Research
Publications
BOOKS
Verona, E., & Fox, B. (2023). Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. New York: Routledge.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Verona, E., & Fox, B. (2023). Evidence-Based Approaches and Implementation Challenges and Solutions. In Verona, E., & Fox, B. (Eds.). Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. New York: Routledge.
Torres, E., Smith, K., *Fournier, L., & Verona, E. (2023). Mental Health and Crime. In Verona, E., & Fox, B. (Eds.). Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. New York: Routledge.
Verona, E., Smith, K., Hua, M., & Fox, B. (2023). What Works in Improving Reentry
Outcomes?: Effective Programs and Recommendations. In Verona, E., & Fox, B. (Eds.).
Handbook of Evidence-Based Criminal Justice Practices. New York: Routledge.
Verona, E., Torres, E., & Fox, B. (2023). Toward Policy Refinement: Multi-Systemic
and Evidence-Based Approaches. In Verona, E., & Fox, B. (Eds.). Handbook of Evidence-Based
Criminal Justice Practices. New York: Routledge.
reentry project
Chen, H., Fox, B., & Verona, E. (in press). Expanding on the Factor Structure and Construct Validity of the Short-Term Assessment of Risk and Treatability (START) in A General Correctional Sample. Psychological Assessment.
Fox, B. (In press). Hell is worth all that: A comment on perceptual deterrence in theory and practice. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics.
Verona, E., McDonald, J. B., Fournier, L. F., Brown, M. E., & Carsten, E. E. (2024). Adapting a Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group Within a Jail Setting: Implementation Challenges and Considerations. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice.
CALL Program evaluation
Verona, E., McCarthy, A., Liller, K., Torres, E., Guincho, N., & McGee, M. (2024). Equity and access of a civilian-based crisis response model. Advance online publication. Psychological Services.
PARC Study
Fournier, L. F. (2021). Mental Health Problems, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Offending Behavior among Persons Incarcerated in a County Jail [Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida].
Fox, B., Kortright, K., Gill, L., Oramas Mora, D., Moule, R. K., & Verona, E. (2021). Heterogeneity in the continuity and change of early and adult risk factor profiles of incarcerated individuals: A latent transition analysis. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, , 19(1), 68-93.
Fox, B., Verona, E., & Fournier, L. (2019). Psychological assessment of risk in a county jail: Implications for reentry, recidivism, and detention practices in the United States. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
Gun Violence
Hicks, B.M., Vitro, C., Johnson, E., Sherman, C., Heitzeg, M.M., Durbin, E., & Verona, E. (2023). Who bought a gun during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States?: Associations with QAnon beliefs, right-wing political attitudes, intimate partner violence, antisocial behavior, suicidality, and mental health and substance use problems. PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0290770.
Verona, E., Bozzay, M., & Bryan, C. J. (2023). Contributions of Biobehavioral Sciences to the Study and Prevention of Firearm Violence: Perceived Threat, Cognitive Control, and Firearm Culture. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 272-278.
Fox, B., Allen, S. F., & Toth, A. (2022). Evaluating the impact of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) initiative on violence and gun crime in Tampa: does it work and does it last?. Journal of experimental criminology, 18(3), 543-567.
Gill, L. M., & Fox, A. M. (2022). Using social network analysis to examine gun violence. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 67(6), 2230-2241.
equity & the criminal legal system
Verona, E., & Fox, B. (2025). Pathways to Crime and Antisocial Behavior: A Critical Analysis of Psychological Research and Call for Broader Ecological Perspectives. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 21, 439-464.
Perkins, E. R., Bradford, D. E., Verona, E., Hamilton, R. H., & Joyner, K. J. (2023). The Intersection of Racism and Neuroscience Technology: A Cautionary Tale for the Criminal Legal System. Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10(2), 279-286.
Leiber, M. J., Fox, B., Escue, M., Krupa, J., & Cochran, J. (2020). Race/ethnicity and the effects of prior case outcomes on current dispositions: Continuity and change in the dispositional careers of juvenile offenders. Justice Quarterly, 37(5), 789-816.
COURTS
McCarthy, A., Fox, B., & Verona, E. (in press). Legal, Quasi-, and Extra-Legal Correlates of Cash Bail Outcomes. American Journal of Criminal Justice.
Fox, B., Cochran, J. K., & Escue, M. (2024). Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach. Deviant Behavior, 1-22.
Lee, J. G., Jaynes, C. M., & Patterson, S. (2023). Whose fault? Defendant perceptions of their own blameworthiness and guilty plea decisions. Journal of Crime and Justice, 1-23.
Clipper, S. J., Harper, A. J., & Fisher, T. (2022). Risk of revocation: Assessing correlates of failure in a pretrial services program. Justice Evaluation Journal, 5(1), 144-161.
Fox, B., Miley, L. N., Kortright, K. E., & Wetsman, R. J. (2021). Assessing the effect of mental health courts on adult and juvenile recidivism: A meta-analysis. American journal of criminal justice, 46, 644-664.
Miley, L. N., Heiss鈥怣oses, E., Cochran, J. K., Heide, K. M., Fogel, S. J., Smith, M. D., & Bejerregaard, B. J. (2020). An examination of the effects of mental disorders as mitigating factors on capital sentencing outcomes. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 38(4), 381-405.
Policing
Silver, J. R., & Moule, R. K. (2023). Should We Defund 鈥淏ad Police鈥 or Reform 鈥淏ad Policing鈥? Examining Person-Centered and Act-Based Moral Evaluations of Police and Policing Policy Preferences. Crime & Delinquency.
Fox, B. & Escue, M. (2022). Evaluating and comparing profiles of burglars developed using three statistical classification techniques: Cluster analysis, multidimensional scaling, and latent class analysis. Psychology, Crime & Law, 28, 34-58.
Lawshe, N. (2022). Investigating the influence of institutional perviousness on the adoption of body-worn cameras by United States police agencies. Criminal Justice Studies, 35(1), 1-17.
Lawshe, N. L., Zimmerman, G. M., & Stowell, J. (2022). Examining the spatial distribution and contextual correlates of body-worn camera adoption in the USA. Policing.
Patterson, S., Gill, L., & Fox, B. (2022). Police Use of Technology and Social Media: An Examination of Minority Perceptions. In Ivkovi膰, S.K., Mask谩ly, J., Donner, C.M., Mraovi膰, I.C., & Das, D.K. (Eds.), Exploring Contemporary Police Challenges (pp. 141-151). Routledge.
Fox, B., Moule, R. K., Jaynes, C., & Parry, M. (2021). Are the effects of legitimacy and its components invariant?:Operationalization and the generality of Sunshine and Tyler's empowerment hypothesis. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 58(1), 3-40.
Zimmerman, G. M., Fridel, E. E., Sheppard, K. G., & Lawshe, N. L. (2021). Contextualizing fatal police-resident encounters with a focus on Hispanic or Latin American Places: Does macro-level racial and ethnic composition distinguish resident fatalities by the police and police fatalities by residents? Journal of Criminal Justice, 72, 101749.
Moule, R.K., Fox, B., & Parry, M. (2019). The long shadow of Ferguson: Legitimacy, legal cynicism, and public perceptions of police militarization. Crime & Delinquency.
Carter, J., & Fox, B. (2019). Community policing and intelligence-led policing: An examination of convergent or discriminant validity. Policing: An International Journal.
Fox, B., Miley, L. N., & Moule Jr, R. K. (2018). Resting heart rate and risk of violent encounters during arrest in a sample of law enforcement officers. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
Criminal Investigations
Fox, B., Allen, S., Miley, L., Boness, J., Dodge, C., Khachatryan, N., Lyle, M., McKinley, S., Peake, J. & Rozo, M. (2020). Law enforcement and academics working together on cold case investigations: Lessons learned and paths forward. Journal of Criminal Psychology.
CYBERCRIME
Dodge, C. E., Fisk, N., Burruss, G. W., Moule, R. K., & Jaynes, C. M. (2023). What motivates users to adopt cybersecurity practices? A survey experiment assessing protection motivation theory. Criminology & Public Policy鈥20.
YOUTh & Juvenile Justice
Fox, B., Heide, K., Khachatryan, N., Michel, C., & Cochran, J. (2021). Juveniles arrested for murder: A latent class analysis of male offenders. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 39(4), 470-491.
Fox, B. & Holt, T. J. (2021). Use of a multi-theoretic model to understand and classify juvenile computer hacking behavior. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 48(7), 943-963.
Fox, B., Miley, L. N., Kortright, K. E., & Wetsman, R. J. (2021). Assessing the effect of mental health courts on adult and juvenile recidivism: A meta-analysis. American Journal of Criminal Justice, 46, 644-664.
Moule, R. K. & Fox, B. (2021). Belief in the code of the street and individual involvement in offending: A meta-analysis. Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice, 19(2), 227-247.
Fox, B., Kortright, K., Gill, L., Oramas Mora, D., Moule, R. K., & Verona, E. (2021). Heterogeneity in the continuity and change of early and adult risk factor profiles of incarcerated individuals: A latent transition analysis. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice. 19(1), 68-93.
Leiber, M. Fox, B., Escue, M., Krupa, J. & Cochran, J. (2020). Race/ethnicity and the effects of prior case outcomes on current dispositions: Continuity and change in the dispositional careers of juvenile offenders. Justice Quarterly.
Jeanis, M., Fox, B., Jennings, W. G., Perkins, R., & Liberto, A. (2020). Oooh she鈥檚 a little runaway: Examining invariance in runaway youth trajectories by developmental and life-course risk factors and gender. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 6(4), 398-423.
Miley, L., Fox, B., Muniz, C., Perkins, R., & DeLisi, M. (2020). Does childhood victimization predict specific adolescent offending? An analysis of generality versus specificity in the victim-offender overlap. Child Abuse & Neglect, 101,104328.
Escue, M., Fox, B., & Jennings, W. G. (2020). Do developmental and life-course theory risk factors equally predict age of onset among juvenile sexual and non-sexual offenders? Sexual Abuse, 32(1), 55鈥78.
Walden, A., Joseph, N. & Verona, E. (2019). Reaching under-served youth: A pilot implementation of a skills-based intervention in short-term juvenile detention. Journal of Prevention & Intervention in the Community.
REENTRY
O鈥機onnor, K., Santos, M. R., & Jaynes, C. M. (2023). How prior experience and belief in redeemability impact employers鈥 willingness to hire applicants with a criminal record. Journal of Criminal Justice, 89, 102128.
Santos, M. R., Jaynes, C. M., & Thomas, D. M. (2023). How to overcome the cost of a criminal record for getting hired. Criminology.
SUBSTANCE USE
Rigg, K. K., Weiner, M. A., & Kusiak, E. S. (2024). Patterns of polydrug use among Black Americans who misuse opioids. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-13.
Johnson, M. E., Lawrence, S. D., & Wiedbusch, E. K. (2023). Lovesick: Romantic relationships linked to opioid misuse among juveniles. Children and Youth Services Review.
Johnson, M. E., Rigg, K. K., Vroom, E. B., Akbari, Z., & Bristol, S. C. (2023). Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Substance Misuse among Justice-Involved Children. Substance Use & Misuse, 58(1), 54-65.
Vroom, E. B., Johnson, M. E., Akbari, Z., Frederick, Z., & Bristol, S. C. (2023). Examining Gender Differences in the Relationship Between School Bonding and Opioid Misuse Among Justice-Involved Adolescents. Journal of Drug Issues, 53(4), 621-636.
Rigg, K. K., & Strickland, S. (2023). Patterns of opioid misuse initiation among African-Americans. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-8.
Sharp, A., Carlson, M., Vroom, E. B., Rigg, K., Hills, H., Harding, C., ... & Schuman-Olivier, Z. (2023). When a pandemic and epidemic collide: Lessons learned about how system barriers can interrupt implementation of addiction research. Implementation Research and Practice, 4.
Tran, T., & Rigg, K. K. (2023). Substance use among methadone patients in Vietnam: a systematic review. Journal of Substance Use, 1-11.
Rigg, K. K., & Johnson, M. E. (2022). Preventing adolescent opioid misuse: racial/ethnic differences in the protective effects of extracurricular activities. Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, 83(3), 402-411.
Violence & Intimate Partner violence
Chen, H., & Verona, E. (in press). Psychopathy Facets and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration and Victimization. Journal of Personality Disorders.
Jaynes, C. M., & Devlin, D. N. (2024). Psychological Perspectives on Juvenile Homici