Recipients
2020 was an unusual year for the SCJA conference. Most of all, we were forced to move the conference (originally scheduled to be in Biloxi, MS) online to an all-digital platform. We recognized the most exceptional posters and lightning talks presented at the 2020 Research Showcase. Below are the winners in each of the following categories.
Undergraduate Student Poster Award
First Place | The Interactive Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury and Exposure to Violent Offending on Justice-Involved Youth Curtis Smith IV & Patrick Harrison |
Second Place | Review of Criminal Profiling Addison Meeks |
Masters Student Poster Award
First Place | Three criminological theories as predictors of adolescent marijuana abuse Sydney Hahlbeck & Anthony Vito |
Second Place | Police perceptions of overdose outreach program effectiveness Laurie Becker & Sean Varano |
Third Place (tie) | Stigma, substance use disorders, and treatment seeking: An examination of stigma and treatment utilization by drug dependence type Aubrey Johnson & Bryan Miller |
Third Place (tie) | Examining perceptions and use of media among criminal justice students Hannah Sims & Matthew Crow |
Doctoral Student Poster Award
First Place (tie) | College student response to the release of incarcerated populations during COVID-19: A qualitative pilot study Joshua Ruffin & Ayana Conway |
First Place (tie) | Pedophile hunting: A qualitative assessment of public support for judicial changes Leanna Ireland |
Second Place | Hate at the scene of the crime: Interrogating place in anti-religious hate crime analysis Jonathan Lloyd |
Third Place | Intimate partner violence: Barriers to help-seeking experienced by women in the UK Amrana Latif |
Faculty Poster Winner
First Place (tie) | Exploring the spatial distribution of crime by victim characteristics Danielle Fenimore, Wes Jennings, Nicholas Perez & Stephen Bishopp |
First Place (tie) | Do negative emotions matter? Paths from victimization to cyber and traditional bullying from General Strain Theory perspective Yeungjeom Lee, Jihoon Kim, & Hyojong Song |
Second Place (tie) | Immigration, policy and justice Holly Ventura Miller, Melissa Ripepi, Amy Ernstes, & Anthony Peguero |
Second Place (tie) | Situational ethics: Lessons learned from the Community Action Poverty Simulation Chrystina Hoffman, Dana Dillard, & Angela Blackburn |
Third Place | School culture, racial composition, and preventing violence: Evaluating punitive and supportive responses to improving school safety Charles Crawford & Ronald Burns |
Undergraduate Lightning Talk
First Place | Adolescent Attitudes and sexual behavior associated with teen dating violence victimization Kristen Hunt |
Second Place | Virtual trials: An examination of virtual trial efficiency Kaleigh Mulligan, Melissa Dipano & Annabelle Frazier |
Third Place | – Bail and the criminal justice form in MA Melissa Dipano, Isabella Callahan, & Annabelle Fraizer |
Masters Student Lightning Talk
First Place | Police officers’ perceptions regarding application of Miranda’s public safety perception Alexandria Goldstein, Christopher Totten, Gang Lee & Richard Stringer |
Second Place | Race and ethnicity in criminal justice publications Heather Storey & Courtney Crittenden |
Third Place | Prisons and suicide Sadie Creel |
Doctoral Student Lightning Talk
First Place | Incarcerated youths perception of justice Elizabeth Hartsell, Jodi Lane, & Lonn Lanza-Kaduce |
Second Place | Addressing official misconduct: Increasing accountability to reduce wrongful convictions Clayton Drummond & Mia Mills |
Third Place | Understanding community members’ perception of opioid abuse treatment programs for women in Westchester County Erika Pichardo |
Faculty Lightning Talk
First Place | Secondary sanctioning and secondary device effects of arrest-comparing childhood and adolescence Abby Novak |
Second Place | Reading rights and respecting decisions Rhys Hester |
Third Place | Who feels guilty of a sex crime? Insights from a choose-your-own-adventure paradigm Annabelle Frazier & Joseph Gonzales |