Amy Shlosberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 4199288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Shlosberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Shlosberg |
| SIGNATURE | SHLOSBERG A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairleigh Dickinson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Did she do it? Assessing culpability among a true crime audience
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives
Individuals make sense of experience through telling stories they hope others will hear. To establish an interpretive connection with their audience, narrators must tell stories that are tellable, conceptualized as engaging but not too socially or emotionally challenging. We analyze the narratives of death-sentenced exoneree activists. When depicting their wrongful convictions, we find exoneree activists convey accepted critiques of criminal just…
Rape Myths in the Media
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…
A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending
Prisonization, which seeks to explain criminal behavior as a function of past prison experiences, has been examined through many lenses; however, more novel approaches to exploring prisonization have been lacking. This study uniquely explores the concept of prisonization by describing the post-release behavior of 118 wrongfully convicted individuals, known as exonerees.Conclusions were drawn from a dataset of exonerees and criminal history backgr…
Diversion
Diversion policies and programs are community‐based services or sanctions offered to, or imposed on, prison‐ or jail‐bound offenders at any stage of the adjudication process. Avoidance of incarceration and treatment of the dysfunctions underlying specific criminal behaviors are their defining features. They are proposed as solutions to the problems of prison overcrowding, spiraling prison costs, and high recidivism among incarcerated offenders. F…
Rape Myths in the Media
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…
A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending
Prisonization, which seeks to explain criminal behavior as a function of past prison experiences, has been examined through many lenses; however, more novel approaches to exploring prisonization have been lacking. This study uniquely explores the concept of prisonization by describing the post-release behavior of 118 wrongfully convicted individuals, known as exonerees.Conclusions were drawn from a dataset of exonerees and criminal history backgr…
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives
Individuals make sense of experience through telling stories they hope others will hear. To establish an interpretive connection with their audience, narrators must tell stories that are tellable, conceptualized as engaging but not too socially or emotionally challenging. We analyze the narratives of death-sentenced exoneree activists. When depicting their wrongful convictions, we find exoneree activists convey accepted critiques of criminal just…
Diversion
Diversion policies and programs are community‐based services or sanctions offered to, or imposed on, prison‐ or jail‐bound offenders at any stage of the adjudication process. Avoidance of incarceration and treatment of the dysfunctions underlying specific criminal behaviors are their defining features. They are proposed as solutions to the problems of prison overcrowding, spiraling prison costs, and high recidivism among incarcerated offenders. F…
Rape Myths in the Media
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…
A Descriptive Examination of Prisonization through the Lens of Post-Exoneration Offending
Prisonization, which seeks to explain criminal behavior as a function of past prison experiences, has been examined through many lenses; however, more novel approaches to exploring prisonization have been lacking. This study uniquely explores the concept of prisonization by describing the post-release behavior of 118 wrongfully convicted individuals, known as exonerees.Conclusions were drawn from a dataset of exonerees and criminal history backgr…
Enhancing the tellability of death-row exoneree narratives
Individuals make sense of experience through telling stories they hope others will hear. To establish an interpretive connection with their audience, narrators must tell stories that are tellable, conceptualized as engaging but not too socially or emotionally challenging. We analyze the narratives of death-sentenced exoneree activists. When depicting their wrongful convictions, we find exoneree activists convey accepted critiques of criminal just…
Did she do it? Assessing culpability among a true crime audience
Psychology (5 works) · Criminology (4 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Prison (2 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (2 works)