On Tuesday, January 28th, Dr. Marva Goodson spoke to CRJ students, faculty, and Community Advisory Board members on her work in a packed lunch lecture in the Curry Student Center. Dr. Goodson is an assistant professor within Arizona State University’s School of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and her work focuses on the social networks of women under correctional supervision and examines how these social networks, or lack thereof, impact women’s ability to meet correctional standards and avoid re-incarceration. Her lecture provided insight on how she leverages egocentric social network analysis to identify the characteristics of these networks, and featured samples of her qualitative research demonstrating how these characteristics affect crime-involved women’s access to resources and reoffending patterns.
Prior to sharing her lecture, “The Spillover Effects of Community-Based Correctional Supervision: Network Inequality and Third-Party Control“, Dr. Goodson met with a small group of students over breakfast in Churchill Hall to discuss her work and her professional journey and to share her knowledge on topics such as obtaining funding for research and carving out a niche within the world of academia.
Dr. Goodson is the first of two speakers in the 2025 Schulman Distinguished Lecture Series. Next, Dr. Valerie Jenness will share her lecture “Law Enforcement, Perceptions of Police as Friend or Foe, Policy Preferences, and Willingness to Report Crome and Victimization” on March 27th, 2025 at 5:30pm.
