Jericho McElroy

Jericho R. McElroy is a Teaching Assistant Professor in Criminology and Criminal Justice, in the Department of Sociology, at Oklahoma State University. Jericho received his Ph.D. in sociology from Oklahoma State University, specializing in criminology and deviance as well as social inequality. 

His research interests traverse three domains, primarily using quantitative methods:

• (a) green criminology and sociology of punishment (for example, examining prison proliferation and carceral environmental justice);
• (b) sociology of firearms (for example, investigating the social, economic, and political determinants of restrictive firearm law enactment); and
• (c) college student activism (for example, explaining the presence, form, and outcomes of campus activism).

Jericho's research has been published in several peer-reviewed outlets, including regional sociology journals as well as national and international criminology journals. In addition, Jericho remains an active member of many professional organizations, such as the American Sociological Association (ASA), the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), the American Society of Criminology (ASC), the Midwest Sociological Society (MSS), the Oklahoma Sociological Association (OSA), and Alpha Kappa Delta (AKD). Jericho currently serves as an editorial board member of Social Problems and of The Sociological Quarterly as well. He is also a former managing editor of The Sociological Quarterly.