Dr. Clifton’s research investigates the impact of the police subculture on the development
of coping strategies among law enforcement using social network analysis. Other areas
of interest include police socialization, wellbeing of law enforcement, drugs and
the criminal justice system, and criminological theory.
Recent professional activities
Dr. Clifton presented findings from her research on the development of coping strategies
among police recruits at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting in
Las Vegas, Nevada in March 2022 and at the Southern Criminal Justice Association conference
in Daytona Beach, Florida in September 2021. Dr. Clifton has also recently published
in the Journal of Police and Criminal Psychology and in the American Journal of Criminal Justice.
