My name is Samuel E DeWitt, I am a quantitative research scientist and my research focuses on criminal record stigma, employment, and related criminal legal system policies. Some of my ongoing and past projects include an analysis of mediating influences in the employment of individuals with criminal records, the impact of criminal record expungement/sealing statutes, the relationship between the availability of indigent defense and local jail populations, and the relationship between different forms/intensities of criminal legal system contact and mortality.
I am a Senior Researcher at the American Institutes for Research and formerly an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. My research has been published in peer-reviewed journals including Criminology, Criminology & Public Policy, the Journal of Research on Crime and Delinquency, and the Journal of Quantitative Criminology. For those interested, I routinely upload preprints of my research on my Research Gate page.