Brian E. Oliver, PhD, is an ex-convict and member of the Convict Criminology Group. He received his PhD in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Missouri – St. Louis in 2011. While in graduate school his course of study focused on several topics including intervention programming with at risk individuals, collateral consequences faced by those with felony records and the areas of recidivism and reentry. His work appears in Child Abuse & Neglect, Trauma Violence & Abuse¸ Justice Research & Policy and Dialectical Anthropology. His current research explores whether variations in cumulative individual level characteristics associated with recidivism can be used to explain differences in recidivism rates across states.
