Meredith Huey
(Curriculum
Vitae)
Meredith Huey received her M.A. in Sociology in 2001 from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Her research interests are in the area of crime, law, and deviance. She is particularly interested in the sociology of punishment and corrections. Recent work has examined alternatives to incarceration, including therapeutic communities and restorative justice, as well as inmate adjustment to prison life.
Meredith is currently completing her dissertation on correctional suicide. Using the Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities data collections, she tests two historically competing hypotheses as explanations for suicide in U.S. prisons—the deprivation and importation hypotheses. Within this framework, she considers how prison conditions, inmate composition, and their interaction predict prison suicide.
Selected Honors, Awards, Grants
2007-2008. Doctoral Dissertation Completion Award, the University of Georgia
2003-2007. Graduate Research Assistantship, the National Treatment Center Study, the Institute for Behavioral Research, the University of Georgia
2002-2003. National Institute on Drug Abuse Pre-Doctoral Trainee
Selected Publications
Huey, M. and T. McNulty. 2005. Institutional Conditions and Prison Suicide: Conditional Effects of Deprivation and Overcrowding. The Prison Journal 85(4): 490-514
Contact Information
Department of Sociology
Baldwin Hall
Athens, GA 30602-1611
mhuey@uga.edu
