Kayla Allison
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Assistant Professor
Also affiliated: Indiana University Bloomington (2017–2020)
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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.
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- h-index: 7
- Publications: 15
- Citations: 192
Selected Publications
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Investigating the Newsworthiness of Bias-Motivated Murders: A Media Distortion Analysis (2026)
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An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB) (2026)
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Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy (2025)
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Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness (2024)
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The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife (2024)
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Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence (2022)
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Estimating the Impact of Research Practitioner Partnerships on evidence-based Program Implementation* (2020)
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Assessing the Attractiveness and Vulnerability of Eco-Terrorism Targets: A Situational Crime Prevention Approach (2015)
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- The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife
- Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy
- Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence
- Strained Masculinity and Mass Shootings: Toward A Theoretically Integrated Approach to Assessing the Gender Gap in Mass Violence
- The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife
- The Long Arm of School Punishment: The Role of School Suspension on Self-Rated Health from Adolescence to Midlife
- Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness
- Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness
- Police Responses to People Experiencing Homelessness
- Intersections of crime and health: structural inequalities, spatial dynamics, and policy
- An Open-Source Data Approach to Studying Bias Murder: An Introduction to the Bias Homicide Database (BHDB)
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