Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: By considering criminology’s underlying themes, the paper consider the nature of the American criminological mind that assesses the poor, the deviant, and the unsocialized who are said to live on the margins of society. In that regard, the paper explores the manner in which criminology tends to emphasize negativity, hopelessness, and other singular drives or failures that supposedly characterize the lives of deviant people. As such, the paper considers issues of justice and directs its attention to the importance of the “self” in the construction of crime and justice while recognizing the criminological construction of self-control and its cultural expression. By considering the formation of the self which frames beliefs in separation, individual differences, property rights, and power, the paper considers whether the criminological gaze might be positioned beyond the proclivities of traditional criminology.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: Self-presentation in a public mediated environment, such as a blog, can cause a person to internalize the self-presentation and make it part of their identity, a process labeled identity shift (Gonzales & Hancock, 2008). This study extends previous work on identity shift by examining the impact of affordances and certainty across face-to-face and computer-mediated presentations. Seventy-eight people produced either introverted or extroverted self-presentations either in a blog or in a video condition to test whether the asynchronicity and visual anonymity of computer-mediated communication (CMC) augment the effect of identity shift relative to face-to-face. The results indicate that for presentations of extroversion, presenting one’s self virtually enhances identity shift relative to physical self-presentations as expected. And, consistent with the public commitment framework, being certain of the self-presentation mediates the effect of media on identity shift. Implications for future tests and areas of theoretical development in CMC research are discussed.

Publication Type: Roundtable
Abstract: This investigation reports on one dimension in an ongoing evaluation of the Anchorage Wellness Court (AWC), a drug treatment court for offenders charged with an alcohol related offense, most often driving under the influence. Graduates of the AWC who had been at risk for varying lengths of time from six months to 2 years were contacted and measures of self-efficacy (Bandura, 1995; DiClemente, Carbonari, Montgomery and Hughes, 1994) and stages of change (Prochaska, DiClemente, and Norcross, 1992) were collected. Additionally, the graduates provided narrative reports on their treatment in the AWC and experiences since graduation, including personal accounts of their recovery and ongoing desistance from alcohol. This preliminary analysis focuses on simple pre-post comparisons of the measures of change and self-efficacy and explores their relationship to standard measures of recidivism and relapse and the ultimate success or failure of the client. The self-narratives are analyzed for indicators of a redemption script (Maruna, 2000) constructed by the AWC graduates to make sense of their past lives and present self.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The issues related to the discrepancies between self-esteem or self-efficacy in teacher candidates is addressed. The definitions for teacher candidates’ beliefs on how they see themselves as future educational professionals will be explored.

Publication Type: Poster
Abstract: This study examined Asian American adolescents' adherence to Asian and European cultural values and their relationship to self-esteem, cognitive flexibility, self-efficacy as they relate to teaching. learning, and counseling.