Nathaniel Lawshe
Dr. Nathaniel L. Lawshe, is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Nichols College. His research interests are focused on police organizations and culture, current issues in policing, and racial justice in policing. Prior to working at Nichols College, he attended Northeastern University to earn his PhD. He earned both a B.A. in Psychology and Criminology and an M.A. in Criminology from the University of South Florida.
His dissertation, titled “A Comprehensive Framework for Understanding the Contextual, Structural and Cultural Predictors of Police Officers’ Perceptions of Organizational Justice” examines how a combination of police culture, organizational factors, and physical environmental factors impact police perceptions of fairness in agency procedure and policy.
Over the course of earning his PhD and Master’s, Nate has worked with a variety of state and local criminal justice agencies across the U.S. to provide quantitative analyses with the goal of solving localized problems and improving agency function.
Dr. Lawshe has published in several academic journals specializing in criminal justice and policing and has authored book chapters about violent and hate crimes.
Education
- Ph.D., Criminology and Justice Policy, Northeastern University, Boston, MA
- M.A., Criminology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
- B.A., Criminology and Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
Publications
Lawshe, N. L. & Zimmerman, G. (2024). Policing Homicide in Urban and Rural Areas. Routledge Handbook of Homicide Studies.
Lawshe, N. L. Zimmerman, G. M., Stowell, J. (2022). Examining the spatial distribution and contextual correlates of body-worn camera adoption in the United States. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac014.
Lawshe, N. L. (2021). Investigating the influence of institutional perviousness on the adoption of body-worn cameras by United States police agencies. Criminal Justice Studies, 35(1): 1-17
Sheppard K., Lawshe, N. L., & McDevitt, J. (2021). Hate Crimes in a Cross-Cultural Context. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Criminology & Criminal Justice.
Zimmerman, G. M., Fridel, E. E., Sheppard, K. G., & Lawshe, N. L. (2020). Contextualizing fatal police-resident encounters with a focus on Hispanic or Latin American Places: Does macro-level racial and ethnic composition distinguish resident fatalities by the police and police fatalities by residents?. Journal of Criminal Justice, 72, 101749.
Lawshe, N. L., Sheppard, K., & McDevitt, J. (2020). Hate Crimes. Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2nd Edition.
McDevitt, J., Denver, M., & Lawshe, N. L. (2020). Middlesex County Bail Report. Northeastern University.
Lawshe, N. L., Burruss, G. W., Giblin, M. J., & Schafer, J. A. (2019). Behind the lens: police attitudes toward body-worn cameras and organizational justice. Journal of Crime and Justice, 42(1), 78-97.
Burruss, G. W., Lawshe, N. L., Giblin, M.J. & Schafer, J.A. (2018) Police Organizational Survey on Safety Culture in Three Florida Departments. Final report. University of South Florida
