Kristin Swartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076331 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin Swartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin |
| FAMILY NAME | Swartz |
| SIGNATURE | SWARTZ K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Louisville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1337-6632 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Which CO Should We Attack? Applying Target Congruence to Correctional Staff Assault
Recently, much attention has emphasized understanding the negative health outcomes of working in corrections; however, understanding correctional staff victimization has largely been neglected. Therefore, we aim to address this gap in the literature by using target congruence theory to better understand risk of physical assault and verbal and sexual harassment of institutional correctional staff. Using data from a statewide random sample of corre…
Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work
A history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations in dehumanizing contexts. In criminology, scholarship has detailed concern over how carceral contexts produce detriment via emotional labour for workers. Although prison work has been shown to necessitate emotional suppression, studies also find workers can bear intimacy for the incarcerated. We contribute to the prison scholarsh…
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
From Soldiers to Staff Members: An Examination of Veteran Status Across Occupational Outcomes Within the Prison Context
Some prison systems across the United States actively recruit veterans of the Armed Forces based on the idea that prior military experience is an asset for prison work—a presupposition that has yet to be empirically validated. We examined whether military experience is relevant in explaining variation in occupational outcomes in a statewide random sample of prison staff in Kentucky. Results from a structural equation model (confirmatory factor an…
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
The State of Authorship in Criminology: Perceptions of Right and Order among Elite Criminologists
Although journal outlets are beginning to put forth explicit criteria that define authorship, studies have also found that there are nonetheless components of authorship philosophies that remain interactional and culturally defined among members of particular scientific communities. In line with other scientific fields, authorship practices and philosophies are central to publishing in criminology. By drawing from a set of 40 interviews with elit…
Pick Your Poison: Examining Adolescent Substance Use through Opportunity Theory
The present study examines substance use behaviors of middle and high school students, focusing on how varying influences of opportunity measures impact use of specific types of substances. The data used in the present study come from almost 4,000 students within 89 school contexts from students attending public school in a Southern state. HLM is used to explore the influence of various opportunities at both the student and school-level on the us…
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
Edgeways as a theoretical extension: Connecting crime pattern theory and New Urbanism
Respect: Applying Anderson's Code of the Street to the Online Context
Anderson's work on street codes has become a seminal piece in cultural criminology. Today, it is frequently argued that street-oriented cultural beliefs are strongly linked to criminal offending. While numerous studies have found support for this link, research has yet to examine this relationship as it applies to Internet-based criminal behaviors. The current study attempts to fill this gap by examining both the predictors and effect of similar …
Racially Homophilous Social Ties and Informal Social Control
Social disorganization theory argues that racial/ethnic heterogeneity is a key neighborhood characteristic leading to social disorganization and, consequently, higher levels of crime. Heterogeneity's effect is argued to be a result of its fragmentation of social ties along racial/ethnic lines, which creates racially homophilous social networks with few ties bridging racial/ethnic groups. Most studies of social ties in social disorganization model…
Tax Cuts and Cynicism
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
Respect: Applying Anderson's Code of the Street to the Online Context
Anderson's work on street codes has become a seminal piece in cultural criminology. Today, it is frequently argued that street-oriented cultural beliefs are strongly linked to criminal offending. While numerous studies have found support for this link, research has yet to examine this relationship as it applies to Internet-based criminal behaviors. The current study attempts to fill this gap by examining both the predictors and effect of similar …
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
Racially Homophilous Social Ties and Informal Social Control
Social disorganization theory argues that racial/ethnic heterogeneity is a key neighborhood characteristic leading to social disorganization and, consequently, higher levels of crime. Heterogeneity's effect is argued to be a result of its fragmentation of social ties along racial/ethnic lines, which creates racially homophilous social networks with few ties bridging racial/ethnic groups. Most studies of social ties in social disorganization model…
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
Pick Your Poison: Examining Adolescent Substance Use through Opportunity Theory
The present study examines substance use behaviors of middle and high school students, focusing on how varying influences of opportunity measures impact use of specific types of substances. The data used in the present study come from almost 4,000 students within 89 school contexts from students attending public school in a Southern state. HLM is used to explore the influence of various opportunities at both the student and school-level on the us…
Tax Cuts and Cynicism
Racially Homophilous Social Ties and Informal Social Control
Social disorganization theory argues that racial/ethnic heterogeneity is a key neighborhood characteristic leading to social disorganization and, consequently, higher levels of crime. Heterogeneity's effect is argued to be a result of its fragmentation of social ties along racial/ethnic lines, which creates racially homophilous social networks with few ties bridging racial/ethnic groups. Most studies of social ties in social disorganization model…
Edgeways as a theoretical extension: Connecting crime pattern theory and New Urbanism
Respect: Applying Anderson's Code of the Street to the Online Context
Anderson's work on street codes has become a seminal piece in cultural criminology. Today, it is frequently argued that street-oriented cultural beliefs are strongly linked to criminal offending. While numerous studies have found support for this link, research has yet to examine this relationship as it applies to Internet-based criminal behaviors. The current study attempts to fill this gap by examining both the predictors and effect of similar …
The Knowing of Monstrosities: Necropower, Spectacular Punishment and Denial
The State of Authorship in Criminology: Perceptions of Right and Order among Elite Criminologists
Although journal outlets are beginning to put forth explicit criteria that define authorship, studies have also found that there are nonetheless components of authorship philosophies that remain interactional and culturally defined among members of particular scientific communities. In line with other scientific fields, authorship practices and philosophies are central to publishing in criminology. By drawing from a set of 40 interviews with elit…
Pick Your Poison: Examining Adolescent Substance Use through Opportunity Theory
The present study examines substance use behaviors of middle and high school students, focusing on how varying influences of opportunity measures impact use of specific types of substances. The data used in the present study come from almost 4,000 students within 89 school contexts from students attending public school in a Southern state. HLM is used to explore the influence of various opportunities at both the student and school-level on the us…
Pursuing a Correctional Career: The Motivations and Reasons for Staying
Researchers have argued that the field of corrections is plagued by problems such as high turnover and increasing difficulties with hiring. There are a number of reasons to avoid pursuing correctional work, including unfavorable working conditions, high levels of organizational and occupational stress, and negative cultural stigma. However, despite these reasons to avoid pursing a correctional career, there are still well over four-hundred thousa…
Who belongs in school? Examining the link between Black and White racial disparities in sense of school belonging and suspension
Relative to White students, Black students experience higher rates of exclusionary discipline and less welcoming school environments. However, little empirical research has examined the extent to which these two parallel racial disparities are linked. This study examines the relationship between student race and suspension and whether this relationship depends on school-level racial disparities in students' sense of school belonging. Using data f…
From Soldiers to Staff Members: An Examination of Veteran Status Across Occupational Outcomes Within the Prison Context
Some prison systems across the United States actively recruit veterans of the Armed Forces based on the idea that prior military experience is an asset for prison work—a presupposition that has yet to be empirically validated. We examined whether military experience is relevant in explaining variation in occupational outcomes in a statewide random sample of prison staff in Kentucky. Results from a structural equation model (confirmatory factor an…
We keep the nightmares in their cages”: Correctional culture, identity, and the warped badge of honor
Correctional scholarship has demonstrated concern over the dehumanizing implications of the carceral state for incarcerated people. This concern has been paralleled by an interest in understanding the work of prison staff and how correctional subculture may play an active role in prison dehumanization. By drawing from focus groups from all prisons in one state, we investigate how correctional staff construct and manage their identity through “us–…
School Safety or School Criminalization? The Typical day of A School Resource Officer in the United States
School resource officers (SROs) have become increasingly common in schools in the United States and this growth of police in schools has taken place as part of a trend of school criminalization. In a school criminalization framework, scholars have focused on physical security measures and punitive outcomes for students, however, the subtler dimensions have been less explored. We draw on 26 interviews where SROs were asked to detail their typical …
They Might Not Kill You Today but They’re Going to Get You in the End’: The Correctional Subculture and the Schematization of Danger
Criminology has long investigated criminal justice cultures and their preoccupation with dangerousness. Over a half century ago, correctional scholars called for a richer understanding of how a ‘social reality’ of danger might shape the mental state of staff. More recently, correctional scholarship has demonstrated that correctional culture and perceptions of danger likely play a fundamental role in findings that staff experience conflict across …
Hazardous on My Soul’: (Dis)compassion and Emotive Dissonance in Prison Work
A history of social research has aimed to illuminate consequences for the psyche of workers that carry out occupations in dehumanizing contexts. In criminology, scholarship has detailed concern over how carceral contexts produce detriment via emotional labour for workers. Although prison work has been shown to necessitate emotional suppression, studies also find workers can bear intimacy for the incarcerated. We contribute to the prison scholarsh…
Which CO Should We Attack? Applying Target Congruence to Correctional Staff Assault
Recently, much attention has emphasized understanding the negative health outcomes of working in corrections; however, understanding correctional staff victimization has largely been neglected. Therefore, we aim to address this gap in the literature by using target congruence theory to better understand risk of physical assault and verbal and sexual harassment of institutional correctional staff. Using data from a statewide random sample of corre…
Criminology (11 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Prison (4 works)