Our Ph.D. students accomplished several milestones over the last year: 

• Carmen Diaz, successfully defended her dissertation titled “Pretrial Diversion, Recidivism, and Race: A Mixed-Methods Impact Evaluation of a Prosecutor-Led Pretrial Diversion Program.” 
• Mitchell Farrell, successfully defended his dissertation titled “Mind you Measures and Mechanisms: Adjudicating Normative Influence on Adolescent Delinquency Through Meta Analysis.” 
• Katherine Barrus, successfully defended her dissertation titled “Police Understanding and Perception of African American English: A Matched-Guise Investigation.” 
• Hannah Ridner, successfully defended her dissertation prospectus titled “Help isn’t Everywhere: Mapping Access to Harm Reduction Services.” 
• Leo Yang, successfully defended his dissertation prospectus titled “Digital Broken Windows: The Sociopsychological Pathway to Toxic Behavioral Contagion.” 
• Tyeisha Fordham, successfully defended her dissertation prospectus titled “Examining Restorative Justice Data: A Mixed Methods Approach using Interviews and Surveys with US Practitioners.” 

Jill Mitchell, Charlotte Lee, Chandlier Hulse, and Amber Richey attended the annual Midwest Criminal Justice Association (MCJA) conference in September. Held in Chicago, this year’s theme was “Integrative Approaches to Justice: Fostering Innovation through Academic and Professional Partnerships.” The purpose of MCJA is to foster communication and collaboration among criminal justice researchers, academics, and practitioners within the Midwestern United States and beyond. 

• Jill Mitchell presented with Dr. Sandys on their work titled “Queerness on Trial: How Perceptions of Queer Identities Can Influence the Decision Between Life and Death” at MCJA. 
• Charlotte Lee presented with Dr. O’Neill on their work titled “A Study in Intersections: Exploring how Race, Gender, and Disability Influence Discipline Disparities” at MCJA. 
• Chandlier Hulse presented with Dr. Grommon from IU Indianapolis on their work titled “Understanding Public Perceptions of Prosecutors: A Review of Available Literature” at MCJA. 
• Amber Richey presented their worked titled “Building the Force: An Analysis of Police Recruitment Materials, 1995-2005". 

Tyeshia Fordham and Hannah Ridner were presented their research at the annual American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference in November. This year’s theme was “Criminology, Law, and the Democratic Ideal,” and to fit the theme hosted in our nation's beautiful capital, Washington D.C. The purpose of ASC is to encourage the exchange, in a multidisciplinary setting, of those engaged in research, teaching and practice to foster the development of criminological science. 

• Tyeshia Fordham presented their work titled “Toward Consensus: Exploring Restorative Justice Programs in the United States.”
• Hannah Ridner presented their work titled “Help Isn’t Everywhere: Mapping Access to Harm Reduction Services.”  

Thanks to a generous funding from J. Steven Lung, the following students were provided fellowships: Grace Abry, Grace Cohen, Chase Heslop, Chandlier Hulse, Abby Judge, Dani LaPradd, Charlotte Lee, Jill Mitchell, Maja Mladineo, Abby Novotny, Amber Richey, Hannah Ridner, Grace Simpson, Dylan Stoltz, Victoria Williams 

Charlotte Lee and colleagues published their work titled “Retaining Black Women in Computing: A Comparative Analysis of Interventions for Computing Persistence.” 

Hannah Ridner and colleagues published their work titled “Tenant Navigation as a Critical Infrastructure of Care”