Bridget Joyner-Carpanini, PhD

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Dr. Bridget Joyner-Carpanini is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice, Criminology, & Forensics at Seattle University as well as the Co-Advisor for the Criminal Justice Club and Alpha Phi Sigma. She holds a Ph.D., M.S., and B.S. in Criminology & Criminal Justice from Florida State University. Her primary research interests include propensity-based theories of crime and victimization, intergenerational risk of psychopathology, life-course and developmental criminology, and evolutionary criminology. Her works have appeared in the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, Crime & Delinquency, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Child Abuse & Neglect, Psychiatric Quarterly, American Journal of Criminal Justice, and Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences. She also co-authored a chapter in Revitalizing Victimization Theory: Revisions, Applications, and New Directions – Advances in Criminological Theory. She is a member of the American Society of Criminology, Biosocial Criminology Association, and Human Behavior & Evolution Society. She also sits as a board member for the American Society of Criminology Division of Biopsychosocial Criminology. Dr. Joyner-Carpanini’s present research focus includes examining biological and environmental risk factors of various criminal behaviors and traits. She currently has projects in progress on substance use as well as investigating the causes and consequences of callous-unemotional traits and is working to develop novel quantitative genetic methods to studying the etiology of complex and rare behaviors, including homicide.