Ekaterina Botchkovar

· Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Northeastern University · Criminology and Criminal Justice

Active 2005–2026

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Citations1.2k

Papers4915 last 5y

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About

Professor Ekaterina Botchkovar earned her Ph.D. in sociology from North Carolina State University. Her research interests include empirical testing of criminological theories, comparative criminology, and theory construction. She specifically investigates how well contemporary criminological theories explain crime across different cultural contexts, utilizing data from Russia, Ukraine, and Greece. Her recent work focuses on assessing how individual- and neighborhood-level factors influence criminal behavior in Russia and Ukraine. Professor Botchkovkar's scholarly contributions have been published in prominent journals such as Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Social Forces, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Social Science Research.

Research topics

Psychology
Geography
Political Science
Sociology
Social psychology
Computer Science
Medicine
Demography
Economics
Criminology

Selected publications

War trauma and PTSD in Ukraine’s civilian population: comparing urban-dwelling to internally displaced persons
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology · 2021 · 140 citations
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Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context: Additional Evidence on Situational Action Theory from 28 Countries
Journal of Quantitative Criminology · 2021 · 23 citations
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Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country
The British Journal of Criminology · 2022-01-24 · 19 citations
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Abstract This study uses survey data from multi-stage stratified random samples of adults from two large Ukrainian cities to examine and specify associations between war exposure and the likelihood of committing violent acts against another person. Findings from regression models reveal that both direct and vicarious war exposure predict projected interpersonal violence by civilians, and mediation analyses show that daily strains and, in some instances, negative affect serve as links in the rela…
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Stress and depression as pathways between violent conflict exposure and moral beliefs: Why people sometimes condone “bad” things.
Peace and Conflict Journal of Peace Psychology · 2022 · 18 citations
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Schools, Subcultural Values, and the Risk of Youth Violence: The Influence of the Code of the Street among Students in Three U.S. Cities
Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2021-10-19 · 15 citations
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Frequent coauthors

Olena Antonaccio
University of Miami
36 shared
Lorine A. Hughes
University of Colorado Denver
24 shared
Charles R. Tittle
17 shared
Anastasiia Timmer
California State University, Northridge
12 shared
Lisa Broidy
University of New Mexico
8 shared
Matthew Kafafian
4 shared
Ineke Haen Marshall
Boston University
4 shared
Robert J. Johnson
4 shared

Labs

MS in Criminology and Criminal JusticePI

Education

Ph.D., sociology
North Carolina State University

Awards & honors

2014 recipient of the National Institute of Justice’s W.E.B.…
2014 New Scholar Award from the American Society of Criminol…
2016 National Institute of Justice Graduate Research Fellow
2012 co-author of the book 'Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted In…
2015 co-edited the book 'Deadly injustice: Trayvon Martin, R…

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