Center Affiliates

Dawn Beichner

ISU Criminal Justice Sciences and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

dmbeich@ilstu.edu

Curriculum Vitae [Available upon request] 

Substantive Areas: gender and justice, victimology, jails and prisons, women’s incarceration, effects of incarceration on families, prisoner reentry 

Methodological Approaches: face-to-face interviews, evaluative research, mixed methodologies 

Brief Biography:  Dr. Dawn Beichner is a Professor in the Criminal Justice Sciences Department and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Illinois State University. Her research interests include victimology, women offenders in the criminal justice system, and prisoner reentry. Her current research centers on incarcerated mothers and the effects of incarceration on families. A recent collaborative work, a global view of incarcerated women, was presented at the 13th United Nations Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice in Doha, Qatar. She also chaired a panel and presented her research at the 2019 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Dr. Beichner is a research consultant for the YWCA McLean County. She currently oversees a $800,000 Second Chance Act Grant from the Bureau of Justice Association, which was awarded to YWCA Labyrinth. 

Dr. Charles Bell

ISU Criminal Justice Sciences

cabell6@ilstu.edu

Curriculum Vitae [Available upon request]

Substantive Areas: Race, School Punishment, School Safety, Teacher Victimization

Methodological Approaches: Face-to-Face Interviews

Brief Biography: Dr. Charles Bell is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences. His research explores African American students’ and parents’ perceptions of out-of-school suspension, school safety measures, and law enforcement officers throughout Michigan and Illinois. Dr. Bell’s research also examines educators’ experiences with student-on-student and student-on-educator victimization. His book project, Code of the School: Punishment, Violence, and Victimization in Public High Schools, expands upon this work and was published by Johns Hopkins University Press. Dr. Bell has been interviewed and cited by several news outlets such as Atlanta Black Star, The Conversation, WGLT, WDET Detroit, Aljazeera America, Michigan Center for Youth Justice, and Detroit PBS.

Substantive Areas: inmate subculture, family violence, elder abuse, sexual behavior in incarcerated populations, educator sexual abuse, bullying

Methodological Approaches: face-to-face interviews, survey research, secondary analysis  

Brief Biography: Dr. Jessie L. Krienert is a Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. She has authored or co-authored three books, including The Myth of Prison Rape. She has conducted extensive research on inmate subculture, family violence, and bullying and has published more than 30 scholarly articles and several book chapters. Her publications have appeared in journals with both national and international exposure, including: Homicide Studies, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Violence and Victims, Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect, Journal of Aggression,Maltreatment and Trauma, Criminal Justice Studies and the Journal of Family Violence.

Substantive Areas: Fraud and disasters, art theft, crime, tattooing and tattoo work, the body and stigma, and social constructionism

Methodological Approaches: interviews, participant observation, content analysis, face-to-face interviews, survey research, secondary analysis

Brief Biography: Dr. David C. Lane is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences. He previously earned the rank of associate professor at the University of South Dakota. His primary research interests involve understanding the emergence of criminal opportunities in relation to disasters, media framing of crime in disasters, the illicit arts and antiquities market, and developing a grounded theory explaining tattooing and body work. He has authored numerous articles and has recently published in the International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction and Deviant Behavior. His book The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers appears on Rutgers University Press.   

Substantive Areas: Mental Illness, Violence, Victimology, Substance Abuse Prevention, Quantitative Methods

Methodological Approaches: survey research, secondary analysis, statistical methods, longitudinal methods, experimental design

Brief Biography: Dr. Brent Teasdale is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. His work is both theoretical and applied.  Dr. Teasdale is the author of over 3 dozen peer-reviewed journal articles and numerous chapters and reports. His work has been cited in an Amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court, as well as reported in a variety of news outlets. He has been cited among the top criminologists in the U.S. in 3 different peer-reviewed publications. 

Substantive Areas: under examined violent crime and victimization, community social structure and crime, family violence across the life-course, school bullying/cyberbullying, child abduction, animal abuse, educator sexual abuse, sexual health in correctional institutions 

Methodological Approaches: survey research, secondary data; multi-method approaches of qualitative and quantitative analysis 

Brief Biography: Dr. Jeffrey A. Walsh is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Illinois State University. He is the author/co-author of more than 30 peer reviewed articles and book chapters appearing in top tier outlets with broad international and national exposure including Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice, Criminal Justice Studies, Violence and Victims, Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, Homicide Studies, Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. Dr. Walsh’s eclectic areas of research and interest are at the nexus between crime and psychology and with an emphasis on under-examined crimes and underserved victims and offenders. He frequently attends and presents his work at international, national, and regional conferences and meetings including the American Society of Criminology, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Homicide Research Working Group, and the Midwestern Criminal Justice Association. He has been interviewed by numerous media outlets for print, radio, and television news primarily for local and regional stories on topics including serial homicide cases including the BTK killer, domestic violence, criminal profiling, motor vehicle theft, crime mapping, broken windows policing strategies, and sex offender registration.