Shon Reed (he/him) | Research Manager | sreed@omni.org

Shon is a Research Manager at OMNI who supports several projects in the Community Health, Behavioral Health, and Children and Families content areas. Shon has led a qualitative evaluation of the Colorado Health Foundation’s Equitable Community-Designed Outdoor Spaces, as well as the development of several surveys focused on opioid abatement and Naloxone saturation and access.

Before joining OMNI, Shon was an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Old Dominion University. In this role, Shon conducted research about gender and crime, crime victimization, inequality in social services, and equity in victim service providers. He also taught courses about research methods, theories of criminal behavior, and the criminal justice system.

Shon is a member of the American Society of Criminology and has served in roles for the Division of Victimology and the Division of Queer Criminology. He serves as an editorial board member for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Trauma and serves as a peer reviewer for several academic journals.

When not working on research, Shon enjoys playing video games, catching up on reading, and traveling.

Research means little if it does not get into the hands of those who need it. I am incredibly excited to work for OMNI, an organization that privileges community-based research. It feels so fulfilling each day to come to work knowing that the things that I’m working on will help communities in building a better, healthier tomorrow.

EDUCATION

University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ph.D., Criminology & Criminal Justice
M.A., Criminal Justice
B.A., Criminal Justice

+ Certifications, Memberships, Awards, and Service

  • Larry J. Siegel Fellowship for Victimology Studies, American Society of Criminology – Division of Victimology (2021)
  • Summer Doctoral Research Fellowship, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2021)
  • Editorial Board Member; Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma (2018 – Present)
  • Getting Started with R for Data Science Certification (LinkedIn)
  • Fundamentals of R (R for the Rest of Us)

+ Selected Publications

  1. Reed, S. M., Kibler, M. A., & Avalos, S. (Under Review). “…It’s just the barriers that can be so vast and different”: Domestic violence advocates’ perceived barriers for service across survivor subpopulations.
  2. Reed, S. M. (Under Review). Invisible victimhood: A discourse analysis of inclusivity within victim service providers’ informational materials.
  3. Reed, S. M. (In Press). “It’s not something that I realized until I started working here”: A constructivist grounded theory study of knowledge transmission in victim service providers. Violence Against Women.
  4. Reed, S. M. (2023). Sexuality and gender inclusivity in victim service providers’ informational materials. Prepared for the Crime Victims’ Institute. Sam Houston University. https://www.crimevictimsinstitute.org/pubs/?mode=view&input=193
  5. Reed, S. M., & Rorie, M. L. (2023). More than ‘male’ and ‘female’: The role of gender identity in white-collar offending intentions. Crime, Law, and Social Change, 80, 79-103. https://doi.org/10.10611-023-10074-1
  6. Boppre, B., Reed, S. M., & Belisle, L. (2022). “Real students helping others:” Student reflections on a research-based service-learning project in a gender and victimization-related course. Journal of Experiential Education, 46(3), https://doi.org/10.1177/10538259221134873
  7. Widanaralalage, B. K., Reed, S. M., Antunes, M. J. L., DeJong, C., Pinchevsky, G. M., Lovell, R., & Cummings, C. E. (2022). Distorted reality: A commentary on DiMarco et al. (2022) and the question of male sexual victimization. Sexuality & Culture, 26, 2122-2137. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-022-09988-0
  8. Daly, S. E., & Reed, S. M. (2022). “I think most of society hates us”: A qualitative thematic analysis of interviews with incels. Sex Roles, 86, 14-33. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-021-01250-5
  9. Boppre, B., & Reed, S. M. (2021). “I’m not a number, I’m a human being”: A phenomenological study of women’s responses to criminal labeling. Feminist Criminology, 16(2), 191-215. Https://doi.org/10.1177/1557085120953488
  10. Park, S., Shen, J., Yoo, J., & Reed, S. M. (2020). The effect of marijuana legalization on the trajectories of hard drug-related hospitalizations: A growth curve analysis of county-level State Inpatient Database in Washington, 2009 – 2015. Journal of Drug Issues, 50(3), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022042620912695
  11. Reed, S. M., Kennedy, M. A., Decker, M. P., & Cimino, A. N. (2019). Friends, family, and boyfriends: An analysis of relationship pathways into commercial sexual exploitation. Child Abuse & Neglect, 90, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.01.016

+ Selected Presentations

  1. Sohoni, T., Rorie, M., & Reed, S. M. (2023). The Interaction of gender and race in creating cultural adaptations conducive to elite white-collar corporate crimes: A test of the theory of racial privilege and offending. Law and Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
  2. Kibler, M., Avalos, S., & Reed, S. M. (2023). “Barriers can be so different”: Domestic violence advocates’ perceived barriers for service across survivor populations. Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, National Harbor, MD.
  3. Reed, S. M. (2022). “It’s not something I realized until I started working: Knowledge transmission in victim service providers. American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
  4. Sohoni, T., Rorie, M., & Reed, S. M. (2022). The whiteness of elite white-collar crime in the US: An empirical investigation. American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
  5. Reed, S. M., & Solano-Patricio, E. (2021). Institutional framings of domestic violence: Assessing inclusivity through victim service providers’ literature. American Society of Criminology 2021 annual conference, Chicago, IL.
  6. Boppre, B., Reed, S. M., & Belisle, L. (2020). Hands-on learning in the #MeToo era: A student-led survey research project on campus safety and victimization. Annual meetings of the Criminology Consortium, e-conference.
  7. Daly, S., & Reed, S. M. (2020). “It’s over or it’s a miracle”: Incels and hegemonic masculinity. Annual meetings of the Criminology Consortium, e-conference.
  8. Reed, S. M., & Rorie, M. (2020). Masculinity threat and white-collar crime: Perpetration at the intersections of race and gender. Annual meetings of the Criminology Consortium, e-conference.
  9. Reed, S. M., & Rorie, M. (2020). Overcompensating for something: Masculine threat as an influence of criminal behavior. Western Society of Criminology annual conference, Phoenix, AZ.
  10. Trejbalova, T., West, M. P., Gilmore, H., & Reed, S. M. (2019). Sexual assault as a trigger of moral intuitions: Aggravators, purity, and death sentencing. American Society of Criminology, San Francisco, CA.
  11. Reed, S. M., & Park, S. (2019). Exploring ACEs: The deterrent effect of resiliency on criminal outcomes. American Society of Criminology, Phoenix, AZ.
  12. Reed, S. M., & Rorie, M. (2019). White anger: A multivariate analysis of state and regional differences in white supremacist groups. Western Society of Criminology, Honolulu, HI.
  13. Reed, S. M., & Kennedy, M. A. (2018). Hegemonic masculinity and crime: Masculinity norms and their relationship with victimization and criminal offending. American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
  14. Belisle, L., Reed, S. M., Petty, M., & Kennedy, M. A. (2018). Exploring gender differences in the cycle of violence: The impact of childhood abuse on adult behavior. American Society of Criminology, Atlanta, GA.
  15. Petty, M., Reed, S. M., Belisle, L., & Kennedy, M. A. (2018). Planting the seed: Examining how childhood abuse matures into adult perpetration of abuse and revictimization. Western Psychological Association, Portland, OR.
  16. Reed, S. M., & Kennedy, M. A. (2017). Male victimization: A common but unspoken issue. American Society of criminology, Philadelphia, PA.

+ Book Chapters

  1. Reed, S. M., & Boppre, B. (2021). Considering boys and men in the feminist pathways perspective. In L. Carter, C. Blankenship, & C. Marcum (Eds.), Punishing gender past and present: Examining the criminal justice system across gendered experiences. Cognella Academic Press.

Favorite season?
Fall, no doubt about it

Favorite movie?
Jurassic Park

What is your favorite thing to “nerd out” on?
New ways to blend qualitative and quantitative research methods