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Criminology PhD Candidate | STATA Expert

Profile Summary

Criminology and Criminal Justice PhD Candidate with over 5 years of quantitative research experience. My primary skills include: statistical analysis of social science data, experimental designs, partial identification of statistical parameters, and manuscript writing and reviewing. My research centers on the offender decision making process, and I am a published scholar in two of the top journals in my discipline (Criminology, and the Journal of Experimental Criminology). I am currently focusing on completing my dissertation by the end of the academic year, and am in the process of resubmitting a solo-authored manuscript to the Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Crime & Criminology
• ★ Research
• ☆ Social Statistics
• ☆ Decision Science
• ☆ Sociology
• ☆ Social Choice Theory
• ☆ Econometrics
• ☆ Behavioural Economics

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Gap Analysis, Systematic Literature Review

Consulting Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Data Visualization, Big Data Analytics, Data Insights

Product Development Product Validation

Work Experience

Graduate Teaching & Research Assistant

University of Missouri - Saint Louis

August 2015 - August 2020

Education

Criminology and Criminal Justice, PhD

University of Missouri - Saint Louis

August 2015 - Present

Criminology and Criminal Justice, M.A.

University of Missouri - Saint Louis

August 2014 - May 2016

Criminal Justice, B.A.

University of Maine at Presque Island

August 2010 - May 2014

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory † @article{2020, doi = {10.1111/1745-9125.12243}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1745-9125.12243}, year = 2020, month = {apr}, publisher = {Wiley}, volume = {58}, number = {3}, pages = {485--509}, author = {Kyle J. Thomas and Thomas A. Loughran and Benjamin C. Hamilton}, title = {Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory {\textdagger}}} . Criminology.

Opting out of treatment: Self-selection bias in a randomized controlled study of a focused deterrence notification meeting @article{2017, doi = {10.1007/s11292-017-9309-z}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs11292-017-9309-z}, year = 2017, month = {oct}, publisher = {Springer Science and Business Media {LLC}}, volume = {14}, number = {1}, pages = {1--17}, author = {Benjamin Hamilton and Richard Rosenfeld and Aaron Levin}, title = {Opting out of treatment: Self-selection bias in a randomized controlled study of a focused deterrence notification meeting}} . Journal of Experimental Criminology.

TESTING THE TRANSITIVITY OF REPORTED RISK PERCEPTIONS: EVIDENCE OF COHERENT ARBITRARINESS @article{2017, doi = {10.1111/1745-9125.12154}, url = {https://doi.org/10.1111%2F1745-9125.12154}, year = 2017, month = {sep}, publisher = {Wiley}, volume = {56}, number = {1}, pages = {59--86}, author = {KYLE J. THOMAS and BENJAMIN C. HAMILTON and THOMAS A. LOUGHRAN}, title = {{TESTING} {THE} {TRANSITIVITY} {OF} {REPORTED} {RISK} {PERCEPTIONS}: {EVIDENCE} {OF} {COHERENT} {ARBITRARINESS}}} . Criminology.