Alissa R Ackerman
Biographic Data
| ID | 288185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alissa R Ackerman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alissa R |
| FAMILY NAME | Ackerman |
| SIGNATURE | ACKERMAN A R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington Tacoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2133-235X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
I Went off the Derech: Pathways to Relational Disconnection after Sexual Harm in Jewish Spaces
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, th…
Sex Offender Height and Pedophilic Interest: A Clarification
The authors investigated the relationship between offender height and pedophilic interest in a sample of 22,228 registered sex offenders (RSOs). Concerns have been raised by a former collaborator that some of the data used in the analyses might be unreliable. In this clarification research note, we respond by briefly summarizing our methodology, describing the concerns, and then discussing our rationale for decisions made in the sampling procedur…
New Campus Anti-Rape Movement: Internet Activism and Social Justice
After 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM) finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President Barack Obama credited “an inspiring wave of student-led activism” for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual violence activism in the U.S. The authors describe the major e…
Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States
Previous research has shown that rape myths are often found in the media reporting of sexual assault. These studies have utilized national newspapers, magazines and television coverage of sexual assault in their examination of sexual assault, very often using celebrity cases as a focal point of the research. In the current study, a content analysis, we utilized one local newspaper from each of the nine geographical regions designated by the Censu…
The Relationship between Sex Offender Height and Pedophilic Interest
The current study examined the relationship between offender height and pedophilic interest (as measured by having a victim under 13 years old) in a sample of 22,228 registered sex offenders in the United States. Results revealed that offenders with victims age 12 and under were, on average, nearly one-quarter inch shorter than offenders of adults, and .18 inches shorter than those with minor teen victims. Implications for future research about t…
Immigration Detention Centers: Implications for Social Work
This article examines the dilemmas faced by undocumented immigrants within the criminal justice system vis-à-vis the immigrant detention center and the resulting implications for social work. It explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants in the United States, including an explanation of state policies that have led to the criminalization of immigrants. The criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, in…
The immigration detention center as a transnational problem: Implications for international social work
Over the last decade in the United States, there has been a rapid intensification of the criminalization of immigration. At the nexus of this criminalization is a new institution with potentially profound consequences for transnational migrants, an especially vulnerable population now receiving increased attention from the social work profession. This article explores this phenomenon and its relevance for international social work
An Analysis of Latino Male Immigrant Sex Offenders in Florida: The Impact of National Solutions on a Transnational Problem
This article assesses whether deported Latino immigrant sex offenders have similar offense types as each other (by country) and as deported non-Latino immigrants, and how they differ in terms of crimes committed and dispositions. To do so, the authors analyzed data available from the state of Florida, a state with one of the largest Latino populations in the United States. It situates the results of research within the current sociopolitical clim…
The Criminalization of Immigration: Value Conflicts for the Social Work Profession
This article examines the impact of the criminalization of immigration on non-documented immigrants and the profession of social work. To meet its aims, the article explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants within the context of globalization. It then assesses the criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, also referred to as the criminalization of immigration. It subsequently explores the ethical di…
Can general strain theory be used to explain recidivism among registered sex offenders
Undocumented Latino immigrant men in the United States: Policy and practice considerations
This article presents an exploration of undocumented, Latino male immigrants in the United States, and assesses the impact of new state policies and their implications for social work practice. To meet its aims, we describe the psychosocial risks that they face, and situated these risks within the context of new state policy realities. Implications for practice are presented
Assessing reporting patterns of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church using discontinuities in model parameter timeseries
Research Trajectories of Female Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Other than through its ties to scholarship on the sociology of higher education, the topic of female scholar productivity appears to be timely in light of the gender transformation underway in criminology and criminal justice (e.g., the majority of CCJ graduate students are female, and the CCJ professorate will be majority female if admission patterns hold). Toward this end, the present study provides an examination of the employment patterns and…
Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States
Previous research has shown that rape myths are often found in the media reporting of sexual assault. These studies have utilized national newspapers, magazines and television coverage of sexual assault in their examination of sexual assault, very often using celebrity cases as a focal point of the research. In the current study, a content analysis, we utilized one local newspaper from each of the nine geographical regions designated by the Censu…
The Criminalization of Immigration: Value Conflicts for the Social Work Profession
This article examines the impact of the criminalization of immigration on non-documented immigrants and the profession of social work. To meet its aims, the article explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants within the context of globalization. It then assesses the criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, also referred to as the criminalization of immigration. It subsequently explores the ethical di…
The immigration detention center as a transnational problem: Implications for international social work
Over the last decade in the United States, there has been a rapid intensification of the criminalization of immigration. At the nexus of this criminalization is a new institution with potentially profound consequences for transnational migrants, an especially vulnerable population now receiving increased attention from the social work profession. This article explores this phenomenon and its relevance for international social work
Can general strain theory be used to explain recidivism among registered sex offenders
Immigration Detention Centers: Implications for Social Work
This article examines the dilemmas faced by undocumented immigrants within the criminal justice system vis-à-vis the immigrant detention center and the resulting implications for social work. It explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants in the United States, including an explanation of state policies that have led to the criminalization of immigrants. The criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, in…
The Relationship between Sex Offender Height and Pedophilic Interest
The current study examined the relationship between offender height and pedophilic interest (as measured by having a victim under 13 years old) in a sample of 22,228 registered sex offenders in the United States. Results revealed that offenders with victims age 12 and under were, on average, nearly one-quarter inch shorter than offenders of adults, and .18 inches shorter than those with minor teen victims. Implications for future research about t…
An Analysis of Latino Male Immigrant Sex Offenders in Florida: The Impact of National Solutions on a Transnational Problem
This article assesses whether deported Latino immigrant sex offenders have similar offense types as each other (by country) and as deported non-Latino immigrants, and how they differ in terms of crimes committed and dispositions. To do so, the authors analyzed data available from the state of Florida, a state with one of the largest Latino populations in the United States. It situates the results of research within the current sociopolitical clim…
Undocumented Latino immigrant men in the United States: Policy and practice considerations
This article presents an exploration of undocumented, Latino male immigrants in the United States, and assesses the impact of new state policies and their implications for social work practice. To meet its aims, we describe the psychosocial risks that they face, and situated these risks within the context of new state policy realities. Implications for practice are presented
Assessing reporting patterns of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church using discontinuities in model parameter timeseries
Research Trajectories of Female Scholars in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Other than through its ties to scholarship on the sociology of higher education, the topic of female scholar productivity appears to be timely in light of the gender transformation underway in criminology and criminal justice (e.g., the majority of CCJ graduate students are female, and the CCJ professorate will be majority female if admission patterns hold). Toward this end, the present study provides an examination of the employment patterns and…
The Criminalization of Immigration: Value Conflicts for the Social Work Profession
This article examines the impact of the criminalization of immigration on non-documented immigrants and the profession of social work. To meet its aims, the article explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants within the context of globalization. It then assesses the criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, also referred to as the criminalization of immigration. It subsequently explores the ethical di…
Can general strain theory be used to explain recidivism among registered sex offenders
Undocumented Latino immigrant men in the United States: Policy and practice considerations
This article presents an exploration of undocumented, Latino male immigrants in the United States, and assesses the impact of new state policies and their implications for social work practice. To meet its aims, we describe the psychosocial risks that they face, and situated these risks within the context of new state policy realities. Implications for practice are presented
Assessing reporting patterns of child sexual abuse within the Catholic Church using discontinuities in model parameter timeseries
An Analysis of Latino Male Immigrant Sex Offenders in Florida: The Impact of National Solutions on a Transnational Problem
This article assesses whether deported Latino immigrant sex offenders have similar offense types as each other (by country) and as deported non-Latino immigrants, and how they differ in terms of crimes committed and dispositions. To do so, the authors analyzed data available from the state of Florida, a state with one of the largest Latino populations in the United States. It situates the results of research within the current sociopolitical clim…
The immigration detention center as a transnational problem: Implications for international social work
Over the last decade in the United States, there has been a rapid intensification of the criminalization of immigration. At the nexus of this criminalization is a new institution with potentially profound consequences for transnational migrants, an especially vulnerable population now receiving increased attention from the social work profession. This article explores this phenomenon and its relevance for international social work
Immigration Detention Centers: Implications for Social Work
This article examines the dilemmas faced by undocumented immigrants within the criminal justice system vis-à-vis the immigrant detention center and the resulting implications for social work. It explores the new realities for undocumented immigrants in the United States, including an explanation of state policies that have led to the criminalization of immigrants. The criminal justice and homeland security responses to undocumented immigrants, in…
The Relationship between Sex Offender Height and Pedophilic Interest
The current study examined the relationship between offender height and pedophilic interest (as measured by having a victim under 13 years old) in a sample of 22,228 registered sex offenders in the United States. Results revealed that offenders with victims age 12 and under were, on average, nearly one-quarter inch shorter than offenders of adults, and .18 inches shorter than those with minor teen victims. Implications for future research about t…
New Campus Anti-Rape Movement: Internet Activism and Social Justice
After 40 years of activists working to reduce sexual violence on college campuses, in 2014, the new Campus Anti-Rape Movement (CARM) finally put this issue on the national policy agenda. President Barack Obama credited “an inspiring wave of student-led activism” for catapulting campus rape into public consciousness. This book positions the new CARM within a long history of anti-sexual violence activism in the U.S. The authors describe the major e…
Rape Myths in the Media: A Content Analysis of Local Newspaper Reporting in the United States
Previous research has shown that rape myths are often found in the media reporting of sexual assault. These studies have utilized national newspapers, magazines and television coverage of sexual assault in their examination of sexual assault, very often using celebrity cases as a focal point of the research. In the current study, a content analysis, we utilized one local newspaper from each of the nine geographical regions designated by the Censu…
Sex Offender Height and Pedophilic Interest: A Clarification
The authors investigated the relationship between offender height and pedophilic interest in a sample of 22,228 registered sex offenders (RSOs). Concerns have been raised by a former collaborator that some of the data used in the analyses might be unreliable. In this clarification research note, we respond by briefly summarizing our methodology, describing the concerns, and then discussing our rationale for decisions made in the sampling procedur…
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope
Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors’ who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, th…
I Went off the Derech: Pathways to Relational Disconnection after Sexual Harm in Jewish Spaces
Criminology (10 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Immigration (5 works) · Geography (4 works)