Publications
My research is supported as a part of my work as a scholar at my home institution, Western Michigan University. The research reported in these articles received no grants or other monetary support from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.
The following is a list of peer-reviewed publications that I have authored or co-authored. Depending on the copyright agreements with the publishers, free access to the article or the original manuscript is provided whenever possible. Similar lists are also maintained at Google Scholar, BE Press SelectedWorks, ResearchGate, and ORCID.
2024
Developing an observation protocol for online STEM courses - PLoS ONE
"I’m Not Teaching Them Per Se": Designing and Delivering Asynchronous Undergraduate Online STEM Courses - Innovative Higher Education
2023
A Scoping Review of the Influence of Evidence-based Program Resources (EBPR) Websites for Behavioral Health - Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research
Loot Box Consumption by Adolescents Pre- and Post- Pandemic Lockdowns - PeerJ
The Influence of Evidence-Based Program Registry Websites for Dissemination of Evidence-Based Interventions in Behavioral Healthcare - Evaluation and Program Planning
2022
Racially Imbalanced Peremptory Challenges by the Defense as a Reactionary Process - Crime & Delinquency
State Department and Provider Agency Utilization of Evidence-Based Program Registries in Behavioral Healthcare and Child Welfare - Evaluation & the Health Professions
Visitors’ Assessment and Utilization of Evidence-Based Program Resources (EBPR) Websites - Substance Use and Misuse
2021
Gender and the Peremptory Challenge: Separating the Effects of Race and Gender in Jury Selection - Women & Criminal Justice
Loot Boxes and Gambling: Similarities and Dissimilarities in Risk and Protective Factors - Journal of Gambling Studies
2020
It’s Still About Race: Peremptory Challenge Use on Black Prospective Jurors - Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Video Game Genres and Advancing Quantitative Video Game Research with the Genre Diversity Score - The Computer Games Journal
2019
A Quasi-Experimental Investigation of a Group Intervention for Adult Survivors of Polyvictimization and Complex Trauma - Journal for Specialists in Group Work
Measuring the Impact of Substance Use on Standardized Test Score Averages - Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis
Parental Influence on Youth Violent Video Game Use - Social Science Research
Reducing Victimization Among Chronically Homeless Adults with Co-Occurring Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders: An Examination of Housing Placement and Risky Lifestyles - Victims & Offenders
Religion, Nonreligion, and Deviance: Comparing Faith's and Family's Relative Strength in Promoting Social Conformity - Journal of Religion and Health
2018
Victim-Offender Trajectories: Explaining Propensity Differences from Childhood to Adulthood through Risk and Protective Factors - British Journal of Criminology
2017
The Impact of Degree of Exposure to Violent Video Games, Family Background, and Other Factors on Youth Violence - Journal of Youth and Adolescence
"Sports will Keep 'em out of Trouble": A Comparative Analysis of Substance Use among Adolescents and Young Adults - Journal of Sport and Health Research
Who Plays Violent Video Games? An Exploratory Analysis of Predictors of Playing Violent Games - Personality and Individual Differences
2016
From Playing to Programming: The Effect of Video Game Play on Confidence with Computers and an Interest in Computer Science - Sociological Research Online
“Money Will Solve the Problem”: Testing the Effectiveness of Conditional Incentives for Online Surveys - Survey Practice
Motivation is Key: The Differing Predictors of Adolescents’ Nonmedical Use of Prescription Drugs - Childhoods Today
Self-Injury, Suicide Ideation, and Sexual Orientation: Differences in Causes and Correlates among High School Students - Journal of Injury and Violence Research
2015
Bad Reputation: Stigma as an Inhibitor of Risk Behaviors - Journal of Risk Research
Developmental Victimology: Estimating Group Victimization Trajectories in the Age-Victimization Curve - International Review of Victimology
From Bullied to Deviant: The Victim-Offender Overlap among Bullying Victims - Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice
Impersonal Agencies of Communication: Comparing the Effects of Video Games and Other Risk Factors on Violence - Psychology of Popular Media Culture
Why So Many Questions? Measurement Issues and the Attitudinal Self-Control Scale - Deviant Behavior
2014
Explaining Prescription Opioid Misuse Among Veterans: A Theory-Based Analysis Using Structural Equation Modeling - Military Behavioral Health
Spirituality and Desistance from Substance Use among Reentering Offenders - International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Therapeutic Engagement and Post-Treatment Substance Use in Adolescent TC Clients: Direct and Indirect Effects - Journal of Drug Issues
Therapeutic Engagement as a Predictor of Retention in Adolescent TC Treatment - Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse
2013
Fatherhood, Community Reintegration, and Successful Outcomes - Journal of Offender Rehabilitation
Gender Differences in Victimization Risk: Exploring the Role of Deviant Lifestyles - Violence and Victims
Health Behaviors and Standardized Test Scores: The Impact of School Health Climate on Performance - International Journal of School & Educational Psychology
Self-Treatment vs.Recreational Motives: Differentiating Nonmedical use of Prescription Drugs among Youth - International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies
2012
Causal or Spurious:Using Propensity Score Matching to Detangle the Relationship between Violent Video Games and Violent Behavior - Computers in Human Behavior
Debating Empirical Questions on the Internet: Rival Claims about Crowd Sizes of the Glenn Beck/Stewart-Colbert Rallies - Sociological Research Online
Desisting from Prescription Drug Abuse: An Application of Growth Models to Rx Opioid Users - Journal of Drug Issues
The Many Measurements of Self-Control: How Reoperationalized Self-Control Compares - European Journal of Criminology
Self-Cutting and Suicidal Ideation among Adolescents: Gender Differences in the Causes and Correlates of Self-Injury - Deviant Behavior
Youth Victimization: School Climate or Deviant Lifestyles? - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
2011
Predicting Feelings of School Safety for Lower, Middle, and Upper School Students: A Gender Specific Analysis - Applied Psychology in Criminal Justice
2010
Pirating Youth: Examining the Correlates of Digital Music Piracy among Adolescents - International Journal of Cyber Criminology
Transitioning to Middle School in the Sixth Grade: A Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) Analysis of Substance Use, Violence, and Suicidal Thoughts - Journal of Early Adolescence
2009
Internet Scallywags: A Comparative Analysis of Multiple Forms and Measurements of Digital Piracy - Western Criminology Review
2008
Piracy on the High Speeds: A Test of Social Learning Theory on Digital Piracy among College Students - International Journal of Criminal Justice Sciences