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Recent Scientific Accomplishments Simpson’s main area of research that overlaps with population research is work on gender and crime. Simpson’s research examines: (a) whether there are particular pathways into crime that differ by gender; (b) the relationship between strain, drug use, and criminal offending in a highly criminogenic sample of women; and (c) policy-related questions such as whether gender and race bias affect police arrest decisions for juvenile offenders, how changes in domestic violence law are put into practice by police, and victim re-utilization of police based on perceived procedural/distributive justice (Criminology, Law and Society Review, Justice Quarterly). Her work examines how police behavior may influence domestic violence victim reporting. From a procedural justice perspective, victims should be more apt to report victimization when previous encounters with police are viewed as procedurally fair. From a distributive justice perspective, denying victims their preferred outcome may discourage future police utilization. She found that if the offender was arrested in accordance with victim preference, the victim is significantly more apt to utilize police in the future. But the victims rating of procedural fairness were unrelated to whether the police were utilized again. Simpson received funding from the National Consortium on Violence Research (NCOVR) for a multi-site study of women’s experience of violence (WEV) conducted in Baltimore, Minneapolis, and Toronto. A computerized life-event calendar was used to collect life history information on a sample of high risk women (incarcerated in jails and/or awaiting trial). Several papers, presentations, and theses/dissertations have resulted from this study. Simpson plans to use the data collected from her NCOVR supported data collection. | ||||||||
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