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University of Missouri—St. Louis
Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice
CrimRxiv Consortium, Founding Member
UMSL’s Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice delivers world-class education at the Bachelor, Master, and Doctoral levels. Their internationally-acclaimed faculty make enduring contributions to the field through critical, timely research on a breadth of subjects within the discipline. They are committed to serving the campus, community and profession through a wide range of programs, events and other activities. Working alongside active experts and veteran scholars, their students are prepared for rewarding careers in academia, research, or other professions that serve the community and impact society at large. Their programs unify knowledge from many fields of study, including sociology, psychology, public policy and law. They explore the causes of crime, responses by law enforcement, prevention methods and the entire criminal justice system at work. Follow them on Twitter @UMSL_CCJ.
Published: Jul 07, 2024
The average length of jail stays is increasing despite national efforts to reduce these populations. The current study examines variations in lengths of stay, differentiating between short and long pretrial stays. Using data from two large jails in metropolitan ...
Published: May 15, 2024
Metaphors pervade media and political constructions of crime and justice, provoking responses and shaping actions. Scholarship in adjacent disciplines illustrates that emotion-metaphors offer unique insight into emotional and interpretive processes, valuably illuminating ...
Published: Jan 17, 2024
Nearly 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons annually. Whether these individuals will successfully reintegrate into their communities has been identified as a critical measure of the effectiveness of the criminal legal system. However, evaluating the ...
Published: Dec 15, 2023
Punishment and society is a subfield of research at the intersection of criminology and law and society (Hannah-Moffat and Lynch 119). Scholars in this area are connected by their desire to interpret punishment as a social process and phenomenon(Garland). In the United States ...
Published: Dec 11, 2023
In this report, the authors devised statistical models to “predict” past yearly changes in Los Angeles’s rates of violent and property crime from the early 1960s through 2021, employing a very small set of predictive variables known to be associated with levels of crime. The ...
Published: Dec 06, 2023
Because states must rebut the presumption of responsibility, all prisoner deaths must be investigated. These investigations frequently illustrate the tip of an iceberg of rights abuses and systemic hazards but have largely escaped analysis in prison-monitoring scholarship. ...
Published: Nov 01, 2023
The Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, which is located at the University ofMissouri-St. Louis campus, invites applications for one Assistant or Associate Professor positionbeginning in August 2024 (or negotiable). Strong candidates conducting research in all ...
Published: Oct 06, 2023
This is a follow-up to a report by the authors that developed a forecasting model for crime rates in the United States (Austin, Clear, and Rosenfeld 2020). The report argued that the twenty-five-year decline in crime should be expected to continue into 2021, absent unforeseen ...
Published: Jul 26, 2023
University of Missouri—St. Louis, Endowed Professor Emeritus
Published: Jun 09, 2023
In The Opioid Epidemic and Homicide, criminologists Joel Wallman, Richard Rosenfeld, and Randolph Roth find a “substantial association” between opioid overdose deaths and homicide, with variations by race and geography.
Published: Apr 04, 2023
This project assessed vaccine hesitancy among staff and incarcerated adults in one rural medium-security prison in the Midwestern United States and identified differences in hesitancy across sociodemographic and work-related variables.
Published: Feb 12, 2023
Exponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative interviews with individuals in the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, region, the current study ...
Published: Sep 01, 2022
Drawing on focus group and interview data, this paper examines how race and social class intersect with gender to inform Canadian women’s responses to police-produced gendered crime-prevention messaging. I position women’s enactments of institutionally endorsed...
Published: Sep 01, 2022
Few studies have examined the consequences of neighborhoods for job prospects for people on parole. Specifically, networks between neighborhoods in where people commute to work and their spatial distributions may provide insight into patterns of joblessness because ...
Published: Aug 25, 2022
While infectious diseases (ID) are a well-documented public health issue in carceral settings, research on ID screening and treatment in jails is lacking. A survey was sent to 1,126 jails in the United States to identify the prevalence of health screenings at intake and ...
Published: Jun 17, 2022
Increasing calls for ‘nothing about us without us’ envision marginalized people as valuable and necessary contributors to policies and practices affecting them. In this paper, we examine what this type of inclusion feels like for criminalized people who share their lived experien
Published: May 09, 2022
Objectives: Individual- and school-level factors associated with youth being stopped, searched, or arrested in school are identified. Correlates of community-based contact are also examined. Methods: Longitudinal student surveys and corresponding school-level data come from ...
Published: Mar 03, 2022
This report was produced by the University of Missouri-St. Louis for the Bureau of Justice Statistics underan Interagency Personnel Agreement. This report describes methods used to create “generic area”typologies based on geographic, social, economic, or demographic ...
Published: Feb 22, 2022
With the implementation of the Family Law Act in 2013, the family legal system in British Columbia saw a series of progressive reforms. These include the recognition of emotional, psychological, and financial control as family violence, a new protection order process to ...
Published: Jan 01, 2022
Monetary sanctions are an integral and increasingly debated feature of the American criminal legal system. Emerging research, including that featured in this volume, offers important insight into the law governing monetary sanctions, how they are levied, and how their ...
Published: Feb 12, 2021
Youth involvement in crime has declined substantially over the past few decades, yet the reasons for this trend remain unclear. We advance the literature by examining the role of several potentially important shifts in individual attitudes and behaviors that may help to ...
Published: Dec 31, 2020
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Published: Dec 15, 2015
University of Missouri—St. Louis, Curators' Distinguished Professor Emerita
Published: Nov 22, 2014
University of Missouri—St. Louis, Curators' Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Published: Nov 01, 2011
University of Missouri—St. Louis, Distinguished Curators' Professor Emeritus
