2026 Shawn D. Bushway: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2521	2299	1230	1107	160	16262

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

2311
Citations
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

1085
Citations
Desistance and the "Feared Self": Toward an Identity Theory of Criminal Desistance

Raymond Paternoster;Shawn D. Bushway

956
Citations
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

776
Citations
The `Chicken and Egg' of Subjective and Social Factors in Desistance from Crime

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

748
Citations
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

650
Citations
AN EMPIRICAL FRAMEWORK FOR STUDYING DESISTANCE AS A PROCESS

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

599
Citations
SCARLET LETTERS AND RECIDIVISM: DOES AN OLD CRIMINAL RECORD PREDICT FUTURE OFFENDING?*

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

496
Citations
Judging Judicial Discretion: Legal Factors and Racial Discrimination in Sentencing

Shawn D. Bushway;Anne Morrison Piehl

490
Citations
Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches

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

487
Citations
A Signaling Perspective on Employment-Based Reentry Programming Training Completion as a Desistance Signal

Shawn D. Bushway;Robert Apel

400
Citations
Demographic Patterns of Cumulative Arrest Prevalence by Ages 18 and 23

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

342
Citations
Labor markets and crime risk factors

Shawn D. Bushway;Peter Reuter

314
Citations
Barriers to Reentry?: The Labor Market for Released Prisoners in Post-Industrial America

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

275
Citations
Cumulative Prevalence of Arrest From Ages 8 to 23 in a National Sample

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

273
Citations
THE EFFECT OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS ON HIRING EX‐OFFENDERS*

Michael A. Stoll;Shawn D. Bushway

248
Citations
The Effect of Teenage Employment on Delinquency and Problem Behaviors

Raymond Paternoster;Shawn Bushway;Robert Brame;Robert Apel

227
Citations
Labor Market Effects of Permitting Employer Access to Criminal History Records

Shawn D. Bushway

223
Citations
THE PREDICTIVE VALUE OF CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECKS: DO AGE AND CRIMINAL HISTORY AFFECT TIME TO REDEMPTION?*

Shawn D. Bushway;Paul Nieuwbeerta;Arjan Blokland

213
Citations
The Impact of an Arrest on the Job Stability of Young White American Men

Shawn D. Bushway

211
Citations
Does dropping out of school mean dropping into delinquency

Gary Sweeten;Shawn D. Bushway;Raymond Paternoster

178
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Raymond Paternoster University of Maryland, College Park

Robert Brame University of South Carolina

Allison D. Redlich George Mason University

Justin T. Pickett University at Albany, State University of New York

Marvin D. Krohn University of Florida

Jeffrey D. Morenoff University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Terence P. Thornberry University of Maryland, College Park

Paul Nieuwbeerta Leiden University

Ingrid A. Binswanger Kaiser Permanente

Alan J. Lizotte University at Albany, State University of New York

External Links

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