Recent & Pending Publications

Below are some recent and forthcoming publications by Criminal Justice and Criminology alumni, faculty, and graduate students. You can send your recent and pending publications to criminaljustice@wsu.edu.

  • Bailey, R., Read, G., Yan, J., Lui, H., Makin, D.A., & Willits, D. (2021). “Camera Point-of-View Exacerbates Racial Bias in Viewers of Police Use of Force Videos.” Journal of Communication.
  • Dollar, C. W., Campbell, C. M., & Labrecque, R.M. (Forthcoming). “Does justice reinvestment work? An interrupted time-series analysis of an Oregon initiative’s impact on felony incarceration and recidivism outcomes,” Accepted by Crime & Delinquency.
  • Drake, E. K. & Knoth-Peterson, L. (2022, Forthcoming). “Advancing the evidence-based era: 25-years of lessons learned in Washington State’s juvenile justice system. In. B. C. Welsh, S. N. Zane, & D. P. Mears (Eds.).” The Oxford Handbook of Evidence-based Crime and Justice Policy. Oxford Handbooks.
  • Drapela, L., Cole, A., Fletcher, V., McRee, N. (2022). “Interpersonal communication competence and the responsibility principle among inmates: implications for institutional misconduct.” Journal of Offender Rehabilitation. 61:4, 207-222, DOI: 1080/10509674.2022.2062517
  • Drapela, L. “Incorporating Neurodiversity into Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Exploring the Policy Diffusion Potential of Pennsylvania’s Autism Training Law for Juvenile Court Judges.” Criminal Justice Policy Review.
  • Holladay, B. P., Makin, D. A. (2021). “Baselining Incivility in One-on-One Police Encounters from BWC Archival Footage: Exploratory Study of Race, Gender and Contact Type Effects.” Police Practice and Research, 1-19.
  • Harris, L.M., & Mellinger, H. (2021). “Asylum Attorney Burnout and Secondary Trauma.” Wake Forest Law Review, 56(4), 733-824.
  • Hemmens, C., Dalton, C., Dollar, C., (2022). “Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 2020 Term.” Criminal Justice Review 47(1): 5-16.
  • Hemmens, C., Brown, A., Tjaden, S. (2022). “Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court, 2019 Term.” Criminal Justice Review 47(2): 137-147.
  • Hemmens, C., Dalton, C. M., Dollar, C. (2022). “Recent Legal Developments: Criminal Justice Decisions of the United States Supreme Court,” 2,020 Term. Criminal Justice Review, 47(1), 5-16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/07340168211059518
  • Holladay, B.P., Makin, D.A., (2021). “Baselining Incivility: The Interaction of Gender, Race, and Contact Type in One-On-One Police-Suspect Interactions.” Police Practice and Research.
  • Koslicki, W., Lytle, D., Willits, D., Brooks, R. (2021). “Rhetoric Without Reality or Effective Policing Strategy? An Analysis of Community Policing and Police Fatal Force.” Journal of Criminal Justice.
  • Kowalski, M.A., Klein, M., Woo, Y., Ibarra, C., Aldridge, T., Santos, M., Sanogo, S., Petersen, J., Stohr, M.K., Hemmens, C. (2022). “Jails in the Time of Coronavirus.” Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research. Published online at: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23774657.2020.1834471
  • Klein, M., Kowalski, M.A., Woo, Y., Solis, C., Mendoza, M., Stohr, M.K., Hemmens, C. (2022). “The Novel Coronavirus and Enforcement of the New Separate System in Prisons.” Criminal Justice Policy Review 33(2): 206-230. Published online at: https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/5R5V2WWYKTCTQT6SBZFV/full
  • Lu, R., Willits, D., Stohr, M., Makin, D.A., Lovrich, N., Snyder, J., Stanton, D., Guangzhen, W., & Hemmens, G. (2021). “The Cannabis Effect on Crime: Time-Series Analysis of Crime in Washington State.” Justice Quarterly.
  • Magaña, E. J., Perrone, D., & Malm, A. (2021). “A Process Evaluation of San Francisco’s Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion Program.” Criminal Justice Policy Review. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/08874034211033328
  • Makin, D. A., Willits, D., Brooks, R. (2021). “Systematic Social Event Modeling: A Methodology for Analyzing Body-Worn Camera Footage.” International Journal of Social Research Methodology.
  • Makin, D.A., Meize, M.R., Willits, D.W., Stohr, M., Hemmens, C., Nordman, A., Stanton, D., Lovrich, N.P. (2021). “The Impact of Recreational Marijuana Sales on Calls for Service: An Analysis of Neighboring Cities.” Policing& Society. 10439463.2020.1773461
  • McCann, W., Kowalski, M. A., Hemmens, C., Stohr, M. K. (2021). “An Analysis of Certificates of Rehabilitation in the United States.” Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 6(1), 18-44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2018.1559002
  • Meize, M. R., Stohr, M. K., Willits, D. W., Solensten, B., Hampton, M. M., Makin, D. A., Lovrich, N. P., Hemmens, C., & Stanton Sr, D. L. (2022). “The Intersection of Gender, Race, and Arrest in the Era of Cannabis Legalization.” Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221083892.
  • Meize, M., Willits, D., Stohr, M., Solensten, N., Makin, D. A., Lovrich, N., Stanton, D., Hemmens, C (2022). “Impact of legalization of marijuana on state marijuana-related arrest rates disaggregated by race and gender.” Crime & Delinquency.
  • Mellinger, H. (Forthcoming 2022). “Interpretation at the Asylum Office.” Law & Policy [issue and page numbers TBD].
  • Mellinger, H. (2021). “Quality over Quantity: Legal Representation at the Asylum Office.” Law & Policy, 43(4), 368-389. https://doi.org/10.1111/lapo.12177
  • Neuilly, M. A. (2022) “Sources of bias in death determination: a research note articulating the need to include systemic sources of bias along with cognitive ones as impacting mortality data. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 00, 1-8, Open Access. DOI: 10.1111/1556-4029.15080.
  • Nowacki, J., Makin, D.A., Parks, M., Willits, D. (2022). “Gender, Police-Citizen Contacts, and Situational Outcomes.” Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice.
  • Pedneault, A., & Willits, D. W. (2022). “Asking about the Worst First: An Examination of Contextual Effects in Factorial Vignettes.” Sociological Methodology, 52(1), 103-118.
  • Pimley, N., Park, M., & Makin, D.A. (2022). “Time Saver or Time Sapper? An Examination of Body-Worn Camera Impact on Case Disposition Timelines.” Criminal Justice Review.
  • Raza, A. (2022). “Filling the Gap Between the T-Visa and Asylum Law: A Call to Expand the T-Visa to Cover Extraterritorial Trafficking.” School of Law: Public Interest Law Journal. 31.2. Online: https://www.bu.edu/pilj/files/2022/04/REVISED-6-Raza-for-Submission.pdf
  • Roig-Palmer, K. & Lutze, F. (2021). “Confronting Oppression: Reframing Need and Advancing Responsivity for LGBTQ+ Youth and Young Adults.” Women and Criminal Justice. DOI: 10.1080/08974454.2021.1962482
  • Shadmanfaat, S., Kabiri, Solensten, B., Willits, D., Cochran, J. (2021). “A Longitudinal Study of Fan Aggression: A Test of General Strain Theory.” Deviant Behavior.
  • Simckes, M., Willits, D., McFarland, M., McFarland, C., Rowhani-Rahbar, Hajat, A. (2021). “The Adverse Effects of Policing on Population Health: A Conceptual Model.” Social Science & Medicine.
  • Stanton, D.L., Stohr, M.K., Hemmens C., Lovrich, N.P., Makin, D.A., Meize, M., Willits, D.W. (2023). “Rural Decline and Policing of Cannabis Legislation in Washington.” Policing & Society.
  • Stanton, D.L., Makin, D.A., Stohr, M.K., Lovrich, N.P., Willits, D.W., Hemmens, C., Meize, M., Bowers, O., Snyder, J. (2022). “Law Enforcement Perceptions of the Effects of Cannabis Legalization Effects on Policing: Challenges of Major Policy Change Implementation at the Street Level.” Contemporary Drug Problems 49(1): 20-45.
  • Tjaden, S.L.N., Makin, D.A., (2022). “Negotiated Safety? Replicating Claims Backpage.com Reduced Female Homicide Rates.” Homicide Studies.
  • Willits, D. W., Solensten, B., Meize, M., Stohr, M. K., Makin, D. A., Hemmens, C., Stanton, D. L., & Lovrich, N. P. (2022). “Racial Disparities in the Wake of Cannabis Legalization: Documenting Persistence and Change.” Race and Justice, 21533687221087355.
  • Wu, G., & Willits, D. W. (2022). “The impact of recreational marijuana legalization on simple assault in Oregon.” Journal of interpersonal violence, 08862605221076169.
  • Wu, G., Maskaly, J., Kang, W., Makin, D.A., & Ivkovich, S.K. (2022). “Testing the Theoretical Relationship Between the Role of the Society at Large and the Willingness to Adhere to the Police Code of Silence.” Asian Journal of Criminology.

Books & Other Intellectual Contributions

  • Brody, D. C., Bang, B. (2021). Criminal Law. San Diego, CA: Congella Publishing.
  • Brody, D. C., Bang, B. (2021). Criminal Procedure. San Diego, CA: Congella Academic Publishing.
  • Hemmens, C. (2021). Legal Aspects of Casework and Counseling. Correctional Assessment, Casework and Counseling. American Correctional Association.
  • Hemmens, C., Spohn, C., Brody, D. C. (2021). Criminal Courts: A Contemporary Perspective.
  • Pedneault, A., Tjaden, S. L. N., Magana, E. J. (2021). Evaluation of Washington State Domestic Violence – Moral Reconation Therapy (DV-MRT) Programs Process and Outcomes.
  • Sanders, C. M., Hoard, S. A., Makin, D. A., Willits, D., Gaffney, M. J., Anderson, B. J. Report to the Washington State Patrol.
  • Stohr, M. K., Walsh, A. (2022). Corrections: The Essentials, 4th Edition. Sage.
  • Walsh, A., Hemmens, C., Hudson, M. (2021). Law, Justice and Society: A Socio-legal Introduction. Oxford University Press.