Robert Lytle
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Associate Professor
Also affiliated: University of Nebraska at Omaha (2013–2014); Institute of Criminology (2025)
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Robert Lytle, Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, utilizes qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate societal responses to crime. His research agenda centers on criminal justice policy, institutional and community corrections, and the evaluation of policy outcomes. Lytle also examines desistance processes and trajectories among various offender populations.
His current research pursuits include studying inmate behavior, identifying factors contributing to parole and probation success, and analyzing public punitiveness. Additionally, he investigates the policy development of state-level correctional and sex offense laws. Lytle is a Co-PI on an NSF-funded REU Site grant totaling $324,987, which supports research on the scope and consequences of hate crime victimization in the South. He leads a research group and has published 26 works, accumulating 314 citations and an h-index of 10.
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- h-index: 10
- Publications: 26
- Citations: 317
Selected Publications
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The Influence of Survival Sex and Homelessness on Police Interactions Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults in the United States (2026)
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Differences in police perceptions between native- and foreign-born US citizens (2025)
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Examining community perceptions of the police post 2020: the role of civic attitudes, experiences and socio-demographic traits (2025)
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Politics, knowledge, and sexual assault: public perceptions of Trump-era Title IX proceedings (2022)
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Do I Report This? Understanding Variation in the Content of State Mandatory Reporting Laws (2021)
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#FollowMe: An investigation into the relationship between social media behaviors and online harassment among adolescents (2020)
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The Politics of Symbolic Laws: State Resistance to the Allure of Sex Offender Residence Restrictions (2020)
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History of Prostitution (2019)
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Attitudes of Muslim Americans toward Homosexuality and Marriage Equality: Moving Beyond Simply Understanding Christian Public Opinions (2019)
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Drug Court Participation and Time to Failure: an Examination of Recidivism Across Program Outcome (2019)
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Outcome Effects on Recidivism Among Drug Court Participants (2018)
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All part of the process? A qualitative examination of change in online child pornography behaviors (2018)
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DOES THE GENDER GAP IN DELINQUENCY VARY BY LEVEL OF PATRIARCHY? A CROSS‐NATIONAL COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS (2017)
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We fought tooth and toenail: exploring the dynamics of romantic relationships among sex offenders who have desisted (2017)
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AGE, PERIOD, AND COHORT EFFECTS ON DEATH PENALTY ATTITUDES IN THE UNITED STATES, 1974–2014 (2017)
Federal Grants 1 $324,987 total
REU Site: The Scope and Consequences of Hate Crime Victimization in the South
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- Politics, knowledge, and sexual assault: public perceptions of Trump-era Title IX proceedings
- Examining community perceptions of the police post 2020: the role of civic attitudes, experiences and socio-demographic traits
- Do I Report This? Understanding Variation in the Content of State Mandatory Reporting Laws
- Do I Report This? Understanding Variation in the Content of State Mandatory Reporting Laws
- Do I Report This? Understanding Variation in the Content of State Mandatory Reporting Laws
- Politics, knowledge, and sexual assault: public perceptions of Trump-era Title IX proceedings
- Examining community perceptions of the police post 2020: the role of civic attitudes, experiences and socio-demographic traits
- Examining community perceptions of the police post 2020: the role of civic attitudes, experiences and socio-demographic traits
- Examining community perceptions of the police post 2020: the role of civic attitudes, experiences and socio-demographic traits
- Differences in police perceptions between native- and foreign-born US citizens
- The Influence of Survival Sex and Homelessness on Police Interactions Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults in the United States
- The Influence of Survival Sex and Homelessness on Police Interactions Among Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Adults in the United States
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