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Bryanna Fox, Ph.D.

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Phone: (813) 974-4885
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Curriculum Vitae                                           

Bryanna Fox, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Criminology, Co-Director of the Center for Justice Research & Policy (CJRP), and Faculty Affiliate of the Florida Mental Health Institute at the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息. Dr. Fox earned her PhD from the University of Cambridge and is a former FBI Special Agent.

Dr. Fox is Co-Editor of Justice Quarterly and on the Editorial Boards for Criminology & Public Policy, Criminal Justice & Behavior, and Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice. She is the recipient of the 2017 Early Career Award from the American Society of Criminology鈥檚 Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, the 2019 新澳门六合彩内幕信息Outstanding Research Achievement Award, the 2014 Nigel Walker Prize for Outstanding PhD Research from the University of Cambridge, and the 2013 Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Award from the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Her research focuses on the identification of psychological and developmental risk factors for criminal behavior and prolific offending, experimental field research, and evidence-based policing and crime prevention strategies. She has published 5 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in outlets such as: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Law & Society Review, and Psychological Bulletin.

Interested in research with Dr. Fox? Visit the CJRP Lab website at www.usf.edu/CJRP. CJRP is dedicated to conducting interdisciplinary applied research that results in policy change and action that can improve the justice system. Our comprehensive approach at the CJRP emphasizes collaborations across multiple fields, and between scientists and practitioners, to ensure that innovative training, programs, and policies are developed, tested, and implemented in the field, to help reduce crime and incarceration, promote safe communities and equitable justice, understand and intervene on the risk factors for crime, and improve outcomes for persons at risk of being involved in the justice system.

CJRP engages 新澳门六合彩内幕信息students across all majors and training in the research and implementation process in collaboration with law enforcement agencies across the nation. We accept new members each semester. Please review the current guidelines on the CJRP website, at www.usf.edu/CJRP. Applications can be submitted online via the website above.

For media requests, please contact Dr. Fox directly by email at bhfox@usf.edu, or request her contact information from the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息Criminology Department between 8am and 4pm at 813-974-9708.

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Fox, B., Moule, R. K., Jaynes, C. & Parry, M. (2020). Are the effects of legitimacy and its components invariant? Operationalization and the generality of Sunshine and Tyler鈥檚 empowerment hypothesis. , doi: 10.1177/0022427820926228.

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. , doi: 10.1080/07418825.2020.1781232.

Miley, L., Fox, B., Muniz, C., Perkins, R., & DeLisi, M. (2019, in press). Does childhood victimization predict specific adolescent offending? An analysis of generality versus specificity in the victim-offender overlap. Child Abuse & Neglect.

Moule, R.K., Burruss, G., Parry, M., & Fox, B. (2019). Assessing the direct and indirect effects of legitimacy on public empowerment of police: A study of public support for police militarization in America. , 53(1), 77-107.

Muniz, C., Fox, B., Miley, L., DeLisi, M., Cigarran, G., & Birnbaum, A. (2019). The effects of adverse childhood experiences on internalizing versus externalizing outcomes: A propensity score matching approach. , 46(4), 568-589.

Fox, B., & DeLisi, M. (2019). Psychopathic killers: A meta-analytic review of the psychopathy-homicide nexus. , 44, 67-79.

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. , 9(4), 173-186.

Fox, B., & Farrington, D. P. (2018). What have we learned from offender profiling?: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 40 years of research. , 144, 1247-1274.

Moule, R., Fox, B., & Parry, M. (2018). The long shadow of Ferguson: Legitimacy, legal cynicism, and public perceptions of police militarization. .

Fox, B., Moule, R. K., & Parry, M. (2018). Categorically complex: A latent class analysis of public perceptions of police militarization., 58, 33-46.

Fox, B. (2017). It鈥檚 nature and nurture: Integrating biological and genetic factors into Social Learning Theory of criminal behavior., 49, 22-31.

Fox, B., & Farrington, D.P. (2016). Behavioral consistency among serial burglars: Evaluating offense style specialization using three analytical approaches. , 62, 1123-1158.

Jennings, W., Rocque, M., Fox, B.H., Piquero, A.R., & Farrington, D.P. (2016.) Can they recover? An assessment of adult adjustment problems among males in the abstainer, recovery, LCP, and AL pathways followed up to age 56 in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development. , 28, 537-549.

Fox, B., & Farrington, D.P. (2015). An experimental evaluation of the utility of burglary profiles applied in active police investigations. , 42, 156-175.

Fox, B., Perez, N. Cass, L., Baglivio, M., & Epps, N. (2015). Trauma changes everything: Examining the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and serious, violent and chronic juvenile offenders. , 46, 163-173.

Fox, B., Jennings, W., & Farrington, D.P. (2015). Bringing psychopathy into developmental and life-course criminology theories and research. , 43, 274-289.

Fox, B., & Farrington, D.P. (2012). Creating burglary profiles using latent class analysis: A new approach to offender profiling. , 39, 1582-1611.

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