He received his PhD in Criminology from Florida State University in 2011. Justin is the 2015 winner of the American Society of Criminology’s Ruth Shonle Cavan Young Scholar Award. His research interests center broadly on public opinion about crime and justice. He has recently published studies in Criminology, Sociological Methods and Research, Social Science Research, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Crime & Delinquency.