Faculty Profiles

Toman, E. L., Kushmerick-McCune, B., Brown, W. D., Rudes, D. S., & Flaherty, A. (2026). “They Take it Out on All of Us”: Collective Punishment in Carceral Spaces. Criminal Justice and Behavior. https://doi.org/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00938548261435854

Kushmerick-McCune, B., Ingel, S., Rudes, D. S., Brown, W., & Toman, E. L. (2025). Why, How, and So What? Unpacking Coworker Relationships in Carceral Settings. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 52(10), 1447–1466. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548251350110

Rudes, D. S., Kushmerick-McCune, B., & Toman, E. L. (2025). Solitary Irrationality: Inefficient and Ineffective Bureaucratic Restrictions on Human Beings. Advancing Corrections Journal.

Rudes, D., Kushmerick-McCune, B., Toman, E. L., Ingel, S., & Magana, J. (2025). Scapegoating HALT: Contested legitimacy through formal conforming and informal rebuking. Journal of Criminal Justice, 99(July-August), 1–12.

Smith, L. R., Rudes, D. S., Ingel, S., & Toman, E. L. (2025). Between a Rock and Solitary Confinement: Gendered Perceptions of Women Working in Restricted Housing Units. Women and Criminal Justice.

Miller, H., Toman, E. L., & Pederson, K. (2024). Examining the Utility of the Texas Risk Assessment System to Predict Community Supervision Compliance and Recidivism. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 51(8), 1257–1274. https://doi.org/10.1177/00938548241240991

Miller, H., Toman, E. L., & Pederson, K. (2024). The Synergistic Effects of Risk-Principle Adherence in the Supervision and Treatment of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X241246098

Toman, E. L., Fegadel, A., & Severson, R. E. (2024). An Environmental Justice Perspective for Exploring Health in Carceral Spaces. In Handbook on Contemporary Issus in Health and Punishment, The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series (Vol. 9). Retrieved from https://www.routledge.com/Handbook-on-Contemporary-Issues-in-Health-Crime-and-Punishment/Link-Novisky-Fahmy/p/book/9781032821146?srsltid=AfmBOor-bTCjXJVzPgbbUH8YTOe5y3TMwg3MKfpzGTiBvrOZ5ha9AMAL

Rudes, D., Kushmerick McCune, B., Narvey, C., Sydney Ingel, Toman, E., Craig, M., … Ogonnaya, S. (2024). Enhancing Corrections Spaces & Cultures. Bureau of Justice Fellowship.

Toman, E. L. (2023). Something in the Air: Toxic Pollution in and Around U.S. Prisons. Punishment and Society, 25(4), 867–887. https://doi.org/10.1177/14624745221114826

Anderson, C., Cochran, J. C., & Toman, E. L. (2022). Social Capital and Its Impacts on Prison Life: Is Visitation a Conduit? Crime and Delinquency, 68(4), 644–683. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128720977445

Pederson, K., Toman, E. L., & Miller, H. (2022). The Relationship Between Mental Health, Risk, and Community Supervision Outcomes. Journal of Criminal Justice, 82, 1–10. Retrieved from https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235222001052

Toman, E. L. (2022). Environmental Victimization: The Expansion of Prisons and the Land of Choice. Crime Victims’ Institute. Retrieved from http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/pubs/?mode=view&input=188

Cochran, J. C., Toman, E. L., Mears, D. P., & Shields, R. T. (2021). Uniquely Punitive Turn? Sex Offenders and the Persistence of Punitive Sanctioning. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 58(1), 74–118. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427820941172

Rubenstein, B. Y., Toman, E. L., & Cochran, J. C. (2021). Socioeconomic Barriers to Child Contact with Incarcerated Parents. Justice Quarterly, 38(4), 725–751. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2019.1606270

Toman, E. L. (2021). Disciplinary Confinement and Misconduct Patterns: An Examination of Gendered Effects. Crime and Delinquency, 68(6–7), 945–974. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211010484

Toman, E. L. (2021). Polluted Confinement: A Nationwide Analysis of Toxic Releases Near Prisons. Crime Victims’ Institute. Retrieved from http://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/pubs/?mode=view&input=120

Severson, R. E., Toman, E. L., & Alvarado, M. M. (2020). Mental Health Service Utilization: General and Gendered Consequences for Prison Strains. Crime and Delinquency, 66(12), 1754–1786. https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128720937294

Toman, E. L. (2019). The Victim-Offender Overlap Behind Bars: Linking Prison Misconduct and Victimization. Justice Quarterly, 36(2), 350–382. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2017.1402072

Cochran, J. C., Lynch, M. J., Toman, E. L., & Shields, R. (2018). Court Sentencing Patterns for Environmental Crimes: Is There a Green Gap in Sentencing? Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 34(1), 37–66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-016-9322-9

Cochran, J. C., Toman, E. L., Mears, D. P., & Bales, W. D. (2018). Solitary Confinement as Punishment: Examining In-Prison Sanctioning Disparities. Justice Quarterly, 35(3), 381–411. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2017.1308541

Toman, E. L., Cochran, J. C., & Cochran, J. K. (2018). Jailhouse Blues? The Adverse Effects of Pretrial Detention for Prison Social Order. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 45(3), 316–339. https://doi.org/10.1177/0093854817753018

Cochran, J. C., & Toman, E. L. (2018). Mass Jail Incarceration and Its Consequences. In Handbook of Consequences of Sentencing Decisions, The ASC Division on Corrections & Sentencing Handbook Series (Vol. 3, pp. 245–270).

Peck, J. H., Leiber, M. J., Beaudry-Cyr, M., & Toman, E. L. (2015). The Conditioning Effect of Race and Gender on the Juvenile Court Outcomes of Delinquent and Neglected Types of Offenders. Justice Quarterly, 33(7), 1210–1236. https://doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2015.1080851

Toman, E. L., Cochran, J. C., Cochran, J. K., & Bales, W. D. (2015). The Implications of Sentence Length on Inmate Adjustment to Prison Life. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(6), 510–521. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.11.002

Toman, E. L. (2015). Drug Crime. In The Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment (pp. 521–529).