Stephanie M. Cardwell is a post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Children and Families over the Life Course in the School of Social Science. She received a B.S. in Psychology (2011) and a M.S. in Criminal Justice (2013) from the University of Alabama at Birmingham and a Ph.D. in Criminology (2017) from the University of Texas at Dallas. Her research predominantly involves testing developmental life-course criminology perspectives utilizing both quantitative and qualitative methods. Stephanie is currently working on various projects utilizing data from the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP), a randomized controlled trial of a third party policing initiative to address truancy in disadvantaged Australian adolescents.
Journal Article: Parental attachment and truant rationalizations of antisocial behavior: findings from a randomized controlled trial
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Mazerolle, Lorraine and Piquero, Alex R. (2019) Parental attachment and truant rationalizations of antisocial behavior: findings from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Crime & Justice, . doi:10.1080/0735648X.2019.1668825
Journal Article: Harmonizing legal socialization to reduce antisocial behavior: results from a randomized field trial of truanting young people
Mazerolle, Lorraine, Antrobus, Emma, Cardwell, Stephanie M., Piquero, Alex R. and Bennett, Sarah (2019) Harmonizing legal socialization to reduce antisocial behavior: results from a randomized field trial of truanting young people. Justice Quarterly, 1-28. doi:10.1080/07418825.2019.1618894
Journal Article: Truancy intervention and violent offending: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Mazerolle, Lorraine and Piquero, Alex R. (2019) Truancy intervention and violent offending: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Aggression and Violent Behavior, . doi:10.1016/j.avb.2019.07.003
Testing the Efficacy of the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP)
(2019–2021) Commonwealth Department of Social Services
QPS Police Effectiveness Program
(2019–2020) Queensland Police Service
The Effect of Police Trust-Building Activities on Disengaged Young People's Attitudes and Behaviours
(2019–2020) UQ Early Career Researcher
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Mazerolle, Lorraine and Piquero, Alex R. (2019) Parental attachment and truant rationalizations of antisocial behavior: findings from a randomized controlled trial. Journal of Crime & Justice, . doi:10.1080/0735648X.2019.1668825
Mazerolle, Lorraine, Antrobus, Emma, Cardwell, Stephanie M., Piquero, Alex R. and Bennett, Sarah (2019) Harmonizing legal socialization to reduce antisocial behavior: results from a randomized field trial of truanting young people. Justice Quarterly, 1-28. doi:10.1080/07418825.2019.1618894
Truancy intervention and violent offending: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Mazerolle, Lorraine and Piquero, Alex R. (2019) Truancy intervention and violent offending: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial. Aggression and Violent Behavior, . doi:10.1016/j.avb.2019.07.003
Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah, Antrobus, Emma, Cardwell, Stephanie M., Eggins, Elizabeth and Piquero, Alex R. (2018) Disrupting the pathway from truancy to delinquency: a randomized field trial test of the longitudinal impact of a school engagement program. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, . doi:10.1007/s10940-018-9395-8
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Mazerolle, Lorraine, Bennett, Sarah and Piquero, Alex R. (2018) Changing the relationship between impulsivity and antisocial behavior: the impact of a school engagement program. Crime and Delinquency, 001112871878130. doi:10.1177/0011128718781305
Does violence in adolescence differentially predict offending patterns in early adulthood?
Cardwell, Stephanie M. and Piquero, Alex R. (2018) Does violence in adolescence differentially predict offending patterns in early adulthood?. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 62 6: 1603-1628. doi:10.1177/0306624X16688978
The gendering effects of co-authorship in criminology & criminal justice research
Zettler, Haley R., Cardwell, Stephanie M. and Craig, Jessica M. (2016) The gendering effects of co-authorship in criminology & criminal justice research. Criminal Justice Studies, 30 1: 30-44. doi:10.1080/1478601X.2016.1265958
The Effects of Criminal Propensity and Strain on Later Offending
Craig, Jessica M., Cardwell, Stephanie M. and Piquero, Alex R. (2016) The Effects of Criminal Propensity and Strain on Later Offending. Crime & Delinquency, 63 13: 1655-1681. doi:10.1177/0011128716665334
An examination of change in dynamic risk of offending over time among serious juvenile offenders
Mulvey, Edward P., Schubert, Carol A., Pitzer, Lindsey, Hawes, Samuel, Piquero, Alex and Cardwell, Stephanie (2016) An examination of change in dynamic risk of offending over time among serious juvenile offenders. Journal of Criminal Justice, 45 48-53. doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2016.02.008
Piquero, Alex R., Cardwell, Stephanie M., Piquero, Nicole Leeper, Jennings, Wesley G. and Gonzalez, Jennifer M. Reingle (2016) How well do the adolescent risk factors predict re-arrest frequency across race/ethnicity among serious adolescent offenders?. Journal of Crime and Justice, 39 1: 189-209. doi:10.1080/0735648X.2015.1106070
Assessing the celerity of arrest on 3-year recidivism patterns in a sample of Cciminal defendants
Zettler, Haley R., Morris, Robert G., Piquero, Alex R. and Cardwell, Stephanie M. (2015) Assessing the celerity of arrest on 3-year recidivism patterns in a sample of Cciminal defendants. Journal of Criminal Justice, 43 5: 428-436. doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.05.003
Leban, Lindsay, Cardwell, Stephanie M., Copes, Heith and Brezina, Timothy (2015) Adapting to Prison Life: A Qualitative Examination of the Coping Process among Incarcerated Offenders. Justice Quarterly, 33 6: 943-969. doi:10.1080/07418825.2015.1012096
Cardwell, Stephanie M., Piquero, Alex R., Jennings, Wesley G., Copes, Heith, Schubert, Carol A. and Mulvey, Edward P. (2015) Variability in moral disengagement and its relation to offending in a sample of serious youthful offenders. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 42 8: 819-839. doi:10.1177/0093854814567472
The Unpredictability of Murder: Juvenile Homicide in the Pathways to Desistance Study
DeLisi, Matt, Piquero, Alex R. and Cardwell, Stephanie M. (2014) The Unpredictability of Murder: Juvenile Homicide in the Pathways to Desistance Study. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 14 1: 26-42. doi:10.1177/1541204014551805
Accounting for identity theft: The roles of lifestyle and enactment
Copes, Heith, Vieraitis, Lynne M., Cardwell, Stephanie M. and Vasquez, Arthur (2013) Accounting for identity theft: The roles of lifestyle and enactment. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 29 3: 351-368. doi:10.1177/1043986213496174
Copes, Heith, Cardwell, Stephanie and Sloan, John J. III (2012) h-index and m-quotient benchmarks of scholarly impact in criminology and criminal justice: a preliminary note. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 23 4: 441-461. doi:10.1080/10511253.2012.680896
Testing the Efficacy of the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP)
(2019–2021) Commonwealth Department of Social Services
QPS Police Effectiveness Program
(2019–2020) Queensland Police Service
The Effect of Police Trust-Building Activities on Disengaged Young People's Attitudes and Behaviours
(2019–2020) UQ Early Career Researcher
Testing the efficacy of the ability school engagement program (ASEP) Co-Development
(2019) Commonwealth Department of Social Services