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Recipients

2020 was an unusual year for the SCJA conference. Most of all, we were forced to move the conference (originally scheduled to be in Biloxi, MS) online to an all-digital platform. We recognized the most exceptional posters and lightning talks presented at the 2020 Research Showcase. Below are the winners in each of the following categories.

Undergraduate Student Poster Award

First Place	The Interactive Effect of Traumatic Brain Injury and Exposure to Violent Offending on Justice-Involved Youth Curtis Smith IV & Patrick Harrison
Second Place	Review of Criminal Profiling Addison Meeks

Masters Student Poster Award

First Place	Three criminological theories as predictors of adolescent marijuana abuse Sydney Hahlbeck & Anthony Vito
Second Place	Police perceptions of overdose outreach program effectiveness Laurie Becker & Sean Varano
Third Place (tie)	Stigma, substance use disorders, and treatment seeking: An examination of stigma and treatment utilization by drug dependence type Aubrey Johnson & Bryan Miller
Third Place (tie)	Examining perceptions and use of media among criminal justice students Hannah Sims & Matthew Crow

Doctoral Student Poster Award

First Place (tie)	College student response to the release of incarcerated populations during COVID-19: A qualitative pilot study Joshua Ruffin & Ayana Conway
First Place (tie)	Pedophile hunting: A qualitative assessment of public support for judicial changes Leanna Ireland
Second Place	Hate at the scene of the crime: Interrogating place in anti-religious hate crime analysis Jonathan Lloyd
Third Place	Intimate partner violence: Barriers to help-seeking experienced by women in the UK Amrana Latif

Faculty Poster Winner

First Place (tie)	Exploring the spatial distribution of crime by victim characteristics Danielle Fenimore, Wes Jennings, Nicholas Perez & Stephen Bishopp
First Place (tie)	Do negative emotions matter? Paths from victimization to cyber and traditional bullying from General Strain Theory perspective Yeungjeom Lee, Jihoon Kim, & Hyojong Song
Second Place (tie)	Immigration, policy and justice Holly Ventura Miller, Melissa Ripepi, Amy Ernstes, & Anthony Peguero
Second Place (tie)	Situational ethics: Lessons learned from the Community Action Poverty Simulation Chrystina Hoffman, Dana Dillard, & Angela Blackburn
Third Place	School culture, racial composition, and preventing violence: Evaluating punitive and supportive responses to improving school safety Charles Crawford & Ronald Burns

Undergraduate Lightning Talk

First Place	Adolescent Attitudes and sexual behavior associated with teen dating violence victimization Kristen Hunt
Second Place	Virtual trials: An examination of virtual trial efficiency Kaleigh Mulligan, Melissa Dipano & Annabelle Frazier
Third Place	- Bail and the criminal justice form in MA Melissa Dipano, Isabella Callahan, & Annabelle Fraizer

Masters Student Lightning Talk

First Place	Police officers’ perceptions regarding application of Miranda’s public safety perception Alexandria Goldstein, Christopher Totten, Gang Lee & Richard Stringer
Second Place	Race and ethnicity in criminal justice publications Heather Storey & Courtney Crittenden
Third Place	Prisons and suicide Sadie Creel

Doctoral Student Lightning Talk

First Place	Incarcerated youths perception of justice Elizabeth Hartsell, Jodi Lane, & Lonn Lanza-Kaduce
Second Place	Addressing official misconduct: Increasing accountability to reduce wrongful convictions Clayton Drummond & Mia Mills
Third Place	Understanding community members’ perception of opioid abuse treatment programs for women in Westchester County Erika Pichardo

Faculty Lightning Talk

First Place	Secondary sanctioning and secondary device effects of arrest-comparing childhood and adolescence Abby Novak
Second Place	Reading rights and respecting decisions Rhys Hester
Third Place	Who feels guilty of a sex crime? Insights from a choose-your-own-adventure paradigm Annabelle Frazier & Joseph Gonzales