Research

Publications

PARC Study

Fournier, L. F. (2021). Mental Health Problems, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Offending Behavior among Persons Incarcerated in a County Jail [Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida].

Fox, B., Kortright, K., Gill, L., Oramas Mora, D., Moule, R. K., & Verona, E. (2021). Heterogeneity in the continuity and change of early and adult risk factor profiles of incarcerated individuals: A latent transition analysis. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, , 19(1), 68-93.

Fox, B., Verona, E., & Fournier, L. (2019). Psychological assessment of risk in a county jail: Implications for reentry, recidivism, and detention practices in the United States. Journal of Criminal Psychology.

Gun Violence

Gill, L. M., & Fox, A. M. (2022). Using social network analysis to examine gun violence. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 67(6), 2230-2241.

COURTS

Fox, B., Cochran, J. K., & Escue, M. (2024). Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach. Deviant Behavior, 1-22.

Lee, J. G., Jaynes, C. M., & Patterson, S. (2023). Whose fault? Defendant perceptions of their own blameworthiness and guilty plea decisions. Journal of Crime and Justice, 1-23.

Clipper, S. J., Harper, A. J., & Fisher, T. (2022). Risk of revocation: Assessing correlates of failure in a pretrial services program. Justice Evaluation Journal, 5(1), 144-161.

Fox, B., Miley, L. N., Kortright, K. E., & Wetsman, R. J. (2021). Assessing the effect of mental health courts on adult and juvenile recidivism: A meta-analysis. American journal of criminal justice, 46, 644-664.

Miley, L. N., Heiss‐Moses, E., Cochran, J. K., Heide, K. M., Fogel, S. J., Smith, M. D., & Bejerregaard, B. J. (2020). An examination of the effects of mental disorders as mitigating factors on capital sentencing outcomes. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 38(4), 381-405.

Policing

Silver, J. R., & Moule, R. K. (2023). Should We Defund “Bad Police” or Reform “Bad Policing”? Examining Person-Centered and Act-Based Moral Evaluations of Police and Policing Policy Preferences. Crime & Delinquency.

Lawshe, N. (2022). Investigating the influence of institutional perviousness on the adoption of body-worn cameras by United States police agencies. Criminal Justice Studies, 35(1), 1-17.

Lawshe, N. L., Zimmerman, G. M., & Stowell, J. (2022). Examining the spatial distribution and contextual correlates of body-worn camera adoption in the USA. Policing.

Patterson, S., Gill, L., & Fox, B. (2022). Police Use of Technology and Social Media: An Examination of Minority Perceptions. In Ivković, S.K., Maskály, J., Donner, C.M., Mraović, I.C., & Das, D.K. (Eds.), Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges (pp. 141-151). Routledge.

Zimmerman, G. M., Fridel, E. E., Sheppard, K. G., & Lawshe, N. L. (2021). Contextualizing fatal police-resident encounters with a focus on Hispanic or Latin American Places: Does macro-level racial and ethnic composition distinguish resident fatalities by the police and police fatalities by residents? Journal of Criminal Justice, 72, 101749.

Moule, R.K., Fox, B., & Parry, M. (2019). The long shadow of Ferguson: Legitimacy, legal cynicism, and public perceptions of police militarization. Crime & Delinquency.

Carter, J., & Fox, B. (2019). Community policing and intelligence-led policing: An examination of convergent or discriminant validity. Policing: An International Journal.

Fox, B., Miley, L. N., & Moule Jr, R. K. (2018). Resting heart rate and risk of violent encounters during arrest in a sample of law enforcement officers. Journal of Criminal Psychology.

Criminal Investigations

Fox, B., Allen, S., Miley, L., Boness, J., Dodge, C., Khachatryan, N., Lyle, M., McKinley, S., Peake, J. & Rozo, M. (2020). Law enforcement and academics working together on cold case investigations: Lessons learned and paths forward. Journal of Criminal Psychology.

CYBERCRIME

Dodge, C. E., Fisk, N., Burruss, G. W., Moule, R. K., & Jaynes, C. M. (2023). What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory. Criminology & Public Policy–20. 

Juvenile Justice

Fox, B., Miley, L. N., Kortright, K. E., & Wetsman, R. J. (2021). Assessing the effect of mental health courts on adult and juvenile recidivism: A meta-analysis. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 46, 644-664.

Leiber, M. Fox, B., Escue, M., Krupa, J. & Cochran, J. (2020). Race/ethnicity and the effects of prior case outcomes on current dispositions: Continuity and change in the dispositional careers of juvenile offenders. Justice Quarterly.

Walden, A., Joseph, N. & Verona, E. (2019). Reaching under-served youth: A pilot implementation of a skills-based intervention in short-term juvenile detention. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community.

REENTRY

O’Connor, K., Santos, M. R., & Jaynes, C. M. (2023). How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers’ willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record. Journal of Criminal Justice, 89, 102128. 

Santos, M. R., Jaynes, C. M., & Thomas, D. M. (2023). How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired. Criminology.

SUBSTANCE USE

Rigg, K. K., Weiner, M. A., & Kusiak, E. S. (2024). Patterns of polydrug use among Black Americans who misuse opioids. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-13.

Johnson, M. E., Lawrence, S. D., & Wiedbusch, E. K. (2023). Lovesick: Romantic relationships linked to opioid misuse among juveniles. Children and Youth Services Review.

Johnson, M. E., Rigg, K. K., Vroom, E. B., Akbari, Z., & Bristol, S. C. (2023). Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Substance Misuse among Justice-Involved Children. Substance Use & Misuse, 58(1), 54-65.

Vroom, E. B., Johnson, M. E., Akbari, Z., Frederick, Z., & Bristol, S. C. (2023). Examining Gender Differences in the Relationship Between School Bonding and Opioid Misuse Among Justice-Involved Adolescents. Journal of Drug Issues, 53(4), 621-636.

Rigg, K. K., & Strickland, S. (2023). Patterns of opioid misuse initiation among African-Americans. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-8.

Sharp, A., Carlson, M., Vroom, E. B., Rigg, K., Hills, H., Harding, C., ... & Schuman-Olivier, Z. (2023). When a pandemic and epidemic collide: Lessons learned about how system barriers can interrupt implementation of addiction research. Implementation Research and Practice, 4.

Tran, T., & Rigg, K. K. (2023). Substance use among methadone patients in Vietnam: a systematic review. Journal of Substance Use, 1-11.

Rigg, K. K., & Johnson, M. E. (2022). Preventing adolescent opioid misuse: racial/ethnic differences in the protective effects of extracurricular activities. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 83(3), 402-411.

Violence & Aggression

Jaynes, C. M., & Devlin, D. N. (2024). Psychological Perspectives on Juvenile Homicide. In Heide, K. (Eds.) The Routledge International Handbook of Juvenile Homicide (pp. 371-385). Routledge.

Fournier, L. F., Pathak, N., Hoffmann, A. M., & Verona, E. (2023). A comparison of sexual minority and heterosexual college students on gendered sexual scripts and sexual coercion perpetration. Journal of interpersonal violence, 38(7-8), 6167-6194.

Miley, L. N. (2107). A Test of Wikström’s Situational Action Theory Using Self-Report Data on Intimate Partner Violence. USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 

Verona, E. & Bozzay, M.L. (2017). Biobehavioral approaches to aggression implicate perceived threat and insufficient sleep: Clinical relevance and policy implications. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 4, 178-185.

Verona, E., & Patrick, C.J. (2015). Psychobiological aspects of antisocial personality disorder, psychopathy, and violence. Psychiatric Times, 32, 49-52.

NEIGHBORHOODS & CRIME

Boggess, L. N., Gill, L., & Branic, N. (2023). Moving Up or Moving Out? Examining Gentrification and the Spatial Displacement of Crime. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221150190.

Boggess, L. N., Chamberlain, A. W., & Gill, L. (2022). Deconstructing neighborhood effects across aggravated, domestic, and simple assault. Journal of crime and justice, 45(5), 567-587.

Gill, L. M., Boggess, L. N., & Chamberlain, A. W. (2022). Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 1-24.

Gender studies

Walker, E. (2021). Exploring Gender Differences in Serial Murder [Master's thesis, University of West Georgia].

Javdani, S., Sadeh, N., & Verona, E. (2011). Gendered Social Forces: A Review of the Impact of Institutionalized Factors on Women and Girls’ Criminal Justice Trajectories. Psychology, Public Policy, & Law, 17, 161-211.

Verona, E., Bresin, K., & Patrick, C. J. (2013). Revisiting psychopathy in women: Cleckley/Hare conceptions and affective response. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 122, 1088-1093.

Sex Work & TRAFFICKING

de Vries, I., Baglivio, M., & Reid, J. A. (2024). Examining Individual and Contextual Correlates of Victimization for Juvenile Human Trafficking in Florida. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. 

Connella, A., Valentine, C., Stone, S., & Reid, J.A. (2023). Exploring the Role of Prior Sexual Abuse in the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Boys and Young Men. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse.

Reid, J.A. (2023) Development and Evaluation of the Trauma Bonding Scale for Adults in the Context of Sex Trafficking. American Journal of Criminal Justice. 

Hupp Williamson, S., Creel, S., & Walker, E. (2023). # WayfairGate and the Growth of Sex Trafficking Panics Across Social Media. Critical Criminology, 1-17.

Fontaine, E. (2018). The influence of rape myth acceptance on self-reported perceptions of prostitution and human trafficking among college students [Master's thesis, Boise State University].

Edwards, B., & Verona, E. (2016). Gendered contexts: psychopathy and drug use in relation to sex work and exchange. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125, 514-527.

Verona, E., Murphy, B., & Javdani, S. (2016). Gendered pathways: violent childhood maltreatment, sex exchange, and drug use. Psychology of Violence, 6, 124-134.

Psychopathy & Antisocial Personality

Fournier, L. F., & Verona, E. (2022). Psychopathy, Trauma, and PTSD Psychopathy Symptoms: Theory and Evidence. The Complexity of Psychopathy, 201-234.

Fournier, L. F., McDonald, J. B., Clayson, P. E., & Verona, E. (2021). Psychopathic traits, inhibition, and positive and negative emotion: Results from an emotional Go/No‐Go task. Psychophysiology, 58(6), e13815.

Pechorro, P., Brown, M., Scott, M., Verona, E., & DeLisi, M. (2021). Comparing boys and girls in juvenile detention in Portugal: differences in psychopathic traits, criminal behaviors, and one-year recidivism. Psychology, Crime & Law, 1-18.

Fox, B. & DeLisi, M. (2019). Psychopathic killers: A meta-analytic review of the psychopathy-homicide nexus. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 44, 67-79.

Verona, E., Murphy, B., & Bresin, K. (2018). Oxytocin-related single nucleotide polymorphisms, family environment, and psychopathic traits. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research & Treatment, 9, 584-589.

Adverse Experiences & Trauma

Gius, B., Fournier, L., Reljic, T., Pogoda, T., Corrigan, J., Garcia, A., ... & Miles, S. (2021). What Psychological and Sociodemographic Challenges are Linked to Criminal Justice Involvement among Veterans and Service Members with and without TBI? A LIMBIC-CENC Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 102(10), e94.

Kleiman, S. E., Bovin, M. J., Black, S. K., Rodriguez, P., Brown, L. G., Brown, M. E., ... & Marx, B. P. (2020). Psychometric properties of a brief measure of posttraumatic stress disorder–related impairment: The Brief Inventory of Psychosocial Functioning. Psychological services, 17(2), 187.

Bovin, M. J., Black, S. K., Kleiman, S. E., Brown, M. E., Brown, L. G., Street, A. E., ... & Marx, B. P. (2019). The impact of assessment modality and demographic characteristics on endorsement of military sexual trauma. Women's Health Issues, 29, S67-S73.

Miley, L., Fox, B., Muniz, C., Perkins, R., & DeLisi, M. (2019, in press). Does childhood victimization predict specific adolescent offending? An analysis of generality.

Muniz, C. N., Fox, B., Miley, L. N., Delisi, M., Cigarran, G. P., & Birnbaum, A. (2019). The effects of adverse childhood experiences on internalizing versus externalizing outcomes. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 46(4), 568-589.

Dworkin, E., Javdani, S., Verona, E., & Cambell, R. (2014). Child sexual abuse and disordered eating: The mediating role of impulsive and compulsive tendencies. Psychology of Violence, 4, 21-36.