Timothy Edgemon

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology
Assistant Professor of Criminology

Contact details

Email: t.g.edgemon@bham.ac.uk

Address: University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Dr. Timothy G. Edgemon is an Assistant Professor of Criminology at the University of Birmingham.

His research examines how criminal justice interventions, such as arrest and incarceration, affect the stress and health of justice-involved individuals and how human trafficking related violence affects both the mental and physical health of trafficking survivors.

Qualifications

PhD in Sociology, University of Georgia, 2020

MA in Sociology, University of Georgia, 2016

BS in Sociology, Middle Tennessee State University, 2014

Biography

Dr. Timothy G. Edgemon received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Georgia (Athens, GA, USA) in 2020. His doctoral thesis examined the links between criminal justice contact and mental health at both the individual and the societal level by using a variety of quantitative methods. While completing his PhD, Tim was part of an international grant funded by the U.S. Department of State, Office on Trafficking in Persons aimed at investigating the prevalence of human trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa.

After receiving his PhD, Tim completed a one-year National Institute of Justice Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute, where he focused on implementing large scale quantitative and experimental designs aimed at reducing recidivism and improving the reintegration experiences of people released from prison. Upon completion of the Postdoctoral Fellowship, Tim joined the Department of Sociology at Auburn University as an Assistant Professor, where he taught classes in criminological theory, punishment, juvenile delinquency, and research methods.

Tim’s research program is firmly situated within sociology, criminology, and health and his work been published in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets including Society & Mental Health, Social Science & Medicine, The British Journal of Criminology, and Feminist Criminology. In addition, Tim presents regularly at the American Society of Criminology (ASC) and at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) annual research conferences

Teaching

Tim teaches on several modules including punishment, violence, criminological theory, and quantitative methods.

Research

Penology & Corrections
Conditions of Confinement
Gender, Crime, & Justice
Sociology of Health
Violence & Victimization
Crime & Social Control
Human Trafficking & Modern Slavery
Quantitative Methods

Publications

Edgemon, T.G. & Jody Clay-Warner. (2023), Conditions of confinement and incarcerated women’s mental health., Feminist Criminology

Yi, H., Vincent, K., Okech, D., Clay-Warner, J., Li, J., Kawashima, T., Edgemon, T.G., Aletrais, L., & Konteh, F.H. (2023), Comparison of direct estimation and network scale-up method for prevalence estimation of child trafficking and child labor in Sierra Leone., Crime & Delinquency

Martin, B.T., Spencer-Suarez, K., Giuffre, A., Edgemon, T.G., & Horowitz, V. (2023), Factoring in family: Considerations of parenthood in monetary sanctions assessment, enforcement, and collection., British Journal of Criminology

Edgemon, T.G. (2022), Coping with the pains of imprisonment: The interaction of institutional conditions and individual experiences on inmate mental health. In Research Handbook on Society and Mental Health, Marta Elliot (ed).

Schroeder, E., Edgemon, T.G., Kagotho, N., Aletraris, L., Clay-Warner, J., & Okech, D. (2022), A review of prevalence estimation methods with human trafficking populations., Public Health Reports.

Clay-Warner, J., Kawashima, T., & Edgemon, T.G. (2022), Measure of personal network size using the known population method: A methodological guide., American Journal of Public Health.

Clay-Warner, J., Edgemon, T.G., Okech, D., & Anarfi, J. (2021), Violence predicts physical health consequences of human trafficking: Findings from a longitudinal study of labor exploitation in Ghana., Social Science & Medicine.

Edgemon, T.G. & Clay-Warner, J. (2019), Inmate mental health and the pains of imprisonment., Society and Mental Health

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