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Overview

Loretta J. Stalans is affiliated with Loyola University Chicago in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, with a focus on computer science and social sciences. Within these broader areas, Stalans concentrates on subfields such as information systems, sociology and political science, artificial intelligence, gender studies, and epidemiology.

The primary topics of their work include spam and phishing detection, cybercrime and law enforcement studies, hate speech and cyberbullying detection, sex work and related issues, gender, feminism, and media, misinformation and its impacts, as well as data-driven disease surveillance.

Stalans has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers in recent years. These include:

  • Predicting Phishing Victimization: Comparing Prior Victimization, Cognitive, and Emotional Styles, and Vulnerable or Protective E-mail Strategies, published in 2023 in Victims & Offenders
  • Being phished and reporting phishing emails: emotional and knowledge antecedents and training gaps, published in 2024 in the Journal of Crime and Justice

Frequent collaborations have been a notable aspect of their research output. Among the frequent coauthors are Eric Chan-Tin, Madeline Moran, Anna Hart, Shelia M. Kennison, and Amber Horning-Ruf.

Their publications have appeared primarily in venues such as Victims & Offenders and the Journal of Crime and Justice.

Best Publications

  • Penal Populism and Public Opinion: Lessons from Five Countries

    J.V. Roberts;L.J. Stalans;M. Hough;David Indermaur

  • Penal Populism and Public Opinion

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  • Risk factors for partner violence among a national sample of combat veterans.

    Casey T. Taft;Anica P. Pless;Loretta J. Stalans;Karestan C. Koenen

  • Encouraging Tax Compliance With Positive Incentives: A Conceptual Framework and Research Directions*

    Kent W. Smith;Loretta J. Stalans

  • Restorative Sentencing: Exploring the Views of the Public.

    Julian V. Roberts;Loretta J. Stalans

  • How novice and experienced officers interpret wife assaults: normative and efficiency frames

    Loretta J. Stalans;Mary A. Finn

  • Citizens' crime stereotypes, biased recall, and punishment preferences in abstract cases: The educative role of interpersonal sources.

    Loretta J. Stalans

  • Identifying three types of violent offenders and predicting violent recidivism while on probation: A classification tree analysis

    Loretta Jane Stalans;Paul R. Yarnold;Magnus Seng;David E. Olson

  • Dual Arrest Decisions in Domestic Violence Cases: The Influence of Departmental Policies:

    Michael A. Finn;Brenda Sims Blackwell;Loretta Jane Stalans;S Studdard

  • Societal views of justice for adolescents accused of murder: Inconsistency between community sentiment and automatic legislative transfers.

    Loretta J. Stalans;Gary T. Henry

  • The myth of judicial leniency in sentencing

    J.D. Shari Seidman Diamond Ph.D.;J.D. Shari Seidman Diamond Ph.D.;Loretta J. Stalans;Loretta J. Stalans

  • Measuring attitudes to sentencing

    Loretta J. Stalans

  • Formation and change in lay evaluations of criminal sentencing: Misperception and discontent.

    Loretta J. Stalans;Shari Seidman Diamond

  • Relationship of Substance Use/Abuse with Psychological and Physical Intimate Partner Violence: Variations Across Living Situations

    Loretta Jane Stalans;Jennifer Ritchie

  • The Influence of Gender and Mental State on Police Decisions in Domestic Assault Cases

    Michael A. Finn;Loretta Jane Stalans

  • Adult Sex Offenders on Community Supervision: A Review of Recent Assessment Strategies and Treatment

    Loretta J. Stalans

  • Public's and Police Officers' Interpretation and Handling of Domestic Violence Cases: Divergent Realities.

    Loretta Jane Stalans;Michael A. Finn

  • Gender Differences in Officers' Perceptions and Decisions About Domestic Violence Cases

    Loretta Jane Stalans;Michael A. Finn

  • Police Referrals to Shelters and Mental Health Treatment: Examining Their Decisions in Domestic Assault Cases

    Michael A. Finn;Loretta Jane Stalans

  • Superiority of the left hemisphere in the recognition of emotional faces

    Loretta Stalans;Danny Wedding

  • Hemispheric Differences in the Perception of Positive and Negative Faces

    Danny Wedding;Loretta Stalans

Frequent Co-Authors

Julian V. Roberts
Julian V. Roberts University of Oxford
Shari Seidman Diamond
Shari Seidman Diamond Northwestern University
Mike Hough
Mike Hough Birkbeck, University of London
Karestan C. Koenen
Karestan C. Koenen Harvard University
Michael Tonry
Michael Tonry University of Minnesota
Gary T. Henry
Gary T. Henry University of Delaware
Casey T. Taft
Casey T. Taft Boston University
E. Allan Lind
E. Allan Lind Duke University
Laura Dugan
Laura Dugan The Ohio State University

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