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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2025
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Kayla Allison

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Assistant Professor

Also affiliated: Indiana University Bloomington (2017–2020)

Faculty Researcher

7 h-index 15 pubs 192 cited

  • Ill-Housed Persons
  • Criminals
  • Homicide
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Violence
  • Masculinity

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Kayla Allison's research investigates the intersections of structural inequalities, health outcomes, and societal dynamics. Her work examines the health and sociocultural correlates of HIV/AIDS among African Americans in the Deep South, exploring the legacy of slavery and employing an Afrocentric conceptual framework. Allison also studies the relationship between strained masculinity and mass violence, including mass shootings, and assesses the long-term impact of school punishment, such as suspension, on self-rated health from adolescence to midlife. Additionally, she conducts research on police responses to individuals experiencing homelessness. Allison's scholarly contributions include work on bias homicide, for which she co-developed an open-source data approach. Her scholarship is characterized by an h-index of 7 with 15 publications and 185 citations.

Metrics

  • h-index: 7
  • Publications: 15
  • Citations: 192

Selected Publications

  • Investigating the Newsworthiness of Bias-Motivated Murders: A Media Distortion Analysis (2026)
    Sociological Quarterly DOI OpenAlex
  • An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB) (2026)
    Homicide Studies 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy (2025)
    Journal of Crime and Justice 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness (2024)
    Police Quarterly 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife (2024)
    Socius Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 5 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence (2022)
    Homicide Studies 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Estimating the Impact of Research Practitioner Partnerships on evidence-based Program Implementation* (2020)
    Justice Quarterly 8 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach (2015)
    Studies in Conflict and Terrorism 49 citations DOI OpenAlex

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