Douglas N Evans
Biographic Data
| ID | 4076441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Douglas N Evans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Douglas N |
| FAMILY NAME | Evans |
| SIGNATURE | EVANS D N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7272-4468 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Psychological and Emotional Impacts on Families of People Involved in the Legal System for Sex Offenses
Legal system involvement can have enduring impacts on family members, especially when their kin is convicted of a sexual offense. With nearly one million people enduring legal proceedings, incarcerated, or mandated to register for a sex offense, the amount of family members who experience symbiotic harms from legal system contact is immense. This qualitative study focuses on the psychological and emotional repercussions of a family member’s legal…
The Evolution of Psychological and Emotional Effects of Visitation on Families of People Incarcerated in the United States
Purpose: Recent research has explored the collateral effects of incarceration on families. This study extends this research by exploring the psychological and emotional effects of visitation on family members of people incarcerated. Design: Data come from in-depth interviews with 35 participants who experienced an immediate family member’s incarceration. Transcripts of these interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings: Re…
Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions
This study investigates how administrative burden in college admissions affects individuals with criminal records, with attention to racial disparities. Grounded in administrative burden theory and the role of street‐level bureaucrats, it examines how admissions representatives respond to applicants with disclosed criminal histories. Through a correspondence audit experiment, fictitious applicants—Tyrone (presumed Black) and Christopher (presumed…
Disclosing Survivor/Victim Identity in the Search for Queer Sexual Relationships: An Experimental Audit Study of Lesbian and Gay Users on Mobile Dating Apps
She’s Not That into You: Speed Dating with a Criminal Record
Prosocial relationships are beneficial to post-conviction reintegration, but criminal stigma may limit romantic relationship access. This study implements an experimental audit of speed dating, which allows people to meet several potential partners in a brief time, to explore how conviction disclosure, offense type, and attractiveness and personality ratings affect dating interest. Three women and three men confederates of different races/ethnici…
Perceptions of legal system legitimacy among family members of individuals incarcerated for sex offenses
Shame and blame: Secondary stigma among families of convicted sex offenders
The detriment of incarceration experienced by the formerly incarcerated has been increasingly explored in the literature on reentry. A tangential but equally concerning issue that has recently received more research attention is the effect on family members of the incarcerated. The stigma of a criminal conviction is most apparent among families of convicted sex offenders, who experience consequences parallel to those of their convicted relative. …
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
Going Back to College? Criminal Stigma in Higher Education Admissions in Northeastern U.S
Sex Offender Stigma: An Exploration of Vigilantism against Sex Offenders
The current study compiles open-source news reports involving vigilantes who targeted individuals because of their status as a sex offender (SO) or their suspected involvement in a sex offense. The Sex Offender-Vigilante database includes 279 separate incidents of vigilantism against SOs, ranging from the dissemination of unsanctioned fliers to murder. Results indicate that the stigmatization that convicted SOs experience is so pervasive that it …
Renting Apartments to Felons: Variations in Real Estate Agent Decisions due to Stigma
The study provides a qualitative analysis of 300 real estate agent responses to telephone calls from researchers posing as convicted felons and inquiring about renting an apartment. Telephone calls were made to real estate agents in New York State and primarily in New York City. Criminal conviction type was manipulated across callers who revealed three types of prior convictions: child molestation, statutory rape, or drug trafficking. Analyses in…
Stigma and outdoor smoking breaks: Self-perceptions of outdoor smokers in Manhattan
An Exploration of Stigma in the Lives of Sex Offenders and Heroin Abusers
Research was conducted on variations and commonalities of sexual offenders and heroin abusers and how they manage stigma in their everyday lives. Interviews with 13 sex offenders (SOs) and 44 heroin abusers (HAs) were conducted in New York City. Results suggest that both SOs and HAs disclose or conceal their stigmatized status based on their relationship to others and the situations in which they anticipate social condemnation. Both groups have f…
Ryan Moore: Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music Youth Culture and Social Crisis
Energy Demand Management: The Next Phase
The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers
Energy Policies of the World I: Canada, China, Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Venezuela, Iran
The Politics of Energy: The Emergence of the Superstate
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
Sex Offender Stigma: An Exploration of Vigilantism against Sex Offenders
The current study compiles open-source news reports involving vigilantes who targeted individuals because of their status as a sex offender (SO) or their suspected involvement in a sex offense. The Sex Offender-Vigilante database includes 279 separate incidents of vigilantism against SOs, ranging from the dissemination of unsanctioned fliers to murder. Results indicate that the stigmatization that convicted SOs experience is so pervasive that it …
Renting Apartments to Felons: Variations in Real Estate Agent Decisions due to Stigma
The study provides a qualitative analysis of 300 real estate agent responses to telephone calls from researchers posing as convicted felons and inquiring about renting an apartment. Telephone calls were made to real estate agents in New York State and primarily in New York City. Criminal conviction type was manipulated across callers who revealed three types of prior convictions: child molestation, statutory rape, or drug trafficking. Analyses in…
Going Back to College? Criminal Stigma in Higher Education Admissions in Northeastern U.S
Shame and blame: Secondary stigma among families of convicted sex offenders
The detriment of incarceration experienced by the formerly incarcerated has been increasingly explored in the literature on reentry. A tangential but equally concerning issue that has recently received more research attention is the effect on family members of the incarcerated. The stigma of a criminal conviction is most apparent among families of convicted sex offenders, who experience consequences parallel to those of their convicted relative. …
An Exploration of Stigma in the Lives of Sex Offenders and Heroin Abusers
Research was conducted on variations and commonalities of sexual offenders and heroin abusers and how they manage stigma in their everyday lives. Interviews with 13 sex offenders (SOs) and 44 heroin abusers (HAs) were conducted in New York City. Results suggest that both SOs and HAs disclose or conceal their stigmatized status based on their relationship to others and the situations in which they anticipate social condemnation. Both groups have f…
The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Stigma and outdoor smoking breaks: Self-perceptions of outdoor smokers in Manhattan
The Politics of Energy: The Emergence of the Superstate
Energy Policies of the World I: Canada, China, Arab States of the Persian Gulf, Venezuela, Iran
Energy Demand Management: The Next Phase
The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers
Ryan Moore: Sells Like Teen Spirit: Music Youth Culture and Social Crisis
Stigma and outdoor smoking breaks: Self-perceptions of outdoor smokers in Manhattan
An Exploration of Stigma in the Lives of Sex Offenders and Heroin Abusers
Research was conducted on variations and commonalities of sexual offenders and heroin abusers and how they manage stigma in their everyday lives. Interviews with 13 sex offenders (SOs) and 44 heroin abusers (HAs) were conducted in New York City. Results suggest that both SOs and HAs disclose or conceal their stigmatized status based on their relationship to others and the situations in which they anticipate social condemnation. Both groups have f…
Renting Apartments to Felons: Variations in Real Estate Agent Decisions due to Stigma
The study provides a qualitative analysis of 300 real estate agent responses to telephone calls from researchers posing as convicted felons and inquiring about renting an apartment. Telephone calls were made to real estate agents in New York State and primarily in New York City. Criminal conviction type was manipulated across callers who revealed three types of prior convictions: child molestation, statutory rape, or drug trafficking. Analyses in…
Examining housing discrimination across race, gender and felony history
Those who have been convicted of crimes are subjected to a stigma that affects many aspects of their social lives. The “felon” label brings collateral consequences that make it difficult to obtain basic human needs, including housing. This study uses the audit method to examine the effects of race, gender, and criminal history on housing outcomes. Testers, exhibiting characteristics suggestive of race and gender and disclosing one of three offens…
Going Back to College? Criminal Stigma in Higher Education Admissions in Northeastern U.S
Sex Offender Stigma: An Exploration of Vigilantism against Sex Offenders
The current study compiles open-source news reports involving vigilantes who targeted individuals because of their status as a sex offender (SO) or their suspected involvement in a sex offense. The Sex Offender-Vigilante database includes 279 separate incidents of vigilantism against SOs, ranging from the dissemination of unsanctioned fliers to murder. Results indicate that the stigmatization that convicted SOs experience is so pervasive that it …
Swipe Right: Experimental Analyses of App-Based Dating in the Age of Criminal Stigma
Stigma associated with prior incarceration could make dating difficult. To test this in online dating, an experimental audit used constructed dating app profiles of Black, Latinx, and White males and females. Experimental and control profiles were identical with the exception of a parole disclosure statement in bios of experimental profiles. Surprisingly, the White female profile disclosing parole was the only one to match with significantly fewe…
Shame and blame: Secondary stigma among families of convicted sex offenders
The detriment of incarceration experienced by the formerly incarcerated has been increasingly explored in the literature on reentry. A tangential but equally concerning issue that has recently received more research attention is the effect on family members of the incarcerated. The stigma of a criminal conviction is most apparent among families of convicted sex offenders, who experience consequences parallel to those of their convicted relative. …
The Frontline of Housing Access: Comparing Criminal Stigma among Landlords and Real Estate Agents in New York
She’s Not That into You: Speed Dating with a Criminal Record
Prosocial relationships are beneficial to post-conviction reintegration, but criminal stigma may limit romantic relationship access. This study implements an experimental audit of speed dating, which allows people to meet several potential partners in a brief time, to explore how conviction disclosure, offense type, and attractiveness and personality ratings affect dating interest. Three women and three men confederates of different races/ethnici…
Perceptions of legal system legitimacy among family members of individuals incarcerated for sex offenses
Disclosing Survivor/Victim Identity in the Search for Queer Sexual Relationships: An Experimental Audit Study of Lesbian and Gay Users on Mobile Dating Apps
The Evolution of Psychological and Emotional Effects of Visitation on Families of People Incarcerated in the United States
Purpose: Recent research has explored the collateral effects of incarceration on families. This study extends this research by exploring the psychological and emotional effects of visitation on family members of people incarcerated. Design: Data come from in-depth interviews with 35 participants who experienced an immediate family member’s incarceration. Transcripts of these interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings: Re…
Administrative Burden in Higher Education: Race, Criminal Records, and Street‐Level Bureaucrats in College Admissions
This study investigates how administrative burden in college admissions affects individuals with criminal records, with attention to racial disparities. Grounded in administrative burden theory and the role of street‐level bureaucrats, it examines how admissions representatives respond to applicants with disclosed criminal histories. Through a correspondence audit experiment, fictitious applicants—Tyrone (presumed Black) and Christopher (presumed…
Psychological and Emotional Impacts on Families of People Involved in the Legal System for Sex Offenses
Legal system involvement can have enduring impacts on family members, especially when their kin is convicted of a sexual offense. With nearly one million people enduring legal proceedings, incarcerated, or mandated to register for a sex offense, the amount of family members who experience symbiotic harms from legal system contact is immense. This qualitative study focuses on the psychological and emotional repercussions of a family member’s legal…
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