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I am a fourth year Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice with a minor in Statistical Sciences. While pursuing my Ph.D. at IU, I have Theories of Crime and Deviance, Techniques of Data Analysis, and Nature of Inquiry for undergraduates. My research interests include mental health in the criminal justice system; recidivism in specialty courts; psychology of criminal behavior; diversion programs; program evaluation; serial murder and qualitative methods. Prior to enrolling at Indiana University – Bloomington, I worked with Indiana Judicial Center and IUPUI SPEA as a project manager for a multi-site evaluation of specialty-courts in Indiana. At the current time, I am currently working on my dissertation, which examines treatment decision making for offenders with severe mental illness in both criminal justice and quasi-criminal justice agencies. After I complete my Ph.D., I hope to continue my research on offenders with mental illness and serial murder.

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Familial DNA as a method of identifying serial killers

Posted January 8, 2019 by Brittany Hood

Slice of pizza on a white plate next to a drink and condiments.

Trigger warning: This post contains details of specific crimes that are related to sexual assault and murder. In 1992, an 84-year-old grandmother was brutally assaulted and killed in California. For 25 years, the mystery of her death went unsolved—and her killer unapprehended—due to the lack of physical evidence to tie him to the crime. Twenty-five… Read more »

President Trump calls for the re-establishment of mental asylums: A discussion of deinstitutionalization.

Posted March 20, 2018 by Brittany Hood

Mental asylums began closing in 1955 after deinstitutionalization

Following the school shooting in Florida at the end of February, President Trump advocated for the re-establishment of “mental asylums”, also known as psychiatric hospitals, citing a much-needed improvement of the mental health system and as a solution to gun violence in America. In order to contextualize the President’s claims, in this blog post, I’ll… Read more »

How researchers use sequencing techniques for social science research

Posted January 23, 2018 by Brittany Hood

Faces of different types of people

Have you ever wondered why or how researchers categorize people into different groups? Of course, there are specific types of groups you might first think of, such as differentiating people by race, gender, income level, marital status, and education. However, there are a variety of other types of groups that researchers might find interesting that… Read more »

Criminal offending in mentally ill populations

Posted November 28, 2017 by Brittany Hood

There are currently more individuals diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) in jails and prisons in the United States than in hospitals [1]. Deinstitutionalization (explained in the next paragraph), changes in sentencing policy, the war against drugs and mass incarceration have all contributed to the dramatic increase in the number of mentally ill who are… Read more »

A new method of addressing mental health and crime

Posted September 19, 2017 by Brittany Hood

Imagine your friend, Alex, has bipolar disorder. Alex feels like the medication he has been taking gives him headaches and that getting high on pills works better, and he chooses to stop taking it as a result. Very soon, Alex’s symptoms begin to come back. To you he seems anxious and maybe even impulsive, but… Read more »

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