduces Bor, et al.’s (2018) seminal study of the effect of police killings of unarmed Black Americans on the mental health of Black communities. Using BRFSS data, a national repeated cross-sectional survey, Bor, et al. found these police killings had ...
Published: Jan 24, 2024
Incarcerated individuals tend to come from socially marginalized and medically underserved backgrounds. Therefore, they often enter correction institutions with pre-existing mental and physical health vulnerabilities. Existing research has highlighted the health profiles of ...
Published: Jan 17, 2024
The University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) and its College of Public Affairs and CommunityService (CPACS) seek a visionary, strategic leader to serve as the next dean of the college, startingin July 2024. CPACS is a diverse community of scholars, learners, and staff, and it ...
Published: Jan 03, 2024
While risk instruments are consistently used to aid classification and supervision decisions, needs assessments guide intervention efforts for individuals under supervision. At the core of the Risk-Needs-Responsivity (RNR) model and the General Personality and Cognitive ...
Published: Nov 27, 2023
Introduction: Personal, behavioral, and environmental risk factors are correlated to varying degrees with each other and with the overall likelihood of violent reinjury. When used with fidelity, risk assessment instruments, including the violence reinjury risk assessment ...
Published: Oct 24, 2023
The police response to domestic violence has changed dramatically: from a hands-off approach to one that mandates an arrest be made. Identifying what works in policing domestic violence can be challenging given the often-competing goals of …
Published: Sep 30, 2023
We examined the prevalence of experiencing sexual misconduct—rape, contact sexual violence, sexual harassment—in college and whether students reported to Title IX coordinators or campus counseling services by students’ race/ethnicity. Data from the 2019 Association of ...
Published: Aug 25, 2023
Employment theoretically serves as a source of informal social control that can promote desistance from crime (Sampson & Laub, 1993). Findings from studies assessing the effects of employment, however, have been mixed. In a seminal study, Uggen (2000) reanalyzed data from the ...
Published: Aug 05, 2023
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE postprint | We examine whether police resignations and retirements significantly changed in the two years following public backlash related to the police murder of George Floyd. We employ Bayesian Structural Time Series to compare observed trends ...
Published: Jun 11, 2023
Predominant explanations of the victim-offender overlap tend to focus on shared causes, such as (low) self-control or risky lifestyles. Such explanations bypass the possibility of a causal link between victimization and offending. We draw on evolutionary developmental ...
Published: May 16, 2023
Policing scholars frequently use surveys to understand officer attitudes and behavioral intentions. Yet, it is difficult to gain access to one – let alone multiple – agencies. Thus, officer surveys often reflect views in a single department, making it unclear how ...
Published: May 05, 2023
The COVID-19 crisis highlighted the increasing vulnerability of individuals, households, and communities. It has almost certainly been even more devastating for those who rely on community networks and organizations for aid but are less able to access aid networks in ...
Published: Apr 21, 2023
Ferguson. Baltimore. Louisville. Minneapolis. Deadly police-civilian encounters over the past decade in these and other U.S. cities have launched presidential task forces and sparked protests, riots, and in some cases, retaliatory violence against officers (e.g., Dallas). Yet ...
Published: Apr 18, 2023
This study aims to demonstrate the need for further examination of legal judgments and the exercise of discretion in policing. A factorial vignette survey with traffic stop scenarios based on US Court of Appeals decisions was administered to 396 police officers across six ...
Published: Apr 04, 2023
Previous research shows a link between abuse histories and negative outcomes, including a relationship between abuse victimization and mental illness and/or substance use disorder and between such victimization and criminal behavior. The relationship between abuse and ...
Published: Mar 03, 2023
Many U.S. cities witnessed both de-policing and increased crime in 2020, yet it remains unclear whether the former contributed to the latter. Indeed, much of what is known about the effects of proactive policing on crime comes from studies that evaluate highly focused ...
Published: Feb 27, 2023
Published: Feb 10, 2023
This report is the product of collaborative efforts from the Nebraska Center for Justice Research, the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Industrial and Organizational Psychology and the Criminology and Criminal Justice department at Portland State University. The ...
Published: Jan 31, 2023
Gang membership has a robust relationship with crime and violence, leading scholars to take an interest in examining the sources of gang joining. One understudied line of inquiry has been individual differences, which are rank order and time stable characteristics that vary ...
Published: Jan 25, 2023
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The adoption of body-worn cameras (BWCs) is often promoted in response to contentious police use of force incidents involving minority civilians. BWCs are expected to improve policing outcomes by enhancing accountability, although researchers have yet to determine whether ...
Published: May 20, 2022
A growing body of research has begun to identify the social and ecological predictors of community overdose rates. However, questions remain about these relationships, and it is unclear whether the predictors of community overdose concentrations mirror those of other fatal ...
Published: Jan 05, 2022
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Published: Sep 06, 2021
The current study provides an update to Maiuro and Eberle’s (2008) review of states’ IPV standards and extends the literature by using the principles of effective intervention (PEI) as an organizational framework to examine standards. Journal of Interpersonal Violence postprint.
Published: Aug 24, 2021
Recent legislation in multiple states has called for studies on the scope of missing Native American persons. Here we report on one such study from Nebraska. Race and Justice post print.
Published: Aug 24, 2021
Journal of Criminal Justice Education post print
Published: Jul 09, 2021
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Published: Apr 06, 2021
People consider potential risks and rewards while deciding whether to engage in crime. Such perceptions and their impact on behavior can vary according to individual differences like criminal self-efficacy, or one’s perception of criminal competency. We examine perceptions of ...
Published: Mar 11, 2021
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This experiment addressed whether, when administering a survey to police managers, it is best to measure organizational justice using attitudinal questions tapping into perceived importance or behavioral self-reports.
Published: Jun 29, 2020
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