Jun 8New article alert: Legal socialization among dual system youthDr. Cavanagh's latest article, titled Attitudes toward legal actors among dual system youth, was recently published in the Journal of...
May 4Dr. Cavanagh awarded MSU CSS Rising Star Research AwardDr. Caitlin Cavanagh was honored at the MSU College of Social Science Annual Awards with the Rising Star Research Award. This award is...
Apr 30Congratulations, Clare!Undergraduate research assistant Clare Chie was awarded first place at the 2021 University Undergraduate Research and Arts Forum (UURAF)...
Apr 12Dr. Cavanagh awarded SRCD Early Career Research Contribution AwardDr. Caitlin Cavanagh was honored at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) biennial meeting with the Early Career Research...
Mar 2New article alert: Youth's Perceived Maturity and Antisocial BehaviorDoctoral student Erica Dalzell's Masters Thesis was recently published in Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, titled...
Mar 1MK is the 2021Grad Student Honoree for Community Engagement ScholarshipCongratulations to doctoral student MK Kitzmiller, who was awarded the 2021 MSU Grad Student Award for Community Engagement Scholarship....
Dec 3, 2020Dr. Cavanagh awarded Social & Racial Justice GrantDr. Cavanagh was awarded funding from the MSU College of Social Science entitled, Identifying the Critical Trustees for Increasing...
Nov 18, 2020Congratulations, MK!Doctoral student MK Kitzmiller earned the Hiram E. Fitzgerald Engaged Scholar Fellowship. This award supports recipients’ professional...
Nov 18, 2020New article alert: Parental incarceration, mental health, and neighborhood disorderDoctoral student MK Kitzmiller's Masters Thesis was recently published in Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, titled Parental...
Oct 9, 2020Congratulations, Clare!Congratulations are in order for undergraduate research assistant Clare Chie, whose independent research project, "The Role of Protective...
Oct 9, 2020Congratulations, Zarria!Congratulations are in order for undergraduate research assistant Zarria Bronner, whose independent research project, "The Association...
Oct 1, 2020New article alert: Testing legal socialization mechanisms for youth legal cynicismDr. Cavanagh's latest article, How do Adolescents Develop Legal Cynicism? A Test of Legal Socialization Mechanisms Among Youth Involved...
Oct 1, 2020New article alert: Code of the Street and the link between exposure to violence & violent offendingDr. Cavanagh's latest article, Implications of youths’ perceptions of police bias and the code of the street for violent offending, was...
Jun 26, 2020Dr. Cavanagh awarded MSU College of Social Science Small Grant Dr. Cavanagh was awarded funding from the College of Social Science to examine the impact of the COVID19 global pandemic on the...
Jun 26, 2020Welcome, Marina!Marina Henke, a recent graduate of Bowdoin College, was awarded a post-baccalaureate fellowship to work with Dr. Cavanagh during summer...
Jun 26, 2020Dr. Cavanagh awarded NSF RAPID grantDr. Cavanagh and co-PI Dr. April Thomas (UTEP) were awarded an NSF RAPID grant to study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on...
Apr 28, 2020New article alert: Parents' knowledge of the juvenile justice systemDr. Cavanagh's latest article, Lesson learned? Mothers’ legal knowledge and juvenile rearrests, was recently published in Law and Human...
Apr 28, 2020New article alert: Racial/ethnic differences in attitudes toward law enforcement over 40 yearsCheck out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Youth Perceptions of Law Enforcement and Worry About Crime From 1976 to 2016, published in...
Jan 26, 2020New article alert: Attitudes toward police among undocumented women by neighborhoodCheck out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, Documentation status, neighborhood disorder, and attitudes toward police and courts among Latina...
Dec 1, 2019New awardDr. Cavanagh is honored to have been awarded the American Psychology-Law Society Early Career Researcher Grant. This award will fund...
Dec 1, 2019New article alert!Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, The role of rearrests in juvenile offenders’ and their mothers’ attitudes toward police,...
Dec 1, 2019New article alert!Check out Dr. Cavanagh's latest article, How Does Juvenile Offending Relate to Mothers’ Aspirations and Expectations for Their Sons? in...
