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Research & Community Engagement

Discover how our research is growing understanding of important issues.  

*graduate student; **undergraduate student

Publications

Kim Cook

  • Published Review of The theoretical Foundations of criminology: Place, time and contextin Theoretical Criminology.
  • Vick, K.*, Cook, K. J., & Rogers, M.* (2020): Lethal leverage: false confessions, false pleas, and wrongful homicide convictions in death-eligible cases, Contemporary Justice Review, DOI: 10.1080/10282580.2020.1755845
  • Cook, K. J., and S. D. Westervelt. 2018. Power and Accountability: Life after Death Row in the United States. in Routledge Handbook of Critical Criminology, 2nd Edition. Walter DeKeseredy and Molly Dragiewicz (eds.): 269-279.
  • Westervelt, S. D., and K. J. Cook. 2018. Continuing Trauma and Aftermath for Exonerated Death Row Survivors. in: Living on Death Row, American Psychological Association, James Acker, Hans Toch, and Vincent Bonventre (Eds): 301-329.

Jake Day

Kristen DeVall

DeVall, K. E., Gregory, P. D., & Hartmann, D. J. (February 2025). The Problems (and possible solutions) of assessing risk, race and recidivism in long operating drug treatment courts. Evaluation and Program Planning, 108, 102510. 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2024.102510

Gibbons, C., Van Develde, K., Rogers, S., Williams, C., Geiger, S., DeVall, K. E., & Lanier, C. L. (2024). In Center for Justice Innovation (Ed.), The use of language in treatment courts: Word choice matters.

Baker, L., DeVall, K. E., Crowell, J.*, & Lanier, C. L. (August 2024). Prescription drug monitoring programs in the United States: A review of system characteristics and their impact on opioid-related harms. Drug Court Review, 3-27. https://doi.org/10.57179/drugcourtreview.v3i.43

DeVall, K. E., Lanier, C. L., & Baker, L. J. (2023). Painting the current picture: A national report on treatment courts in the United States: Full report. National Drug Court Resource Center.

Van Wormer, J., Lutze, F., DeVall, K. E., & Lanier, C. L. (2023). Peer recovery support specialists in adult drug treatment courts: A national survey. Federal Probation, 87(2), 33-46.

  • Gregory, P.D., DeVall, K.E., & Hartmann, D.J. (2019). Challenges to Uncovering Race Effects in Drug Court Evaluation Research. Sociological Imagination.
  • Lilley, D., DeVall, K., & Tucker-Gail, K. (2019). Drug Courts and Arrest for Substance Possession: Was the African American Community Differentially Impacted. Crime & Delinquency, 65(3):352-374. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0011128718789856
  • DeVall, K.E., Gregory, P.D. & Hartmann, D.J. (2017). Extending Recidivism Monitoring for Drug Courts: Methods Issues and Policy Implications. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 61(1): 80-99.https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0306624X15590205

Shane Elliott

Harvey, Daina, ed. Beer Places. "From Consumer to Producer: Pathways to Working in Craft Beer" by CS Elliott

Elliott, C. S. (2024). Beer Talk: When Consumer Culture Makes Work Meaningful. Journal of Service Science and Management, 17(06), 479-505. 10.4236/jssm.2024.176027 Elliott 2024 Beer Talk-1.pdf

Elliott, C. S. (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023). The Rationality of Rational Institutions. In H. Polat, A. A. Khan, & M. D. Kaya (Ed.), Studies on Education, Science, and Technology 2023 (pp. 141-169). Monument, Colorado: ISTES Organization. Elliott_2024_Rationality of Rational Institutions-1-2.pdf

Elliott, C. S., Dudley, K., Seaman, A. N., & Schroeder, L. H. (September 2023). In the Aftermath: Craft Beer, Neolocalism, and Community Resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 97, 11. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.104024 In the Aftermath-1.pdf

Elliott, C. S. Beyond Cultural Accounts: The Durable Connections between Humans and Beer. Open Journal of Social Sciences, 10(13), 117-144. 10.4236/jss.2022.1013011. Elliott_Beyond Cultural Accounts-1-2.pdf

Sarah Gaby

  • Gaby, Sarah, (2021). Measuring Legacies of Collective Racial Violence. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2021;694(1):122-139. doi:10.1177/00027162211023091
  • Gaby, Sarah, Ward G, Cunningham D, Lee H, Gaby S. (Dis)Continuities in Racialized Legal Violence. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 2021;694(1):22-31. doi:10.1177/00027162211023354
  • Gaby, Sarah, (2021).  "Exculpating Injustice: Coroner Constructions of White Innocence in the Postbellum South"  https://doi.org/10.1177/2378023120983647
  • Gaby, Sarah. (2020). "Reconfiguring Organizational Commitments: Boundary Crossing in Civic Groups." VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11266-020-00272-z

Gaby, S. N., & Magnus, A. (2023). Teen Courts as Alternative Justice? Teens' Carceral Habitus and the Reproduction of Social Inequality. Critical Criminology, 32, 41-59.

Harris, A., Gaby, S., Faxon Hemingway, K., Rotchford, A. M., & Wellman, E. (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2023). Teaching Local: Interdisciplinary Archival Methods for Community-Based Learning in Wilmington, NC. North Carolina Literary Review, Fall 2023.

Gaby, S. N., & Sbai, F. S. (in press). Legacies of Racial Violence and Collective Mobilization. Roman & Littlefield.

Khan, Q.*, Gaby, S. N., & Harris, A. N. (in press). Archives and Activism: The Case of Wilmington, NC. Record, Document, Archive: Constructing the South Out of Region. Baton Rouge, LA: LSU Press.

Gaby, S. N., & Cook, K. (in press). Reconciling with 1898: Disrupting the Impact of Legacies of Racial Violence. The 1898 Wilmington Massacre: Critical Explorations on Insurrection, Black Resilience, and Black Futures. LSU Press.

Ethan Higgins

  • Ethan M. Higgins, Justin Smith, Kristin Swartz, (2022) "We keep the nightmares in their cages": Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor* https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12306
  • Benjamin W. Fisher, Joseph McKenna, Ethan M. Higgins, (2022) "The Alignment Between Community Policing and the Work of School Resource Officers," in Police Quarterly. https://doi.org/10.1177/10986111211053843
  • Higgins, Ethan M., Coffey, Brandon S., Fisher, Ivan Benitez, Swartz, Kristin, (2021) School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States. British Journal of Criminologyhttps://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azab075
  • Gerlinger, J., Viano, S., Gardella, J. H., Fisher, B. W., Curran, F. C., & Higgins, E. M. (2021). "Exclusionary School Discipline and Delinquent Outcomes: A Meta-analysis." Journal of Youth and Adolescence50, 1493-1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01459-3
  • Ethan M. Higgins, Kristin Swartz & Amanda Roberts (2021) How conflict 'bleeds over' for correctional staff: exploring work-family conflict through correctional subculture, Journal of Crime and Justice, DOI: 1080/0735648X.2020.1870526
  • Fisher, B.W., Higgins, E. M., Curran, C. F., Kupchik, A., Overstreet, S., Plumlee, B., & Coffey, B. (2020). Protecting the Flock or Policing the Sheep? Differences in School Resource Officers' Perceptions of Threats by School Racial Composition. Social Problemshttps://doi.org/10.1093/socpro/spaa062
  • Navarro, John C., Higgins, Ethan M., Swartz, Kristin (2020). Revisiting Sex Offender Registration and Notification: Does Awareness Differ Across Community Type? https://doi.org/10.1177/0734016820971033
  • Higgins, Ethan M., & Swartz, Kristin. (2020). Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying. Corrections: Policy, Practice and Research, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23774657.2020.1793429
  • Fisher, B. W., Dawson-Edwards, C., Higgins, E. M., & Swartz, K. (2020). Examining the link between racial disparities in school climate and school discipline. Journal of Community Psychology. DOI: 10.1002/jcop.22342.
  • Higgins, E. M., Fisher, B. W., & Nation, M. (2020). Seeing and responding: How school authority figures fail to respond to bullying. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 8(2), 159-178. https://doi.org/10.21428/88de04a1.fce361d6
  • Higgins, E. M., Overstreet, S., Coffey, B., & Fisher, B. (2019). "Bridging the Gap": School Resource Officers as Bridge Builders in the Community Policing Era. Journal of Crime and Justice. DOI: 10.1080/0735648X.2019.1704837

Higgins, E. M. (September 2024). Review of: Ben Crewe, Andrew Goldsmith, and Mark Halsey’s Pain and Power in the Modern Prison. Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books. Power and Pain in the Modern Prison_ The Society of Captives Revisited - Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews-1.pd

Christina Lanier

DeVall, K., Lanier, C., & Baker, L.J. (2023). Painting the Current Picture: A National Reporton Treatment Courts in the United States (2019). National Drug Court Resource Center. Wilmington, NC.

DeVall, K., Lanier, C., & Baker, L.J. (2023). Tribal Healing to Wellness Courts: Inaugural Survey of the Field. National Drug Court Resource Center. Wilmington, NC.

DeVall, K., Lanier, C. & Baker, L.J. (2022). Painting the Current Picture: A National Report on Treatment Courts in the United States: Highlights & Insights. National Drug Court Resource Center. Wilmington, NC

Gibbons, C., Van Develde, K., Rogers, S., Williams, C., Geiger, S., DeVall, K. E., & Lanier, C. L. (2024). In Center for Justice Innovation (Ed.), The use of language in treatment courts: Word choice matters.

Baker, L., DeVall, K. E., Crowell, J., & Lanier, C. L. (2024). Prescription drug monitoring programs in the United States: A review of system characteristics and their impact on opioidrelated harms. Drug Court Review, 3-27. https://doi.org/10.57179/drugcourtreview.v3i.43

Van Wormer, J., Lutze, F, Lanier, C., & DeVall, K. (2023). Peer Recovery Support Specialists in Adult Drug Treatment Courts: A National Survey. Federal Probation. 87(2), 33-46

Mike Maume

  • Greife, Matthew B. and Michael O. Maume. 2020. "Stealing Like Artists: Using Court Records to Conduct Quantitative Research on Corporate Environmental Crimes." Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice 36(3): 451-469.https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986220931631 
  • Greife, Matthew B. and Michael O. Maume. 2020. "Do Companies Pay the Price for Environmental Crimes?  Collateral Consequences of Criminal Penalties on Corporate Offenders."  Crime, Law and Social Change73(3):337-356. https://doi.org/10.1177/1043986220931631
  • Maume, Michael O., Christina Lanier, & Kristen DeVall. (2018). "The effect of treatment completion on recidivism among TASC program clients." International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62, 4776-4795. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X18780421
  • Maume, Michael O., Christina L. Lanier, Leslie H. Hossfeld, and Kyle Wehmann*. 2014. "Social Isolation and Weapon Use in Intimate Partner Violence Incidents in Rural Areas." International Journal of Rural Criminology2(2):244-267.

Homer, E. M., & Maume, M. O. (2024). The Deterrent Effect of Federal Corporate Prosecution Agreements: An Exploratory Analysis. Journal of White Collar and Corporate Crime, 5(1), 15-27. 10.1177/2631309x221120003  

Maume, M. O., & Greife, M. J. (2023). Giving the green light: corporate environmental crimes, the treadmill of production, and environmental justice. Crime, Law and Social Change, 79(3), 241-261. 10.1007/s10611-022-10044-z  

Erin Michaels

Michaels, Erin (2025). Test, Measure, Punish How the Threat of Closure Harms Students, Destroys Teachers, and Fails Schools. NYU Press.

Monaghan, D., & Erin Michaels (2024). “Empty Promises: Why and How Community Colleges Exclude Undocumented Students from 'Free College' Promise Programs”. The Sociological Quarterly, 66(2), 411-432. https://doi.org/10.1080/00380253.2024.2433741

 Michaels, E. R. (2022). “The Education Trap: Schools and the Remaking of Inequality.. Contemporary Sociology

Menaka Raguparan

Law, Tuulia, & Raguparan, Menaka. (2020). 'It'sa Puzzle You Have to Do Every Night': Performing Creative Problem Solving at Work in the Indoor Canadian Sex Industry. Work, Employment and Society, 34(3), 424-440.  https://doi.org/10.1177%2F0950017019878325

Raguparan, M. (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025). Diasporic Capital: Canadian Sex Workers of Color Hacking Sexual Racism. Gender & Society, 39(1), 120-146. 10.1177/08912432241305060 raguparan-2024-diasporic-capital-canadian-sex-workers-of-color-hacking-sexual-racism (1)-1.pdf

Raguparan, M. (October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2024). “Looking White”: Sex Workers of Color Hacking White Supremacy. In B. Barton, B. Brents, & A. Jones (Ed.), Sex Work Today: Erotic Labor in the 21st Century (pp. 108-118). New York: New York University Press. 10.18574/nyu/9781479821389.003.0013 561615-1.pdf

Raguparan, M., & Raguparan, A. (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024). Anu’s story: Unpacking the conflation of sex work and sex trafficking. Sexualities. 10.1177/13634607241246685 raguparan-raguparan-2024-anu-s-story-unpacking-the-conflation-of-sex-work-and-sex-trafficking-1.pdf

Raguparan, M. (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023). Resisting State Violence by Making Room for Police Officers’ Benevolence: Canadian Indoor Sex Workers of Colour Share Their Experiences. Feminist Legal Studies, 31(2), 171-189. 10.1007/s10691-022-09498-2 Resisting_State_Violence_by_Ma (1)-1.pdf

Raguparan, M. (July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2023). “Is It Because I'm Not Young and White with Blue Eyes?”. In K. Kempadoo & E. Shih (Ed.), White Supremacy, Racism and the Coloniality of Anti-Trafficking (pp. 170-186). Routledge. 10.4324/9781003162124-14 9780367753504c11_p170-186-2.pdf

Raguparan, M. (2022). ‘Of course people will hire the white person’: Social and economic inclusion of migrant women in Vancouver, Canada. In Borislav Gerasimov and Sharmila Parmanand. (Ed.), GAATW Publications. GAATW International Secretariat.

Tiffany Rogers

Rogers, T. G. (August 2024). Crimes Against Domestic Animals. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall Hunt.

Ann Rotchford

Gibson, N. S., China, A. L., & Rotchford, A. M. (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2025). Queer Voices: Learning from Experiences of Queer-Spectrum and Trans-Spectrum University Students. 7(2), 102-121. 10.36021/jethe.v7i2.403

Matthew Schneider

Schneider, M., & O'Neill, B. F. (March 2025). “Thank you in advance for not changing my retirement home's intrinsic beauty”: NIMBYism, environmental privilege, and offshore wind energy in North Carolina, USA. Coastal Studies and Society, 4(1), 54-83. 10.1177/26349817251315582 Schneider and ONeill. 2025. Thank you in advance-1.pdf

O'Neill, B. F., Schneider, M. J., & Lozano, A. G. (June 2024). Toward a Critical Environmental Justice Approach to Ocean Equity. Environmental Justice, 18(2), 90-99.10.1089/env.2023.0067 o-neill-et-al-2024-toward-a-critical-environmental-justice-approach-to-ocean-equity-1.pdf

Ota, Y., Singh, G. G., Cisneros-Montemayor, A. M., Ritts, E., Schneider, M. J., Spalding, A., Strand, M., Swartz, W., & Valauri-Orton, A. (November 2024). An Ocean Declaration for equitable governance to guide observation. npj Ocean Sustainability, 3. 10.1038/s44183-024-00093-3 s44183-024-00093-3-1.pdf

Schneider, M. J. (2022). "I don’t know what’s racist”: White Invisibility Among Explicitly Color-conscious Volunteers. Qualitative Sociology, 45, 557–589. Schneider. 2022. I dont know whats racist-1.pdf

Jalal, M. (PhD), & Schneider, M. J. (2022). Bottom-Up Violence Work: Exploring the Case of Armed Racial Justice Counter-Protest. In Tyler Ross Flockhart, Abigail Reiter, Matthew R. Hassett (Ed.), The reproduction and maintenance of inequalities in interpersonal relationships (pp. 17). IGI Global. 10.4018/978-1-6684-4128-2.ch011

O'Neill, B. F. (PhD), & Schneider, M. J. (2022). Demystifying the Global ‘Just Transition’—On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains (3rd ed., vol. 15, pp. 311-316). Human Geography. Oneill and schneider. 2022. Demystifying the Global Just Transition On Power Struggles and Electric Mountains-1.pdf

Jean-Anne Sutherland

Sutherland, J. & Feltey, K.M. (2017) Here's looking at her: An intersectional analysis of women, power and feminism in film, Journal of Gender Studies, 26:6,618-631, DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2016.1152956

Sutherland, Jean-Anne. 2023. “LGBTQ Youth as Victims: Gender Expression, Bullying, Homophobia.” In The (Mis)Representation of Queer Lives in True Crimes, eds. Abbie E. Goldberg, Danielle C. Slakoff, and Carrie L. Buist. Routledge.

Waity, Julia, Mitchell Farrell, Jennifer Vanderminden, and Jean-Anne Sutherland. 2023.  “Mentoring Students Through Disruption: The Case for Community Engaged  Research.” Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring (PURM) special  issue on Continuity of Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Face of Uncertainty

Brock Ternes

Ternes, B. D. (2023). Revisiting Dillman: Does the Design and Personalization of Mailed Invitations influence Online Survey Response Rates? Survey Research Methods.

Ternes, B. D., & Lohr, H. (April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2024). Water, Wells, and Women: The Gendered and Infrastructural Geographies of Domestic Water Conservation. Nature and Culture.

Julia Waity

  • Waity, Julia, Article, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition: The COVID-19 Pandemic and College Student Food Access: Perspectives from Students at Four North Carolina Universities, in the Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition.
  • Waity, Julia, Hagedorn, R., Olfert, M., MacNell, L., Houghtaling, B., Hood, L., Savoie Roskos, M., . . . Fontenot, M. (2021). College student sleep quality and mental and physical health are associated with food insecurity in a multi-campus study. Public Health Nutrition, 24(13), 4305-4312. doi:10.1017/S1368980021001191
  • Jill Waity, Mitchell A. Farrell, Von R. Eaton. 2021. "A case study accessing the feasibility of a local food label among producers and consumers," in Sociation.
    https://sociation.ncsociologyassoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/foodlabels_finalproof.pdf
  • Waity, Julia Ferrara, Jennifer Vanderminden, and Kristin Robeson*. 2020. ""The Fact That the Author Was Male Instead of Female Provided for an Objective Opinion": Implicit Bias in the Classroom. International Journal of Innovative Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 1(3): 44-60
  • Waity, Julia, Samantha Moser*, and Cara Stretch. 2020. "How southeastern North Carolina is building more resilient food systems after COVID-19". Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(4), 1-4. https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2020.094.034
  • Waity, Julia, Amelia Huelskamp, and Jaime Russell. 2020. "Collaborating to Assess and Address Food Insecurity on a College Campus: A Case Study at a Mid-sized Regional University" Innovative Higher Education https://doi.org/10.1007/s10755-020-09512-y

Waity, J. F., Hossfeld, L., & Kelly, B. (2024). Food Insecurity Encyclopedia Entry. Elgar Encyclopedia of Environmental Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd.

Waity, J., Sellon, A. M., & William, B.* (January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2024). Using Design Thinking to Solve Real-World Problems: A Pedagogical Approach to Encourage Student Growth. Journal of Effective Teaching in Higher Education, 6(2), 17-34. https://doi.org/10.36021/jethe.v6i2.350

Waity, Julia and Jennifer Vanderminden. 2023. “Incorporating the community into Sociology courses through community-engaged research”. In The Teaching Sociology Playbook edited by Stephanie Medley-Rath and Gregory T. Kordsmeier, Sage.

Vanderminden, Jennifer and Julia Waity. 2021. “Methodological Considerations in Doing Public Sociology in Undergraduate Courses.” Routledge International Handbook on Public Sociology, edited by Leslie Hossfeld, E. Brooke Kelly, and Cassius Hossfeld

Waity, Julia, Emily Crumpler*, Jennifer Vanderminden, and Stephanie Crowe. 2023 “Using Community-Based Research to Teach Information Literacy” in Currents in Teaching & Learning

Waity, Julia F., Mitchell Farrell, Jennifer Vanderminden, Jean-Anne Sutherland. 2023. “Mentoring students through disruption: The case for community-engaged research.” Perspectives on Undergraduate Research & Mentoring (PURM) special issue on Continuity of Mentoring Undergraduate Research in the Face of Uncertainty

Mary Collier Wilks

Wilks, M.-C. (2024). The Logic of Patronage: Relational Work in Cambodian Nongovernmental Organizations. Socio-Economic Review. Doi.org/10.1093/ser/mwae050

Wilks, M.-C. (2023). To Align or Misalign?: Interpreting NGO-State Partnership in Cambodia. Social Problems, 71(4). 10.1093/socpro/spac059

Wilks, M.-C. (2022). Embodying Feminism: Donor Demands & Bridgework in Cambodian NGOs. Gender, Work, & Organization, 29(2), 575-590. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12783

Wilks, M.-C., Richardson, D. (PhD), & Bair, J. (2021). International NGOs in Global Aid Chains: Linking Donors, Local Partners, and the State. Sociology of Development, 7(1), 1-24. 10.1525/sod.2021.7.1.1

Wilks, M.-C. (2021). Interpreting Khmer Women’s Health: National Variation & Local Needs. Contexts, 20(1), 74-75. 10.1177/1536504221997880