Rate My Professor Jihye Park

Her research interests include criminology, punishment, and immigration policy. Park has published several peer-reviewed articles and chapters examining social control mechanisms, immigration enforcement, and public administration. Key publications include "Consistent Perpetrations, Inconsistent Sanctions: A Quantitative Study on Colleges’ Responses to Sexual Misconduct by Faculty" (2026), "The Impacts of Restrictive Interior Immigration Enforcement on Undocumented Immigrants’ Decisions: Self-Deportation Out of Fear?" co-authored with Rene R. Rocha (Sociological Inquiry, 2025), and "Understanding the Determinants of Digital Innovations for Crime Prevention and Community Safety in California Local Governments: Perspectives on Civic Engagement and Community Traits" (2025). Additional works encompass "Firing Regulation and Public Administration" (2023), "Perceived China Threat, Conspiracy Belief, and Public Support for Restrictive Immigration Control During the COVID-19 Pandemic" (2022), "US Immigration Politics, Sanctions Threats and Private Prison Corporations’ Stock Market Values" (2022), "Girls in the juvenile justice system in England and Wales, 2002–2017" (2021), "An Examination of Schools, Social Ecological Factors, and Neighbourhood Crime" (2020), "Socioeconomic Status and Victimization" (2019), and "Places Not Cases? Rethinking Probation: The Effects of Nonprofit Organizations on Rearrest Rates of Probationers" (2018). Her scholarship is cited 38 times on Google Scholar, reflecting emerging impact in criminal justice and related fields.