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Dr. Myunghee You, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society

About

Myunghee (Maggie) You, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law & Society at the University of Florida, joining in Fall 2024. She received her Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University, where her dissertation explored the dynamics of neighborhood effects, finding that neighborhood context and its social processes vary throughout a child’s development.

Her research addresses various domains in developmental and life-course criminology, with a particular focus on the victim-offender overlap, neighborhood effects on victimization, and crime trends. Her recent work has highlighted not only the dynamic changes in individual behavior across the lifespan but also shifts in aggregate-level crime patterns over time. She uses advanced research methods such as multilevel modeling, path analysis, and structural equation modeling, along with large datasets, to employ both individual- and aggregate-level analyses. Her work has been published in leading criminology journals.

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Teaching

Graduate Courses:

  • CCJ5934: Victimology
  • CCJ6705/SYA6407: Quantitative Research Methods

Undergraduate Courses

  • CCJ3024: Advance Principles of Criminal Justice
  • CCJ4934:Violence and Victimization

Research

  • Developmental and Life Course Criminology
  • Victimology
  • Neighborhoods and Crime
  • Crime Trends

Publications

You, Myunghee and Brian J. Stults, The Complexity of Neighborhood Effects: A Developmental and Ecological Framework for Violent Victimization, Criminology, 1–47, 2026. https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.70050

You, Myunghee, Why Do Victims Experience Repeat Victimization? Delinquent Peers, Age-Graded Dynamics, and Gender-Specific Pathways, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 1–36. 2026. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-026-09660-y

Shin, H.* and Myunghee You. Aging Behind Bars: The Growth of the Older Incarcerated Adult Population and Emerging Penal Reform. Laws, 15(3), 35, 2026. https://doi.org/10.3390/laws15030035

You, Myunghee and Brian J. Stults, The Intricate Nature of Vulnerability to Victimization: Low Self-Control, Age, and Economic Status, Journal of Criminal Justice, 101, 102534, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102534

You, Myunghee and Brian J. Stults, Explaining Variability in Trajectories of Self-Control Using Growth-Curve Modeling: The Effects of Parental Socialization and Victimization, Crime & Delinquency, 71(6-7), 2118-2141, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287231183329

You, Myunghee, Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age-Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967 to 2011, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 40, 591-619, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-023-09579-8

You, Myunghee, Self-Control, Risky Lifestyles, and Vulnerability to Victimization, Journal of Crime and Police Policy, 2(2), 1-25, 2024.

Stults, Brian J. and You, Myunghee, Self-Control, Cyberbullying, and the Moderating Effect of Opportunity, Deviant Behavior, 43(10), 1267-1284, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2021.1985928

Contact

Myunghee (Maggie) You, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
Office: Turlington Hall, Room 3353
Email: myunghee@ufl.edu
PO Box 117330
Department of Sociology and Criminology & Law
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611