Crimeversation

Dr. Lyndsay Boggess is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology, Law & Society from the University of California, Irvine. Her research focuses on communities and crime, specifically how neighborhood change affects crime over time, and how changes in crime reciprocally affect neighborhood structure. She has conducted research on the housing market, gentrification and economic investment, and disorder and crime. Dr. Boggess’ recent work focuses on the effects of neighborhood structure on violent crime across different sub-groups such as race/ethnicity and sex, and examining offense patterns across geographic locations.

Dr. Tom Stucky is the Associate Dean at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis. Dr. Stucky discusses his research on the foreclosure-crime relationship and other studies related to communities and crime.  Prior to his graduate studies, Dr. Stucky served as an Undercover Enforcement Agent in the Ohio Department of Liquor Control.

Dr. Eric Connolly is an assistant professor at the Sam Houston State University. He received his Ph.D. from Florida State University. Dr. Connolly specializes in biosocial criminology. He is particularly interested in examining how genetic and environmental factors influence antisocial behavior at different stages of the life course. He currently serves as president of the Biosocial Criminology Association, an organization of researchers and practitioners devoted to understanding how biology and environment contribute to antisocial behavior.

Dr. Andrea Glenn is an associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Alabama. She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research interests include psychopathy, callous/unemotional traits in youth, biologically- based prevention and intervention, hormones, and neuroethics. In this episode, we discuss the following articles with her. * Using biological factors to individualize interventions for youth with conduct problems: Current state and ethical issues. * Toward tailored interventions: Sympathetic and parasympathetic functioning predicts responses to an intervention for conduct problems delivered in two formats. * Oxytocin receptor gene variant interacts with intervention delivery format in predicting intervention outcomes for youth with conduct problems.

Dr. Joseph A. Schwartz is an Associate Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. His research interests include life-course/developmental criminology, behavior genetics, and biosocial criminology, with a particular emphasis on the combination of biological and environmental influences on the development of criminal behavior. He is a founding member and current executive officer of the Biosocial Criminology Association. His works appear in outlets spanning multiple disciplines including Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminal Justice & Behavior, Journal of Youth & Adolescence, Social Science & Medicine, Journal of Adolescent Health, and Developmental Psychology. His research has also been featured in multiple media outlets including CNN, US News & World Report, NPR, Scientific American, and The Huffington Post. *After the recording of this episode Dr. Schwartz’s mentor and dear friend Steve Tibbetts, who he mentions in this episode, passed away. Dr. Steve Tibbetts was a professor at California State University at San Bernadino for 19 years and was recently hired as the chair of Radford University’s Criminal Justice Department. Dr. Tibbetts was an all-around great person and will be sorely missed.*