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51
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Shawn D. Bushway publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shawn D. Bushway sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 160 publications — 47th percentile

47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Shawn D. Bushway D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shawn D. Bushway sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

Shawn D. Bushway is affiliated with the University at Albany, State University of New York in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on sociology, political science, economics, and education subfields.

Their work often addresses topics related to criminal justice and corrections analysis, crime patterns and interventions, law, economics, and judicial systems, as well as education discipline and inequality. Other topics of interest include crime, illicit activities, governance, homelessness, social issues, and bullying, victimization, and aggression.

Frequent co-authors in their research include Lucy C. Sorensen, David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff, Nidhi Kalra, and Yinzhi Shen.

Some of the publication venues where Bushway's research appears multiple times are:

  • Criminology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Science Advances
  • Criminology & Public Policy
  • Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Shawn D. Bushway include:

  • A Policy Review of Employers' Open Access to Conviction Records, 2020, Annual Review of Criminology
  • Barred from employment: More than half of unemployed men in their 30s had a criminal history of arrest, 2022, Science Advances
  • Getting Tough? The Effects of Discretionary Principal Discipline on Student Outcomes, 2021, Education Finance and Policy
  • Making Schools Safer and/or Escalating Disciplinary Response: A Study of Police Officers in North Carolina Schools, 2021, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis
  • The thin blue line in schools: New evidence on school-based policing across the U.S., 2023, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management

Shawn D. Bushway has also contributed several books published through RAND Corporation eBooks, covering topics such as employment for people with criminal records, recidivism risk prediction, criminal history sharing, and the experiences of small business owners with criminal records. Some notable titles include:

  • Direct Incentives May Increase Employment of People With Criminal Records, 2023
  • How Different Sampling Methods Paint Vastly Different Pictures of Recidivism, and Why It Matters for Policy, 2022
  • Small Businesses, Criminal Histories, and the Paycheck Protection Program, 2021
  • Criminal History Record Information Sharing with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency: Education and Training Materials for State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial Partners, 2022
  • The Prevalence of Criminal Records Among Small Business Owners, 2021
  • Resetting Recidivism Risk Prediction, 2022
  • Resetting the Record: The Facts on Hiring People with Criminal Histories, 2024

Best Publications

  • Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John E. Eck

  • TRAJECTORIES OF CRIME AT PLACES: A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF STREET SEGMENTS IN THE CITY OF SEATTLE*

    David Weisburd;Shawn Bushway;Cynthia Lum;Sue-Ming Yang

  • Desistance and the "Feared Self": Toward an Identity Theory of Criminal Desistance

    Raymond Paternoster;Shawn D. Bushway

  • Is the Magic Still There? The Use of the Heckman Two-Step Correction for Selection Bias in Criminology

    Shawn Bushway;Brian D. Johnson;Lee Ann Slocum

  • The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime

    Thomas P. LeBel;Ros Burnett;Shadd Maruna;Shawn Bushway

  • Preventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn't, What's Promising. Research in Brief. National Institute of Justice.

    Lawrence W. Sherman;Denise C. Gottfredson;Doris L. MacKenzie;John Eck

  • AN EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING DESISTANCE AS A PROCESS

    Shawn D. Bushway;Alex R. Piquero;Lisa M. Broidy;Elizabeth Cauffman

  • SCARLET LETTERS AND RECIDIVISM: DOES AN OLD CRIMINAL RECORD PREDICT FUTURE OFFENDING?*

    Megan C. Kurlychek;Robert Brame;Shawn D. Bushway

  • Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing

    Shawn D. Bushway;Anne Morrison Piehl

  • Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches

    Shawn D. Bushway;Terence P. Thornberry;Marvin D. Krohn

  • A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal

    Shawn D. Bushway;Robert Apel

  • Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23

    Robert Brame;Shawn D. Bushway;Ray Paternoster;Michael G. Turner

  • Labor markets and crime risk factors

    Shawn D. Bushway;Peter Reuter

  • Barriers to Reentry?: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America

    Shawn D. Bushway;Michael A. Stoll;David Weiman

  • Cumulative Prevalence of Arrest From Ages 8 to 23 in a National Sample

    Robert Brame;Michael G. Turner;Raymond Paternoster;Shawn D. Bushway

  • THE EFFECT OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON HIRING EX‐OFFENDERS*

    Michael A. Stoll;Shawn D. Bushway

  • The Effect of Teenage Employment on Delinquency and Problem Behaviors

    Raymond Paternoster;Shawn Bushway;Robert Brame;Robert Apel

  • Labor Market Effects of Permitting Employer Access to Criminal History Records

    Shawn D. Bushway

  • THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: DO AGE AND CRIMINAL HISTORY AFFECT TIME TO REDEMPTION?*

    Shawn D. Bushway;Paul Nieuwbeerta;Arjan Blokland

  • The Impact of an Arrest on the Job Stability of Young White American Men

    Shawn D. Bushway

  • Does dropping out of school mean dropping into delinquency

    Gary Sweeten;Shawn D. Bushway;Raymond Paternoster

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond Paternoster
Raymond Paternoster University of Maryland, College Park
Robert Brame
Robert Brame University of South Carolina
Anne Morrison Piehl
Anne Morrison Piehl Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Allison D. Redlich
Allison D. Redlich George Mason University
Robert Apel
Robert Apel Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Peter Reuter
Peter Reuter University of Maryland, College Park
Justin T. Pickett
Justin T. Pickett University at Albany, State University of New York
Jeffrey D. Morenoff
Jeffrey D. Morenoff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marvin D. Krohn
Marvin D. Krohn University of Florida
David J. Harding
David J. Harding University of California, Berkeley

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