Emily M. Wright
Assistant Professor

Office: 112 Currell College
Phone: (803) 777-6537
Fax: (803) 777-9600
Email: ewright@mailbox.sc.edu

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Intimate partner violence; female offenders; gender issues and theory and corrections.

Dr. Wright earned her Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati, and is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of South Carolina. Her research interests involve intimate partner violence and victimization (IPV) as well as women offenders. She is currently examining neighborhood contextual effects, such as disadvantage, on community levels of IPV. Dr. Wright is also investigating the effects of IPV on victims’ mental health and later life circumstances, and is exploring the effects of exposure to IPV on various outcomes among adolescents. Regarding women offenders, Dr. Wright has been involved in national classification projects examining women’s gender-responsive risk and need factors and how these factors impact their criminal behavior. She is particularly interested in the role that women’s victimization plays as a risk factor to their criminality. She continues to conduct research regarding the theoretical and policy implications of gender-responsive classification and programming with women offenders.

Dr. Wright teaches 341 Sociology of Crime, 421 Victimization, and 703 Research Methods.

Wright, E.M.(2009). The measurement of psychopathy: Dimensional and categorical approaches. The International Journal of Offender Therapy and Contemporary Criminology . 53 (4), 464-481.

Wright, E.M., Salisbury, E.J., & Van Voorhis, P. (2007). Predicting the prison misconducts of women offenders: The importance of gender-responsive needs. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 23 (4), 310-340.

Wright, E.M., Van Voorhis, P., Salisbury, E., & Bauman, A. (forthcoming). Gender-responsive prisons: Lessons learned from the NIC/UC gender-responsive classification project. Women, Girls, and Criminal Justice.

Van Voorhis, P., Wright, E.M., Salisbury, E., & Bauman, A. (accepted for publication). Women’s risk factors and their contributions to existing risk/needs assessment: The current status of a gender-responsive supplement. Criminal Justice and Behavior.

Steiner, B. & Wright, E.M. (2006). Assessing the relative effects of state direct file waiver laws on violent juvenile crime: Deterrence or irrelevance? The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 96(4), 1451-1478.