Publications and creative works by faculty in the Department of Justice Studies, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, are collected here.

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Submissions from 2025

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Everything Old is Q Again: An Analysis of the Resurgent #PIZZAGATE Myth in Social Media, Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2025)

Transformative Community-Based Education Programs: Reimaging a Sense of Community Through Critically Conscious Programming, Carrie Bergeson, Brad Forenza, and Jason M. Williams (2025)

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Fighting Disinformation Online: The Digital Services Act in the American Context, Daniela Peterka-Benton (2025)

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Sustaining Community Violence Intervention and Prevention (CVI): A State Readiness Assessment for Funding CVI Through Medicaid, Catherine Clare Strange, Katheryne Pugliese, Sheetal Ranjan, and Aakash Shah (2025)

Submissions from 2024

(Re) Framing Abortion: the Lamination of Trafficking in Reproductive Rights Discourse, Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2024)

Submissions from 2023

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Perceptions of Lengthy Sentences for Youth: A survey of Michigan Residents, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Aliya Brimbaum, and Miguel Murillo (2023)

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From the Legal Literature: Examining the Spread of Plea Bargaining, Francesca Laguardia (2023)

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From the Legal Literature: Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Over Abortion, Francesca Laguardia (2023)

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From the Legal Literature: Judicial Resistance To New York’s 2020 Criminal Legal Reforms, Francesca Laguardia (2023)

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From the Legal Literature: Private Prosecutions, Francesca Laguardia (2023)

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From the Legal Literature: Virtual Testimony Post-COVID, Francesca Laguardia (2023)

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Sound of Freedom: A summer blockbuster movie with an edge, Daniela Peterka-Benton (2023)

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Online Radicalization Case Study of a Mass Shooting: the Payton Gendron Manifesto, Daniela Peterka-Benton and Bond Benton (2023)

Submissions from 2022

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Perception of safety in Public Transport in Brazil, Elenice De Souza Oliveira, Braulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva, Pietra Raissa Silva, Ana Marcela Ardila Pinto, and Elisa Dilly Generoso Macedo (2022)

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Cannibalizing the Constitution: On Terrorism, the Second Amendment, and the Threat to Civil Liberties, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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From the Legal Literature: America’s Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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From the Legal Literature: Arrest Records, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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From the Legal Literature: Trafficking and the Shallow State, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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From the Legal Literature: Undemocratic Crimes, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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Pain that only she must bear: on the invisibility of women in judicial abortion rhetoric, Francesca Laguardia (2022)

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From the Legal Literature: Environmental Victimization and Criminal Enforcement: Assessing Evidence from Thirty-Seven Years of EPA Case Summary Reports, Marshall R. Schmidt and Francesca Laguardia (2022)

Submissions from 2021

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From the Legal Literature: Covid and the Criminal Law, Francesca Laguardia (2021)

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From the Legal Literature: Is Progressive Prosecution Possible?, Francesca Laguardia (2021)

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From the Legal Literature: Why States Must Consider Innocence Claims After Guilty Pleas, Francesca Laguardia (2021)

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The Trouble with Numbers: Difficult Decision Making in Identifying Right-Wing Terrorism Cases. An Investigative Look at Open Source Social Scientific and Legal Data, Daniela Peterka-Benton and Francesca Laguardia (2021)

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Military Service and Offending Behaviors of Emerging Adults: A Conceptual Review, Christopher Salvatore and Travis Taniguchi (2021)

U.S. Policing as Racialized Violence and Control: A Qualitative Assessment of Black Narratives from Ferguson, Missouri, Jason M. Williams (2021)

Submissions from 2020

Creating and Undoing Legacies of Resilience: Black Women as Martyrs in the Black Community Under Oppressive Social Control, Leah Iman Aniefuna, M. Amari Aniefuna, and Jason M. Williams (2020)

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Hateproofing Your Message: Response and Prevention Strategies for "Hatejacks", Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2020)

Hating in Plain Sight: The Hatejacking of Brands by Extremist Groups, Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2020)

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Resentencing of Juvenile Lifers: The Philadelphia Experience, Tarika Daftary Kapur and Tina Zottoli (2020)

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Homicide and Drug Trafficking in Impoverished Communities in Brazil, Elenice De Souza Oliveira, Braulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva, Flavio Luiz Sapori, and Gabriela Gomes Cardoso (2020)

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Considering a Domestic Terror Statute and Its Alternatives, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: Automating Police, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: Criminalizing Propaganda: J. Remy Green’s Argument to Digitize Brandenburg, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: Disentangling Prison and Punishment, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: Highlighting the Failure of Criminal Courts to Adequately Test Machine Evidence, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: If the Fetus Is a Person—Is It Relevant? An Argument on the Rights of Pregnant Women, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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From the Legal Literature: The Threat and Promise of Police Use of DNA Databases, Francesca Laguardia (2020)

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Barack Obama: From an End to Terror to Drone Wars and ISIS, Gabriel Rubin (2020)

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Donald Trump, Twitter, and Islamophobia: The End of Dignity in Presidential Rhetoric about Terrorism, Gabriel Rubin (2020)

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George W. Bush, Policy Selling and Agenda-Setting after 9/11, Gabriel Rubin (2020)

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How Can Presidents Properly Calibrate the Terror Threat?, Gabriel Rubin (2020)

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Inflating the Terror Threat Since 2001, Gabriel Rubin (2020)

Reentry Court Judges: The Key to the Court, Christopher Salvatore, Venezia Michalsen, and Caitlin Taylor (2020)

I am Not Your Felon: Decoding the Trauma, Resilience, and Recovering Mothering of Formerly Incarcerated Black Women, Jason M. Williams, Zoe Spencer, and Sean K. Wilson (2020)

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Health Implications of Incarceration and Reentry on Returning Citizens: A Qualitative Examination of Black Men’s Experiences in a Northeastern City, Jason M. Williams, Sean K. Wilson, and Carrie Bergeson (2020)

Submissions from 2019

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The Effects of Criminal Embeddedness on School Violence in Brazil, Braulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva, Silvio Segundo Salej Higgins, and Elenice DeSouza Oliveira (2019)

Bus Robberies in Belo Horizonte, Brazil: Solutions for Safe Travel, Elenice De Souza Oliveira, Mangai Natarajan, and Bráulio da Silva (2019)

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The Coming Out of Memory: The Holocaust, Homosexuality, and Dealing with the Past, Arnaud Kurze (2019)

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Forced African Migration to the U.S. Through the Lens of Memory Studies, Arnaud Kurze and Vjeran Pavlakovic (2019)

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From the Legal Literature: The Legal Divide Between Domestic and International Terrorism-- Do we need a domestic terror statute?, Francesca Laguardia (2019)

Abolitionist Feminism as Prisons Close: Fighting the Racist and Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System, Venezia Michalsen (2019)

Globalizing online learning: Exploring culture, corporate social responsibility, and domestic violence in an international classroom, Daniela Peterka-Benton and Bond Benton (2019)

Race as a Carceral Terrain: Black Lives Matter Meets Reentry, Jason M. Williams (2019)

“It’s Hard Out Here if You’re a Black Felon”: A Critical Examination of Black Male Reentry, Jason M. Williams, Sean K. Wilson, and Carrie Bergeson (2019)

Submissions from 2018

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Exploring Places of Street Drug Dealing in a Downtown Area in Brazil: An Analysis of the Reliability of Google Street View in International Criminological Research, Elenice De Souza Oliveira and Ko-Hsin Hsu (2018)

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Smoke But No Fire: When Innocent People Are Wrongly Convicted Of Crimes That Never Happened, Jessica S. Henry (2018)

Virtual Life Sentences: An Exploratory Study, Jessica S. Henry, Christopher Salvatore, and Bai-Eyse Pugh (2018)

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Breaking the Prison-Jihadism Pipeline: Prison and Religious Extremism in the War on Terror, Gabriel Rubin (2018)

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The Influence of Religion on the Criminal Behavior of Emerging Adults, Christopher Salvatore and Gabriel Rubin (2018)

Sinners and Saints: The Role of Social Standing Evidence in Capital Sentencing, Jennifer A. Tallon and Tarika Daftary Kapur (2018)

Submissions from 2017

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Art and the Politics of Human Rights After 1945, Arnaud Kurze (2017)

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LGBT Rights in the Post-Arab Spring Middle East, Arnaud Kurze (2017)

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Time for Change: Aid, NGOs, and Transitional Justice in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Arnaud Kurze (2017)

Deterring Torture: The Preventive Power of Criminal Law and its Promise for Inhibiting State Abuses, Francesca Laguardia (2017)

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Trigger Warnings: From Panic to Data, Francesca Laguardia and Venezia Michalsen (2017)

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Policing a Negotiated World: A Partial Test of Klinger’s Ecological Theory of Policing, Travis A. Taniguchu and Christopher Salvatore (2017)

African Americans and Punishment for Crime: A Critique of Mainstream and Neoliberal Discourses, Jason M. Williams and Nishaun Tarae Battle (2017)

Submissions from 2016

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#WarCrimes #PostConflictJustice #Balkans: Youth, Performance Activism and the Politics of Memory, Arnaud Kurze (2016)

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The Nonexceptionalism Thesis: How Post-9/11 Criminal Justice Measures Fit in Broader Criminal Justice, Francesca Laguardia (2016)

A Cell of One’s Own? Incarceration and Other Turning Points in Women’s Journeys to Desistance, Venezia Michalsen (2016)

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Plea discounts, time pressures, and false-guilty pleas in youth and adults who pleaded guilty to felonies in New York City., Tina M. Zotolli, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Georgia M. Winters, and Conor Hogan (2016)

Submissions from 2015

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Street Drug Markets Beyond Favelas in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Elenice De Souza Oliveira, Braulio Figueiredo Alves Silva, and Marcos Oliveira Prates (2015)

Reducing Severe Sentences: The Role of Prison Programming in Sentencing Reform, Jessica S. Henry (2015)

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Social Media: The Attorney’s Best “Friend” When Investigating Jurors, Reginia Judge (2015)

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From War to Peace: In Search of Transitional Justice, Arnaud Kurze (2015)

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Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet Wins Nobel Peace Prize, Arnaud Kurze (2015)

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Youth Activism, Art and Transitional Justice: Emerging Spaces of Memory after the Jasmine Revolution, Arnaud Kurze (2015)

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Contested Spaces of Transitional Justice: Legal Empowerment in Global Post-Conflict Contexts Revisited, Arnaud Kurze, Christopher Lamont, and Simon Robins (2015)

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Imagining the Unimaginable: Torture and the Criminal Law, Francesca Laguardia (2015)

A Socio-Demographic Analysis of Responses to Terrorism, Christopher Salvatore and Gabriel Rubin (2015)

Defendant Remorse and Publicity in Capital Trials: Is Seeing Truly Believing?, Jennifer A. Tallon, Tarika Daftary Kapur, and Steven Penrod (2015)

We Don’t Always Mean What We Say: Attitudes Toward Statutory Exclusion of Juvenile Offenders From Juvenile Court Jurisdiction, Tina M. Zotolli, Tarika Daftary Kapur, and Patricia A. Zapf (2015)

Submissions from 2014

Gender-Intrusive Questioning: A Survey of Expert Witnesses, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Maureen O'Connor, and Mindy Mechanic (2014)

Examining Pretrial Publicity in a Shadow Jury Paradigm: Issues of Slant, Quantity, Persistence and Generalizability, Tarika Daftary Kapur, Steven D. Penrod, Maureen O'Connor, and Brian Wallace (2014)

A First Look at the Plea Deal Experiences of Juveniles Tried in Adult Court, Tarika Daftary Kapur and Tina Zottoli (2014)

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Promoting the Study of Wrongful Convictions in Criminal Justice Curricula, Jessica S. Henry (2014)

Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Internship Program: Why Do Students Take It and Does It Improve Career Preparedness?, Matthew L. Hiller, Christopher Salvatore, and Travis Taniguchi (2014)

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Cut! Arguments Against Televising Trials, Reginia Judge (2014)

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Special Administrative Measures: An Example of Counterterror Excesses and Their Roots in U.S. Criminal Justice, Francesca Laguardia (2014)

Not All Women Are Mothers: Addressing the Invisibility of Women Under the Control of the Criminal Justice System Who Do Not Have Children, Venezia Michalsen and Jeanne Flavin (2014)

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Effects of Cultural Collectivism on Terrorism Favorability, Daniela Peterka-Benton and Bond Benton (2014)

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Do Life Course Transitions and Social Bonds Influence Male and Female Offending Differently? Gender Contrasts and Criminality, Christopher Salvatore and Michael Markowitz (2014)

Submissions from 2013

When Poverty Is the Worst Crime of All: A Film Review of Gideon’s Army (2013), Jessica S. Henry (2013)

Book Review: Education in Prison: Studying Through Distance Learning, Daniela Peterka-Benton (2013)

Legitimacy of Corrections as a Mental Health Care Provider: Perspectives From U.S. and European Systems, Daniela Peterka-Benton and Brian Paul Masciadrelli (2013)

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White Collar Crime and Morality: How Occupation Shapes Perception, Marshall R. Schmidt Dr. (2013)

Submissions from 2012

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When the Abyss Looks Back: Treatments of Human Trafficking in Superhero Comic Books, Bond Benton and Daniela Peterka-Benton (2012)

Homicide in the Brazilian Favela: Does Opportunity Make the Killer?, Elenice De Souza Oliveira and Joel Miller (2012)