Bradley A. Campbell — Criminal Justice

About

Brad Campbell is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and a Faculty Member in the Southern Police Institute at the University of Louisville. His research focuses on police investigations, decision-making, training evaluation, and response to victims. Campbell has been the lead researcher on two federally funded projects. First, he is currently the principal research partner on the Kentucky Sexual Assault Kit Backlog Action Research Project funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance, a study that examines the problem of unsubmitted sexual assault kits in Kentucky. Second, Campbell was the Principal Investigator of a National Institute of Justice funded experiment that implemented and evaluated a scenario-based trauma informed interview training course for sexual assault investigators. Campbell’s recent research has been published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, Journal of Criminal Justice, and Criminal Justice & Behavior. He has taught courses on Policing, Trauma Informed Policing, and Research Methods.

Here is a link to his work on Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5aWKt0MAAAAJ&hl=en

Education

2015 Ph.D., Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University

DISSERTATION: Predictors of Police Decision Making in Sexual Assault Investigations.
Committee: William R. King (Chair), William Wells, Cortney Franklin

2011 M.A. Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University

THESIS: One Summer Wonders: A Qualitative Study of Summer Reserve Police Officers in a Maine Police Department.

2009 B.A., Criminal Justice, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.

B.A., Political Science, Saint Joseph’s College of Maine.

Recent Publications

Peer Reviewed Articles

*Denotes Graduate Student Co-Author

2021	Campbell, B. A., Wells, W., & King, W. R. What happens when sexual assault kits go untested? A focal concerns analysis of suspect identification and police pre-arrest decisions. Journal of Criminal Justice, 76, 101851. Link to Article
2021	Campbell, B. A., & Lapsey Jr., D. S. Do impulsivity and education moderate the effectiveness of police sexual assault investigations training? Findings from a Solomon four-group quasi-experiment. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 48*, 1411-1430. Link to Article
2021	Lapsey Jr., D. S., Campbell, B. A.,* & Plumlee, B. T. Focal concerns and police decision-making in sexual assault cases: A systematic review and meta- analysis. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse*. Link to Article
2020	Matusiak, M. C., King, W. R., & Campbell, B. A. The multi-dimensional environment of publicly funded U.S. crime laboratories and its impact on lab priorities. Journal of Crime & Justice, 43, 362-376. Link to Article
2020	Hughes, T. W., Campbell, B. A., & Shaefer, B. P. The influence of body worn cameras, minority threat, and concentrated disadvantage on police activity. Journal of Community Psychology, 48, 68-85. Link to Article
2020	Campbell, B. A., Lapsey Jr., D. S., & Wells, W. An evaluation of Kentucky’s sexual assault investigator training: Results from a randomized three-group experiment. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 16, 625-647*. Link to Article
2019	Shadwick, J. T., King, W.R., Zhang, Y., Matusiak, M.C., & Campbell, B. A.* Assessing best practices in crime labs’ structure, processes, and performance: A partial test of Gagliardi’s 13 critical tasks. Policing: An International Journal, 42, 751-766. Link to Article
2019	Wells, W., Fansher, A. F., & Campbell, B. A.* The results of CODIS-hit investigations in a sample of cases with unsubmitted sexual assault kits. Crime & Delinquency, 65, 122-148. Link to Article
2018	Campbell, B. A., Nix, J., & Maguire, E. R. Is the number of citizens fatally shot by police increasing in the post-Ferguson era? Crime & Delinquency, 64, 398-420. Link to Article Featured in: The Crime Report
2018	Wolfe, S. E., Nix, J., & Campbell, B. A. Police managers’ self-control and the use of organizational justice. Law & Human Behavior, 42, 71-82. Link to Article

2018	King, W. R., Matusiak, M. C., & Campbell, B. A. Organizational and environmental determinants of ballistics imaging productivity in United States crime laboratories. Journal of Crime & Justice, 41, 450-462. Link to Article
2018	Nix, J., Wolfe, S. E., & Campbell, B. A. Command-level police officers’ perceptions of the “war on cops” and de-policing. Justice Quarterly, 35, 33- 54. Link to Article
2017	Nix, J., Pickett, J. T., Wolfe, S. E., & Campbell, B. A. Demeanor, race, and police perceptions of procedural justice: Evidence from two randomized experiments. Justice Quarterly, 34, 1154-1183. Link to Article
2017	King, W. R., Campbell, B. C., Matusiak, M. C., & Katz, C. M. Forensic evidence and criminal investigations: The impact of ballistics information on the investigation of violent crime in nine cities. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 62, 874-880. Link to Article
2017	Maguire, E. R., Nix, J., & Campbell, B. A. A war on cops? The effects of Ferguson on the number of U.S. police officers murdered in the line of duty. Justice Quarterly, 34, 739-758. Link to Article
2017	Menaker, T. A., Campbell, B. A., & Wells, W. Investigator perceptions of the use of forensic evidence in sexual assault investigations. Violence Against Women, 23, 399-425. Link to Article
2017	Nix, J., Campbell, B. A., Byers, E. H., & Alpert, G. P. A bird’s eye view of civilians killed by police in 2015: Further evidence of implicit bias. Criminology & Public Policy, 16(1), 309-340. Link to Article Featured in: The Washington Post, The Chicago Tribune, The Pittsburgh Post- Gazette, The Cleveland Plain Dealer, The Atlantic, The Crime Report* One of *Criminology & Public Policy’s* top cited articles for 2017-2018.
2016	Wells, W., Campbell, B. A., Li, Y., & Swindle, S. The characteristics and results of eyewitness identification procedures conducted during robbery investigations in Houston, TX. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 39(4). Link to Article Recipient of the 2017 Outstanding Paper Award from *Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management*. Link to Award
2016	Maguire, E. R., King, W. R., Matusiak, M. C., & Campbell, B. A. Testing the effects of new personnel, processes, and technology on ballistics evidence processing productivity. Police Quarterly, 19, 199-215. Link to Article
2015	Campbell, B. A., Menaker, T. A., & King, W. R. The determination of victim credibility by adult and juvenile sexual assault investigators. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43, 29-39. Link to Article
2015	Campbell, B. A. Summer cop: A qualitative study of summer reserve police officers. Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, 3, 87-116. Link to Article

2014	Matusiak, M. C., Campbell, B. A., & King, W. R. The legacy of LEMAS: Effects on police scholarship of a federally administered, multi-wave establishment survey. Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies and Management, 37(3), 630-648. Link to Article

Peer-ReviewedResearchReports

2016

Wells, W., Campbell, B. A., & Franklin, C. A. (2016). Unsubmitted sexual assault kits in Houston, TX: Case characteristics, forensic testing results, and the investigation of CODIS hits. Washington, D.C.: National Institute of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice (65 pages). Link to Full Report; Link

to Executive Summary; Project Homepage

Non Peer-Reviewed Articles

2016

Nix, J, Campbell, B. A., & Alpert, G. P. Fatal shootings by US police officers in 2015: A bird’s eye view. The Police Chief, 83, 48-52. Link to Article

2015

Campbell, B. A. (December). Survivors and downstream decision-making: Investigator evaluation of victim credibility in sexual assault cases. The Blue Review: Popular Scholarship in the Public Interest. Link to Article

2014

Campbell, B. A. (October). Building young researchers in the trenches (Sidebar to Andrew Marcoux’s “How NIJ is building the nation’s research infrastructure”). NIJ

Journal No. 274, pp. 54-55. Link to Article