Faculty Profiles

Jones, A. M., & Roche, S. P. (2025). Introducing Item-Specific Formatting to Scales of Criminal Justice Attitudes: Evidence from a National Experiment. Justice Quarterly, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2025.2463414

May, M., Hopkins, J. R., Scogin, S. C., Jarzombek-Torralva, A., Barnes, V., Roche, S. P., & Acosta, H. (n.d.). Motivation to Implement School Behavioral Threat Assessment: A Structural Equational Model Approach Using Self-Determination Theory. Leadership and Policy in Schools. https://doi.org/10.1080/15700763.2025.2560640

Jones, A. M., & Roche, S. P. (2025). The Pragmatic American Revisited: A Direct Replication of Pickett and Baker (2014). International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 69(5), 454–474. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X221133007

Roche, S. P., Lee, H., Pickett, J. T., Graham, A. K., & Cullen, F. T. (2024). Validation of Short-Form Scales of Self-Control, Procedural Justice, and Moral Foundations. Justice Quarterly, 41(7), 1002–1031. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2024.2406535

Brimbal, L. K. M., Roche, S. P., & Martaindale, M. H. (2024). Interviewing and Interrogation Practices and Beliefs, 20 Years Later: A National Self-Report Survey of American Police. Law and Human Behavior, 48(4), 247–261. Retrieved from https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/lhb0000570

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

Shi, L., & Roche, S. P. (2024). Sampling from Online Panels. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190264079.013.859

Balcarová, L., Pickett, J. T., Graham, A., Roche, S. P., & Cullen, F. T. (2024). On the Robustness of Black Americans’ Support for the Police: Evidence From a National Experiment. Journal of Criminal Justice, 92, 102186. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2024.102186

Fenimore, D. M., Roche, S. P., Jennings, W. G., & Heinen, R. (2023). A social network analysis of publishing networks in the “Big 5” journals in criminology and criminal justice. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 39(3), 429–445. https://doi.org/10.1177/10439862231170954

Roche, S. P. (2023, April 3). Using Anchoring Vignettes to Address the Measurement of Probability in Self-Report Surveys. The Newsletter of the ASC Division of Public Opinion & Policy. Division of Public Opinion & Policy, American Society of Criminology. Retrieved from https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PIJPSM-08-2022-0112/full/html

Doyle, M. K., & Roche, S. P. (2023). Investigating police self-legitimacy: individual-level predictors of self-identification and perceived external legitimacy. Policing: An International Journal, 46(2), 209–226. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-08-2022-0112

Jones, A. M., Vaughan, A. D., Roche, S. P., & Hewitt, A. N. (2022). Policing persons in behavioral crises: an experimental test of bystander perceptions of procedural justice. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18(3), 581–605. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-021-09462-1

Roche, S. P. (n.d.). 2022 Austin Citywide Survey of Police Services - Final Report (pp. 1–42). Austin, TX: Greater Austin Crime Commission.

Roche, S. P. (n.d.). 2022 Austin Police Department Staffing Survey - Final Report (pp. 1–23). Austin, TX: Greater Austin Crime Commission.

Roche, S. P., Fenimore, D. M., & Taylor, P. L. (2022). But did they get it “right”? Deadly force, body-worn camera footage, and hindsight bias. Policing: An International Journal, 45(4), 618–632. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-09-2021-0126

Bilach, T. J., Roche, S. P., & Wawro, G. J. (2022). The effects of the Summer All Out Foot Patrol Initiative in New York City: a difference-in-differences approach. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18(2), 209–244. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-020-09445-8

Bilach, T. J., Roche, S. P., & Wawro, G. J. (2022). Correction to: The effects of the Summer All Out Foot Patrol Initiative in New York City: a difference-in-differences approach. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 18(2), 245–246. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-021-09483-w

Roche, S. P., Pickett, J. T., Intravia, J., & Thompson, A. J. (2022). On the Measurement of Subjective Apprehension Risk. Criminal Justice Review, 47(1), 77–93. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734016820978827

Roche, S. P. (2022). 2021 Austin Citywide Survey of Police Services - Final Report (pp. 1–39). Austin, TX: Greater Austin Crime Commission.

Roche, S. P., Wilson, T., & Pickett, J. T. (2020). Perceived Control, Severity, Certainty, and Emotional Fear: Testing an Expanded Model of Deterrence. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 57(4), 493–531. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427819888249

Jones, A. M., & Roche, S. P. (2020). 2020 Campus Crime and Safety Survey Report.

Jones, A. M., & Roche, S. P. (2020). Center for Open Science Criminology replication findings: SCORE Final Report.

Jones, A. M., Roche, S. P., & Jones, S. E. (2020). Fall 2020 Undergraduate Student Survey.

Pickett, J. T., Barnes, J. C., Wilson, T., & Roche, S. P. (2020). Prospect Theory and Criminal Choice: Experiments Testing  Framing, Reference Dependence, and Decision Weights. Justice Quarterly, 37(6), 1140–1168. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2018.1531142

Morley, R. H., Bowman, S. W., Fulton, C. L., Roche, S. P., Jantz, P. B., & Trujillo, L. T. (2019). Mindfulness, Self-Control, Implicit Bias, Race, Threat Perception Failure, and the Accidental Use of Deadly Force Against Off-Duty Police Officers. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology, 36(1), 86–95. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11896-019-09352-3

Roche, S. P. (2019). The impact of surveillance and procedurally just behavior on civilian affect and responses in hypothetical interactions with police officers. Policing: An International Journal, 42(6), 1107–1123. https://doi.org/10.1108/pijpsm-12-2018-0192

Roche, S. P., Fenimore, D. M., & Jennings, W. G. (2019). Trends in Top Journals in Criminology and Criminal Justice. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 30(4), 551–566. https://doi.org/10.1080/10511253.2019.1615522

Kaylen, M., Pridemore, W. A., & Roche, S. P. (2019). A comparison of aggravated assault rate trends in rural, suburban, and urban areas using the UCR and NCS/NCVS, 1988–2005. Crime Prevention and Community Safety, 21(3), 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41300-019-00070-w

Shi, L., Roche, S. P., & McKenna, R. M. (2019). Media consumption and crime trend perceptions: A longitudinal analysis. Deviant Behavior, 40(12), 1480–1492. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2018.1519129

Pickett, J. T., Roche, S. P., & Pogarsky, G. (2018). TOWARD A BIFURCATED THEORY OF EMOTIONAL DETERRENCE. Criminology, 56(1), 27–58. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12153

Pridemore, W. A., Roche, S. P., & Rogers, M. L. (2018). Cashlessness and Street Crime: A Cross-national Study of Direct Deposit Payment and Robbery Rates. Justice Quarterly, 35(5), 919–939. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2018.1424923

Roche, S. P., Rogers, M. L., & Pridemore, W. A. (2018). A cross-national study of the population-level association between alcohol consumption and suicide rates. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 188, 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2018.02.036

Pickett, J. T., Nix, J., & Roche, S. P. (2018). Testing a Social Schematic Model of Police Procedural Justice. Social Psychology Quarterly, 81(2), 97–125. https://doi.org/10.1177/0190272518765134

Pickett, J. T., & Roche, S. P. (2018). Questionable, Objectionable or Criminal? Public Opinion on Data Fraud and Selective Reporting in Science. Science and Engineering Ethics, 24(1), 151–171. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9886-2

Pogarsky, G., Roche, S. P., & Pickett, J. T. (2018). Offender Decision-Making in Criminology: Contributions from Behavioral Economics. Annual Review of Criminology, 1(1), 379–400. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-criminol-032317-092036

Silver, J. R., Roche, S. P., Bilach, T., & Bontrager Ryon, S. (2017). Traditional Police Culture, Use of Force, and Procedural Justice: Investigating Individual, Organizational, and Contextual Factors. Justice Quarterly, 34(7), 1272–1309. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2017.1381756

Kaylen, M., Pridemore, W. A., & Roche, S. P. (2017). The Impact of Changing Demographic Composition on Aggravated Assault Victimization During the Great American Crime Decline. Criminal Justice Review, 42(3), 291–314. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734016817724503

Weld, D. W., & Roche, S. P. (2017). A Matter of Time: A Partial Test of Institutional Anomie Theory Using Cross-National Time Use Data. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 33(2), 371–395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-016-9305-x

Pogarsky, G., Roche, S. P., & Pickett, J. T. (2017). HEURISTICS AND BIASES, RATIONAL CHOICE, AND SANCTION PERCEPTIONS. Criminology, 55(1), 85–111. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12129

Roche, S. P., Pickett, J. T., & Gertz, M. (2016). The Scary World of Online News? Internet News Exposure and Public Attitudes Toward Crime and Justice. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 32(2), 215–236. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-015-9261-x

Pickett, J. T., & Roche, S. P. (2016). Arrested development: Misguided directions in deterrence theory and policy. Criminology & Public Policy, 15(3), 727–751. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12217

Pickett, J. T., & Roche, S. P. (2016). A Few Clarifying Comments on Pickett and Roche (2016). Criminology & Public Policy, 15(3), 831–836. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12230

Mancini, C., Pickett, J. T., Call, C., & Roche, S. P. (2016). Mandatory Reporting (MR) in Higher Education. Criminal Justice Review, 41(2), 219–235. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734016816634787

Roche, S. P. (2016, May). Breaking out of your cell: The virtues of peer collaboration and writing clubs. The Criminologist: The Official Newsletter of the American Society of Criminology.