Faculty and students publications

Welcome to our Research Publications section! Your gateway to the innovative work led and co-authroed by our faculty and graduate students. 

Weathre you're exploring cutting-edge findings, seeking collaborators, or simply staying informed, this section showcases the originality and quality of the research undertaken within the School of Criminology, as well as the diversity of the research interests of our faculty and graduate students.

2025

November

  • Ferencz, Sarah & Greer, Alissa & Butler, Amanda. (2025). Drug decriminalization and policy alienation among frontline police in British Columbia: A qualitative study. CrimRxiv. 10.21428/cb6ab371.40761a04.
  • Pesut, B., Thorne, S., Variath, C., Hall, M., Schiller, C., Sharp, H., Wiebe, G., Robertson, W. D., McKenzie, M. & Plewes, L. (2025). A Life Disrupted: Perspectives on Track 2 MAID from Persons Living with Chronic Illness. Canadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique, 8(4), 5–15. https://doi.org/10.7202/1121330ar.
  • Wong, J.S., Nielsen, J. & Neilsen, K. The Inside Scoop: Facilitator Perspectives on an Afterschool Group Mentoring Program for Youth. Child Youth Care Forum (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-025-09902-3.

October

  • Rossmo, D.K., Beauregard, E. “You Can’t Get There from Here”: Use of Crime Scripts in Validity Testing. Am J Crim Just (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-025-09858-z.
  • Andresen, M.A., Weisburd, D. Ockham’s Razor and the Measurement of Crime Concentrations at Places. J Quant Criminol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-025-09636-4.
  • Mackenzie B. Hart, Shannon J. Linning, Ivana Zdjelar, and Garth Davies. Applying Networks of Crime-Involved Places (CS4) to Online Radicalisation. VOL. XIX, Issue 3. SSN: 2334-3745 DOI: 10.19165/EHJN6473.
  • Robertson, C.Bouchard, M., Whelan, C., & Girn, A. (2025). Untangling SNA: the use and underuse of social network analysis among crime analysts. Police Practice and Research, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15614263.2025.2574317.
  • Paquette, S., Chopin, J., Beauregard, E., & Fortin, F. (2022). Risky Business: Deadliest Predictors of Sex-Trade Worker Sexual Victimization. Victims & Offenders19(8), 1586–1609. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2022.2103225.

September

  • Gemmellaro, M. D., Anderson, G. S., Hamilton, G., & Weidner, L. (2025). Food preferences of adult male and female Calliphora vicina (Diptera: Calliphoridae). Canadian Society of Forensic Science Journal, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085030.2025.2548060.
  • Jason Gravel, Martin Bouchard. The tangled history of social network analysis and gang research—A long way from Street Corner Society. Journal of Criminal Justice. Volume 101, 2025, 102514, ISSN 0047-2352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102514.
  • Yichao Gao, Martin A. Andresen. Generalized Gini coefficient, its statistical significance, and the local areas driving the global result. Journal of Criminal Justice. Volume 101, 2025, 102524. ISSN 0047-2352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102524.
  • Hart, MB., LinningS. J., Zdjelar, I., & Davies, G. (2025). Applying Networks of Crime-Involved Places (CS4) to Online Radicalisation. Perspectives on Terrorism19(3), 1–20. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27413935.
  • Peters, A. M., Champion, AR., & Corrado, R. R. (2025). "36: Career violent offending: An aspired, assigned or accidental career?". In Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Retrieved Nov 18, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035317868.00047.

August

  • Micklitz, H.M., Glörfeld A., Lysova A., & Sander, L.B. (2025). Client characteristics and implications for psychosocial support for men experiencing intimate partner violence and abuse: A qualitative study with service providers. Psychology of Men and Masculinities. https://doi.org/10.1037/men0000531.
  • Hines, D. Lysova, A., & Douglas, E. (2025). Male victims’ experiences with seeking help from domestic violence agencies over time and across countries. Journal of Men's Health, 21(7), 14-28. https://www.jomh.org/articles/10.22514/jomh.2025.092.
  • Wong, J. S., & Lee, C. (2025). Mitigating Risk and Magnifying Protection: The Impacts of a Gang Intervention and Exiting Program on Criminogenic Risk Factors. Criminal Justice and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548251357778.
  • Lam VCKinney JB, Ouellette LH, Byers B, Anderson GS. Canadian water-related fatalities: Demographic, situational, and environmental risk factors. J Forensic Sci. 2025 Nov;70(6):2403-2419. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.70153. Epub 2025 Aug 13. PMID: 40804490; PMCID: PMC12584125.

July

  • Zdjelar, I., Linning, S. J., Hart, M. B., & Davies, G. (2025). Using crime place networks to understand terrorist attacks: the importance of in-person and online crime-involved places. Journal of Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/18335330.2025.2532760.

June

  • Lussier, P., McCuish, E., St-Pierre, E., & Baguet, A.-L. (2025). Examining Benchmarks of Sexual Recidivism Rates for Short, Moderate, and Long-Term Follow-Up Periods: A Meta-Analysis of Canadian and American Studies. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/15248380251338791.
  • Love, Helene and Wiley, Stephanie (2025) "Systemic Racism and Sentencing Indigenous Youth," UBC Law Review: Vol. 58: Iss. 1, Article 4. Available at: https://commons.allard.ubc.ca/ubclawreview/vol58/iss1/4.
  • Pacholski, C., & Anderson, G. (2025). Wrongfully Convicted Women: Before, During, and After Wrongful Conviction. The Wrongful Conviction Law Review6(1), 45–67. https://doi.org/10.29173/wclawr117.
  • Katherine E McLeod, Kevin A Wong, Sumner Rajaratnam, Paige Guyatt, Stephanie Di Pelino, Naveera Zaki, Hanaya Akbari, Carolyne Kerrigan, Reilly Jones, Emily Norris, Jessica Liauw, Amanda Butler, Nyki Kish, Emma Plugge, Paula Harriott, Fiona G Kouyoumdjian. Health conditions among women in prisons: a systematic review. The Lancet Public Health. Volume 10, Issue 7. 2025. Pages e609-e624. ISSN 2468-2667. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(25)00092-1.
  • King, S., Palys, T., ross, annie, & Anderson, G. S. (2025). Concerns with police practice in investigations into the deaths of Indigenous people in Canada. Policing and Society, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2025.2519273.
  • Zakimi, N., & Greer, A. (2025). The message in a policy: how people who use drugs who are stably housed and employed interpret decriminalization in British Columbia, Canada. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687637.2025.2520517.
  • Wong, J. S., & Lee, C. (2025). Finding the Way Out: A Process Evaluation of a Gang Intervention and Exiting Program. Justice Evaluation Journal, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/24751979.2025.2517548.

May

  • Carlos Ponce, Martin Bouchard. Still Standing: Proactive Resilience Mechanisms in the MS-13 in El Salvador, The British Journal of Criminology, 2025;, azaf038, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaf038.
  • Holly Nguyen, Zachary Rowan, Anna Newell, Laurence Steinberg, Elizabeth Cauffman. The (In)congruence Between Stated and Revealed Preferences: The Role of Substance Use Dependence. Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics. Volume 181 (2025). Issue 1, pp. 5-32 (28). DOI 10.1628/jite-2025-0020.
  • A Lysova. How Male Victims Experience the Criminal Justice System and Implications for Practice and Policy. The Routledge Handbook of Men’s Victimisation in Intimate Relationships. pp 270-281. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003144939-24.
  • Chopin, J.; Moulin, V.; Beauregard, E.; et al. Childhood Victimization and the Development of Risk Factors: The Moderating Effect of Age at the Time of the First Event among a Sample of Sex Offenders. International Journal of Applied Violent and Criminal Behavior 2025, 1(1), 2.

April

  • Sarah Moreheart, Kate Shannon, Kanna Hayashi, Wiebke Bartels, Andrea Krüsi, Shira Miriam Goldenberg. Community-administered naloxone for overdose reversal: The role of sex worker-led programming and occupational violence in a community-based cohort (2018–2024). International Journal of Drug Policy. Volume 139. 2025. 104784. ISSN 0955-3959. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2025.104784.
  • Wood, BeccaHelmus, MaaikeLysova, Alexandra; Peikarnegar, Mehrnaz; Hilton, Zoetitle. Perceptions of Risk in Cases of Intimate Partner Violence: Focus on Gender and Sexuality. Springer Publishing Company. Partner Abuse. doi:10.1891/PA-2023-0030.
  • Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, Nina Lamberti, Ruth Croxford, Beverley Osei, Amanda Butler, Ruth Elwood Martin, Jessica Jurgutis, Kate McLeod, Martha Paynter, Howard Sapers, Raya Semeniuk, Fiona G. Kouyoumdjian. COVID-19 impacts on decarceration for Indigenous, Black, and other racialized people in Ontario, Canada: an interrupted time series study. The Lancet Regional Health - Americas. Volume 45. 2025. 101088. ISSN 2667-193X. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2025.101088.
  • Alysha Girn , Martin Bouchard & Krysta Dawson. Snakes, Ladders, and Brokers: The Role of Social Networks in Rising Through the Ranks of an Outlaw Motorcycle Gang, Justice Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/07418825.2025.2486703.
  • Sydney Litterer, Ryan Scrivens, Thomas W. Wojciechowski & Richard Frank. Exploring the evolution of posting behavior and language use in a racially and ethnically motivated extremist forum, Behavioral Sciences of Terrorism and Political Aggression, DOI: 10.1080/19434472.2025.2486796.
  • Hines, D., Lysova, A., Bates, E.A., Bowden, C.J., Dixon, L., Douglas, E.M., Graham-Kevan, N., & Powney, D. (2025). Prevalence of men’s intimate partner violence victimization and perpetration among two samples of men: An international study of English-speaking countries. Partner Abuse. https://doi.org/10.1891/PA-2024-0003.

March

  • Lysova, A., Dim, E.E. “I Thought About Killing Myself, but a Part of Me Insisted on Getting Help”: Coping Experiences of Male Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence. J Fam Viol (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-025-00847-8.
  • Jennifer S. WongChelsey Lee. Promoting disengagement: Effects of a gang intervention and exiting Program on negative police contacts. Journal of Criminal Justice. Volume 98. 2025. 102384. ISSN 0047-2352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102384.
  • Beauregard E, Chopin J. "Sorting Things out": A Scoping Review of Sexual Homicide Typologies. Behav Sci Law. 2025 Jul-Aug;43(4):419-435. doi: 10.1002/bsl.2722. Epub 2025 Mar 24. PMID: 40128578; PMCID: PMC12316581.
  • Wong, J. S., Neilsen, K., Gushue, K., & Lee, C. (2025). The Effects of Halfway Houses on Criminal Recidivism: An Updated Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology69(12), 1781-1804. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X251327574 (Original work published 2025).

February

  • Georgoulis, H., Beauregard, E. & Chopin, J. Understanding Sexual Burglary. Curr Psychiatry Rep 27, 147–153 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11920-025-01585-w.
  • Lysova, A., Hanson, K., & Mackay, J. (2025b). Rates of male and female physical victimization and perpetration in intimate relationships: A comprehensive review. Partner Abuse. 16(1), 5-29, http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/PA-2024-0038.
  • Linning, Shannon J. and Eck, John E. Clarifying Control in Criminology: A Proposal for Six Interacting Controls of Crime. Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Vol 66, 119-141. https://doi.org/10.3138/cjccj-2024-0053.
  • Andresen, M.A., Hodgkinson, T. Il Y a Quelque Chose sur la Carte: A Modern Spatial Analysis of Crime in Early 19th Century France. Am J Crim Just 50, 565–584 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-025-09798-8.

January

  • Evan C. McCuish, Shawn Bushway, Patrick Lussier, Kelsey Gushue. The impact of incarceration on reoffending: A period-to-period analysis of Canadian youth followed into adulthood. Journal of Criminal Justice, Volume 96, 2025, 102335, ISSN 0047-2352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102335.
  • Gravel, Jason, Descormiers, Karine, Wong, JenniferBouchard, Martin and Morselli, Carlo. "Chapitre 25 L’efficacité dans les institutions de contrôle des gangs de rue". Le Phénomène des gangs de rue: Théories, Évaluations, interventions, Les Presses de l'Université de Montréal, 2014, pp. 473-498. https://doi.org/10.1515/9782760632516-026.
  • Beauregard, E., Chopin, J., & DeLisi, M. (2025). Lost Highways: An Examination of the Question of Risk Involved in Sexual Homicides of Hitchhiking Victims. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology69(10-11), 1504-1523. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X241313287 (Original work published 2025).
  • McCuish, E. C., & Lussier, P. (2025). From prediction to explanation: Is the relationship between youth psychopathy traits and continued offending in adulthood mediated by social environment? Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 16(1), 69–79. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000680.
  • Bouchard, J., & Wong, J. S. (2025). Now and Then: Examining Students’ Concerns About the Primary-Secondary School Transition. Journal of Adolescent Research0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584241312705.