Criminal Justice
Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.
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Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Criminal Justice
College of Human Ecology
East Carolina University
Rivers 236
Greenville, North Carolina 27858-4353
252-737-2417
johnsonmatt@ecu.edu |
| Dr. Matthew Johnson received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University in 2008. His research interests include general and life course theories of crime, quantitative and longitudinal methods of studying crime, and victimization. He is currently examining ability of leading theories to explain delinquency across generations. His publications include papers on victimization, general strain theory, and the relationship between religiosity and delinquency. |
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Select Publications:
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Johnson, M. C., Morris, R. G., & Menard, S. (Accepted for publication). Historical invariance in delinquency causation: A test of equivalent models of delinquency for two generations of adolescents. Crime and Delinquency.
Johnson, M. C., & Menard, S. (Accepted for publication). A longitudinal study of delinquency abstention: Differences between life-course abstainers and offenders from adolescence into adulthood. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, in press.
Morris, R. G., & Johnson, M. C. (Accepted for publication). Sedentary activities, peer behavior, and delinquency among American youth. Crime and Delinquency, in press.
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| Courses Taught- (Partial List): |
JUST 1000- Introduction to Criminal Justice
JUST 3004- Crime & Criminology
JUST 3800- Introduction to Methods of Research
JUST 3900- Introduction to Statistics
JUST 6001- Seminar in Research Methods and Statistical Interpretation (Graduate)
JUST 6201- Criminological Theory (Graduate)
JUST 6601- Victimology (Graduate)
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| Research Interests: |
Life-course/developmental criminology,
criminological theory,
quantitative methods,
criminal justice theory, victimization
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Teaching Interests: |
Criminological theory, research methodology, statistics
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| Curriculum Vitae: |
Matthew Johnson
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