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Item “As Seen on TV:” The Relationship between Media, Demographics, and Perceptions of Campus Safety(North American Journal of Psychology, 2018) O'Donnell, Cullen T.; Carter, Lisa M.; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Zunic, Destiny; Smith, Caitlin; Parisi, A.Item College Students and Service Learning: Does Aiding At-Risk Youth Invoke Change?(2016-03-24) Wathen, Alec Ford; Blankenship, Chastity; Carter, Lisa M.Service learning is a concept that has been gaining traction in colleges across the country. Though there is no single definition, most service learning concepts involve volunteer work outside of the classroom and then reflecting on those experiences, whether in writing or in oral discussion after the volunteering takes place. Our study, which is still in progress, includes students in a criminological theory class taking part in a service-learning project aiding at risk youth. These students took a survey prior to taking part in the project, which helped researchers gauge the student’s feelings toward volunteering, feelings toward classroom learning, and self-confidence. After taking part in the project, students will take a post-test to gauge their feelings towards the project and any attitude changes they may have undergone. The researchers hope that results of the study show a significant change in self-confidence, and attitudes toward volunteering after students take part in the service learning project.Item The decision-making network : an introduction to criminal justice(Carolina Academic Press, 2018) Slate, Risdon N.; Anderson, Patrick R.; Carter, Lisa M.Item The Effects of Media Type on Concealed Carry Perceptions on College Campuses(2016-03-31) Zunic, Destiny; O'Donnell, Cullen T.; Smith, Caitlin; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Carter, Lisa M.Item The effects of victim gender identity, juror gender, and judicial instructions on victim blaming, crime severity ratings, and verdicts in sexual assault trials(Taylor & Francis, 2022-02-18) Carter, Lisa M.; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Urs, Medhini; Rutledge-Jukes, HeathTransgender individuals may experience social discrimination and unfair legal considerations as crime victims. The current purpose was to investigate the relationship between the participant/jurors’ gender, the victims’ gender identity, and judge’s instructions to ignore the gender identity of the victim on perceptions of the victim and the crime and verdicts rendered in a sexual assault case. Overall, crime severity ratings were significantly lower for the trans male victim compared to the cisgender female victim. Male participants reported lower crime severity ratings for trials involving transgender victims compared to cisgender victims. However, victim blaming, likelihood that the defendant committed the crime, sentencing recommendations, verdict confidence, and conviction rates did not vary by the victim’s gender identity, the participant’s gender identity, nor the judge’s instructions. Participant gender as a predictor of verdict approached significance, indicating a trend for males to render more not guilty verdicts and females to render more guilty verdicts. In summary, male jurors perceived the crimes involving transgender victims as less severe and this may have impacted the rate of not guilty verdicts.Item Embedding and Assessing Service-Learning in a Learning Community(2017-10-20) Blankenship, Chastity; Carter, Lisa M.; LoCasto, SydneyBecause Learning Communities emphasize collaborative, integrative learning, they are an excellent site for embedding service-learning projects. Additionally, service-learning in the context of a learning community can help to bridge a number of divides, such as those between people of different backgrounds or the “town-gown” divide. The facilitators will discuss how they planned and implemented a service-learning project and go deeply into several different forms of assessment, which they are currently using to better understand student outcomes after participating in a service learning project. They will also discuss tips to help with the Institutional Review Board (IRB) process. This workshop will also include a student presenter who will share her experience in the program and data analysis of the project.Item Female offenders and reentry : pathways and barriers to returning to society(Abingdon, Oxon, 2017) Carter, Lisa M.; Marcum, Catherine D.Item In and Out of “The Lifestyle”: Theoretical Explanations for Female Offending and Desistance From Crime(Violence and Victims, 2022-10-01) Carter, Lisa M.This qualitative study of theoretical frameworks was conducted to explain criminal offending and attitudes towards desistance from crime for a sample of 26 women reintegrating back into society after incarceration. Theoretical pathways and desistance theories were used to provide themes for analyzing in depth interviews, journal entries written by the study’s participants, and halfway house records. Pathways and desistance perspectives suggest that gendered pathways can explain how women are led into criminal lifestyles, as well as how their criminality may come to an end. Distinct gender-specific policy implications and programs, as well as directions for future research, are also discussed. © 2022 Springer Publishing Company.Item Introduction(Routledge, 2017) Carter, Lisa M.; Marcum, Catherine D.Item Introduction (Editorial)(Taylor & Francis, 2017) Marcum, Catherine D.; Carter, Lisa M.This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the reentry process for a special group of offenders: females. It discusses how lack of dependable transportation—an issue experienced by a large majority of female offenders due to low income and geographic barriers—affects the ability to gain employment, attend required meetings and treatments, and other daily life affiliations. The book addresses the physical needs specifically affiliated with the female and how lack of medical treatment during incarceration, and living in an unhealthy environment, can negatively impact health after release. It explains an issue unique to females: reproductive and gynecological needs. The book also discusses the difficulty maintaining family bonds during incarceration due to visitations issues and placement of children, and the challenges females meet when attempting to reunite with family members and children during reentry.Item Knowledge and Perceptions of the Death Penalty: Examining the Marshall Hypothesis(2017-04-14) Hearthstone-Leroux, Kaitlin Marie; Carter, Lisa M.; Blankenship, ChastityThe Marshall Hypothesis suggests that ignorance of the death penalty is correlated with support for its use unless an individual views capital punishment’s purpose as retribution for a crime. The researchers of this study were interested to see if students that take courses in which capital punishment is discussed, (i.e. criminology majors and minors) would be more knowledgeable and less likely to support the death penalty. Participating students completed a questionnaire testing their knowledge of the death penalty and their attitudes toward its use. Overall, students were more likely to support the death penalty and results also suggest students view its use as retribution for particularly heinous crimes.Item The Effects of Gender Identity and Judicial Instructions on Victim Blaming, Crime Severity Ratings, and Verdicts in Sexual Assault Trials(2017-11-17) Carter, Lisa M.; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Smith, BrittanyThe purpose of this study was to conduct a simulated sexual assault trial where the researchers varied the victim’s gender identity (cis-male, cis-female, transgender male, transgender female) to determine what impact it might have on participants’ blaming attitudes toward the victim, perceptions of crime severity, and jury verdicts in a sexual assault trial. Another point of interest was to examine how the gender of the participant might interact with the gender identity to produce differences in victim attitudes and jury decisions. In a follow-up to the study researchers adjusted the trial scripts, and included an additional manipulation of a judge’s instructions to the jury that instructed jurors to ignore the gender identity of the victim. This was done to determine if it is possible to increase guilty verdict rates for the transgender victims of sexual assault, and create differences in attitudes towards victims, crime severity, and verdicts decisions. The study utilized a between subjects factorial design. Results and future policy implications for judicial procedures will also be discussed.Item The Effects of Gender Identity on Victim Blaming, Crime Severity Ratings, and Verdicts in Stranger Rape Trials(2016-09-07) Carter, Lisa M.; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Waugh, Sophia; Dahl, Kayla; Asceste, AnthonyItem The Relationship Between Media, Demographics, and Perceptions of Concealed Carry Regulations on College Campuses(2016-09-08) O'Donnell, Cullen T.; Zunic, Destiny; Smith, Caitlin; Goodmon, Leilani B.; Carter, Lisa M.