Ashley Rodriguez
CJRC Graduate Student
1017 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802
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Biography:
Ashley E. Rodriguez started in August as a Graduate Student at the CJRC. Ashley is a Ph.D. student in Criminology at Penn State. Her research interests include judicial decision-making, pretrial and sentencing case processing, pretrial risk assessments, and disparities in the criminal-legal system.
Ashley received her B.S. in Criminology, Law and Society from George Mason University. While at GMU, she worked as a research assistant at the Early Justice Strategies Lab examining bail reform strategies, racial disparities at various points of the criminal-legal system, judicial decision-making in a pretrial context, and graduated supervision strategies. Additionally, GMU’s Office of Student Scholarship, Creative Activities and Research (OSCAR) funded her vignette study on risk assessment use and risk communication in pretrial decision-making from the perspective of courtroom decision-makers. In addition, she participated in a National Science Foundation-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) at the University of South Carolina. During this project, she studied disparities in virtual bond hearings during the COVID-19 pandemic.