- Assistant Professor, Criminology & Criminal Justice
- Chafee Hall, Rm 224
- Phone: 401.874.4135
- Email: c_farrell@uri.edu
Biography
Dr. Chelsea Farrell joined the University of Rhode Island as an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice in the Fall of 2019. Chelsea’s research interests include the racialized and gendered etiology of victimization and offending, communities and crime, and the role of intersectionality in shaping criminal justice responses. Her current research examines how gender, race, and place impact investigative police stops and the actions that police take during a stop, question, and frisk.
Research
- The gendered and racialized etiology of victimization and offending
- Victimization/exposure to violence
- Communities and crime
- Intersectionality
Education
- Ph.D. in Criminology and Justice Policy, Northeastern University, 2019
- B.S. in Psychology, Westminster College, 2013
Selected Publications
- Farrell, C. (2022). Policing Gender, Race, and Place: A Multi-Level Assessment of Stop and Frisks. Race and Justice, 21533687221078970.
- Farrell, C. (2020). Exploring the overlap between sexual victimization and offending among young women across neighborhoods: Does the type of force and type of offending matter?. Journal of interpersonal violence, 35(3-4), 571-599.
- O’Brien, D. T., Farrell, C., & Welsh, B. C. (2019). Looking through broken windows: The impact of neighborhood disorder on aggression and fear of crime is an artifact of research design. Annual Review of Criminology, 2, 53-71.
- Farrell, C., & Zimmerman, G. M. (2018). Is exposure to violence a persistent risk factor for offending across the life course? Examining the contemporaneous, acute, enduring, and long-term consequences of exposure to violence on property crime, violent offending, and substance use. Journal of research in crime and delinquency, 55(6), 728-765.
- Farrell, C., & Zimmerman, G. M. (2017). Does offending intensify as exposure to violence aggregates? Reconsidering the effects of repeat victimization, types of exposure to violence, and poly-victimization on property crime, violent offending, and substance use. Journal of Criminal Justice, 53, 25-33.