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Alexander H. Updegrove

University of North Texas
Verified email at unt.edu
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Red states and Black lives: Applying the racial threat hypothesis to the Black Lives Matter movement

AH Updegrove, MN Cooper, EA Orrick… - Justice …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite increased media attention, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement has received
little scholarly attention. News coverage of BLM is often divisive, which suggests important …

The mediating effect of self-control on parenting and delinquency: a gendered approach with a multinational sample

LR Muftić, AH Updegrove - International journal of offender …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This study aims to clarify the relationships between parenting techniques, low self-control, and
juvenile delinquency in Gottfredson and Hirschi’s general theory of crime while controlling …

Perceptions of victim advocates and predictors of service referral among law enforcement personnel

…, AD Garza, CA Franklin, AH Updegrove… - Feminist …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Limited research exists on police officers’ service provision for sexual and domestic violence
survivors after they formally report. This study used surveys from 452 commissioned officers …

Racial Differences in Public Support for Federal Law Enforcement Finding and Prosecuting the January 6th Insurrectionists Who Broke Into the US Capitol

AH Updegrove, JR Dmello, MN Cooper… - Crime & …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Black people may view the January 6th, 2021, attack on the US Capitol as the latest
development in a long series of threats that white supremacy poses to their status in the US, …

Childhood polyvictimization, adult violent victimization, and trauma symptomatology: An exploratory study of prostitution diversion program participants

AH Updegrove, LR Muftic - Journal of family violence, 2019 - Springer
Prostitution diversion program participants who have experienced lifelong patterns of abuse,
including child polyvictimization and later adult victimization, may exhibit greater trauma …

Examining the effects of race/ethnicity and race relations on public opinion about the overrepresentation of black people in US prisons

M Cooper, AH Updegrove, SL Gabbidon… - Victims & …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The purpose of this study was to determine whether persons of different racial/ethnic
backgrounds differ in their perceptions of the role racial discrimination plays in the …

Skin color and Latines' perceptions of criminal injustice toward Black people: a path analysis

AH Updegrove, MN Cooper, F Luo… - Journal of Crime and …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Since melanin levels cannot cause anything, this study hypothesized that Latines’ skin color
would initially predict perceptions of anti-Black police and CJ system bias. Once Latines’ …

Faculty perspectives on teaching a race and crime course: A replication and expansion

MN Cooper, AH Updegrove, CY Barnaby… - Journal of Criminal …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study administered an updated version of Gabbidon and Preston's ( 2003 ) survey, which
provided an overview of Race and Crime courses, to 48 criminal justice faculty who had …

Predictors of criminal justice undergraduates' intentions to pursue graduate education in criminology or criminal justice

MN Cooper, AH Updegrove… - Journal of Criminal Justice …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This study relies on data from 388 junior and senior criminal justice majors to examine
predictors of intentions to pursue graduate education in criminology, criminal justice, or a closely …

The effectiveness of a problem-solving court for individuals charged with misdemeanor prostitution in Harris County Texas

LR Muftic, AH Updegrove - Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This exploratory study examines the effectiveness of SAFE Court, a prostitution problem-solving
court located in Harris County, Texas (Houston). During a two-year period, 344 …