Articles, papers, presentations, and other materials authored by faculty from the Criminal Justice department of Loyola University Chicago's College of Arts & Sciences.

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Submissions from 2022

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“Satan’s Minions” and “True Believers”: How Criminal Defense Attorneys Employ Quasi-Religious Rhetoric and What It Suggests about Lawyering Culture, Elizabeth H. Webster, Kathleen Powell, Sarah E. Lageson, and Valerio Baćak

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Let's Start Talking: A Reflective Essay on Minority Students' Experiences in Academic Spaces, Publishing, and Journal Involvement, Ryan S.C. Wong and Kayla M. Martensen

Submissions from 2021

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Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet, Sarah E. Lageson, Elizabeth H. Webster, and Juan R. Sandoval

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Digitizing and Disclosing Personal Data: The Proliferation of State Criminal Records on the Internet, Sarah Lageson, Elizabeth H. Webster, and Juan Sandoval

Submissions from 2020

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Postconviction Innocence Review in the Age of Progressive Prosecution, Elizabeth H. Webster

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The Prosecutor as a Final Safeguard Against False Convictions, Elizabeth H. Webster

Submissions from 2019

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The Impact of the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office Deferred Prosecution Program, Christine George, John Orwat, Don Stemen, Jennifer Cossyleon, and Whitney Key

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Required, Permissible, and Impermissible Forms of Federal Judicial Assistance to Self-Represented Litigants: Toward Establishment of a Judicial Duty of Reasonable Assistance, Jona Goldschmidt

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Race, Ethnicity, and Prosecution in Cook County, Illinois, Besiki Luka Kutateladze, Rebecca Richardson, Ryan Meldrum, Don Stemen, David Olson, Elizabeth H. Webster, Maria Arndt, Dylan Matthews, and Sadhika Soor

Submissions from 2018

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Ghosting: It’s Time To Find Uniformity on Ghostwriting, Jona Goldschmidt

Submissions from 2017

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Can Community Policing Increase Residents' Informal Social Control? Testing the Impact of the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy, Robert M. Lombardo and Chistopher M. Donner

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Beyond the War: The Evolving Nature of the U.S. Approach to Drugs, Don Stemen

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The Prison Paradox: More Incarceration Will Not Make Us Safer, Don Stemen

Submissions from 2015

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Leaving the Gang: A Review and Thoughts on Future Research, Dena C. Carson and J. Michael Vecchio

Submissions from 2014

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Capital Punishment Reforms in Illinois: Comparing the Views of Police, Prosecutors, and Public Defenders, Robert M. Lombardo and David Olson

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Youth Gangs: An Overview of Key Findings and Directions for the Future, Terrance J. Taylor and J. Michael Vecchio

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The Role of Violence within and across Self-identified Gang Youth, J. Michael Vecchio

Submissions from 2013

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Drivers of the Sentenced Population: Probation Analysis, David E. Olson, Donald Stemen, Sema Taheri, and Michelle D. Mioduszewski

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An Examination of Felony Case Processing in the Circuit Court of Cook County, 2000-2012, Don Stemen

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Once Bitten, Thrice Wise: The Varying Effects of Victimization on Routine Activities and Risk Management, J. Michael Vecchio

Submissions from 2012

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A Profile of Women Released Into Cook County Communities from Jail and Prison, Gipsy Escobar and David Olson

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Population Dynamics and the Characteristics of Inmates in the Cook County Jail, David E. Olson and Sema Taheri

Submissions from 2011

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Characteristics of Inmates in the Cook County Jail, David E. Olson

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Illinois Felony Sentencing: A Retrospective, David E. Olson and Donald Stemen

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The Impact of Mandatory Supervised Release (MSR) and Time Served on IDOC's Population, David E. Olson and Donald Stemen

Submissions from 2010

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The Forty-Two Gang: The Unpublished Landesco Manuscripts, Robert M. Lombardo

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Study Methodology, Jody Miller, Mark DeBarr, Hyan Namgung, J. Michael Vecchio, and Stephanie Wiley

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Cook County Sheriff's Reentry Council Quarterly Update (Volume 2, Issue 1: February 2010), David E. Olson

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Cook County Sheriff's Reentry Council Quarterly Update (Volume 2, Issue 2: October 2010), David E. Olson

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“Messin’ With Drugs…You Could Lose Your Life”: the Effect of Victimization on Routine Activities and Risk Management, J. Michael Vecchio

Submissions from 2009

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Organizational Approaches to Drug Law Enforcement by Local Police Departments in the United States: Specialized Drug Units and Participation in Multi-Agency Drug Task Forces, Robert M. Lombardo and David E. Olson

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Cook County Sheriff's Reentry Council Quarterly Update (Volume 1, Issue 1: September, 2009), David E. Olson

Submissions from 2007

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Chicago’s Little Sicily, Robert M. Lombardo

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Community Policing: Broken Windows, Community Building, and Satisfaction with the Police, Robert M. Lombardo and Todd Lough

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Reconsidering Incarceration: New Directions for Reducing Crime, Don Stemen

Submissions from 2005

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Finding the Jury: State Legislative Responses to Blakely v. Washington, Don Stemen and Daniel F. Wilhelm

Submissions from 2004

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Aggravated Sentencing: Blakely v. Washington, Jon Wool and Don Stemen

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Changing Fortunes or Changing Attitudes: Sentencing and Corrections Reforms in 2003, Jon Wool and Don Stemen

Submissions from 1994

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The Organized Crime Neighborhoods of Chicago, Robert M. Lombardo

Submissions from 1990

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Asset Forfeiture: Civil Remedies Against Organized Crime, Robert M. Lombardo