Multiple Department of Criminology faculty, students, and alumni attended the 2023 American Society of Criminology (ASC) Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. They participated in various events, sharing their expertise and research findings over the four-day period.
Professor Kathleen Heide, PhD, shared her expertise on juvenile homicide, specifically covering juvenile homicide in the U.S. and the persistence in offending and late desistance among offenders.
Associate Professor Richard Moule, PhD, participated in a lightning talk regarding police accountability. Moule also presented his research, " Bad Police or Bad Policing? Examining Person-Centered and Act-Based Moral Evaluations of Police and Prederences for Defunding vs. Reforming Police" and joined Assistant Professor Mateus Santos, PhD, to share "Assessing the Dynamics of Institutional Anomie Theory." Santos also presented "How Population Aging Will Impact Future Homicide Trends" at the conference.
Two faculty members also served as discussants in round tables. Assistant Professor Roberta O'Malley, PhD, joined the roundtable on the role of online communciations platforms in facilitating intentional and unintentional sexual violence, and Assistant Professor of Instruction Thomas Hyslip, PhD, contributed to the discussion on artificial intelligence in academia. O'Malley also gave two presentations at the meeting: "Sextortion in Context" and "Latent Class Analysis of Cybercrime Offenders: Does Low Self-Control Predict Class Membership?"
At the event, faculty, students, and alumni were also honored for their outstanding achievements and continued success in the field of criminology. Professor Michael J. Lynch, PhD and USF criminology PhD alum Averi Fegadel received the Outstanding Article of the Year Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division on White Collar and Corporate Crime for 2022. Their award-winning article, "Green Criminology and State-Corporate Crime: The Ecocide-Genocide Nexus with Examples from Nigeria," was published in the Journal of Genocide Research.
Alumna Averi Fegadel accepts the award at the conference.
PhD student Vanessa Centelles, MA, was recognized during the ASC Ruth D. Peterson Fellowship for Racial and Ethnic Diversity Awards. Centelles was selected as a 2023 American Society of Criminology Ruth Peterson Fellow and is working on her dissertation on gender-based victimization of Hispanic/Latina women. She presented "Sociocultural Factors and Understanding Experiences of Violence Among Hispanic Women" on the last day of the conference.
Other students also shared the findings of their own research projects. Taylor Fisher presented "Investigating the Cross-Contextual Online and Offline Victim-Offender Overlap among U.S. Adults," Martha McCullough presented "The Perceptions of Innocence and Guilt: Understanding Relationships Between Exonerees and Their Loved Ones," and Kelly Kortright presented "Examining the Effects of Maturation Domains on Offending." Lexi Gill and Silas Patterson presented together on community social vulnerability and firearm violence.
Students also gave presentations alongside their major professors. Jacqueline Burckley and Professor Ráchael Powers, PhD, presented their research "Suicide in the Military: A Scoping Review." Morgan Stalcup and Associate Professor Chae Jaynes, PhD, presented "If It Pleases the Court: Gender Perceptions and Prosecutor."
Associate Professor Lyndsay Boggess, PhD, presented with two USF criminology students at the conference. She presented "Prosecutorial Philosophy and Racial Disparities in Arrest Rates" with Carl Reeds and "Communiities and Place: Setting an Agenda for Neighborhoods, Race, and Crime Research in the 21st Century" with Lexi Gill.
For the full list of participants, click here.