Biography
Caitlin Ducate is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Criminal Justice at Indiana University. Her research interests include how cognitive schemata such as identity and implicit cognitions influence criminal offending behavior. Her dissertation explores how threats to masculine and feminine gender identities may cause deviant behavior through the mechanism of emotion.
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Interests
- Identity
- Gender & Crime
- Social Psychology
- Offender Decision-Making
- Intimate Partner Violence
- Quantitative Methods & Analysis
Education
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Ph.D. in Criminal Justice, Present
Indiana University, Bloomington
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M.S. in Forensic Psychology, 2014
University of Kent, Canterbury
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M.S. in Psychology, 2013
Leeds Beckett University, Leeds
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B.S. in Psychology, B.A. Asian Studies, 2012
Furman University, Greenville
Recent Publications
(2021).
Measuring males' and females' implicit theories of intimate partner violence: An exploratory study.
Victims and Offenders.
(2018).
"A rape was reported": Construction of crime in a university newspaper.
Feminist Media Studies.
Skills
R
Statistics
Git & GitHub
JavaScript
Microsoft Office
LMS (Canvas)