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Overview

Brandon K. Applegate is affiliated with the University of South Carolina in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with significant attention to subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

The main topics covered in their research include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis, Crime Patterns and Interventions, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Homelessness and Social Issues, Child Abuse and Trauma, Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research, and Optimism, Hope, and Well-being.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Brandon K. Applegate include:

  • The sins of the child: Public opinion about parental responsibility for juvenile crime (2020), published in Children and Youth Services Review
  • Extending the long arm of the law: punishment and rehabilitation as motives of public support for handling violent juvenile offenders as adults (2022), published in Journal of Experimental Criminology
  • Evidence-Based Practices in Community Corrections: Officers' Perceptions of Professional Relevance and Personal Competence (2020), published in American Journal of Criminal Justice
  • From Future Orientation to Readiness for Reentry: An Exploratory Study of Prelease Cognitions of Incarcerated Men (2021), published in Incarceration
  • Local Incarceration as Social Control: A National Analysis of Social, Economic, and Political Determinants of Jail Use in the United States (2022), published in American Journal of Criminal Justice

Frequent coauthors in their work include:

  • Heather M. Ouellette
  • Riane M. Bolin
  • Mateja Vuk
  • Amber Wilson
  • Eva Aizpurúa

Brandon K. Applegate has published multiple articles in several recurring venues such as the American Journal of Criminal Justice, The Prison Journal, Journal of Crime and Justice, Children and Youth Services Review, and Journal of Experimental Criminology. The American Journal of Criminal Justice has been a particularly frequent venue for their publications.

Best Publications

  • Public Opinion about Punishment and Corrections

    Francis T. Cullen;Bonnie S. Fisher;Brandon K. Applegate

  • Public views toward crime and correctional policies: Is there a gender gap?

    Brandon K. Applegate;Francis T. Cullen;Bonnie Sue Fisher

  • FORGIVENESS AND FUNDAMENTALISM: RECONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CORRECTIONAL ATTITUDES AND RELIGION

    Brandon K. Applegate;Francis T. Cullen;Bonnie S. Fisher;Thomas Vander Ven

  • Public Support for Correctional Treatment: The Continuing Appeal of the Rehabilitative Ideal:

    Brandon K. Applegate;Francis T. Cullen;Bonnie S. Fisher

  • Assessing Public Support for Three-Strikes-and-You're-Out Laws: Global versus Specific Attitudes

    Brandon K. Applegate;Francis T. Cullen;Michael G. Turner;Jody L. Sundt

  • Turning the Other Cheek: Reassessing the Impact of Religion on Punitive Ideology

    James D. Unnever;Francis T. Cullen;Brandon K. Applegate

  • Public Support for Early Intervention Programs: Implications for a Progressive Policy Agenda

    Francis T. Cullen;John Paul Wright;Shayna Brown;Melissa M. Moon

  • Public support for correctional rehabilitation in America: change or consistency?

    Francis T. Cullen;Jennifer A. Pealer;Bonnie S. Fisher;Brandon K. Applegate

  • The Tenacity of the Rehabilitative Ideal Revisited Have Attitudes Toward Offender Treatment Changed

    Jody L. Sundt;Francis T. Cullen;Brandon K. Applegate;Michael G. Turner

  • Reconsidering Child Saving: The Extent and Correlates of Public Support for Excluding Youths From the Juvenile Court

    Brandon K. Applegate;Robin King Davis;Francis T. Cullen

  • The Pragmatic American: Attributions of Crime and the Hydraulic Relation Hypothesis

    James D. Unnever;John K. Cochran;Francis T. Cullen;Brandon K. Applegate

  • Penal austerity: Perceived utility, desert, and public attitudes toward prison amenities

    Brandon K. Applegate

  • Determinants of public punitiveness toward drunk driving: A factorial survey approach

    Brandon K. Applegate;Francis T. Cullen;Bruce G. Link;Pamela J. Richards

  • Public Tolerance for Community-Based Sanctions

    Michael G. Turner;Francis T. Cullen;Jody L. Sundt;Brandon K. Applegate

  • Public Views on Sentencing Juvenile Murderers: The Impact of Offender, Offense, and Perceived Maturity

    Brandon K. Applegate;Robin King Davis

  • Victim-offender race and support for capital punishment: A factorial design approach

    Brandon K. Applegate;John P. Wright;R. Gregory Dunaway;Francis T. Cullen

  • Individualization, criminalization, or problem resolution: A factorial survey of juvenile court judges' decisions to incarcerate youthful felony offenders

    Brandon K. Applegate;Michael G. Turner;Joseph B. Sanborn;Edward J. Latessa

  • Assessing Juror Understanding of Capital-Sentencing Instructions

    James Frank;Brandon K. Applegate

  • Going to Jail Sucks (And It Really Doesn’t Matter Who You Ask)

    David C. May;Brandon K. Applegate;Rick Ruddell;Peter B. Wood

  • Testing the Deterrent Effects of Personal and Vicarious Experience with Punishment and Punishment Avoidance

    Alicia H. Sitren;Brandon K. Applegate

  • The Public’s Stance on Prisoner Reentry: Policy Support and Personal Acceptance

    Heather M. Ouellette;Brandon K. Applegate;Mateja Vuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Francis T. Cullen
Francis T. Cullen University of Cincinnati
Bonnie S. Fisher
Bonnie S. Fisher University of Cincinnati
James D. Unnever
James D. Unnever University of South Florida Sarasota–Manatee
Edward J. Latessa
Edward J. Latessa University of Cincinnati
John Paul Wright
John Paul Wright University of Cincinnati
John K. Cochran
John K. Cochran University of South Florida
Eugene A. Paoline
Eugene A. Paoline University of Central Florida
James Frank
James Frank University of Cincinnati
John Wooldredge
John Wooldredge University of Cincinnati

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