Biography
Dr. Pyo teaches CJS 430 Methods and the corresponding 430L Methods Labs, as well as SBS 320 Social Research.
Jimin Pyo earned her Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice/ The Graduate Center, CUNY and is an Assistant Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at CSUN (after August 2020). Working at the intersections of psychology, criminology, and law, her research interests center on understanding individuals’ perceptions, such as institutional confidence, legitimacy, perceived crime risk, and fear of crime/victimization. She is especially interested in clarifying the meaning and measurement of such concepts, and further examining potential links to law-related behavioral and attitudinal outcomes (i.e., cooperation with the criminal justice institutions, legal compliance, crime prevention behaviors, and juror decision making). Her work has been published in such journals as Law and Human Behavior, Journal of School Violence, International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, and Crime Prevention and Community Safety.
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CURRICULUM VITAE JIMIN PYO
Department of Criminology and Justice Studies California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330-8457 Email: pyo.jimin@gmail.com
EDUCATION:
2020 Ph.D., Criminal Justice John Jay College of Criminal Justice/ The Graduate Center, CUNY Dissertation: Development and Validation of
a Multidimensional Scale for Measuring Public Confidence in the Criminal Justice System
(Committee: Prof. Michael Maxfield (Chair), Prof. Keith Markus, Prof. Mark Fondacaro, & Prof. Tom Tyler, Yale University)
2018 M.A., Criminal Justice John Jay college of Criminal Justice/The Graduate Center, CUNY
2012 M.A., Psychology Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
Thesis: Framing effect on visual attention to video-recorded confession (Advisor: Prof. Kwnagbai Park)
2010 B.A. Psychology Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, South Korea
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2020 – Assistant Professor Department of Criminology and Justice Studies, California State University, Northridge
2017 – 2019 Adjunct Lecturer John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
2015 – 2020 Graduate Research Assistant John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2013 – 2014 Junior Researcher Department of Neuropsychiatry, Inje University Seoul Paik Hospital
2010 – 2014 Graduate Research Assistant Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University, South Korea
PUBLICATIONS:
Refereed Journal Articles
Pyo, J. (In press). School principals’ perceptions of crime risk and academic climate: Links to school safety practices. Journal of School Violence.
Pyo, J. (In press). Perception of police and participatory behavior: A multilevel analysis of formal and informal behaviors. Crime Prevention and Community Safety.
Pyo, J. (2018). The impact of jury experience on perception of the criminal prosecution system. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, 52, 176-184.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2016). Influence of inconsistent evidence on juror’s change of mind. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 30, 77-94.
Kim, Y. R., Kim, C. H., Park, J. H., Pyo, J., & Treasure, J. (2014). The impact of intranasal oxytocin on attention to social emotional stimuli in patients with anorexia nervosa: A double blind within-subject cross-over experiment. PloS one, 9, e90721.
Park, K., & Pyo, J (2012). An explanation for camera perspective bias in voluntariness judgment for video-recorded confession: suggestion of cognitive frame. Law and Human Behavior, 36(3), 184-194.
Park, K., Oh, Y., & Pyo, J (2012). Effects of the explanations about the risks involved in foreign exchange derivative contracts. The Korean Journal of Forensic Psychology, 3, 83–102.
Oh, Y., Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2011). Suggestibility scale for primary school children in Korea, Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 25, 57–75.
Pyo, J., Oh, Y., & Park, K. (2010). The effects of suspect’s emotional demeanor and record medium (audio vs. video) on voluntariness judgment for a confession: A preliminary study. The Korean Journal of Forensic Psychology, 1, 205–219.
Book:
Han, Y., Pyo, J., Seong, Y., & Park, K. (2017) 의심: The Korean version of "In doubt: The psychology of the criminal justice process by Dan Simon (2012)". Hakjisa Publisher, Inc.
Manuscript Under Review:
Pyo, J. & Maxfield, M. G. Improving the quality of responses from Mechanical Turk: Screeners for inattentive responding
PRESENTATIONS:
Pyo, J. (2019, November). Development and Validation of a Multidimensional Scale for Measuring Public Confidence in the Criminal Justice System. Oral presentation at the American Society of Criminology 2018 Annual Meeting (ASC), San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pyo, J. (2019, November). Improving the quality of data collection through Mechanical Turk for criminal justice research. Oral presentation at the American Society of Criminology 2018 Annual Meeting (ASC), San Francisco, CA, USA.
Pyo, J. (2018, November). School discipline with parent and community involvement: Impact on student behavior. Oral presentation at the American Society of Criminology 2018 Annual Meeting (ASC), Atlanta, GA, USA.
Pyo, J. (2017, November). A multilevel analysis of neighborhood context and participatory behavior. Oral presentation at the American Society of Criminology 2017 Annual Meeting (ASC), Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Hou, Y., Pyo, J., Shun, F., & Sung, H. (2017, March). A mixed-method study of career choices: Among Asian American Criminal Justice majors. Oral presentation at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Annual Meeting, Kansas City, MO, USA.
Pyo, J. (2016, November). The impact of jury experience on perception of the criminal prosecution system. Poster presentation at the American Society of Criminology 2016 Annual Meeting (ASC), New Orleans, LA, USA.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2014, June). Juror's change of mind by incoherent evidence. Oral presentation at the Annual Conference of European Association of Psychology and Law (EAPL), St. Petersburg, Russia.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2014, August). Effect of timing of exposure to incoherent evidence on juror's change of mind. Oral presentation at the Korean Psychological Association Annual Conference, Seoul, South Korea.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2014, October). Recency effect of incoherent evidence on juror's change of mind. Oral presentation at the 8th Asian Psychology and Law Conference, Beijing, China.
Park, K., Oh, Y., & Pyo, J. (2012, October). Irrationality in the decision to contract foreign exchange derivative. Oral presentation at the 6th Asian Psychology and Law Conference, Kyoto, Japan.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2011, May). Does visual attention explain the framing effect on voluntariness judgment for a confession recorded in video during a custodial interrogation? Poster presented at the Association of Psychology for Adults & Children Conference, Athene, Greece.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2011, September). Attention as an explanation for framing effect on the voluntarinesss judgment for video-recorded confession. Oral presentation at the 5th Japan & Korea Student Symposium, Seoul, South Korea.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2010, September). The effects of suspect's demeanor and media type (video or audio) on the voluntariness judgment for custodial confession: A preliminary study. Poster presented at the15th World Congress of Psychophysiology – IOP 2010 Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
Pyo, J., & Park, K. (2010, September). The effects of suspect's demeanor and media type (video or audio) on the voluntariness judgment for custodial confession: A preliminary study. Oral presentation at the 4th Japan & Korea Student Symposium, Kyoto, Japan.
COURSE TAUGHT:
Crime Prevention and Control (2018-2019) Principles and Methods of Statistics (2017-2019)
AWARDS AND HONORS:
2019 – 2020 Dissertation Fellowship The Graduate Center, CUNY
2019 Student Research Award Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice
2018 Doctoral Student Research Grant, Round 13 The Graduate Center, CUNY
2016 – 2019 Tithe Travel Award John Jay College of Criminal Justice/The Graduate Center, CUNY
2015 – 2019 City University of New York Graduate Fellowship John Jay College of Criminal Justice/The Graduate Center, CUNY
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS:
Member, American Society of Criminology (ASC)
Member, American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) Member, Law and Society Association (LSA)
Member, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)