Karla Dhungana Sainju
PhD
Associate Professor
Women in Research Council Chair
Criminology and JusticeFaculty of Social Science and Humanities
Dr. Karla Dhungana Sainju's research focuses on corrections and community corrections, including the use of electronic monitoring for pretrial release and post-conviction supervision, alternatives to incarceration, women in the criminal justice system, and justice-involved veterans. She also engages in research on bullying, which includes macro and micro-level influences on bullying, bullying roles, xenophobic and race-based bullying, and big data and social media.
Languages
English, Nepali, Tagalog, Hindi
Areas of expertise
- Community corrections
- Corrections/penology
- cyberbullying
- Gender/women's studies
- Justice/law
- Public policy
- Technology
- Traditional bullying
- Race-based bullying
- social media and bullying
- Electronic monitoring of offenders
- Alternatives to incarceration
- Women and the justice system
- Pretrial supervision
- Post-conviction supervision
- PhD - Criminology Florida State University, USA 2012
- MS - Criminology Florida State University (2009) Tallahassee, Florida USA 2009
- BA - Psychology Loyola Marymount University 2006
The Electronic Monitoring of Offenders: An Overview of Technologies, Populations and Purpose
Denver, Colorado March 31, 201653rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
An Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Electronic Monitoring Technologies in the Criminal Justice System
Denver, Colorado March 31, 201653rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
An Overview of the Scale and Breadth of Offender Tracking / Location Monitoring Devices being used in the U.S.
Denver, Colorado March 31, 201653rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Perceptions of Electronic Monitoring: Public Safety and Alternatives to Incarceration
Denver, Colorado March 31, 201653rd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Electronic Monitoring (EM) as an Alternative to Incarceration
Washington, DC November 18, 201571st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
Parole Policies and Practices: Findings from Two State Level Evaluations
Houston, Texas January 12, 2014American Probation and Parole Association Winter Training Institute
National and State Trends in Unconditional and Conditional Prisoner Releases
Atlanta, Georgia November 20, 201369th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Criminology
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Young, L., Kuffour, A., & Mishra, N. (2022). A Machine Learning and Qualitative Examination of Cyberbullying Experiences on Twitter. Journal of Social Media in Society, 11(2), 209-235.
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Zaidi, H, Mishra. N., & Kuffour, A. (2022). Xenophobic Bullying & COVID-19: An Exploration Using Big Data & Qualitative Analysis. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(8), 4824. Part of the special issue: Second Edition of Stigma, Health and Wellbeing.
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Kuffour, A., Young, L., & Mishra, N. (2022). Bullying-Related Tweets: A Qualitative Examination of Perpetrators, Targets, and Helpers. International Journal of Bullying Prevention, 4(1), 6-22. Part of the special issue: The Use of Artificial Intelligence to Address Online Bullying and Abuse.
- Dhungana Sainju, K. (2022). Deterrence Theory and Bullying: An Assessment of Policies and Practices Aimed at Deterring Youth Bullying. SCIREA Journal of Sociology, 6(3), 120-128.
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Mishra, N., Kuffour, A., & Young, L. (2021). Bullying Discourse on Twitter: An Examination of Bully- Related Tweets Using Supervised Machine Learning. Computers in Human Behavior, 120, 106735.
- Dhungana Sainju, K. (2020). Beyond the Schoolyard: A Multilevel Examination of Individual, School, and School District Variables Associated with Traditional and Cyber Peer Aggression. Child & Youth Care Forum, 49, 769–797.
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Fahy, S., Baggaley, K., Baker, A., Minassian, T. & Filippelli, V. (2019). Electronic Monitoring for Pretrial Release: Assessing the Impact. Federal Probation, 82 (3), 3-10.
- Dhungana Sainju, K., Fahy, S., Baggaley, K., Filippelli, V., Baker, A., & Minassian, T. (2017). Electronic Monitoring In the United States: The Transition and Expansion of Usage in Offender Populations. Journal of Offender Monitoring, 29 (2), 7- 19.
- Stevenson, P. J., Fahy, S., & Dhungana Sainju, K. (2017). The Use of GPS and RF Devices to Monitor Defendants and Convicted Offenders in the United States. Journal of Offender Monitoring, 29 (2), 4-6.
- Mancini, C., Baker, T., Dhungana Sainju, K., Golden, K., Bedard, L. & Gertz, M. (2016). Examining External Support Received in Prison and Concerns About Reentry Among Incarcerated Women. Feminist Criminology, 11(2), 163-190.
- Baker, T., Pickett, J., Amin, D., Golden, K., Dhungana, K., Gertz, M. & Bedard, L. (2015). Shared Race/Ethnicity, Court Procedural Justice, and Self-Regulating Beliefs: A Study of Female Offenders. Law and Society Review 49 (2): 433 – 466.
- Baker, T., Pelfrey, W., Bedard, L., Dhungana, K., Gertz, M. & Golden, K. (2014). Female inmates’ procedural justice perceptions of the police and courts: Is there a spill-over of police effects? Criminal Justice and Behavior 41 (2): 144- 162.
- Bales, W., Mann, K., Blomberg, T., McManus, B. & Dhungana, K. (2010). Electronic Monitoring in Florida. The Journal of Offender Monitoring 22 (2): 5-12.
- Senjo, S. & Dhungana, K. (2009). A Field Data Examination of Policy Constructs Related to Fatigue Conditions in Law Enforcement Personnel. Police Quarterly 12 (2): 123-136.
- 2022 – 2022 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Research Fellow
- 2019-2020 Ontario Tech University Early Career Teaching Award Nominee
- 2019-2020 Ontario Tech University Learning Reimagined Award Nominee
- 2015-2016 Ontario Tech Faculty of Social Science and Humanities Teaching Award Nominee
- 2014 Florida State University Thirty under 30 Young Alumni Award Recipient
- 2012 WREI Women and Public Policy Congressional Fellowship Recipient
- 2011 Florida State University Dissertation Research Grant Recipient
- 2007 Loyola Marymount University Eugene Escallier Foreign Study Grant Recipient
- 2006 Loyola Marymount University Father Maurice Chase Endowment Recipient
- 2006 National Science Foundation – Research Experience for Undergraduates Grant Recipient
- 2005 Loyola Marymount University Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship Recipient
- 2004 Community Service Intern Corps Scholarship Recipient
- 2003 ILWU Propeller Club Memorial Scholarship Recipient
American Society of Criminology
American Probation and Parole Association
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
International Bullying Prevention Association
- CRMN2021U Families and the Criminal Justice System
- SSCI 6920G PhD Professional Seminar
- SSCI 5050G MA Professional Seminar
- SSCI4079U Alternative Sanctions
- CRMN 4001U Special Topics in Criminology and Justice: Bullying: Prevalence, Predictors and Prevention
- SSCI 5070G Policy and Practice in the Criminal Justice System
