Doctoral student Erica Dalzell's Masters Thesis was recently published in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, titled Ad...

Congratulations to doctoral student MK Kitzmiller, who was awarded the 2021 MSU Grad Student Award for Community Engagement Scholarship. ...

Dr. Cavanagh was awarded funding from the MSU College of Social Science entitled, Identifying the Critical Trustees for Increasing COVID-...

Doctoral student MK Kitzmiller earned the Hiram E. Fitzgerald Engaged Scholar Fellowship. This award supports recipients’ professional de...

Doctoral student MK Kitzmiller's Masters Thesis was recently published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, titled Parental incarcerati...

Congratulations are in order for undergraduate research assistant Claire Chie, whose independent research project, "The Role of Protectiv...

Congratulations are in order for undergraduate research assistant Zarria Bronner, whose independent research project, "The Association Be...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, How do Adolescents Develop Legal Cynicism? A Test of Legal Socialization Mechanisms Among Youth Involved i...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Implications of youths’ perceptions of police bias and the code of the street for violent offending, was r...

Dr. Cavanagh was awarded funding from the College of Social Science to examine the impact of the COVID19 global pandemic on the experienc...

Marina Henke, a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, was awarded a post-baccalaureate fellowship to work with Dr. Cavanagh during summer 2...

Dr. Cavanagh and co-PI Dr. April Thomas (UTEP) were awarded an NSF RAPID grant to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on justice-in...

Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Lesson learned? Mothers’ legal knowledge and juvenile rearrests, was recently published in Law and Human B...

Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Youth Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Worry About Crime From 1976 to 2016, published in Crimi...

Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Documentation status, neighborhood disorder, and attitudes toward police and courts among Latina...

Dr. Cavanagh is honored to have been awarded the American Psychology-Law Society Early Career Researcher Grant. This award will fund ongo...

Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, The role of rearrests in juvenile offenders’ and their mothers’ attitudes toward police, publish...

Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, How Does Juvenile Offending Relate to Mothers’ Aspirations and Expectations for Their Sons? in t...

Check out this op-ed by Hon. Judge Garcia, a juvenile court judge with whom the ADJust Lab works closely. He mentions our Juvenile Risk A...

Doctoral student MK Kitzmiller successfully defended her master’s thesis! MK’s study examined the moderating role of parental incarcerati...

Dr. Cavanagh is proud to have been a part of the Michigan Safety and Justice Roundtable. Check out the report that came from the group's w...