Publications
Books, preprints, manuscripts under review, and the dissertation.
Book
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Criminogenic Embeddedness and Criminal Trajectories: A Life-Course Model (CEM) of Strain, Control, and Social Learning (2026).
Preprints
Preprint 2026 CrimRxiv
Bowen, D. (2026). Criminogenic embeddedness and criminal trajectories: A life-course model (CEM) of strain, control, and social learning [Preprint]. CrimRxiv.
Preprint 2026 CrimRxiv
Bowen, D. (2026). Undetected, not absent: Adolescent substance use, unaddressed behavior, and first arrest in adulthood [Preprint]. Uses Add Health public-use data to ask whether adult-onset arrest marks people who were new to offending or people whose adolescent behavior went unnoticed.
Read the full paper Analysis code and results (Zenodo) Code on GitHub
Manuscripts under review
Under review Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology
Bowen, D. Testing criminogenic embeddedness against general strain, interactional, and ICAP theory using Pathways to Desistance data.
Preprint at Research Square (DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-10899848/v1)
Doctoral dissertation
Bowen, D. (2019). The impact of unemployment and poverty on recidivism in West Virginia: A quantitative analysis [Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University]. ProQuest Dissertations Publishing. ProQuest No. 27737538.