Biography
Dr. Rachel McNealey is an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice with her Ph.D. in criminology from Penn State University. Her research focuses on cybervictimization events and cyberoffending behavior, with the goal of tying new forms of crime to traditional theories of crime. Her work has been published in the Journal of Crime and Justice, the Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency. Her non-academic experience includes working in the digital for
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PhD 2023, The Pennsylvania State University
MS 2019, The University of Alabama
BA 2017, The University of Alabama
Publications
Deryol, R., McNealey, R.L., & Wilcox, P. (2023). Adolescent cybervictimization in 31 countries: The gender gap, gendered opportunity, and the contextual influence of gender stratification. Social Forces.
McNealey, R.L., & Ghazi-Tehrani, A.K. (2023). Risky Digital Behavior or Risky Digital Places? Victimization Risk Perception and Evaluation on the Internet. Journal of Crime and Justice.
Vanhee, A.J. & McNealey, R. (2023). Individual residence and identity theft: how residential characteristics shape exposure and risk of offline and online identity theft victimization. Journal of Financial Crime.
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Risk & Reactions to Crime