Puerto Rican Post-Disaster Migration Project explores the lived experiences and well-being of Puerto Ricans who fled to the United States when Hurricane Maria and Irma hit the archipelago (grant funded by the National Science Foundation).
Castañeda, Heide, Melanie Escue, and Elizabeth Aranda. 2023. “ ‘A Lot of People There Were Undocumented, or at Least They Looked Like Me’: Illegality, Visibility, and Vulnerability among Immigrant Young Adults in Florida. ” Journal of Cultural Geography 40(2):118-42.
Blackwell, Rebecca, Elizabeth Aranda, Melanie Escue, and Alessandra Rosa. 2023. “Cascading Disasters: The Impact of Hurricane Maria and Covid-19 on Post-Disaster Puerto Rican Migrants’ Adaptation and Integration in the United States.” Latino Studies 21:138-61.
Jaynes, Chae M., Melanie Escue, and Mateus Rennó Santos. 2022. “The Role of Workplace Offending in the Relationship between Work and Crime:Testing the Traditional, Displacement, Emboldenment, and Continuity Hypotheses.” Social Science Research 106:102722.
Fox, Bryanna and Melanie Escue. 2021. “Evaluating and Comparing Profiles of Burglaries Developed Using Three Statistical Classification Techniques: Cluster Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, and Latent Class Analysis.” Psychology, Crime & Law 28(1):34-58.
Escue, Melanie and John K. Cochran. 2020. “Religion, Prejudicial Beliefs toward Sexual Minorities and Same-Sex Relations, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage: Hate the Sin but Love the Sinner.” Sociological Focus 53(4):399-410.
Leiber, Michael, Bryanna Fox, Melanie Escue, Julie Krupa, and John K. Cochran. 2020. “Race/Ethnicity and the Effects of Prior Case Outcomes on Current Dispositions: Continuity and Change in the Dispositional Careers of Juvenile Offenders.” Justice Quarterly 37(5):789-816.
Rosa, Melanie, Bryanna Fox, and Wesley G. Jennings. 2020. “Do Developmental and Life-Course Theory Risk Factors Equally Predict Age of Onset Among Juvenile Sexual and Non-Sexual Offenders?” Sexual Abuse 32(1):55-78.