Alex O. Widdowson — Criminal Justice

About

Alex O. Widdowson is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Louisville. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 from Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research interest includes the development of crime over the life course, the consequences of criminal behavior and criminal justice sanctioning, and prisoner reentry. His work has been published in American Journal of Public Heath, Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime & Delinquency, Youth Violence & Juvenile Justice, Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Journal of Adolescent Health, Journal of Research on Adolescence, and Journal of Early Adolescence. He teaches courses on criminological theory, criminal and delinquent behavior, statistics, and research methods.

Education

Ph.D. Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, May 2018

M.S. Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, December 2012

B.S. Criminal Justice and Criminology, Radford University, December 2008

Recent Publications

Widdowson, Alex O., & *Kyser, A. M. (forthcoming). Investigating the impact of prior criminal justice contact on labor market outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic: A propensity score analysis. Crime & Delinquency, doi:10.1177/00111287231225139

Widdowson, A. O., Ramos, J., *Alaniz, K., & Swartz, K. (forthcoming). The Within-Individual Effects of US Immigration on Individual-Level Offending During Adolescence and Early Adulthood. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, doi: 10.1177/00224278231161028.

Widdowson, A. O., Ranson, J. A., & *Kyser, A. M. (2024). Continuity of Offending in Young Adulthood: A Test of Moffitt’s Snares Hypothesis. Crime & Delinquency, 70(1), 157-181.

Fisher, B. W., & Widdowson, A. O. (2023). Racial and ethnic differences in the consequences of school suspension for arrest. Criminology, 61(3), 622-653.

Siennick, S. E., & Widdowson, A. O. (2022). Juvenile Arrest and Later Economic Attainment: Strength and Mechanisms of the Relationship. Journal of Quantitative Criminology,38, 23-50.

Widdowson, A. O., *Garduno, L. S., & Fisher, B. W. (2021). The School-to-Gang Pipeline: Examining the Impact of School Suspension on Joining a Gang for the First Time. Crime & Delinquency, 67(6-7), 997-1021.

Widdowson, A. O., Hay, C., & Siennick, S. E. (2021). Romantic partners and young adult offending: Considering the role of partner’s socioeconomic characteristics. Criminology, 59(1), 158-190.

Widdowson, A. O., & Sonja, S. E. (2021). The effects of residential mobility on criminal persistence and desistance during the transition to adulthood. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 58(2), 151-191.

Siennick, S. E., Widdowson, A. O., & Feinberg, M. E. (2020). Youth with co-occurring delinquency and depressive symptoms: do they have better or worse delinquent outcomes?. Journal of youth and adolescence, 49(6), 1260-1276

Widdowson, A. O., & Fisher, B. W. (2020). Mass Incarceration and Subsequent Preventive Health Care: Mechanisms and Racial/Ethnic Disparities. American Journal of Public Health, 110(S1), S145-S151.

Widdowson, A. O., Jacobsen, W. C., Siennick, S. E., & Warren, P. Y. (2020). Together despite the odds: Explaining racial and ethnic heterogeneity in union dissolution after incarceration. Criminology, 58(1), 129-155.

Widdowson, A. O., Ranson, J. A., Siennick, S. E., Rulison, K. L., & Osgood, D. W. (2020). Exposure to Persistently Delinquent Peers and Substance Use Onset: A Test of Moffitt’s Social Mimicry Hypothesis. Crime & Delinquency, 66(3), 420-445.

Forrest, W., Hay, C., Widdowson, A. O., & Rocque, M. (2019). Development of impulsivity and risk‐seeking: Implications for the dimensionality and stability of self‐control. Criminology, 57(3), 512-543.

*denotes graduate student coauthor