Associate Professor

School of Criminology, Criminal Justice, and Legal Studies

Ph.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis

M.A., Northern Illinois University

B.A., Eastern Illinois University

Office: 249-C DeVos

Phone: (616) 331-7138

E-mail: [email protected]

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Expertise

Communities and Crime; Mass Incarceration; Research Methods/Statistics

About

Dr. Jaclyn Cwick joined GVSU’s School of Criminal Justice in 2016 after earning her Ph.D. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. Prior to this, she earned a M.A. in Sociology at Northern Illinois University in 2010 and completed her B.A. in Psychology at Eastern Illinois University in 2007.

Research Interests

Dr. Cwick's research focuses on communities and crime, with an emphasis on residents’ efforts to prevent crime known as informal social control. Her current research examines the effects of mass incarceration on individuals, families, and communities, with particular attention to the gendered effects of incarceration and how women who are “left behind” in communities with high rates of incarceration are impacted. Other research focuses and interests include social disorganization theory and its extensions, coercive mobility theory, negotiated coexistence theory, and the correlates and consequences of mass incarceration. Dr. Cwick also has an interest and training in advanced quantitative research methodologies, including hierarchical linear modeling and geographic information systems (GIS). Her research has been published in top peer reviewed academic journals, including Crime and Delinquency and Justice Quarterly (JQ).

Teaching

Dr. Cwick is a devoted scholar with a love for teaching and learning with her students. She currently teaches/has taught Research Methods in Criminal Justice, Culture, Crime, & Justice, Communities and Crime, Criminology, CJ Capstone, Justice & Society, Crimes Against Women, Correctional Process, the Inside Out Prison Exchange Program, and graduate-level Corrections & Punishment and Criminology.

Publications

• Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Joshua H. Williams. 2024. Examining Firearm Offenses: Social Disorganization, Proximity from Home, and Crime Type. Crime & Delinquency.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2024. Incarceration and Women’s and Men’s Forms of Capital and Social Control: A Gendered Test of Coercive Mobility. Journal of Crime and Justice.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2022. Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene? Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society, 23(2): 1-19.
• Marson-Reed, Jennifer, Olivia M. McLaughlin, Angela M. Moe, Jacquelynn Doyon-Martin, Jaclyn M. Cwick, and Adrian Copeland. 2022. It’s as Hard as it Looks: Motherhood and Academia. Sociological Imagination, 57(2): 16-34.
• Walsh, John P., Gerkin, Patrick, Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Sheffer, Joshua. 2021. Restorative Justice in Schools: Examining Participant Satisfaction and its Correlates. The International Journal of Restorative Justice, 3: 439-472.
• Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2021. Reentry and Community Corrections, In Justice and Society an Introduction, Second Edition. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2020. Gender and Incarceration as Coercive Mobility: A Theoretical Model of Effects on Women’s Forms of Capital and Informal Social Control. Journal of Crime and Justice, 43(2): 245-261.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Elaine E. Doherty. 2018. Unpacking the Paradox of Neighboring Ties: The Moderating Effect of Criminal Context on Victimization. Journal of Crime and Justice, 41(5): 463-482.
• Walsh, John, P., and Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2018. Victimization within Prison and Jail Facilities. In Carly M. Hilinski-Rosick and Daniel R. Lee (Eds.), Contemporary Issues in Victimology. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
• Hilinski-Rosick, Carly, and Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2017. Reentry and Community Corrections, In Justice and Society an Introduction. Dubuque, IA: Kendall-Hunt.
• Doherty, Elaine E., and Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2016. Unpacking the Complexity of Life Events and Desistance: An Application of Conjunctive Analysis of Case Configurations to Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 2(1): 45-63.
• Doherty, Elaine E., Jaclyn M. Cwick, Kerry M. Green, and Margaret E. Ensminger. 2015.  Examining the Consequences of the “Prevalent Life Events” of Arrest and Incarceration among an Urban African American Cohort. Justice Quarterly, 33(6): 970-999.
• DiPietro, Stephanie M., and Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2014. Gender, Family Functioning and Violence across Immigrant Generations. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 51(6): 785-815. 

Conference Papers and Presentations

• Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Joshua Williams. 2023. Examining Firearm Offenses: Social Disorganization, Proximity from Home, and Crime Type. Midwestern Criminal Justice Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
• Walsh, John, Jaclyn M. Cwick, Patrick Gerkin, and Joshua Sheffer. 2022. Student Satisfaction Within School-Based Restorative Circles: A Multilevel Approach. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2019. Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene? American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M., John P. Walsh, and Patrick M. Gerkin. 2019. Factors Related to Satisfaction among Participants of Restorative Circles in Schools. Western Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Honolulu, HI.
• Joseph, Robert, John P. Walsh, Patrick M. Gerkin, and Jaclyn M. Cwick. 2018. Utilizing Restorative Circles in Response to School Misbehavior. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting. New Orleans.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2017. Returning Home: The Impact of Prison Release Rates on Residents’ Forms of Capital and Neighborhood Social Control. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Elaine E. Doherty. 2016. Unpacking the Paradox of Neighboring Ties: The Moderating Effect of Criminal Context on Victimization. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. New Orleans, LA.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2015. Expanding Coercive Mobility: Women’s Social Capital and Neighborhood Social Control. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Washington, D.C.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M., Elaine E. Doherty, and Margaret E. Ensminger. 2015. Unpacking the Paradox of Network Ties: The Moderating Effect of Criminal Context on Victimization and Collective Efficacy. Midwestern Criminal Justice Association Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2014. Expanding Coercive Mobility: Women’s Social Capital and Neighborhood Social Control. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. San Francisco, Ca.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2013. Understanding Local Network Immersion and its Place within the Systemic Model. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Atlanta, Ga.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M., and Stephanie M. DiPietro. 2012. Family Functioning and Delinquency across Immigrant Generations: A Gendered Examination. American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Chicago, IL.
• Cwick, Jaclyn M. 2012. Incarcerating the Community: Mass Incarceration and Social Disorganization in Chicago Neighborhoods. Western Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Newport Beach, Ca.