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Kayla Hoskins

Kayla Hoskins
  • Assistant Professor (Fixed Term)
  • School of Criminal Justice
  • PhD ####, Michigan State University
  • MS 2018, Michigan State University
  • BA 2014, Michigan State University

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Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Kayla M. Hoskins is a PhD Candidate (ABD) in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University (Cognate: Community Psychology). She earned her B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. Previously, she served as the Assistant Director of Youth Advancement Through Athletics (YATA), a multifaceted development program for adjudicated adolescents.

Her work has been published in Crime & Delinquency, Feminist Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Women & Criminal Justice, Journal of Community Psychology, and Sex Roles. Kayla was honored to be awarded Feminist Criminology's Dr. Helen Eigenberg Best Article of the Year Award for 2020, for an article co-authored with Dr. Jennifer Cobbina-Dungy: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/fcx/collections/bestarticle

Broadly, Kayla frames her scholarship within feminist and critical criminological paradigms. She consider internal and contextual influences on crime and desistance, including how sociostructural conditions impact adults and youths with intersecting marginalized identities (e.g., gendered, racialized, criminalized). Her research investigates issues of gender, trauma, substance misuse and illicit behavior, identity, personal agency, well-being, and desistance. She primarily utilize qualitative and mixed methodologies, and her work presents implications for improving treatment of diverse individuals entangled in the criminal and juvenile legal systems, including the advancement of gender-responsive and trauma-informed correctional approaches.

In her current research, she emphasizes the salient connection between trauma and criminal legal system-involvement to analyze systemic responses to trauma-related needs (among other criminogenic risks/needs) of correctional populations, and guide reform to prevent system-induced harm.

Kayla has accepted a T32 Postdoctoral Fellow position beginning in Summer 2023, in the Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale School of Medicine.

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Publications

Examining sex-based measurement invariance in the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory

Year: 2022 Authors: Kitzmiller, M.K, Hoskins, K., & Cavanagh, C. Journal: Crime and Delinquency

“I’m going to be successful someday:” Women’s personal projects to improve their lives, and implications for clarifying the nature of agency in criminological theories of desistance

Year: 2022 Author: Hoskins, K.M. Journal: Feminist Criminology

An exploration of employment-related personal projects undertaken by women on probation and parole

Year: 2020 Authors: Roddy, A., Morash, M., & Hoskins, K.M. Journal: Feminist Criminology

How Women on Probation and Parole Incorporate Trauma Into Their Identities

Year: 2020 Authors: Hoskins, K.M. & Morash, M. Journal: Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Narrative identity development and desistance from illegal behavior among substance-using female criminal offenders: Implications for narrative therapy and creating opportunity

Year: 2019 Authors: Morash, M., Stone, R., Hoskins, K.M., Kashy, D.A., & Cobbina, J.E. Journal: Sex Roles

It depends on the situation: Women's identity transformation in prison, jail, and substance abuse treatment settings

Year: 2019 Authors: Hoskins, K.M., & Cobbina, J.E. Journal: Feminist Criminology

Defining Gender-Responsive Services in a Juvenile Court Setting

Year: 2019 Authors: Anderson, V.R., Hoskins, K., & Rubino, L.L. Journal: Women & Criminal Justice