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Jason Ingram

 

I will begin in the fall as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice Sciences. I am originally from the Danville, IL area and received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Administration of Justice from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Currently, I am finishing up my Ph.D. work in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University.

My research interests lie primarily in the field of policing. Over the last three years, I have served as the Research Site Director for the National Institute of Justice funded project, Assessing Police Use of Force Policies and Outcomes. This project provides an in-depth look at how different types of use of force policies influence outcomes such as citizen and officer injuries, citizen complaints, and lawsuits in order to provide insight to police practitioners for future policy making and development. My dissertation research examines the police attitude-behavior relationship. It takes a multilevel approach to test whether group effects play an important role in shaping officers’ attitudes toward their work, which in turn, affect officers’ use of force behavior.

My recent articles have appeared in journals such as Police Quarterly, Law Enforcement Executive Forum, Deviant Behavior, Criminal Justice Review, and Western Criminology Review. I will be teaching Introduction to Criminal Justice Sciences and Contemporary Policing in America this fall.