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Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice

Joining Boise State University in 2017, Dr. Jacqueline G. Lee is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. She received both her Ph.D. and M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lee’s research focus includes courts and sentencing and criminal justice policy, and she has a firm belief that criminal justice research is greatly enhanced by working with and forming partnerships with court actors and practitioners. Her published work focuses on racial issues, including the relationship between race and capital punishment and the impact of sentencing guidelines on racial disparity. Dr. Lee plans to continue exploring new jurisdictions’ sentencing data, become more involved in policy evaluations, and further explore the experiences of women regarding crime/violence. She is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the American Sociological Association.

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Joining Boise State University in 2017, Dr. Jacqueline G. Lee is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice. She received both her Ph.D. and M.A. in Criminology and Criminal Justice from the University of Maryland at College Park, and a J.D. with highest honors from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Lee’s research focus includes courts and sentencing and criminal justice policy, and she has a firm belief that criminal justice research is greatly enhanced by working with and forming partnerships with court actors and practitioners. Her published work focuses on racial issues, including the relationship between race and capital punishment and the impact of sentencing guidelines on racial disparity. Dr. Lee plans to continue exploring new jurisdictions’ sentencing data, become more involved in policy evaluations, and further explore the experiences of women regarding crime/violence. She is a member of the American Society of Criminology and the American Sociological Association.

Articles (17)

Evaluating Racial and Ethnic Invariance Among the Correlates of Guilty Pleas: A Focus on the Effect of Court Legitimacy, Attorney Type, Satisfaction, and Plea-Offer Evaluation (Chae M. Jaynes, Jacqueline G. Lee and Heath N. Franks) Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (2024)

Objectives Research has identified racial and ethnic disparities in rates of guilty pleas relative to trial where minorities are more likely to proceed to trial, though little research has explored the source of this disparity. ...

Whose Fault?: Defendant Perceptions of Their Own Blameworthiness and Guilty Plea Decisions (Jacqueline G. Lee, Chae M. Jaynes and Silas Patterson) Journal of Crime and Justice (2024)

With the present paper, we seek to understand how defendants form of perceptions blameworthiness and to assess how these perceptions affect willingness to accept a plea offer. With an online vignette survey (N = 659), ...

Shifting the Practice of Coercive Penal Care Over Time in a Problem-Solving Court (Marisa Omori, Jacqueline Lee and Rachel Lautenschlager) Punishment & Society (2024)

While problem-solving courts represent one area in which rehabilitative efforts have expanded within correctional settings as “coercive penal care,” still unexplored is how the blend of rehabilitative and punitive practices might evolve over time. By ...

Intimate Partner Violence and Barriers to Prenatal Care (Alexander Testa, Jacqueline Lee, Daniel C. Semenza, et al.) Social Science & Medicine (2023)

Rationale: Past research has shown that intimate partner violence (IPV) is associated with less adequate access to prenatal care. However, less is known about why IPV creates challenges for accessing prenatal care, including how IPV ...

Satisfaction, Legitimacy, and Guilty Pleas: How Perceptions and Attorneys Affect Defendant Decision-Making (Jacqueline G. Lee, Chae M. Jaynes and John Ropp) Justice Quarterly (2021)

Though almost all convictions are the result of guilty pleas, little research has examined influences on defendant plea decisions. First, we explore how attorney satisfaction and court legitimacy affect defendant choices. Using an experimental approach, ...

Drug Overdose Death Rates and Criminal Sentencing of Federal Drug Offenders in the United States (Alexander Testa and Jacqueline Lee) Journal of Criminal Justice (2021)

The rate of drug overdose deaths has increased substantially in the United States in the past two decades. However, limited research has examined how the criminal justice system is responding to this growing epidemic. Using ...

Trends in Sentencing of Federal Drug Offenders: Findings from U.S. District Courts 2002–2017 (Alexander Testa and Jacqueline G. Lee) Journal of Drug Issues (2021)

This study uses 16 years (2002–2017) of federal criminal drug sentences from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) to examine trends in two criminal sentencing outcomes: whether a defendant received a prison sentence and the length ...

Better Together?: Intimate Partner Effects on Offending Women (Jacqueline G. Lee, Lane Kirkland Gillespie, Lee Ann Slocum, et al.) Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology (2020)

The role of marriage has been extensively studied for its positive impacts on male desistance. However, the role of romantic partners for women is less understood. Do partners exert a prosocial “protective” effect or are ...

Respondent Fatigue in Estimates of the Cost of White-Collar Crime: Implications from Willingness-to-Pay Surveys (M. Cristina Layana and Jacqueline G. Lee) Criminal Justice Policy Review (2020)

Contingent valuation (CV) methods are used in many contexts to estimate non-tangible costs, despite some indications that they may not be reliable. In criminal justice, CV has been used to generate “costs of crime” for ...

“Sometimes I’m Just Wearing the Prosecutor Down”: An Exploratory Analysis of Criminal Defense Attorneys in Plea Negotiations and Client Counseling (Jacqueline G. Lee and John W. Ropp) The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology (2020)

As plea bargains have proliferated in the criminal justice system, scholars have been working to better understand their mechanics. There have been a few recent examinations of plea bargaining, but the literature lacks qualitative research ...

Evidence, Arrest Circumstances, and Felony Cocaine Case Processing (Jacqueline G. Lee and Alexander Testa) Criminology, Criminal Justice, Law & Society (2020)

Case evidence and situational arrest characteristics are widely speculated to influence courtroom actor decisions, yet such measures are infrequently included in research. Using new data on felony cocaine cases from an urban county in a ...

Race, Ethnicity, and Trial Avoidance: A Multilevel Analysis (Jacqueline G. Lee and Rebecca L. Richardson) Criminal Justice Policy Review (2020)

Minority criminal defendants are more likely than White defendants to exercise their right to trial, which is concerning given that research also consistently finds trial sentences to be harsher than those obtained via pleas. However, ...

The Influence of Scope, Frames, and Extreme Willingness to Pay Responses on Cost of Crime Estimates (Jacqueline G. Lee and Daren Fisher) American Journal of Criminal Justice (2020)

As governments with limited fiscal resources seek to invest in the “best” programs to prevent crime, they often first try to identify the true costs of crime to guide these decisions. Contingent valuation (CV) is ...

Testing the Universality of the Gender Equality-Peace Thesis: The Influence of Increased Gender Equality on Terrorism in Turkey (Daren Fisher and Jacqueline G. Lee) Women & Criminal Justice (2019)

Gender inequality has been empirically linked to the incidence of terrorism, as a motivator for women’s involvement in terrorism, and political and social violence more generally. Although these studies demonstrate that advances in gender equality ...

Civil Legal Aid and Domestic Violence: A Review of the Literature and Promising Directions (Jacqueline G. Lee and Bethany L. Backes) Journal of Family Violence (2018)

This note summarizes extant research on civil legal aid, which includes provision of legal services for indigent and low-income individuals, and its applications for DV and IPV victims, and concludes with suggestions for improving service ...

To Detain or Not to Detain?: Using Propensity Scores to Examine the Relationship Between Pretrial Detention and Conviction (Jacqueline G. Lee) Criminal Justice Policy Review (2016)

Recent work has found that individuals who are detained prior to their sentencing are more likely to be convicted, be sentenced to prison as opposed to jail or probation, and to receive longer sentences if convicted. Is ...

Racial Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines: A Survey of Recent Research and Emerging Perspectives (Brian D. Johnson and Jacqueline G. Lee) Sociology Compass (2013)

Recent concerns over racial disparities in sentencing have led to dramatic reform in criminal sentencing, including the widespread promulgation of sentencing guidelines that are designed to constrain judicial discretion and create greater fairness, transparency, and ...

Book chapters and encyclopedia entries

Capital Case Processing in Georgia after McCleskey: More of the Same (Jacqueline G. Lee, Michael Rocque and Raymond Paternoster) Race in America and the Future of the Death Penalty (2015)

Race and the Death Penalty (Jacqueline Lee, Raymond Paternoster and Zachary Rowan) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism (2014)

The Needs of Rural Sexual Assault Survivors in Idaho 2023 (Laura L. King, Jacqueline G. Lee, Lane K. Gillespie, et al.) (2023)

Sexual assault (SA) is a significant public health issue which can result in a variety of consequences such as physical injury, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal ideation, and financial strain. In Idaho, a total of 2,045 ...

Guardians Ad Litem in Idaho: 2022 Program Evaluation (Vanessa Crossgrove Fry, Jacqueline G. Lee, Cheong Kim, et al.) Idaho Policy Institute Reports (2022)

Guardians Ad Litem serve a critical role in the lives of Idaho’s children and youth. Each of Idaho’s seven judicial districts has a nonprofit organization providing representation to children and youth in child protection cases. ...

Idaho Guardian Ad Litem: 2022 Program Evaluation (Vanessa Fry, Jacqueline Lee, Cheong Kim, et al.) Idaho Policy Institute Reports (2022)

Idaho’s Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Programs serve children and youth across the state in child protection cases. These Programs support the state’s guardians ad litem (GALs) who are appointed by the courts to represent ...

Update on Resolution of Rule 12(b)(6) Motions Granted with Leave to Amend: Report to the Judicial Conference Advisory Committee on Civil Rules (Joe S. Cecil, George W. Cort, Margaret S. Williams, et al.) (2011)

In our March 2011 report, we indicated that following the Supreme Court decision in Ashcroft v. Iqbal (2009), Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 12(b)(6) motions to dismiss for failure to state a claim were granted ...

Fatigue in Contingent Valuation: Implications from Willingness to Pay Surveys to Reduce White-Collar Crimes (Maria Cristina Layana and Jacqueline G. Lee) American Society of Criminology 73rd Annual Meeting (2017)

Contingent valuation (CV) methods are used in many contexts to estimate non-tangible costs. In criminal justice, CV has been used to generate “costs of crime” for street, violent, and white-collar crimes (see, e.g. Cohen & ...

Tracing the Impact of Evidence in Drug Cases (Jacqueline Lee) American Society of Criminology 73rd Annual Meeting (2017)

While a considerable body of literature is devoted to understanding final sentencing outcomes, the state of knowledge on the actual processes leading up to sentencing is lacking. However, more attention has recently been given to ...