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Krista Eckhardt: Graduate Students

B.A. in Social Science, with minors in Women’s Studies and Political Science, University of Washington, Summa Cum Laude

Research Areas:
Gender, Sex and Sexuality; Hate Crimes; Media Representations of Crime and Criminal Justice; Courtroom Discourse

Awards and Honors:

Institute for Social Research Intensive Program Fellowship (Qualitative Methods), Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research, Indiana University, 2007

Forensic Studies Hue and Cry Award, Department of Criminal Justice, Indiana University, 2006

Publications:

Eckhardt, K. and Pridemore, W.A. (2009). Differences in female and male involvement in lethal violence in Russia. Journal of Criminal Justice, 37(1), 55-64.

Pridemore, W.A. and Eckhardt, K. (2008). A Comparison of Victim, Offender, and Event Characteristics of Alcohol- and Non-alcohol-related Homicides. Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency, 45(3), 227-255.

Walsh, S.M., Eckhardt, K. and Russell, S.  (2006).  Sex, Lies, and Law: Moral Turpitude as an Enforcer of Gender and Sexuality Norms.  Sexuality Research & Social Policy, 3(2), 37-51.

Presentations:

Eckhardt, K. “(Dis)Placing Hatred: Crime, Place and Identity in the Mas-mediated Discourse about the Matthew Shepard Murder.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Social of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2007.

Eckhardt, K. and Pridemore, W.A. “Difference in Male and Female Involvement in Lethal Violence: An Analysis of Russian Homicide Characteristics.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Social of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2007.

Pridemore, W.A. and Eckhardt, K.  “A Comparison of Victim, Offender, and Event Characteristics of Alcohol- and Non-alcohol-related Homicides.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Los Angeles, November, 2006.

Eckhardt, K.  “’It’s Laramie in Newark’: Print Media Coverage of the Gwen Araujo Murder.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November, 2005.

Russell, S., Walsh, S.M. and Eckhardt, K.  “Sex, Lies, and Law: Moral Turpitude as an Enforcer of Gender and Sexuality Norms.”  Paper presented at the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society Conference on Sexual Rights and Moral Panics, San Francisco, June, 2005.

Eckhardt, K.  “Equal Protection: Domestic Violence Services and Outreach to the GLBT Community.”  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Criminal Justice Association, Chicago, October, 2004.