Publications

Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Christopher A. Simon, Nicholas P. Lovrich (2023). If the face fits: predicting future promotions from police cadets’ facial traits. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Michael Sierra-Arevalo, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D. (2023). The ‘War on Cops,’ retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd. Criminology (forthcoming).

Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Kyle McLean, Geoffrey P. Alpert (2023). De-fanged. Journal of Experimental Criminology.

Tara N. Richards, Justin Nix, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams (2021). Comparing 911 and emergency hotline calls for domestic violence in seven cities: What happened when people started staying home due to COVID-19?. Criminology & Public Policy.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix (2021). Elevated Police Turnover Following the Summer of George Floyd Protests: A Synthetic Control Study. Criminology & Public Policy.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams, Samuel R. Baty (2021). Challenging the Ordinality of Police Use-of-Force Policy. Criminal Justice Policy Review.

Ian T. Adams, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Sharon H. Mastracci (2021). High-Stakes Administrative Discretion: What Drives Body-Worn Camera Activations?. Public Administration Review.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams, Sharon H. Mastracci (2021). Improving victim engagement and officer response in rape investigations: A longitudinal assessment of a brief training.. Journal of Criminal Justice.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams (2021). COVID-19 vaccine program eliminates law enforcement workforce infections: a Bayesian structural time series analysis. Police Practice & Research: An International Journal.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams, Justin Nix, Tara N. Richards (2021). Mandatory Sexual Assault Kit Testing Policies and Arrest Trends: A Natural Experiment. Justice Evaluation Journal.

Sharon H. Mastracci, Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D. (2021). The Ethics of Emotional Labor in Public Service: The Case of Children's Services Forensic Interviewers. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership & Governance.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams (2019). Assessing Public Perceptions of Police Use-of-Force: Legal Reasonableness and Community Standards. Justice Quarterly, 37(5).

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams (2019). The rhetoric of de-policing: Evaluating open-ended survey responses from police officers with machine learning-based structural topic modeling. Journal of Criminal Justice, 64.

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Roger C. Mayer, Richard A. Wise, Holly O'Rourke (2019). The Overlooked Perspective of Police Trust in the Public: Measurement and Effects on Police Job Behaviors. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 31(5).

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Ian T. Adams (2019). The Effect of Prosecutorial Actions on Deterrence: A County-Level Analysis. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 31(4).

Scott M. Mourtgos, Ph.D., Richard A. Wise, Thomas Petros (2018). The consequences of restricting police arrest authority: less deterrence and more crime. Policing: An International Journal, 41(2).