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Adam Trahan: Graduate Students

M.A. in Criminal Justice and Criminology, Sam Houston State University
B.A. in Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University

Research Areas:
Capital Punishment, White-Collar Crime, Criminological and Sociological  Theory

Publications:

Sandys, M., & Trahan, A. (2008) Death qualification, life qualification, and juror  decision making: Is the relationship tenable? Forthcoming in Justice System Journal.
                                   
Sandys, M., Trahan, A., & Pruss, H. (2007/2008). Taking account of the “’diminished capacities’ of the retarded;” Are capital jurors up to the task? Forthcoming in DePaul Law Review.

Trahan, A., Marquart, J., & Mullings, J. (2005). Fraud and the American dream: Toward an understanding of fraud victimization. Deviant Behavior, 26, 601-620.   Reprinted in: Adler, P.A., & Adler, P. (in press). Constructions of deviance: Social power, context, and interaction (6th ed.). Belmont, CA: Wadsworth.

Pridemore, W.A., Chamlin, M.B., Trahan, A. (2008). A test of competing hypotheses about homicide rates following terrorist attacks: An interrupted time series analysis of September 11 and Oklahoma City. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 24, 381-396.

Pridemore, W.A., Trahan, A., & Chamlin, M.B. No evidence of suicide increase  following terrorist attacks in the United States: An interrupted time series analysis of September11 and Oklahoma City. Forthcoming in Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior.

Presentations:

Discussant. Panel on The future of capital punishment in the United States. Annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2007.

Pridemore, W.A., Trahan, A., Chamlin, M.B. The impact of terrorism on subsequent violence: September 11th, Oklahoma City, and homicide and suicide rates.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, November, 2007.

Trahan, A. “The Modern-Day Music Man: A Case Study of Consumer Fraud.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Las Vegas, March, 2004.

Trahan, A. “Collateral Victimization: A Critical Analysis of the Justice System’s Response to Fraud.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, Toronto, November, 2005.

Trahan, A. “Identity and Ideology: The Dialogic Nature of Latrinalia.” Paper presented at the Eighth Annual Chicago Ethnography Conference, Chicago, April, 2006