Micah Mitchell
Biographic Data
| ID | 122198 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Micah Mitchell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Micah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mitchell |
| SIGNATURE | MITCHELL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3806-4582 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Examining smartphone usage behaviour in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant surge in smartphone usage, turning it into an essential tool for maintaining social connections, working remotely, and accessing information and entertainment. As a global situational and contextual disruption, this shift in smartphone usage during the pandemic has far-reaching implications, shaping post-pandemic usage patterns and potential dependencies on digital technology. Guided primarily by the U…
Developing a Suicide Prevention Intervention for Youth with Maltreatment Histories
Friends, the Internet, Porn, and Sexual Partners
Sexual education in the United States is rich and complex, yet it has centered heterosexual sexual practices with parents and schools playing a critical, and often judgmental role. This study aimed to explore the different ways that gay men learned about their sexual orientation and sexual behaviors, outside the traditional mechanisms. Data from N = 19 one-on-one interviews were analyzed using the iterative procedures associated with inductive qu…
Technology-facilitated violence
This article provides a conceptual review of the term ‘technology-facilitated violence’. In the last decade, discussion of technology-facilitated violence has become commonplace in criminological and social scientific discourses. Yet, scholars have not settled on what this term means or the kind of relationship between technology and violence it infers. Addressing this ambiguity, we review how scholars have conceptualised technology-facilitated v…
Playing with Social Theory
What does good theorizing look like? And how can or should theorizing be taught? This article challenges the static and exegetic approaches to theorizing that have been normalized in university teaching by explicating a novel approach to theorizing through play. To develop this approach, we reflect critically on how we implemented play as a method for teaching social theory in an undergraduate classroom and analyze the theoretical outcomes our pl…
Queering Crime Reporting
While criminology has studied news media reporting for decades, it has largely overlooked reporting on anti-queer violence and depictions of crime outside mainstream outlets. This article addresses this gap by analysing how anti-queer violence is represented in LGBTQ community media. By analysing 1,295 articles from 11 LGBTQ publications across five Anglophone countries between 2019 and 2021, we examine which forms of anti-queer violence are deem…
Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research
As a nascent sub-discipline, queer criminology has been fundamentally concerned with questions about its identity and scope. Within these debates, several scholars have argued that queer criminology’s central purpose is to correct the discipline’s long-standing neglect of LGBTQ people’s experiences. However, queer criminology has predominantly addressed this neglect by focusing on the experiences of queer research subjects rather than queer resea…
Queer matters in criminology
This special issue addresses the need for a critical and collective response to the growing hostility faced by queer and trans people worldwide, and to the expansion of state, legal, and techno-social control over contra-normative modes of gendered and sexual life. In this editor’s introduction, we reflect on the provocation offered in the title of this special issue— Queer Matters in Criminology —and situate this collection’s development within …
Doing Harm with Things
Criminology has increasingly recognized the roles technologies play in an array of harms, with scholars developing a variety of techno-social accounts of crime and harm. In developing such accounts, scholars face the challenge of adequately accounting for the myriad ways humans can, whether intended or not, harm with things. This article argues that this challenge can be addressed by disentangling the concatenation of relations between intentions…
Anti-Queer Violence in Australia
Anti-queer violence is a significant criminological, public health, and social justice concern. While international research has shown that LGBTQA+ people generally experience higher rates of victimization compared to their heterosexual and cisgender peers, knowledge about these patterns in the Australian context remains limited. Moreover, most existing research focuses on overall rates of victimization, rather than on violence specifically relat…
Perceptions of Sexual Risk and HIV/STI Prevention Among Black Adolescent Girls in a Detention Center
Ontological Governance
Legal institutions worldwide construct theories about gender’s ontology—i.e., theories about what gender is —and use those constructions to govern. In this article, I analyse how the Family Court of Australia constructed ontologies of gender to govern young people’s gender-affirming hormone use. By analysing the ‘reasons for judgment’ published about cases where minors applied for the Court’s authorisation to use hormones, I show that the Court c…
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm
Technologies not only extend capabilities but also mediate experience and action. To date, however, research on technology-facilitated violence has tended not to focus on the role technological mediation plays in acts of violence facilitated through technology. Building on prior work in the field, this article develops a theoretical framework and typology for understanding the role technological mediation plays in producing technology-facilitated…
Regulating chance
This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and inte…
Individual and Contextual Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Black Adolescents with Arrest Histories
Black adolescents in the United States have experienced an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs). Since Black adolescents are overrepresented in the youth punishment system, more research is needed to investigate correlates of STBs for this population. The purpose of this paper is to explore and establish correlates of individual, family, and community risk and protective factors and their relationship to lifetime STBs in a national …
Analyzing the law qualitatively
Purpose This article develops a methodological framework to support qualitative analyses of legal texts. Scholars across the social sciences and humanities use qualitative methods to study legal phenomena but often overlook formal legal texts as productive sites for analysis. Moreover, when qualitative researchers do analyze legal texts, they rarely discuss the methodological underpinnings that support their approach. A thorough consideration of …
Prohibiting the Queer Body
The discursive production of public inquiries
Since the turn of the century, public inquiries into the perpetration and concealment of child sexual abuse within religious institutions have proliferated throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. This article examines the role that news media discourses might play in supporting this trend. Taking Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, I compare how news media constructed its prec…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm
Technologies not only extend capabilities but also mediate experience and action. To date, however, research on technology-facilitated violence has tended not to focus on the role technological mediation plays in acts of violence facilitated through technology. Building on prior work in the field, this article develops a theoretical framework and typology for understanding the role technological mediation plays in producing technology-facilitated…
Analyzing the law qualitatively
Purpose This article develops a methodological framework to support qualitative analyses of legal texts. Scholars across the social sciences and humanities use qualitative methods to study legal phenomena but often overlook formal legal texts as productive sites for analysis. Moreover, when qualitative researchers do analyze legal texts, they rarely discuss the methodological underpinnings that support their approach. A thorough consideration of …
Prohibiting the Queer Body
The discursive production of public inquiries
Since the turn of the century, public inquiries into the perpetration and concealment of child sexual abuse within religious institutions have proliferated throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. This article examines the role that news media discourses might play in supporting this trend. Taking Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, I compare how news media constructed its prec…
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Playing with Social Theory
What does good theorizing look like? And how can or should theorizing be taught? This article challenges the static and exegetic approaches to theorizing that have been normalized in university teaching by explicating a novel approach to theorizing through play. To develop this approach, we reflect critically on how we implemented play as a method for teaching social theory in an undergraduate classroom and analyze the theoretical outcomes our pl…
Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research
As a nascent sub-discipline, queer criminology has been fundamentally concerned with questions about its identity and scope. Within these debates, several scholars have argued that queer criminology’s central purpose is to correct the discipline’s long-standing neglect of LGBTQ people’s experiences. However, queer criminology has predominantly addressed this neglect by focusing on the experiences of queer research subjects rather than queer resea…
Rewarding Sequential Innovators
This paper presents a model of cumulative innovation in which firms are heterogeneous in their research ability. We study the optimal reward policy when the quality of the ideas and their subsequent development effort are private information. Monopoly power is a scarce resource to be allocated across innovators who arrive at various times. The optimal assignment of property rights must counterbalance the incentives of current and future innovator…
Evidence for response bias as a source of error variance in applied assessment
After 100 years of discussion, response bias remains a controversial topic in psychological measurement. The use of bias indicators in applied assessment is predicated on the assumptions that (a) response bias suppresses or moderates the criterion-related validity of substantive psychological indicators and (b) bias indicators are capable of detecting the presence of response bias. To test these assumptions, we reviewed literature comprising inve…
The discursive production of public inquiries
Since the turn of the century, public inquiries into the perpetration and concealment of child sexual abuse within religious institutions have proliferated throughout Europe, North America and Australasia. This article examines the role that news media discourses might play in supporting this trend. Taking Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse as a case study, I compare how news media constructed its prec…
Prohibiting the Queer Body
Individual and Contextual Risk and Protective Factors for Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviors among Black Adolescents with Arrest Histories
Black adolescents in the United States have experienced an increase in suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs). Since Black adolescents are overrepresented in the youth punishment system, more research is needed to investigate correlates of STBs for this population. The purpose of this paper is to explore and establish correlates of individual, family, and community risk and protective factors and their relationship to lifetime STBs in a national …
Analyzing the law qualitatively
Purpose This article develops a methodological framework to support qualitative analyses of legal texts. Scholars across the social sciences and humanities use qualitative methods to study legal phenomena but often overlook formal legal texts as productive sites for analysis. Moreover, when qualitative researchers do analyze legal texts, they rarely discuss the methodological underpinnings that support their approach. A thorough consideration of …
Perceptions of Sexual Risk and HIV/STI Prevention Among Black Adolescent Girls in a Detention Center
Ontological Governance
Legal institutions worldwide construct theories about gender’s ontology—i.e., theories about what gender is —and use those constructions to govern. In this article, I analyse how the Family Court of Australia constructed ontologies of gender to govern young people’s gender-affirming hormone use. By analysing the ‘reasons for judgment’ published about cases where minors applied for the Court’s authorisation to use hormones, I show that the Court c…
Inviting, Affording and Translating Harm
Technologies not only extend capabilities but also mediate experience and action. To date, however, research on technology-facilitated violence has tended not to focus on the role technological mediation plays in acts of violence facilitated through technology. Building on prior work in the field, this article develops a theoretical framework and typology for understanding the role technological mediation plays in producing technology-facilitated…
Regulating chance
This article outlines the history of lotteries in Japan, why and how Buddhist temples used them to raise funds for temple repairs in the early modern period (c. 1600–1868), and the larger moral-economic debates in which they became embroiled. It shows that while lotteries are worth examining for their importance to the maintenance of Buddhist temples in the early modern period, their study also provides a window into the competing values and inte…
Technology-facilitated violence
This article provides a conceptual review of the term ‘technology-facilitated violence’. In the last decade, discussion of technology-facilitated violence has become commonplace in criminological and social scientific discourses. Yet, scholars have not settled on what this term means or the kind of relationship between technology and violence it infers. Addressing this ambiguity, we review how scholars have conceptualised technology-facilitated v…
Playing with Social Theory
What does good theorizing look like? And how can or should theorizing be taught? This article challenges the static and exegetic approaches to theorizing that have been normalized in university teaching by explicating a novel approach to theorizing through play. To develop this approach, we reflect critically on how we implemented play as a method for teaching social theory in an undergraduate classroom and analyze the theoretical outcomes our pl…
Queering Crime Reporting
While criminology has studied news media reporting for decades, it has largely overlooked reporting on anti-queer violence and depictions of crime outside mainstream outlets. This article addresses this gap by analysing how anti-queer violence is represented in LGBTQ community media. By analysing 1,295 articles from 11 LGBTQ publications across five Anglophone countries between 2019 and 2021, we examine which forms of anti-queer violence are deem…
Be gay, do criminology? Affect, subjectivity, and relationality in anti-queer violence research
As a nascent sub-discipline, queer criminology has been fundamentally concerned with questions about its identity and scope. Within these debates, several scholars have argued that queer criminology’s central purpose is to correct the discipline’s long-standing neglect of LGBTQ people’s experiences. However, queer criminology has predominantly addressed this neglect by focusing on the experiences of queer research subjects rather than queer resea…
Queer matters in criminology
This special issue addresses the need for a critical and collective response to the growing hostility faced by queer and trans people worldwide, and to the expansion of state, legal, and techno-social control over contra-normative modes of gendered and sexual life. In this editor’s introduction, we reflect on the provocation offered in the title of this special issue— Queer Matters in Criminology —and situate this collection’s development within …
Doing Harm with Things
Criminology has increasingly recognized the roles technologies play in an array of harms, with scholars developing a variety of techno-social accounts of crime and harm. In developing such accounts, scholars face the challenge of adequately accounting for the myriad ways humans can, whether intended or not, harm with things. This article argues that this challenge can be addressed by disentangling the concatenation of relations between intentions…
Anti-Queer Violence in Australia
Anti-queer violence is a significant criminological, public health, and social justice concern. While international research has shown that LGBTQA+ people generally experience higher rates of victimization compared to their heterosexual and cisgender peers, knowledge about these patterns in the Australian context remains limited. Moreover, most existing research focuses on overall rates of victimization, rather than on violence specifically relat…
Examining smartphone usage behaviour in the Covid-19 era
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a significant surge in smartphone usage, turning it into an essential tool for maintaining social connections, working remotely, and accessing information and entertainment. As a global situational and contextual disruption, this shift in smartphone usage during the pandemic has far-reaching implications, shaping post-pandemic usage patterns and potential dependencies on digital technology. Guided primarily by the U…
Developing a Suicide Prevention Intervention for Youth with Maltreatment Histories
Friends, the Internet, Porn, and Sexual Partners
Sexual education in the United States is rich and complex, yet it has centered heterosexual sexual practices with parents and schools playing a critical, and often judgmental role. This study aimed to explore the different ways that gay men learned about their sexual orientation and sexual behaviors, outside the traditional mechanisms. Data from N = 19 one-on-one interviews were analyzed using the iterative procedures associated with inductive qu…
Sociology (13 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Criminology (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works)