Business & Public Management

Jaeyong Choi, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at West Chester University. He has earned several teaching and research awards, including the 2023 Roslyn Muraskin Emerging Scholar Award from the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences, the 2020 Junior Faculty Research Award from the Korean Society of Criminology in America, and the 2018 Teaching Award from the Center for Teaching Excellence at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Choi has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles on topics such as immigration and criminal justice, cybercrime, criminological theory, and comparative research. His recent work appears in peer-reviewed journals, including Criminal Justice & Behavior, Crime & Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Police Quarterly, Policing & Society, and Prison Journal. Outside of his academic work, Dr. Choi enjoys traveling, walking, and exploring new cuisines with his wife. With the recent addition of a daughter to the family, much of his time is now devoted to watching her grow and reach new milestones.

Ph.D. Criminology, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Choi, J., Hsu, K., & Lee, J. (2025). Comparing justification of morally dubious behavior and violence across immigrant generations and native-born individuals: A cross-national assessment. Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287251323515
• Choi, J., Wentling, R., & Han, S. (2025). Exploring aftermath concerns as a mediator of the relationship between inmate-on-staff victimization and turnover intent among correctional officers. Criminal Justice Policy Review. https://doi.org/10.1177/08874034241312673
• Choi, J., Kim, S., & Lee, J. (2024). The impact of sexual violence victimization on acculturative stress and hazardous drinking among North Korean refugee women in South Korea. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/10778012241292289
• Choi, J., Faucher, E. (Graduate Student), Newnam, M. (Undergraduate Student), & Han, S. (2024). Student-to-teacher victimization and its negative impact on teaching approaches: Applying propensity score matching. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605241235123
• Yim, H., Choi, J., & Vieraitis, L. (2024). Testing the effects of deterrence communications on illegal drug dealings: An experimental study. Crime & Delinquency, 70(4), 1148–1172. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287221098585
• Kruis, N., Donohue, R., Glunt, N., Rowland, N., & Choi, J. (2023). Exploring the medial effects of perceptions of police effectiveness and legitimacy on racial differences in citizen attitudes toward compliance and cooperation with law enforcement. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 34(6), 511–533. https://doi.org/10.1177/08874034231199922
• Kruis, N., Ménard, K., Choi, J., Rowland, N., Frye, T., Kosaka, R., & Williams, A. (2023). Perceived dangerousness mediates punitive attitudes toward sex offenders: Results from a vignette experiment. Crime & Delinquency. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287231170106
• Choi, J., Kruis, N., & Lee, J. (2022). Target congruence as a means of understanding the risk of bullying victimization among multicultural family youth in South Korea. Crime & Delinquency, 68(13–14), 2395–2421. https://doi.org/10.1177/00111287211022632
• Choi, J., & Merlo, A. (2021). Gender identification and the fear of crime: Do masculinity and femininity matter in reporting fear of crime? Victims & Offenders, 16(1), 126-147 
• Choi, J. (2021). Asymmetry in media effects on perceptions of police: An analysis using a within-subjects design experiment. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, 22(1), 557-573 
• Choi, J., Hack, T., & Lee, J. (2021). Fear of crime among female North Korean defectors in South Korea. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306624X21992362 
• Choi, J., & Kruis, N. (2020). Social integration and confidence in the police: A cross-national multi-level analysis. Policing & Society. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10439463.2020.1751160 
• Choi, J., & Lee, D. R. (2020). Media use habits, negative encounters with the police, and perceptions of the police: The mainstreaming hypothesis versus the resonance hypothesis. Criminal Justice Studies. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/1478601X.2020.1736827 
• Choi, J., Kruis, N., & Kim, Y. (2020). The impact of occupational characteristics and victimization on job burnout among South Korean correctional officers. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 47(7), 905-923. 
• Choi J., & Wentling R. (2020). Convict code, risky lifestyles, and victimization among inmates in South Korea. Violence and Victims. Advance online publication. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/VV-D-19-00118 
• Choi, J. (2019). Comparing global and situational support for police use of force between first-generation immigrants, second-generation immigrants, and native-born Americans. Policing: An International Journal, 42(6), 1038-1051. 
• Choi, J. (2019). Elaborating differential impact of media exposure on perceptions of police between criminal justice majors and non-criminal justice majors. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 30(4), 567-584. 
• Choi, J., & Yun, I. (2019). Do moral beliefs condition the impact of low self-control on digital piracy? Deviant Behavior. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/01639625.2019.1701885 

• Criminal Justice Theory
• Transnational Crime
• Ethical Dilemmas and Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice