The Criminology Academy
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A podcast, hosted by Jose Sanchez (CU Boulder Sociology PhD Candidate) and Jennifer Tostlebe (Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Nebraska-Omaha), where we talk about research in the field of criminology with field experts, our own work, and life as grad students. We will be releasing episodes every 2 weeks. Twitter --＞ Jose @jsanchez318 and Jenn @jenntostlebe. For those listening on Apple Podcast, subscribe, rate and review! Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram: @thecrimacademy, visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com
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This week we speak with Del Elliott who is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder and the Founding Director, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence. We hop into our DeLorean and go back to Del's origins as a criminologist. We also talk to Del about his work in crime prevention, touching on the Blueprints database at CU Boulder, and his book on programs aimed at preventing crime. Del also talks to us about his philosophies and views on criminological theory.
Del has been published in journals such as American Sociological Review, Criminology, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
*NOTE* We recorded this episode prior to the ASC elections. Val is now president elect of ASC.
In this episode Jenn and Jose talk to Val Jenness who is a professor of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. We discuss a topic that has gained a lot of attention lately. It is also a sensitive topic. Val talks to us about the experiences of transgender people, specifically, trans women, in carceral settings. We discuss their experiences generally and sexual assault specifically. Val also talks to us about some of her projects in this area, especially the new SB 132 in California.
Welcome to episode 50!! This is a special one, not only for being our 50th but also because we discuss the job market with some amazing guests!
Thad, Sadaf, and Alondra were gracious enough to talks to us about their experiences in the job market. Their insight, words of encouragement, and energy made this a great episode. We walk from the very beginning of deciding where to apply to, getting materials together, and all the way to negotiation and accepting an offer.
You've heard of mass incarceration right? Tough on crime? Well, how did we get there? Do politicians only give lip service? This week we talk to Mike Campbell who is a professor at the University of Denver's Department of Sociology and Criminology. We take a look at legislation that has been passed and whether they uphold ideals of tough on crime during penal reform in New Jersey.
Mike Campbell has been published in journals such as Law & Society Review, American Journal of Sociology, and Theoretical Criminology.
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This week we talk with Cassia Spohn who is a professor at Arizona State University's School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. We asked Cassia about some of the myths and issues that come up whenever we see high profile cases like Deshaun Watson and Johnny Depp/Amber Heard come up regarding sexual assault. Cassia also discusses with us what goes into the police making decisions to arrest and prosecutors deciding to file charges in cases of sexual assault. A truly heartbreaking but informative episode!
Cassia Spohn has been published in journals such as Criminology, Social Problems, and Law & Society Review.
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
Get off you knee! It's not that type of proposal! This week we speak with Brandon Tregle, a recent PhD graduate from the University of Nebraska Omaha, and Shannon Magnuson, a recent PhD graduate from George Mason University, about the dissertation proposal. Brandon and Shannon offer incredible advice on writing and defending proposal. It can be overwhelming, we know, we're both in the thick of it!
Brandon Tregle has published in journals such as Journal of Crime and Justice, Police Quarterly, and Justice Quarterly. You can find him on Twitter @btregle
Shannon Magnuson has published in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Law & Society Review, and Punishment & Society. You can find Shannon on Twitter @smagnuson323
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
Hi! If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we spoke to Rebecca Bucci who is a s a Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at Harvard University. Rebecca talks to us about what pubertal timing is, how it is related to crime, and what may be some of the reasons that kids enter pubertal timing early or late. Rebecca also talks to us about some of her work regarding risk perceptions of arrest and why these perceptions matter.
Rebecca has published in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, Child Development, and Criminology. You can find Rebecca on Twitter @RebeccaBucci21 and on her website www.rebeccaabucci.com.
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
Hi! If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we speak with Robert J. Sampson who is a professor of sociology at Harvard University. We ask Rob to reflect back on his career starting with his early influences and how/why he decided to study crime. We then discuss his contributions to the field, mainly communities and crime and life-course criminology. Finally, we ask Rob to tell us what he's most proud of and where he would like to see the field of criminology go in the future.
Rob has been published in journals such as Criminology, Science, and American Sociological Review. He also authored "Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect".
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
Hi! If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we spoke with Joan Reid who is a professor in the Depart of Criminology at the University of South Florida. We discuss a truly heartbreaking topic: human trafficking, specifically the exploitation of children. Joan tells us generally what human trafficking is and what it looks like, we then discuss a paper she co-authored, and we then talk about the dark web.
Joan is the author of two books, Human Trafficking: Contexts and Connections to Conventional Crime and A Girls’ Pathway to Prostitution: Linking Caregiver Adversity to Child Susceptibility. In addition, she has published in journals such as Justice Quarterly, Sexual Abuse, and Child Maltreatment. You can find Joan on Twitter @JAReid2016
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes, Spotify, and Audible). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we speak with Jennifer Ortiz, a professor of Criminology at Indiana University Southeast, and Grant Tietjen, a professor of Criminology at St. Ambrose University. They're both members of the ASC Division of Convict Criminology. Convict Criminology and the debate surrounding the word "convict" are the center of this episode. Jennifer and Grant tell us about the criticisms and why they chose to call themselves convict criminologists.
You can find Grant @tietjengrant and Jennifer @ortiz_phd on Twitter and at crimcon.org.
Please remember to rate and review us wherever possible (iTunes and Spotify). You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @thecrimacademy. Email us at thecrimacademy@gmail.com or visit our website at thecriminologyacademy.com
Join us for this short-and-sweet episode as we review our exciting Fall 21 slate if episodes and preview our equally as exciting Spring 22 episodes. We will have a fun time discussing what we've recorded and were we plan on going in the future. It's a good time as we wing it this time with no outline! Follow us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @TheCrimAcademy. Also visit our website The Crim Academy Website. Please rate and review on iTunes!!!
If you're new here, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we speak with Jared Joseph who is a doctoral candidate at UC Davis' Department of Sociology. Jared talks to us about topics surrounding corruption, organized crime, and network analysis. Specifically, we talk about corruption and networks in Chicago pre and during prohibition and the lessons we can learn from this.
Jared has published in journals such as Criminology. You can find Jared on Twitter @epsian and at jnjoseph.com
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we spoke with Martin Bouchard who is a professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Simon Fraser University. We ask Martin about the social nature of gangs and gang members. He tells us why he thinks gangs are a very social and not necessarily anti-social phenomenon. Martin then discusses the network analysis method and why it may be useful for the study of crime. We then discuss a paper Martin wrote discussing the ways in which network analysis can aid in the study of organized crime.
Martin has published in journals such as Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Global Crime. You can find him on Twitter @MBouchardCrim.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're new, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This week we speak with Sally Simpson who is a professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. We ask Sally to reflect back on her career as a criminologist starting with why she chose to be a criminologist in the first place. Her experience as ASC president and department chair. Sally also talks to us about her research interests and the work she has done in juvenile justice and her transition to white collar and corporate crime. Finally, Sally tells us what she thinks about the current state of the field and where she thinks it should go.
Sally has been published in journals such as Criminology, Justice Quarterly, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. You can find her on Twitter @SallySueSimpson.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're a first time listener, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! In this episode we talk to Kristin Lloyd, a professor at Georgia Southern University's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Vivian Aranda-Hughes, a doctoral candidate at Florida State's Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and Alex Nur, a doctoral candidate at Penn State's Department of Sociology and Criminology.
We talk to them about building a network at conferences like the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology. We also talk about trying to network during the pandemic and some of the strategies we have used to build our social networks.
You can find them all on Twitter @kristinlloyd3, @mvivianhughes, and @alexvnur0818
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're a first time listener, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! In this episode we talk to Wim Huisman who is is a professor of criminology and the head of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam School of Criminology. Wim talks to us about white-collar crime and corporate crime. Crimes that are committed by people who are typically thought of as having respectable jobs or of respectable status. We also talk about atrocity crimes committed by corporations and their involvement even if not directly. How hard is it to police white-collar? This is a topic Wim talks about in this episode as well.
Wim has been published in journals such as European Journal of Criminology, Food Control, and Crime, Law, and Social Change.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're a first time listener, welcome! If not, welcome back! In this episode we talk to Bredan Lantz who is an Assistant Professor at Florida State's College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Brendan talks to us about what exactly is a hate crime? How do we punish hate crimes? And should we even have punishment enhancements? We also talk about one of his recent articles studying whether hate crimes against Asian people increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, we go international as Brendan talks to us about hate crimes outside of the United States. It was a great and informative discussion.
Brendan has been published in journals such as Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, and Criminal Justice and Behavior. You can find him on Twitter @LantzBrendan.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether or not you have an iPhone or iTunes, please rate and review us there. These are the lifeblood of the podcast. Thanks for listening!
If you're a first time listener, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! In this episode we speak with Marisa Omori, an assistant professor in the Criminology and Criminal Justice Department of the University of Missouri-St. Louis. This episode covers several important areas about America's criminal justice system but specifically the judicial experience. We open up the episode discussing race and ethnicity within the criminal justice system broadly. Then we narrow it down to the judicial aspect of the system. We close it out by discussing one of Marisa's recent papers studying whether race and ethnicity are factors in differential treatment in the court system. Is America's CJS truly color blind? Are the courts and its actors truly neutral? Listen and find out!
Marisa Omori has been published in journals such as Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, and Race and Justice. You can find Marisa on Twitter @MarisaOmori.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website: www.thecriminologyacademy.com. Whether you have an iPhone or not please rate and review us on iTunes. Those reviews are critical to us. Thanks for lsitening!
If you're a first time listener, welcome! If you're not, welcome back! This is the first episode of the Fall 2021 semester and we speak with Jean McGloin who is a Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland. This episode will cover the topic of collective behavior. Specifically, we discuss what collective behavior is and we then tackle 3 papers co-authored by Jean. We talk about opt-in and opt-out thresholds, meaning, how many people would it take in order for someone to engage in criminal activity. Similarly, how many people is too many and a person no longer wants to engage in the behavior? You will have to listen to find out!
Jean McGloin has been published in journals such as Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.
You can find us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram @TheCrimAcademy. Please visit our website: The Criminology Academy. Whether you have an iPhone or not please rate and review on iTunes. Those reviews are beyond important to us.
This week we speak with Chris Sullivan currently at the University of Cincinnati but will be moving to Texas State's Depart of Criminology and Criminal Justice. He talks to us about juvenile justice, disproportionate minority contact, and ways we can improve research in this area in the future. Chris also tells us about his work as a journal editor and provides us with useful tips and advice. His work has been published in Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, and Justice Quarterly. You can find Chris on Twitter @prof_cjsullivan.
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