David Abeling-Judge

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David Abeling-Judge PhD

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Dr. Abeling-Judge joined the Department of Criminal Justice as an Associate Professor in 2025. He brought several years of faculty experience, having taught and led undergraduate and graduate programs previously, and has published many peer-reviewed manuscripts in behavioral science journals. His expertise includes juvenile delinquency, desistance from crime, education and deviance, policing, victimization, and developmental and life-course criminology.

Abeling-Judge, D. (2024). To protect and serve: Reconsidering influences of the decision to pursue a critical career field. Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2022). Routing back: Social, psychological, and criminological influences on educational reengagement among youth offenders who drop out. SN Social Sciences, 2, 199.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2021). The value of school: Educational experiences and maturational growth among delinquent youth. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 7, 385-419.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2021). Social bonding experiences facilitating desistance in adolescence. Crime & Delinquency, 67, 287-315.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2021). Social opportunities and controls: Revisiting the desistance effect of employment. Deviant Behavior, 42, 1177-1193.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2020). Facilitating maturation through social bonds among delinquent youth in the transition to adulthood. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 6, 448-476.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2020). Age matters: Stopping out, going back, and criminal desistance based on timing of educational return. Crime & Delinquency, 66, 363-391.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2020). Does military service continue to facilitate desistance? Revisiting theory and practice. Deviant Behavior, 41, 574-590.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2019). Stopping out and going back: The impact of educational attainment on criminal desistance among stopped out offenders. Crime & Delinquency, 65, 527-554.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2018). Temporal consideration of the marriage effect. Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, 4, 188-208.
 
Abeling-Judge, D. (2016). Different social influences and desistance from crime. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 43, 1225-1241.

PhD. (2016). Criminology and Justice Policy. Northeastern University.

M.Sc. (2010). Forensic Mental Health Sciences. King's College London.

B.A. (2008). Psychology. Lawrence University.

Mentorship Committee Chair. Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology. American Society of Criminology.

Grant Review Subject Matter Expert. National Institute of Justice.

Desistance from Crime
Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Education and Crime
Juvenile Delinquency
Maturational Growth
Policing
Victimization

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