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Andrew J. Baranauskas, Ph.D

Assistant Professor

(585) 395-5502
abaranauskas@brockport.edu
Office: Brown 235

Education

• PhD, Northeastern University, 2018 – Criminology and Justice Policy
• M.A., University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2012 – Criminal Justice
• B.S., University of Massachusetts Lowell, 2011 – Criminal Justice

Areas of Specialty

• Crime and media
• Public opinion about crime and justice
• Urban communities and crime
• Criminological theory

Courses Taught

• Criminology
• Crime and Media
• Death Penalty
• Introduction to Criminal Justice
• Race and Crime

• Awards/Recognitions
  • Scholar of the Year, School of Arts and Sciences, SUNY Brockport, 2022
  • Academic Advising Award Nominee, 2022
  • Presidential Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, 2021
  • Presidential Teaching Excellence Award Nominee, 2020
  • Doctoral Fellow of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, 2018.
• Recent Publications
  • New Media and Perceptions of Police Misconduct: Does Racial Empathy Matter? Criminal Justice Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2023.2233675 
  • Online News Media and the Framing of the Executions under the Trump Administration. Journal of Crime and Justice. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0735648X.2023.2171472
  • Baranauskas, Andrew J. (2022). Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat: The Role of Negative Affect and Ethnocentrism. Race and Justice. Advance publication online: https://doi.org/10.1177/21533687221127447 
  • Baranauskas, Andrew J. (2022). Racial Resentment, Crime Concerns, and Public Attitudes toward Defunding the Police. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice. 20(1), 48-72. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377938.2022.2053626 
  • Baranauskas, Andrew J. (2022). News Media and Public Attitudes toward the Protests of 2020: An Examination of the Mediating Role of Perceived Protester Violence. Criminology and Public Policy. 21(1), 107-123. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9133.12569 
  • Baranauskas, Andrew J. (2021). Racial Sentiment and Support for Arming Teachers with Guns in the United States. Race and Justice. Advance publication online: https://doi.org/10.1177/21533687211038950 
  • Baranauskas, Andrew J. (2021). Public Support for Arming Teachers with Guns in the United States. Justice Quarterly. 38(7), 1342-1362. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418825.2020.1849360 
  • Drakulich, Kevin M. and Andrew J. Baranauskas (2021). Anger about Crime: How Common is it, Where Does it Come From, and Why Does it Matter? Crime, Law and Social Change. 76, 451-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-021-09973-y 
• Presentations
  • “News Media, Racial Empathy, and Public Perceptions of Police Use of Force.”
    American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA
  • “Public Attitudes toward Bail: The Role of Politics, Racial Resentment, and Media
    Consumption.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Las Vegas,
    NV.
  • “Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat: The Role of the Media and Political Interest.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, 2019.
  • “Perceptions of Immigrants as a Criminal Threat: The Role of Negative Affect and Ethnocentrism.” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting: Baltimore, MD, 2019.
  • “The Social Construction of Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods by the News Media.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: Atlanta, GA, 2018.
  • “Constructing Communities: Local News and the Framing of Neighborhood Crime in Boston.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA, 2017.
  • “Media Construction of Crime Revisited: Media Influence on Perceptions of Crime Trends and Policy Opinion.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: New Orleans, LA, 2016.
  • “Exploring the Social Construction of Crime by Neighborhood: News Coverage of Crime in Boston.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: Washington, DC, 2015.
  • “Afraid or Angry about Crime? The Differential Sources and Consequences of Affect.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting: San Francisco, CA, 2014.

Current Research Projects

• Ongoing research into the social construction of violent crime in urban neighborhoods by the news media and the role of the media in shaping perceptions of crime in urban neighborhoods.
• “The American City in Crime Films” (working title), a criminological examination of the role that cities play in crime movies.
• Research into various types of public opinion on crime and the criminal justice system.
• Member of the Regional Gun Violence Research Consortium (RGVRC) through SUNY’s Rockefeller Institute of Government.

Honors Theses Advised

• Stephanie Aubin, 2021-2022. “Capital Punishment in the United States: A Racially Biased Institution”
• Natalie Bailey, 2022. “Manifestations of Crime and Justice in Nancy Drew Novels”
• Alyssa Gadoury, 2022-2023. “A Water Analysis: The Green Victims of Rochester, New York”

Please feel free to contact me about research!  I’m always happy to work with students on research projects.