Early Justice Strategies Lab

Have you checked out the @IAFMHS1 Spring newsletter yet? On p. 7, @Dr_Lowder & @EJS_Lab R.A. Elizabeth Bigham write on mental health diversion and the need for culturally responsive approaches to reduce racial disparities therein. Find the article here: bit.ly/3MCLX0R

We are thrilled to celebrate our Lab's very own Sydney Ingel, who has been named co-winner of the @SSSP1org 2023 Crime & Delinquency Division Student Paper Competition for her paper "Race, Misconduct, and Disciplinary Action in United States Prisons." Congratulations, Sydney!!

We hope everyone has been able to ease gently into this post-Thanksgiving Monday. 🥹 We, for one, still have visions of #ASC2022! This week we'll be spotlighting a few of our @EJS_Lab members who were able to present this year in Atlanta.

We are thrilled to celebrate two more of our @EJS_Lab members this month: Weiyu Zhou recently defended his dissertation to become ✨Dr. Zhou✨. Congrats, Weiyu! Chelsea Foudray (@ChelsFY) defended her dissertation proposal to officially become a doctoral candidate. Amazing job!

It's here! Our final "Meet the Team" tweet. Are you still here with us? 😄 Our final team member is...me! My name is Maddie McPherson (@Maddie_McP), and I am a fourth-year doctoral student in the @gmucriminology department.

Meet the Team! Autumn Kent is an undergraduate research assistant in the @EJS_Lab. Her research focuses on pretrial risk and court processes. Autumn is currently working with @Dr_Lowder to investigate pretrial risk assessment matrices in 36 Indiana counties.

Meet the Team! Carmen Diaz (@_Carmen_Diaz_) is a doctoral student & research assistant at @IUBloomington and an affiliate member of the @EJS_Lab. (Only a couple left!)

A competitive award, Mason's Office of Scholarship, Creative Activities, & Research (OSCAR) recognizes exceptional undergraduate students who participate in research & other creative activities. We may be biased, but this award is very well deserved. Congrats, Ashley!

.@EJS_Lab members @_zbkamara and @Maddie_McP presented their research at #ACJS2022 in Las Vegas this past week. It’s always a fun time when our crew gets to travel together for conferences. 😊

Meet the Team!! Spencer Lawson (@SpencerGLawson1) is a doctoral candidate (ABD) at @msu_scj and previously earned his M.S. in Criminal Justice & Public Safety from @IUPUI. Spencer has been working with @Dr_Lowder since before the lab's founding (when Dr. L was a post-doc!).