D A Isom
Biographic Data
| ID | 58746 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D A Isom |
| GIVEN NAMES | D A |
| FAMILY NAME | Isom |
| SIGNATURE | ISOM D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9289-0033 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 79 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Editor's Introduction
Turning It Around: Progressive Strategies for Challenging Right-Wing Populism in the Era of Maga
The ascendancy of right-wing populism and neo-liberalism has sapped many, if not most, progressives’ optimism. Since President Donald Trump got re-elected, it appears that things are getting worse every day. The movement toward a harsher, more unequal and less secure society, however, is not confined to the United States—though its expression there may be the most extreme and glaring. What is to be done? In 2019, in response to Trump's first elec…
Gender Differences in Stalking Victimization and Coping Strategies: An Application of Gendered General Strain Theory
This study examines gender differences in the emotional and coping pathways linking stalking victimization to legitimate coping strategies using a gendered general strain theory framework. Using the 2016 Supplemental Victimization Survey, stalking victimization was measured across physical and cyber domains. Forty-eight Poisson-based regression models tested direct and indirect associations of stalking with coping strategies (legal action, behavi…
White “Victim” Ideology and Online Aggression: A Look at Gender, Extremism, and the Dark Triad
This study builds on previous works that ties perceptions of white “victimhood” to affiliations with extremist movements to assess the links between such feelings and online aggression. We further investigate the conditioning effects of dark triad traits, or the overlapping personality characteristics of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, on the associations between “victim” ideology and online aggression, generally and between white …
Race and Justice in 2025
Fear of victimisation among LGBTQ+ students at Latine-focused institutions v. predominately white institutions: An examination across sexuality, gender identity, and ethnoracial identity
Strains and Self-Harm: A Look at LGBQ, Transgender, and Non-binary College Students
Queer criminology is quickly growing but is often not integrated within orthodox theoretical frameworks. Moreover, many studies analyze the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals as a monolithic experience instead of investigating the nuances between sexuality and gender identity. This study bridges these gaps by using a national sample of college students and applying an intersectional, queer criminological lens to a general strain theory framework t…
Issue Introduction 14(2)
The Roles of Race and Mental Health in the On-scene Outcomes of Public Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are most frequently committed by white men. Yet, these white perpetrators often do not meet the same fatal fate as Black people who have committed lesser crimes, particularly in the United States. Furthermore, Black people with mental health issues in such situations are more commonly met with lethal force. This study investigates if disparities exist in the likelihood of being apprehended, taking one's own life, or being killed by…
Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime
Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people. Unlike orthodox traditions that assume whiteness as normative or progressive traditions that center the experiences of the marginalized and oppressed, the theory of whiteness and crime flips those perspectives and turns a lens toward white people’s lived experiences and the ideologies of whiteness. The theory of whitene…
Examining and Expanding Latinx General Strain Theory
Since the initial articulation of general strain theory (GST), Agnew has suggested strains may function differently—in type, response, and impact—for different groups. We build upon Pérez and colleagues’ foundational arguments for a Latinx GST by investigating the role of the ethnically specific strains they propose in addition to other strains argued to disproportionately impact people of Color. Furthermore, we examine the protective role of pos…
Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection
Discrimination, Emotions, and Identity: Unpacking Latinx Pathways to Crime
In the United States, populations of Color are overrepresented across virtually all arenas of the criminal justice system. These realities have led scholars to bring race and ethnicity to the forefront of our examinations of crime and justice. Understanding how culturally specific factors distinctly impact a group is imperative when it comes to understanding why some engage in offending while others do not. Analyzing the pathways specified by the…
Citizens’ Perceptions of Over- and Under-Policing: A Look at Race, Ethnicity, and Community Characteristics
While there is substantial research on community-police relations, most studies examine the abstract outcome of “negative perceptions of police.” This study, however, examines over- and under-policing as two distinct, yet not mutually exclusive, constructs, suggesting that there is more to strained police-community relations than citizens perceiving the police “negatively.” Using the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community…
Weeks to Change a Life: At-Risk Youth in a Fractured State
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between 'Victim' Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump
Employing a racialized gendered lens, we explore the perceptions of status threat and victimhood among a sample of White Americans following the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, we draw upon such theoretical and empirical work to frame our analyses of the associations between perceptions of a white 'victim' ideology and anti-Black Lives Matter (BLM) sentiments and how such associations may be conditioned by support for Trump and holding …
Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right
Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of…
Vicarious Family Health Strain and Juvenile Delinquency
Research finds that vicarious strain significantly predicts juvenile delinquency. However, no studies have examined the influence of vicarious health strain on youth behavior despite the fact that when individuals directly experience poor health, there is a greater likelihood of crime and delinquency. Using a sample of youth from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) data, we assess the associations between vicarious f…
White America, threat to the status quo, and affiliation with the alt-right: A Qualitative Approach
While racial and political tensions have ebbed and flowed throughout American history, one thing makes the current moment distinct—the invasive presence of information through technology. Therefore, the polarization and bias of certain media outlets may exacerbate perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political parties, religions, and so forth, increasing tensions and the gaps between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Using qualitative data from…
What Matters to Formerly Incarcerated Men? Looking Beyond Recidivism as a Measure of Successful Reintegration
This study explored how men recently released from prison conceptualized successful reentry. Qualitative analysis of 12 in-depth life history interviews with formerly incarcerated men revealed that they defined success beyond the literature’s typical focus on criminal behavior avoidance and future criminal justice system contact. The study found several interconnected definitions of success. Central to participants’ conceptions were connection to…
Status, socialization, and identities: Central factors to understand disparities in crime
Although issues related to disparities and inequalities have long been assessed in criminological research, the orthodox approaches to understanding these differences have historically been largely rooted in cultural deficit or individual pathology perspectives. Progressive scholars have long condemned these failings of orthodox criminology, calling for group‐based theories of crime, with some scholars attempting to heed the call. Although such s…
A Gendered Look at Latinx General Strain Theory
This study investigates gendered differences within Latinx experiences using a GST framework. We address four hypotheses: (1) Latinos and Latinas will vary in their degrees of risk for and resilience against criminal behavior; (2) Latinos and Latinas will experience strains to various degrees; (3) Latinos are more likely to respond to strain with violent and serious crime than Latinas due to the types of strains they face and their varying degree…
Disentangling the health-crime relationship among adults: The role of healthcare access and health behaviors
The New Juan Crow? Unpacking the Links Between Discrimination and Crime for Latinxs
This study investigates the impact of various types of discrimination, including injustices from the police, as well as the conditioning effects of a positive ethnic identity on the likelihood of offending for Latinxs. Findings support the notion that discrimination from the police and everyday microaggressions are significant strains for Latinxs that increase their likelihood of offending. Anger is also found to be a significant driving factor. …
Constructing “Bad Girls: Representations of Violent Girls in the Canadian and U.S. News Media
Through a mixed-methods content analysis of media articles published in top-circulating Canadian and US news outlets, we explored the transnational media construction of girls' violence. Four interconnected themes emerged. Across the Canadian and US news media, girls were depicted as sinister villains who enjoyed violence, uncivilized animals who unleashed terror, harlots fueled by jealousy and obsession, or sympathetic average Janes whose violen…
Does victimization reduce self-control? A longitudinal analysis
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between 'Victim' Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump
Employing a racialized gendered lens, we explore the perceptions of status threat and victimhood among a sample of White Americans following the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, we draw upon such theoretical and empirical work to frame our analyses of the associations between perceptions of a white 'victim' ideology and anti-Black Lives Matter (BLM) sentiments and how such associations may be conditioned by support for Trump and holding …
The New Juan Crow? Unpacking the Links Between Discrimination and Crime for Latinxs
This study investigates the impact of various types of discrimination, including injustices from the police, as well as the conditioning effects of a positive ethnic identity on the likelihood of offending for Latinxs. Findings support the notion that discrimination from the police and everyday microaggressions are significant strains for Latinxs that increase their likelihood of offending. Anger is also found to be a significant driving factor. …
Constructing “Bad Girls: Representations of Violent Girls in the Canadian and U.S. News Media
Through a mixed-methods content analysis of media articles published in top-circulating Canadian and US news outlets, we explored the transnational media construction of girls' violence. Four interconnected themes emerged. Across the Canadian and US news media, girls were depicted as sinister villains who enjoyed violence, uncivilized animals who unleashed terror, harlots fueled by jealousy and obsession, or sympathetic average Janes whose violen…
Unpacking the Racial Disparity in Crime from a Racialized General Strain Theory Perspective
Criminologists have long theorized the relationship between race and crime using traditional criminological theories, suggesting that Blacks simply experience more factors conducive to crime than Whites. Race scholars have criticized this “add and stir” approach and, instead, argue for race-based explanations. Racialized General Strain Theory (RGST) is the first traditional approach to address this call to action. To date, however, little researc…
White America, threat to the status quo, and affiliation with the alt-right: A Qualitative Approach
While racial and political tensions have ebbed and flowed throughout American history, one thing makes the current moment distinct—the invasive presence of information through technology. Therefore, the polarization and bias of certain media outlets may exacerbate perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political parties, religions, and so forth, increasing tensions and the gaps between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Using qualitative data from…
Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right
Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of…
A Gendered Look at Latinx General Strain Theory
This study investigates gendered differences within Latinx experiences using a GST framework. We address four hypotheses: (1) Latinos and Latinas will vary in their degrees of risk for and resilience against criminal behavior; (2) Latinos and Latinas will experience strains to various degrees; (3) Latinos are more likely to respond to strain with violent and serious crime than Latinas due to the types of strains they face and their varying degree…
Disentangling the health-crime relationship among adults: The role of healthcare access and health behaviors
Latina Fortitude in the Face of Disadvantage: Exploring the Conditioning Effects of Ethnic Identity and Gendered Ethnic Identity on Latina Offending
Status, socialization, and identities: Central factors to understand disparities in crime
Although issues related to disparities and inequalities have long been assessed in criminological research, the orthodox approaches to understanding these differences have historically been largely rooted in cultural deficit or individual pathology perspectives. Progressive scholars have long condemned these failings of orthodox criminology, calling for group‐based theories of crime, with some scholars attempting to heed the call. Although such s…
The Roles of Race and Mental Health in the On-scene Outcomes of Public Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are most frequently committed by white men. Yet, these white perpetrators often do not meet the same fatal fate as Black people who have committed lesser crimes, particularly in the United States. Furthermore, Black people with mental health issues in such situations are more commonly met with lethal force. This study investigates if disparities exist in the likelihood of being apprehended, taking one's own life, or being killed by…
Weeks to Change a Life: At-Risk Youth in a Fractured State
Does victimization reduce self-control? A longitudinal analysis
An air of injustice? An integrated approach to understanding the link between police injustices and neighborhood rates of violence
This article asks if an “air of injustice,” created by the disproportionate (and often negative) encounters with police in African American communities, leads to violence? An integrated theoretical model drawing upon social disorganization, collective efficacy, and macro strain theories as well as the recent theory of African American offending, is presented as a new theory of violence in African American communities. The primary tenants are then…
Latina Fortitude in the Face of Disadvantage: Exploring the Conditioning Effects of Ethnic Identity and Gendered Ethnic Identity on Latina Offending
Constructing “Bad Girls: Representations of Violent Girls in the Canadian and U.S. News Media
Through a mixed-methods content analysis of media articles published in top-circulating Canadian and US news outlets, we explored the transnational media construction of girls' violence. Four interconnected themes emerged. Across the Canadian and US news media, girls were depicted as sinister villains who enjoyed violence, uncivilized animals who unleashed terror, harlots fueled by jealousy and obsession, or sympathetic average Janes whose violen…
Unpacking the Racial Disparity in Crime from a Racialized General Strain Theory Perspective
Criminologists have long theorized the relationship between race and crime using traditional criminological theories, suggesting that Blacks simply experience more factors conducive to crime than Whites. Race scholars have criticized this “add and stir” approach and, instead, argue for race-based explanations. Racialized General Strain Theory (RGST) is the first traditional approach to address this call to action. To date, however, little researc…
What Matters to Formerly Incarcerated Men? Looking Beyond Recidivism as a Measure of Successful Reintegration
This study explored how men recently released from prison conceptualized successful reentry. Qualitative analysis of 12 in-depth life history interviews with formerly incarcerated men revealed that they defined success beyond the literature’s typical focus on criminal behavior avoidance and future criminal justice system contact. The study found several interconnected definitions of success. Central to participants’ conceptions were connection to…
Status, socialization, and identities: Central factors to understand disparities in crime
Although issues related to disparities and inequalities have long been assessed in criminological research, the orthodox approaches to understanding these differences have historically been largely rooted in cultural deficit or individual pathology perspectives. Progressive scholars have long condemned these failings of orthodox criminology, calling for group‐based theories of crime, with some scholars attempting to heed the call. Although such s…
A Gendered Look at Latinx General Strain Theory
This study investigates gendered differences within Latinx experiences using a GST framework. We address four hypotheses: (1) Latinos and Latinas will vary in their degrees of risk for and resilience against criminal behavior; (2) Latinos and Latinas will experience strains to various degrees; (3) Latinos are more likely to respond to strain with violent and serious crime than Latinas due to the types of strains they face and their varying degree…
Disentangling the health-crime relationship among adults: The role of healthcare access and health behaviors
The New Juan Crow? Unpacking the Links Between Discrimination and Crime for Latinxs
This study investigates the impact of various types of discrimination, including injustices from the police, as well as the conditioning effects of a positive ethnic identity on the likelihood of offending for Latinxs. Findings support the notion that discrimination from the police and everyday microaggressions are significant strains for Latinxs that increase their likelihood of offending. Anger is also found to be a significant driving factor. …
Status Threat, Social Concerns, and Conservative Media: A Look at White America and the Alt-Right
Racial and ethnic division is a mainstay of the American social structure, and today these strains are exacerbated by political binaries. Moreover, the media has become increasingly polarized whereby certain media outlets intensify perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political alignments, and religious affiliations. Using data from a recent psychological study of the Alt-Right, we assess the associations between perceptions of…
Vicarious Family Health Strain and Juvenile Delinquency
Research finds that vicarious strain significantly predicts juvenile delinquency. However, no studies have examined the influence of vicarious health strain on youth behavior despite the fact that when individuals directly experience poor health, there is a greater likelihood of crime and delinquency. Using a sample of youth from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) data, we assess the associations between vicarious f…
White America, threat to the status quo, and affiliation with the alt-right: A Qualitative Approach
While racial and political tensions have ebbed and flowed throughout American history, one thing makes the current moment distinct—the invasive presence of information through technology. Therefore, the polarization and bias of certain media outlets may exacerbate perceived differences between racial and ethnic groups, political parties, religions, and so forth, increasing tensions and the gaps between ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Using qualitative data from…
Discrimination, Emotions, and Identity: Unpacking Latinx Pathways to Crime
In the United States, populations of Color are overrepresented across virtually all arenas of the criminal justice system. These realities have led scholars to bring race and ethnicity to the forefront of our examinations of crime and justice. Understanding how culturally specific factors distinctly impact a group is imperative when it comes to understanding why some engage in offending while others do not. Analyzing the pathways specified by the…
Citizens’ Perceptions of Over- and Under-Policing: A Look at Race, Ethnicity, and Community Characteristics
While there is substantial research on community-police relations, most studies examine the abstract outcome of “negative perceptions of police.” This study, however, examines over- and under-policing as two distinct, yet not mutually exclusive, constructs, suggesting that there is more to strained police-community relations than citizens perceiving the police “negatively.” Using the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods Community…
Weeks to Change a Life: At-Risk Youth in a Fractured State
The White Right: A Gendered Look at the Links Between 'Victim' Ideology and Anti-Black Lives Matter Sentiments in the Era of Trump
Employing a racialized gendered lens, we explore the perceptions of status threat and victimhood among a sample of White Americans following the 2016 presidential election. Specifically, we draw upon such theoretical and empirical work to frame our analyses of the associations between perceptions of a white 'victim' ideology and anti-Black Lives Matter (BLM) sentiments and how such associations may be conditioned by support for Trump and holding …
Gratuitous Angst in White America: A Theory of Whiteness and Crime
Gratuitous Angst in White America presents a new criminological theory that explains the racialized experiences of white people. Unlike orthodox traditions that assume whiteness as normative or progressive traditions that center the experiences of the marginalized and oppressed, the theory of whiteness and crime flips those perspectives and turns a lens toward white people’s lived experiences and the ideologies of whiteness. The theory of whitene…
Examining and Expanding Latinx General Strain Theory
Since the initial articulation of general strain theory (GST), Agnew has suggested strains may function differently—in type, response, and impact—for different groups. We build upon Pérez and colleagues’ foundational arguments for a Latinx GST by investigating the role of the ethnically specific strains they propose in addition to other strains argued to disproportionately impact people of Color. Furthermore, we examine the protective role of pos…
Policing Protest: The Post-Democratic State and the Figure of Black Insurrection
Fear of victimisation among LGBTQ+ students at Latine-focused institutions v. predominately white institutions: An examination across sexuality, gender identity, and ethnoracial identity
Strains and Self-Harm: A Look at LGBQ, Transgender, and Non-binary College Students
Queer criminology is quickly growing but is often not integrated within orthodox theoretical frameworks. Moreover, many studies analyze the experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals as a monolithic experience instead of investigating the nuances between sexuality and gender identity. This study bridges these gaps by using a national sample of college students and applying an intersectional, queer criminological lens to a general strain theory framework t…
Issue Introduction 14(2)
The Roles of Race and Mental Health in the On-scene Outcomes of Public Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are most frequently committed by white men. Yet, these white perpetrators often do not meet the same fatal fate as Black people who have committed lesser crimes, particularly in the United States. Furthermore, Black people with mental health issues in such situations are more commonly met with lethal force. This study investigates if disparities exist in the likelihood of being apprehended, taking one's own life, or being killed by…
White “Victim” Ideology and Online Aggression: A Look at Gender, Extremism, and the Dark Triad
This study builds on previous works that ties perceptions of white “victimhood” to affiliations with extremist movements to assess the links between such feelings and online aggression. We further investigate the conditioning effects of dark triad traits, or the overlapping personality characteristics of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy, on the associations between “victim” ideology and online aggression, generally and between white …
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Political science (15 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (14 works) · Gender Studies (12 works) · Law (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Ethnic group (8 works)