Ph.D. Dissertations

  • Title: The Other Side of the Coin? Black Americans' Empathy Towards Police
  • Author: Dr. Hannah McManus

 

  • Title: A Multi-Level Analysis of the Effects of Treatment Integrity & Program Completion on Recidivism in Residential Community Correctional Programs
  • Author: Dr. Jee Yearn Kim

 

  • Title: Hacks or Heroes? Public Perceptions of Correctional Officers
  • Author: Dr. Alex Burton

 

  • Title: The Gift that Keeps Giving: Application of Contingency Management in Community Supervision Settings
  • Author: Dr. Lindsey Mueller

 

  • Title: The Role is the Remedy: Professional Perspectives on the Implementation of a Risk and Needs Assessment
  • Author: Dr. Gina Gibbs

 

  • Title: Perceiving Vulnerability: Evaluating the Impact of Individual Movement within Environmental Context
  • Author: Dr. Rachel Kail

 

  • Title: Judge-Prosecutor Dyad Effects on Racial Disparity
  • Author: Dr. Spencer Hochstetler

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  • Title: The Intersection of Developmental and Life-Course (DLC) Perspectives and Corrections: Viewing the Prison Experience as a Turning Point
  • Author: Dr. Melissa Lugo

Title: A Closer Examination of the Empirical Link Between Parenting & Children's Deviance

Author: Dr. Lydie Loth

Title: Understanding the Nature of Human Trafficking: A Content Analysis Approach

Author: Dr. Theresa Kulig

Title: Too Cruel for School: Exclusionary Discipline and the Incorrigible Student (to be posted 8/6/2020)

Author: Dr. Mark Morgan

Title: Public servants or soldiers? A test of the police-military equivalency hypothesis

Author: Dr. Omeed Ilchi

Title: The role of political self-identity on views of higher education amongst criminal justice graduate students: An exploratory analysis

Author: Dr. Annelise Pietenpol

Title: Describing the sensitivity of spatial crime patterns by robbery operationalization (to be posted on 12/20/20)

Author: Dr. Jeffery E. Clutter

Title: Staff perceptions of an evidence-based supervision model: Implementing effective practices in community supervision (EPICS) (to be posted 12/10/20)

Author: Dr. Lily Gleicher

Title: Police interactions with the community on FB: An examination of the content on the messagepolice communicate with citizens on FB, community response and factors associated with different communication patterns (to be posted 11/13/19)

Author: Dr. Bradley Buckmeier

Title:  Estimating the Effect of Race on Juvenile Court Decision-Making: A Comparison Method             

Author:  Shaun M. Gann, Ph.D.

Title:  Is Corrections "Collar" Blind?: Examining the Predictive Validity of a Risk/Needs Assessment Tool on White-Collar Offenders 
Author:  Erin Harbinson, Ph.D.

Title:  Why Can't We Be Friends?  Exploring Short-term Peer Selection and Peer Influence Dynamics Using Longitudinal Social Network Analysis
Author:  
Samuel Peterson, Ph.D.

Title:  Comparing Measures of the Concentration of Crime at Places and Times 
Author:  
YongJei Lee, Ph.D.

Title:  Cumulative Disadvantage Across the Life Course: Results from a Nationally Representative Sample 
Author:  
Michael TenEyck, Ph.D.

Title:  Redemption in an Era of Penal Harm: Moving Beyond Offender Exclusion
Author:  Angela Thielo, Ph.D.

Title:  Right on Crime:  Conservative Reform in the Era of Mass Imprisonment (to be released 4/2019))
Author:  Derek Cohen, Ph.D.

Title:  The Predictive Validity of the Ohio Youth Assessment System--Disposition Instrument: A Revalidation Study
Author:  James McCafferty, Ph.D.

Title:  Consistency or Discord: Meta-Analyses of Police Deisions to Search and Use Force
Author:  P. Colin Bolger, Ph.D.

Title:  Street Codes, Routine Activities, Neighborhood Context, and Victimization: An Examination of Alternative Models
Author:  Susan McNeeley, Ph.D.

Title:  Are Female Defendants Treated More Leniently by Judges?  A Multilevel Analysis of Sex-Based Disparities at the Phases of Pretrial Release, Charge Reductions, and Sentencing
Author:  Natalie Goulette, Ph.D.

TitleA Mixed-Methodological Exploration of Potential Confounders in the Study of the Causal Effect of Detention Status on Sentence  Severity in One Federal Court 
Author:  Angela Reitler, Ph.D.

TitleEnvironmental Corrections: Making Offender Supervision Work                           Author:  Lacey Schafer, Ph.D.

Title:  Examining the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory in the Context of Reliability, Validity, Equity, and Utility:  A Six-Year Evaluation
Author:  Anthony Flores, Ph.D.

Title:  Resilience and Vulnerability in Adolescents at Risk for Delinquency: A Behaviorial Genetic Study of Different Response to Risk
Author:  Jamie Newsome, Ph.D.

Title:  Typologies of Female Offenders: A Latent Class Analysis Using the Women's Risk Needs Assessment
Author:  Rachel Brushett, Ph.D.

Title:  Decision Making in Criminal Justice Revisited: Toward a General Theory of Criminal Justice
Author:  Dan Lytle, Ph.D.

Title:  Putting Wayward Kids Behind Bars: The Impact of Custodial Placement on Recidivism
Author:  Brian Lovins, Ph.D.

Title:  Are Needs Related to Pretrial Outcomes?  An Examination of the Hamilton County Inventory of Need Pretrial Screening Tool
Author:  Krista Gehring, Ph.D.

Title:  Unraveling the Sources of Adolescent Substance Use: A Test of Rival Theories
Author:  Rachel McArthur, Ph.D.

Title:  The Effects of Individual Vulnerability and Lifestyle/Routine Activities on Fear of Crime and Perceptions of Risk in the School Setting
Author:  Brooke Gialopsos, Ph.D.

Title:  Fear of Crime Online:  Examining the Effects of Perceived Risk and Online Victimization of Fear of Cyberstalkingy
Author:  Billy Henson, Ph.D.

Title:  College Students with ADHS: Extending the Lifestyles/Routine Activities Framework to Predict Sexual Victimization and Stalking
Author:  Jamie Snyder, Ph.D.

Title:  How Central Business Districts Manage Crime and Disorder: A Case Study in the Mechanisms of Place Management in Downtown Cincinnati
Author:  Khadija Monk, Ph.D.

Title:  Disability Status and Victimization Risk among a National Sample of College Students: A Lifestyles-Routine Activities Approach
Author:  Heidi Scherer, Ph.D.

TitleUnderstanding Organizational and Ecological Impacts on Police Use of Formal Authority: Testing an Ecological Theory of Police Response to Deviance
Author:  Cody Stoddard, Ph.D.

TitleThe Effect of Victimization on Women’s Health: Does the Victim-Offender Relationship Matter?
Author:  Megan Stewart, Ph.D.

Title:  Local Law Enforcement in the Realm of Cyberspace: The Role of Local Law Enforcement Agegncies of Controllling Internet Crime
Author:  James W. Carter, II, Ph.D.

Title:  Perceptions of Neighborhood Problems: Agreement Between Police and Citizens and Impact on Citizen Attitudes
Author:  Melissa Winesburg, Ph.D.

Title:  Does Changing Ownership Change Crime? An Analysis of Apartment Ownership in Cincinnati
Author:  Troy Payne, Ph.D.

Title:  How Much Do Criminologist Know About Crime? Using Environmental Criminology to Assess Our Knowledge of  Crime
Author:  Justin A. Heinonen, Ph.D.

Title:  Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control:  A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses
Author:  Andrew J. Myer, Ph.D.

Title:  Adolescent Deviance Within Families and Neighborhoods
Author:  Rebecca Schnupp, Ph.D.

Title:  Diffusion of Innovation and Fraud in the Subprime Mortgage Market
Author:  Cynthia Koller, Ph.D.

Title:  Crime on Turkish Streetblocks:  An Examination of the Effects of High Schools, on Premise Alcohol Outlets and Coffee
Author:  Haci Duru, Ph.D.

Title:  The Impact of Imprisonment on Reoffending: A Meta-Analysis
Author:  Cheryl Lero Jonson, Ph.D.

Title:  Assessing the Effectiveness of the Cincinnati Police Department’s Automatic License Plate Reader System
Author:  M. Murat Ozer, Ph.D.

Title:  Improving Statistical Modeling of Repeat Victimization: Zero-Inflated Effect and Bayesian Prediction
Author:  Seong Min Park, Ph.D.

Title:  White-Collar Offenders and the Prison Experience:  An Empirical Examination of the “Special Sensitivity” to Imprisonment
Author:  William Stadler, Ph.D.

Title:  Being Pursued Online: Extent and Nature of Cyberstalking Victimization from a Lifestyle/Routine Activities Perspective
Author:  Brad Reyns, Ph.D.

Title:  The Construction and Validation of an Institutional Release Risk & Needs Assessment
Author:  Richard Lemke, Ph.D.

Title:  Structural Disadvantage, Terrorism, & Non-Terrorist Violent Crime in Turkey
Author:  Ozkan Gok, Ph.D.

Title:  Application of Situational Crime Prevention to Female Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in Turkey
Author:  Halil Akbas, Ph.D.

Title:  Application of Situational Crime Prevention to Cross-Border Heroin Trafficking in Turkey
Author:  Mehmet Unal, Ph.D.

Title:  Girls and Boys, Apples and Oranges?  A Theoretically Informed Analysis of Gender-Specific Predictors of Delinquency
Author:  Charlene Taylor-Kindrick, Ph.D.

Title:  Policing Styles in the Suburbs: A Test of Wilson’s Theory of Local Political Culture
Author:  Theresa Ervin-Conover, Ph.D.

Title:  Identifying the Correlates of Job Satisfaction for Job Resource Officers
Author:  Audrey Coaston-Shelton, Ph.D.

Title:  The Impact of Disorder and Fear on the Routine Activities of High School Students
Author:  Ryan Randa, Ph.D.

Title:  The Role of Genes and Abuse in the Etiology of Female Offending
Author:  Jamie Vaske, Ph.D.

Title:  Rethinking Gottfredson and Hirshi’s General Theory of Crime:  A Behavioral Genetic Approach
Author:  Danielle Boisvert, Ph.D.

Title:  Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement
Author:  Matthew D. Makarios, Ph.D.

Title:  Reconceptualizing Police Use of Force: Comparing the Determinants of Force & Coercion Across Alternative Measures
Author:  Charles Klahm, Ph.D.

Title:  Pretrial Release and Social Contexts:  Is There a Link?
Author:  Junhyuk Ryu, Ph.D.

Title:  Getting a Handle on Street Violence: Using Environmental Criminology to Understand and Prevent Repeat Offender Problems
Author:  Marie Skubak Tillyer, Ph.D.

Title:  Social Conditioning of Police Officers: Exploring the Interactive Effects of Driver Demographics on Traffic Stop Outcomes
Author:  Robert Tillyer, Ph.D.

Title:  Maintaining Prison Order: Understanding Causes of Inmate Misconduct Within and Across Ohio Correctional Institutions
Author:  Benjamin Steiner, Ph.D.

Title: Neighborhood Context and Intimate Partner Violence
Author:  Emily Wright, Ph.D.

Title:  Assessing the Predictive Validity of the Level of Service Inventory-Revised: Recidivism Among Iowa Parolees and Probationers
Author:  Brenda Vose, Ph.D.

Title:  An Exploratory Study of Racial Variations in Preferences for Police Work
Author:  Denise Nation, Ph.D.

Title:  Gendered Pathways: An Empirical Investigation of Women Offenders’ Unique Paths to Crime
Author:  Emily Salisbury, Ph.D.

Title:  Procedural Justice During Police-Citizen Encounters
Author:  Mengyan Dai, Ph.D.

Title:  Bar Management and Crime Toward a Theory of Dynamic Theory of Place Management and Crime Hot Spots
Author:  Tamara Madensen, Ph.D.

Title:  The Neglect of Racial Responsivity: An Examination Of Why Race Matters In Correctional Treatment
Author:  Georgia Spiropoulos, Ph.D.

Title:  The Development of Criminal Suspicion by State Troopers During Motor Vehicle Stops
Author:  Richard Johnson, Ph.D.

Title:  Love Me, Hate Me, Beat Me: The Impact of Child Maltreatment on Delinquency
Author:  Shannon Barton Bellessa, Ph.D.

Title:  Community Policing and Federal Civil Liability Under 42 USC 1983
Author:  Thomas Hughes, Ph.D.

Title:  The Meaning of Punishment: What Do Inmates Expect From Prison?
Author:  Martha Henderson Hurley, Ph.D.

Title:  Good Kids in Bad Circumstances: A Longitudinal Analysis of Resilient Youth
Author:  Michael Turner, Ph.D.

Title:  RECLAIM Ohio: An Innovative Policy Initiative in Juvenile Corrections
Author:  Melissa Moon, Ph.D.

Title:  An Evaluation of Paint Creek Youth Center
Author:  Jill Gordon Potts, Ph.D.

Title:  Parental Support in Juvenile Delinquency: A Test of Social Support Theory
Author:  John P. Wright, Ph.D.