Makayla is a doctoral candidate in the School of Criminal Justice. She received a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Sam Houston State University, graduating Summa Cum Laude with Highest Honors and Academic Distinction. In 2023, Makayla received the National Institute of Justice’s Graduate Research Fellowship ($116,692), supporting her dissertation research titled Military Sexual Trauma Experiences of Female Veterans in Michigan. Makayla is currently a member of the TRUSST Lab and the Research Consortium for Gender Based Violence (RCGV).
Selected Publications
- Almanza, M., Mason, M., & Melde, C. (2023). Perceptions of school resource officers: Protectors or prosecutors?. Criminal Justice Review, 48(3), 318-338.
- LaBerge, A., Mason, M., & Sanders, K. (2022). Police dispatch times: The effects of neighborhood structural disadvantage. Journal of criminal justice, 79, 101885.
- Holt, K., & Mason, M. (2021). Deepfake Pornography: New Forms of Image Based Harm and Sexual Abuse. ATSA of Michigan.
- Hayes, B. E., Connolly, E. J., Wang, X., Mason, M., & Ingham, C. (2022). Chinese police cadets’ attitudes toward domestic violence: A pretest/posttest design. Crime & delinquency, 68(2), 232-252.
- Hayes, B. E., Connolly, E. J., Wang, X., Ingham, C., & Mason, M. (2021). Prevalence of child maltreatment and the effects of the intergenerational transmission of violence on attitudes towards domestic violence in Chinese police cadets. Journal of family violence, 36, 733-742.
