Faculty and Staff
Research Interests
- Criminal and Social Justice Policy
- Public Opinion
- Crime in Mass Media
- Criminological and Criminal Justice
Theory
- Race/Ethnicity and Criminal/Social
Justice
Courses Taught
- Correctional Casework and Counseling
- Crime in Media
- Crime in America
- Introduction to Criminal Justice
- Juvenile Justice
- Nature of Crime
- Seminar of Issues in Corrections
Most Recent Publications
- "The quantitative/qualitative divide
revisited: A study of published research, doctoral program curricula,
and journal editor perceptions." (In Press) in the Journal of
Criminal Justice Education.
- "Mass media and crime and justice."
(Forthcoming with Patti Ross Salinas) in 21st Century Criminology: A
Reference Handbook, edited by J.M. Miller. Sage.
- "Racial differences in public support
for the death penalty: Can racist sentiment and core values explain the
divide?." (Forthcoming with Mario Davila and Patti Salinas) in the
American Journal of Criminal Justice.
- "Public opinion on illegal
immigration: A test of seven core hypotheses," (2008, March) in
the Journal of Crime and Justice.
- "Racial and ethnic perceptions of
injustice: A test of Hagan et al.'s Comparative Conflict Theory,"
(Forthcoming, with Jim Unnever) in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
- "Perceptions of injustice revisited: A
test of Hagan et al.'s Comparative Conflict Theory, (March, 2008) with
Jim Unnever and Francis T. Cullen in the Journal of Crime & Justice.
- "Minimizing White race-based behavior
and neutralizing oppression discourse: An interpretive content analysis
of Crash (2005)," (Forthcoming) in the Journal of Criminal
Justice and Popular Culture.
-
"Criminologists as benchwarmers: The
exclusion of eggheads from crime news discourse," (2008) with
Timothy Griffin and Lawrence Travis in the Southwest Journal of
Criminal Justice.
- "Citizen assessment of local criminal
courts: Does fairness matter?" (2007) with Francis T. Cullen and James Unnever in the Journal of Criminal Justice.
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"From victim to vamp in nine days: The Susan Smith child homicide case," (2007) in S. Chermak and F.Y. Bailey
(Eds.), Crimes and Trials of the Century. Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press.
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"Assessing the newsworthiness of
homicide events: An analysis of coverage in the Houston Chronicle,"
(2005) with Lawrence Travis in the Journal of Criminal Justice and
Popular Culture.
Degrees
- B.S., Paralegal Studies, Sullivan
University, 1997.
- M.S., Criminal Justice, Eastern
Kentucky University, 1999.
- Ph.D., Criminal Justice, University of
Cincinnati, 2004.
Dr. Buckler was born and raised in Paris,
Kentucky, where he became a "die hard" fan of the Kentucky Wildcats men's
basketball team. In 1999, he started coursework at the University of
Cincinnati toward a doctorate degree in criminal justice. He moved to
Brownsville, Texas in 2004 after completing his Ph.D. He primarily
teaches criminological theory and corrections courses for the Department of
Criminal Justice.
