Faculty Profiles

Dr. Angela Marie Jones

Associate Professor — School of Criminal Justice & Criminology

HINE 108

phone: (512) 245-2174

a_j194@txstate.edu

Biography and Education

Dr. Angela Jones earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York and is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Texas State University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of psychology and the legal system. She applies expertise in experimental and survey methodology to design studies assessing public perceptions of procedural justice concerning police and courts, as well as evaluations of unreliable evidence that could lead to wrongful convictions. She also evaluates methods to improve juror decision-making, such as instructions, expert testimony, and implicit bias training. Her research has been published in interdisciplinary journals such as Criminal Justice and Behavior, Journal of Experimental Criminology, and Psychology, Crime and Law.

Teaching Interests

Wrongful Convictions
Research Methods
Experimental Design

Research Interests

Perceptions of police and the criminal justice system
Wrongful convictions
Juror and jury decision making
Pretrial publicity
Experimental and survey design

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Fenimore, D., & Jones, A. M. (2024). What influences punitive responses? Examining the interaction between shared identity and crime severity. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 20, 519–540. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-022-09546-6
Roche, S. P., Jones, A. M., Hewitt, A. N., & Vaughan, A. D. (2024). Procedurally Just Policing and Persons in Behavioral Crises: Investigating Public Perceptions, Stigma, and Emotion. Policing: An International Journal, 47(1), 126–142. https://doi.org/10.1108/PIJPSM-09-2023-0111
Ruva, C. L., Sykes, E. C., Smith, K. D., Deaton, L. R., Erdem, S., & Jones, A. M. (n.d.). Battling Bias: Can Two Implicit Bias Remedies Reduce Juror Racial Bias? Psychology, Crime & Law. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2022.2115494
Jones, A. M., Wong, K. A., Meyers, C., & Ruva, C. (2022). Trial By tabloid: Can implicit bias education reduce pretrial publicity bias? Criminal Justice and Behavior, 49(2), 259–278. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177%2F00938548211026956
Jones, A. M. (2020). Who do you believe? Assessing jurors’ differential perceptions of victim and bystander witnesses. Psychology, Crime & Law, 26(8), 745–767. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/1068316X.2020.1733570

Selected Awards

Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Applied Arts, Texas State University. 2024
Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award for Excellence in Teaching, Texas State University. 2019
Award / Honor Recipient: College Achievement Award for Excellence in Scholarly Activities, College of Applied Arts, Texas State University. 2017
Award / Honor Nominee: Professor Appreciation, Panhellenic Council. 2022
Award / Honor Recipient: SAGE Junior Faculty Professional Development Teaching Award, The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. 2017 - 2018

Selected Grants

Jones, Angela Marie. What Do Texas Attorneys Know About Eyewitness Identifications and How Does This Evidence Impact Plea-Bargaining Decisions?, Divisions of Research Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, $8000. (Submitted: 2023, Funded: 2024 - Present). Grant.
Jones, Angela Marie (Principal). COVID-19 Replication Grant as part of COS effort in the SCORE program, Center for Open Science, Federal, $17400. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
Jones, Angela Marie, Roche, Sean Patrick. Criminology Replication Grant as part of COS effort in the SCORE program, Center for Open Science, Federal, $9310. (Funded: 2020). Grant.
Roche, Sean Patrick, Jones, Angela Marie. SurveyCaTS (Survey Consortium at Texas State), Texas State University, $4800. (Funded: August 2019 - June 2020). Grant.
Rodriguez, Kiara Daena, Jones, Angela Marie. What Do Texas Attorneys Know About Eyewitness Identifications and How Does This Evidence Impact Plea-Bargaining Decisions?, The Honors College: Undergraduate Research Fellowship, Texas State University, $1000. (Submitted: 2022, Funded: 2022 - Present). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Member

Undergraduate Curriculum Committee

2024-Present

Editorial Review Board Member

Forensic and Legal Psychology (specialty section of Frontiers in Psychology)

2023-Present

Member

Awards Committee of ASC Division of Public Opinion and Policy

2022-Present

Reviewer / Referee

Justice Quarterly

2020-Present