Peer-Reviewed Publications (*** denotes work with students)
Updegrove, A. H., Cooper, M. N., Lou, F. & Guerra, C. (2022). The effects of skin color on Latinx’s perceptions of criminal injustice. Journal of Crime and Justice. DOI: 10.1080/0735648X.2022.2157863
***Cooper, M. N., Updegrove, A. H., Barnaby, C. Y., Cho, A., Dixon, A., & Byrne, M. (2022). Faculty perspectives on teaching a race and crime course: A replication and expansion. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-24.
Cooper, M. N., Barnaby, C., Updegrove, A. H., & Gabbidon, S. L. (2022). Understanding black-white differences in support for the racial invariance thesis: Lessons learned from Philadelphia area residents. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287221090955.
Cho, A., Cooper, M. N., Updegrove, A. H., & Luo, F. (2022). How representative of the protest movement against police violence are opportunistic people looking to commit crime?: Racial differences in public opinion. Race and Justice, 21533687221117278.
Collins, A. M., & Cooper, M. N. (2022). Raise the age: Perceptions of Missouri juvenile justice actors. Missouri Policy Journal, 12(2), 1.
Updegrove, A. H., Cooper, M. N., & Dmello, J. R. (2021). Heritage not hate? Confederate flag supporters less likely to perceive criminal injustice, more likely to view police as friends. Race and Justice, 21533687211023574.
Cooper, M. N., Updegrove, A. H., Gabbidon, S. L., & Jordan, K. (2021). Pre-arrest perceptions of George Zimmerman’s guilt in the fatal Trayvon Martin shooting: Examining racial differences in the presumption of guilt. Crime & Delinquency, 00111287211022616.
Cooper, M. N., Updegrove, A. H., Gabbidon, S. L., Higgins, G. E., & Potter, H. (2020). Examining the effects of race/ethnicity and race relations on public opinion about the overrepresentation of black people in US prisons. Victims & Offenders, 16(1), 1-19.
Updegrove, A. H., Boisvert, D. L., Cooper, M. N., & Gabbidon, S. L. (2020). Criminological explanations, race, and biological attributions of crime as predictors of Philadelphia area residents’ support for criminal justice policies. Crime & Delinquency, 0011128720931437.
***Carroll, B. M., Coston, C. T., Maness, L. M., & Cooper, M. N. (2020). The success of a criminal justice learning community for transfer students. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-12.
Updegrove, A. H., Cooper, M. N., Orrick, E. A., & Piquero, A. R. (2018). Red states and black lives: Applying the racial threat hypothesis to the black lives matter movement. Justice Quarterly, 1-24.
Cooper, M. N., Updegrove, A. H., & Bouffard, J. A. (2018). Predictors of criminal justice undergraduates’ intentions to pursue graduate education in criminology or criminal justice. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-25.
Updegrove, A. H., Cooper, M. N., & Greene, H. T. (2017). Room for all? Comparing criminology and sociology completion rates across sex, race, and degree level. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 1-23.
Bouffard, J., Cooper, M., & Bergseth, K. (2017). The effectiveness of various restorative justice interventions on recidivism outcomes among juvenile offenders. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 15(4), 465-480.
Cooper, M. & Urban, L. S. (2012). Factors affecting juvenile waiver to adult court in a large Midwestern jurisdiction. Institute of Justice & International Studies, 12, 43-58.
Other Publications
Cooper, M. N. & Henderson, H. (2021). Where is the Black criminologist?. The Criminologist, 46(4), 2-6.
Cooper, M. N. & Updegrove, A. H. (2019). “Double consciousness’ and doctoral students’ need for same-race mentorship. ACJS Today, XLV(2), 11-16.
Cooper, M. (2010). Factors affecting juvenile certification in St. Louis, Missouri. The McNair Journal, University of Central Missouri, 19, 14-17.