Publications

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Sadaf Hashimi (2025). Transforming, Renewing, Achieving, and Connecting (TRAC), a higher education in prison program.

Marie Ouellet, Sadaf Hashimi, Jason Gravel, Dean Dabney (2025). The structure of officer-involved shootings: Investigating the social transmission of firearm use. National Collaborative for Gun Violence Research.

Sadaf Hashimi, Marie Ouellet (2025). The Prevalence of Subgroups Within a Police Department. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Sarah Al Falatah, Sadaf Hashimi (2025). The implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on attempted suicide trends. University of Nebraska Omaha.

Erin Kearns, Sadaf Hashimi, Jessie Huff, nix, Natalie Cotton (2025). Screening for insider threats in US law enforcement: A national sample of department policies and practices. State of Practice Guide.

Sadaf Hashimi, Marie Ouellet, Logan Ledford (2025). Partners in Force? Understanding Police Use of Force from a Network Perspective. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.

Erin Kearns, Noah Turner, Isaac Moelter, Sadaf Hashimi, Zachary Hamilton (2025). Managing the exit of incarcerated violent extremists in the community: Stakeholder Analysis Report.

Marshae Capers, Jillian Chamberlain, Jordan Cline, Christi Metcalfe, Akili Murphy (2024). Beyond George Floyd: Assessing sentiments on police fund reallocation and its intersection with race and racial resentment.

Justin Nix, Trey Bussey (2023). Report on the 2023 Douglas County Community Survey.

Rachael Rief (2023). Women Police Associations: Lessons Learned from the International Association of Women Police Gender Responsive Policing Summit.

Sam Clinkinbeard (2023). The role of men in promoting gender diversity: Lessons Learned from the International Association of Women Police Gender Responsive Policing Summit.

Brenna Dunlap (2023). Recruitment and Retention of Women Officers: Lessons Learned from the International Association of Women Police Gender Responsive Policing Summit.

Jessie Huff (2023). Promoting Women Officers: Lessons Learned from the International Association of Women Police Gender Responsive Policing Summit.

Justin Nix, Jessie Huff, Scott Wolfe, David Pyrooz, Scott Mourtgos (2023). When police pull back: Neighborhood-level effects of de-policing on violent and property crime. Criminology.

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Justin Pickett, Amanda Graham, Justin Nix, Francis Cullen (2023). Officer Diversity May Reduce Black Americans’ Fear of the Police. Criminology.

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Jessie Huff, Brenna Dunlap (2023). An examination of the City of Omaha’s Restorative Justice Diversion Program: Final report.

Jessie Huff, Kayla Freemon, Charles M. Katz (2023). A Mixed-Methods Evaluation of the Phoenix Crime Gun Liaison Program: Leveraging Patrol Officers for Investigations. Justice Evaluation Journal.

Matthew West, Jessie Huff, Bailey Saldana (2023). Crime severity, relational distance, and bystander reporting. Journal of Criminal Justice, 87.

Erin Kearns, Justin Nix (2023). How Generalizable are Findings from Police Surveys? A Review of Multi-Agency Studies. Police Practice & Research.

Kathleen Padilla, Alexis Rockwell, Jessie Huff (2023). A qualitative exploration of stress in a criminal investigations section. Police Practice & Research.

Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Justin Nix, Scott Mourtgos (2023). The "War on Cops," Retaliatory Violence, and the Murder of George Floyd . Criminology.

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Rachael Rief, Jessie Huff (2022). Revisiting the influence of police response time: Examining the effects of response time on arrest and how it varies by call type. Journal of Criminal Justice, 84.

Michael Ostermann, Sadaf Hashimi (2022). Recidivism among People Convicted of Gun Offenses: A Call to Better Leverage Reentry Resources to Decrease Gun Violence. Justice Quarterly.

Sadaf Hashimi, David Schaefer (2022). The Co-evolution of Friendship and Power Relations in a Men's Prison Unit. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Yongjae Nam, Scott Wolfe, Justin Nix (2022). Does Procedural Justice Reduce the Harmful Effects of Perceived Ineffectiveness on Police Legitimacy?. Journal of Research in Crime & Delinquency.

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Marie Ouellet, Sadaf Hashimi, George G. Vega Yon (2022). Officer networks and firearm behaviors: Assessing the social transmission of weapon-use. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Jessie Huff (2022). Do body-worn cameras reduce disparities in police behavior in minority communities? Evidence of nuanced influences across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. Criminology and Public Policy, 21(3), 670-711.

Jessie Huff, Natalie Todak (2022). Promoting women police officers: does exam format matter?. Police Quarterly, 26(2), 169-193.

Charles Katz, Jessie Huff (2022). The achilles heel of police body-worn cameras: Understanding the factors that influence variation in body-worn camera activation. Justice Quarterly.

Scott Mourtgos, Ian Adams, Justin Nix (2022). Elevated Police Turnover following the Summer of George Floyd Protests: A Synthetic Control Study. Criminology & Public Policy, 21(1), 9-33.

Justin Nix, John Shjarback (2021). Factors associated with police shooting mortality: A focus on race and a plea for more comprehensive data. PLOS ONE, 16(11).

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Justin Nix, Stefan Ivanov, Justin Pickett (2021). What does the public want police to do during pandemics? A national experiment. Criminology & Public Policy, 20(3), 545-571.

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Sadaf Hashimi, Sara Wakefield, Robert Apel (2021). Sibling transmission of gang involvement. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 58(5).

Jessie Huff (2021). Understanding police decisions to arrest: The impact of situational, officer, and neighborhood characteristics on police discretion. Journal of Criminal Justice, 75.

Jessie Huff, Michael White, Kathleen Padilla (2021). The influence of defendant race/ethnicity and police body-worn cameras on misdemeanor traffic case processing. Race and Justice (In Press).

Marie Ouellet, Sadaf Hashimi, Jason Gravel, Dean Dabney (2020). The Promise of a Network Approach for Policing Research. Justice Quarterly, 37(7).

Jessie Huff, Charles Katz, E.C. Hedberg (2020). A randomized controlled trial of the impact of body-worn camera activation on the outcomes of individual incidents. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18, 247-272.

Brandon Tregle, Justin Nix, Justin Pickett (2020). Body-Worn Cameras and Transparency: Experimental Evidence of Inconsistency in Police Executive Decision-Making. Justice Quarterly (In Press).

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Jessie Huff, Charles Katz, Vince Webb, E.C. Hedberg (2020). Attitudinal changes toward bodyworn cameras: Perceptions of cameras, organizational justice, and procedural justice among volunteer and mandated officers. Police Quarterly, 23(4), 547-588.

Michael Sierra-Arévalo, Justin Nix (2019). Gun victimization in the line of duty: Fatal and nonfatal firearm assaults on police officers in the United States, 2014–2019. Criminology & Public Policy, 19(3), 1041-1066.

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Justin Nix, Tara Richards, Gillian Pinchevsky, Emily Wright (2019). Are domestic incidents really more dangerous to police? Findings from the 2016 National Incident Based Reporting System. Justice Quarterly (In Press).

Marie Ouellet, Sadaf Hashimi, Jason Gravel, Andrew Papachristos (2019). Network exposure and excessive use of force: Investigating the social transmission of police misconduct. Criminology & Public Policy, 18(3), 675-704.

Natalie Todak, Jessie Huff, Lois James (2018). Investigating perceptions of race and ethnic diversity among prospective police officers. Police Practice and Research, 19(5), 490-504.