Dr. Jessica Finkeldey

Office Hours

• By appointment

Teaching Interests

Introduction to criminal justice; criminology; corrections; capital punishment; statistics; research methods.

Research Interests

Predictors and consequences of antisocial behavior and contact with the criminal justice system

Awards and Honors

• Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador for Fredonia, State University of New York (2022).

Current Research

• Equitable Enforcement, Mixed Perceptions: An Examination of the Predictors of College Students’ Contact with and Perceptions of University Police

Professional Membership

• Society for the Study of Social Problems
• American Society of Criminology
• American Sociological Association

Contracts, Grants and Sponsored Programs

• LoudCloud Courseware Faculty Mini Grant Program, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Faculty Summer Research, Scholarship, and Creativity Awards, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Textbook Creation Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).
• Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Redesign Incentive, N/A (N/A).

Intellectual Contributions

• "The Intersecting Associations between Race and Ethnicity, Skin Color, and Perceived Unfair Treatment by Police," Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice (2023).
• "Race/Ethnicity, Perceived Skin Color, and the Likelihood of Adult Arrest," Race and Justice (2021).
• "Confounding Bias in the Relationship between Problem Gambling and Crime," Journal of Gambling Studies (2021).
• "Social Class Differences in the Relationships between Problem Gambling and Deviance," Criminal Justice Studies (2021).
• "Self-Reported Experiences and Consequences of Unfair Treatment by Police," Criminology (2021).
• "An Exploratory Investigation of Parental Incarceration, Emotional Independence, and Adult Children’s Criminal Activity," Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology (2021).
• "Racial Groups Suffer Disparate Consequences after Unfair Police Treatment – But Not the Groups You Might Think," The Conversation (2021).
• "Multilevel Effects of Parental Incarceration on Adult Children’s Neighborhood Disadvantage," Social Problems (2020).
• "Identifying as a Troublemaker/Partier: The Influence of Parental Incarceration and Emotional Independence," Journal of Child and Family Studies (2020).
• "Parental Incarceration during Adolescence, Secondary School Resources, and Depressive Symptoms in Adulthood," Social Currents (2020).
• "The War on Drugs," Criminal Justice in America: The Encyclopedia of Crime, Law Enforcement, Courts, and Corrections (2020).
• "Trust Across Culture and Context," Journal of Cognitive Engineering and Decision Making (2019).
• "Adolescent Male Sports Participation and Violence in Emerging Adulthood: Examining Variation by Gender-Typed Behavior," Deviant Behavior (2019).
• "Book Review: The Impact of Racism on African American Families: Literature as Social Science," Teaching Sociology (2015).

Presentations

• "All Hands on Deck: Librarian, Professor, and Student Perspectives on Implementing a Collaborative Open Pedagogy Project," State University of New York Librarians Association Conference (2023).
• "Open Minds and Shared Voices: Making Student/Faculty Collaborations Possible," 25th Annual Fredonia Student Research and Creativity Exposition (2023).
• "Introduction to Open Pedagogy," SUNY Fredonia Professional Development Day (2023).
• "Using Podcasts in Online Courses," SUNY Online Summit (2022).
• "The Association between Skin Color and Perceived Unfair Treatment by Police," American Society of Criminology (2021).
• "Voting Rights and the Criminal Justice System," Virtual Panel Discussion on Voting Rights (2021).
• "The Biden Administration and Criminal Justice Reform," What the Biden Administration’s Decisions Mean for You (Part 1) (2021).