Ellen A Donnelly
Biographic Data
| ID | 643359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellen A Donnelly |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Donnelly |
| SIGNATURE | DONNELLY E A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Delaware |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4612-0916 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental health co-responder programs: Assessing impacts and estimating the cost savings of diversion from hospitalization and incarceration
To better serve people with mental illness (PWMI), law enforcement agencies have considered programmatic alternatives to arrest, transport, or informal guidance. The police-clinician, co-responder model represents one such approach that promises cost-saving deflections. This study examines a co-responder program led by specially trained police officers and mental health professionals embedded in the New Castle County Division of Police (NCCPD). I…
Revisiting Neighborhood Context and Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests Under the Opioid Epidemic
As opioid addiction has risen in recent years, racial disparities in drug arrests may be changing in their size and sources. Neighborhood conditions, like economic disadvantage and racial composition, are powerful determinants of racial differences in arrests. Overdoses and police responses to these incidents may, however, alter the neighborhood context of drug arrests, especially those tied to heroin, synthetic narcotics, and related opium deriv…
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences
As an extra-legal factor, social context is a key contributor to racial/ethnic disparities in incarceration sentences. Neighborhoods may have important, yet underexplored influences on sentencing. This study evaluates whether the social conditions and racial characteristics of communities where defendants allegedly offend affect Black-White sentencing disparities. Three-level multilevel model results suggest larger Black populations in neighborho…
Data Science Approaches in Criminal Justice and Public Health Research: Lessons Learned From Opioid Projects
The persistence of the nation’s opioid epidemic has called on criminal justice and public health agencies to collaborate more than ever. This epidemiological criminology framework highlights the surveillance of public health and safety, often using data science approaches, to inform best practices. The purpose of our article is to delineate the main benefits and challenges of adopting data science approaches for epidemiological criminology partne…
Opioids, Race, Context, and Journeys to Crime: Analyzing Black–White Differences in Travel Associated With Opioid Possession Offenses
Journeys to crime, or distances traveled from residences to places of alleged crimes, describe how people enter into the criminal justice system. Race, as an ascribed characteristic of individuals and a determinant of community conditions, introduces disparities in journeys to crime. Use of opioids among nonurban, White populations and changing law enforcement responses prompt inquiry into how race affects journeys to crime associated with opioid…
What Context Matters and at What Level? A Test of Racial/Ethnic Threat, Symbolic Threat, and Structural Inequality Perspectives in Juvenile Court Decision-Making
Do traditional theories of conflict influence juvenile court decision-making and explain racial/ethnic disparities? Racial/ethnic threat, symbolic threat, and structural inequality perspectives purport social controls increase when groups differ in race, ethnicity, or class. Scholarship tends to test one perspective at a time and use county as a unit of analysis. Taking a comparative approach, this study evaluates whether contextual indicators of…
The Current Community Context of Overdose Deaths: Relations among Drug Types, Drug Markets, and Socioeconomic Neighborhood Characteristics 1
Increases in opioid overdose deaths have been pronounced throughout the nation. The current narrative about them stresses their reach into middle‐class America while theories that link substance use etiology and drug markets, such as availability‐proneness theory, suggest that lower‐income communities should be most impacted. The latter might be especially true due to the increased involvement of cheap and highly potent fentanyl. This study uses …
Prescription Drug Histories among Drug Overdose Decedents in Delaware
Background: The US opioid epidemic largely featured deaths from prescribed medications during Wave 1 (1990–2010), but its progression since then has resulted more so from deaths to illegal opioids—such as heroin (Wave 2 – 2010–2013) and fentanyl (Wave 3 – 2013-present). As deaths to illegally manufactured fentanyl have increased, attention to the role of prescribed opioids may be waning. However, the shifting nature of today’s opioid epidemic dem…
Who challenges disparities in capital punishment: An analysis of state legislative floor debates on death penalty reform
In McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court tasked legislatures, rather than courts, with redressing racial disparities in capital punishment. Elected officials must then decide to amend disparate death penalty procedures. Analyzing floor debates, we explore why legislators make arguments for racial disparity or fairness in deliberations of death penalty reforms. Results suggest views on race and the death penalty are products of partisanship, consti…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic disparities in judicial processing
This article examines the importance of neighborhoods in shaping judicial processing and racial/ethnic disparities in court outcomes. Scholarship instructs that court actors—prosecutors, defense counsel, and judges—make legal decisions with local communities in mind. With the rise of geographic information in arrest records and mapping techniques, greater opportunities exist to evaluate the role of neighborhood context in the juvenile and crimina…
Joblessness, Poverty, and Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty
Political and public rhetoric often tout the detrimental effects of poverty and the stabilizing effects of jobs when discussing issues of crime and disorder. Several decades ago, William Julius Wilson proposed that while poverty has been a long-standing problem across U.S. cities, a “new urban poverty” associated with the massive disappearance of jobs may better explain neighborhood crime and violence. Although scholarship continues to theorize a…
Privacy of Individuals in Social Research: Confidentiality
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences
As an extra-legal factor, social context is a key contributor to racial/ethnic disparities in incarceration sentences. Neighborhoods may have important, yet underexplored influences on sentencing. This study evaluates whether the social conditions and racial characteristics of communities where defendants allegedly offend affect Black-White sentencing disparities. Three-level multilevel model results suggest larger Black populations in neighborho…
The Current Community Context of Overdose Deaths: Relations among Drug Types, Drug Markets, and Socioeconomic Neighborhood Characteristics 1
Increases in opioid overdose deaths have been pronounced throughout the nation. The current narrative about them stresses their reach into middle‐class America while theories that link substance use etiology and drug markets, such as availability‐proneness theory, suggest that lower‐income communities should be most impacted. The latter might be especially true due to the increased involvement of cheap and highly potent fentanyl. This study uses …
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic disparities in judicial processing
This article examines the importance of neighborhoods in shaping judicial processing and racial/ethnic disparities in court outcomes. Scholarship instructs that court actors—prosecutors, defense counsel, and judges—make legal decisions with local communities in mind. With the rise of geographic information in arrest records and mapping techniques, greater opportunities exist to evaluate the role of neighborhood context in the juvenile and crimina…
Joblessness, Poverty, and Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty
Political and public rhetoric often tout the detrimental effects of poverty and the stabilizing effects of jobs when discussing issues of crime and disorder. Several decades ago, William Julius Wilson proposed that while poverty has been a long-standing problem across U.S. cities, a “new urban poverty” associated with the massive disappearance of jobs may better explain neighborhood crime and violence. Although scholarship continues to theorize a…
Privacy of Individuals in Social Research: Confidentiality
Joblessness, Poverty, and Neighborhood Crime: Testing Wilson’s Assertions of Jobless Poverty
Political and public rhetoric often tout the detrimental effects of poverty and the stabilizing effects of jobs when discussing issues of crime and disorder. Several decades ago, William Julius Wilson proposed that while poverty has been a long-standing problem across U.S. cities, a “new urban poverty” associated with the massive disappearance of jobs may better explain neighborhood crime and violence. Although scholarship continues to theorize a…
Prescription Drug Histories among Drug Overdose Decedents in Delaware
Background: The US opioid epidemic largely featured deaths from prescribed medications during Wave 1 (1990–2010), but its progression since then has resulted more so from deaths to illegal opioids—such as heroin (Wave 2 – 2010–2013) and fentanyl (Wave 3 – 2013-present). As deaths to illegally manufactured fentanyl have increased, attention to the role of prescribed opioids may be waning. However, the shifting nature of today’s opioid epidemic dem…
Who challenges disparities in capital punishment: An analysis of state legislative floor debates on death penalty reform
In McCleskey v. Kemp, the Supreme Court tasked legislatures, rather than courts, with redressing racial disparities in capital punishment. Elected officials must then decide to amend disparate death penalty procedures. Analyzing floor debates, we explore why legislators make arguments for racial disparity or fairness in deliberations of death penalty reforms. Results suggest views on race and the death penalty are products of partisanship, consti…
Neighborhood context and racial/ethnic disparities in judicial processing
This article examines the importance of neighborhoods in shaping judicial processing and racial/ethnic disparities in court outcomes. Scholarship instructs that court actors—prosecutors, defense counsel, and judges—make legal decisions with local communities in mind. With the rise of geographic information in arrest records and mapping techniques, greater opportunities exist to evaluate the role of neighborhood context in the juvenile and crimina…
Data Science Approaches in Criminal Justice and Public Health Research: Lessons Learned From Opioid Projects
The persistence of the nation’s opioid epidemic has called on criminal justice and public health agencies to collaborate more than ever. This epidemiological criminology framework highlights the surveillance of public health and safety, often using data science approaches, to inform best practices. The purpose of our article is to delineate the main benefits and challenges of adopting data science approaches for epidemiological criminology partne…
Opioids, Race, Context, and Journeys to Crime: Analyzing Black–White Differences in Travel Associated With Opioid Possession Offenses
Journeys to crime, or distances traveled from residences to places of alleged crimes, describe how people enter into the criminal justice system. Race, as an ascribed characteristic of individuals and a determinant of community conditions, introduces disparities in journeys to crime. Use of opioids among nonurban, White populations and changing law enforcement responses prompt inquiry into how race affects journeys to crime associated with opioid…
What Context Matters and at What Level? A Test of Racial/Ethnic Threat, Symbolic Threat, and Structural Inequality Perspectives in Juvenile Court Decision-Making
Do traditional theories of conflict influence juvenile court decision-making and explain racial/ethnic disparities? Racial/ethnic threat, symbolic threat, and structural inequality perspectives purport social controls increase when groups differ in race, ethnicity, or class. Scholarship tends to test one perspective at a time and use county as a unit of analysis. Taking a comparative approach, this study evaluates whether contextual indicators of…
The Current Community Context of Overdose Deaths: Relations among Drug Types, Drug Markets, and Socioeconomic Neighborhood Characteristics 1
Increases in opioid overdose deaths have been pronounced throughout the nation. The current narrative about them stresses their reach into middle‐class America while theories that link substance use etiology and drug markets, such as availability‐proneness theory, suggest that lower‐income communities should be most impacted. The latter might be especially true due to the increased involvement of cheap and highly potent fentanyl. This study uses …
Revisiting Neighborhood Context and Racial Disparities in Drug Arrests Under the Opioid Epidemic
As opioid addiction has risen in recent years, racial disparities in drug arrests may be changing in their size and sources. Neighborhood conditions, like economic disadvantage and racial composition, are powerful determinants of racial differences in arrests. Overdoses and police responses to these incidents may, however, alter the neighborhood context of drug arrests, especially those tied to heroin, synthetic narcotics, and related opium deriv…
Neighborhoods, Criminal Incidents, Race, and Sentencing: Exploring the Racial and Social Context of Disparities in Incarceration Sentences
As an extra-legal factor, social context is a key contributor to racial/ethnic disparities in incarceration sentences. Neighborhoods may have important, yet underexplored influences on sentencing. This study evaluates whether the social conditions and racial characteristics of communities where defendants allegedly offend affect Black-White sentencing disparities. Three-level multilevel model results suggest larger Black populations in neighborho…
Mental health co-responder programs: Assessing impacts and estimating the cost savings of diversion from hospitalization and incarceration
To better serve people with mental illness (PWMI), law enforcement agencies have considered programmatic alternatives to arrest, transport, or informal guidance. The police-clinician, co-responder model represents one such approach that promises cost-saving deflections. This study examines a co-responder program led by specially trained police officers and mental health professionals embedded in the New Castle County Division of Police (NCCPD). I…
Sociology (9 works) · Criminology (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Opioid Use Disorder Treatment (5 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (4 works) · Criminal justice (4 works)